Christmas is the day that holds all time together! The two hardest things to say in life are HELLO for the first time and GOODBYE for the last time. What HELLO still…
Oh, you say, had I been there at Bethlehem that night I would have seen. I would have understood. I would have known it was the Christ-Child. Would you? There…
Thy Kingdom Come! It sometimes seems that God shows his sense of humor with history. Emperor Nero was sure that the most important happenings in Rome were the words he…
ADVENT SPEAKS OF A LONGING DEEP Advent speaks of a longing deep,A yearning that our hearts do keep.In daily strife and tears we find,A hope that heals our aching mind.…
A young man in Junior High school and his father were alone together on a fishing trip. Out of the clear blue the son asked: “Dad, what is the toughest…
SHOULD YOU FIND IT HARD TO SLEEP TONIGHT Should you find it hard to sleep tonight, Think of those with no bed in sight. Remember the family without a place, Finding shelter in…
Cecil B. DeMille was the noted director of biblical epics in Hollywood When they began working on the movie Ben Hur, DeMille talked to Charlton Heston–the star of the movie–about the all-important…
When I was at Drew University in New Jersey, I became friends with a Catholic priest named Sean O’Kelly. Sean was redheaded and always seemed to have a smile on…
Jesus took his disciples up the mountain and gathered them around. He taught them saying: Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.Blessed are the…
MARY LOOKED UPWARD Mary looked back and saw a surprise, A life unexpected, before her eyes. The angel came with news divine, That she’d bear a Savior, by God’s design. Mary looked inward…
You won’t find John the Baptist at any manger scenes or on a Hallmark card, not even Advent cards. He wears a dusty camel’s hair coat, lives on locust and…
James I. McCord, the former president emeritus of Princeton University Theological School, once told the story of a man who commented that he was never coming back to a particular…
The problem with our society is that we don’t understand the power nor the dynamics of giving a blessing. We underestimate its power and we are not in the habit…
