Back a long time ago when I was an avid golfer, I remember one of my partners saying to me after he had smacked a drive 300 yards staight down the middle of the fairway: “Just one shot like that every eighteen holes would keep me coming back from now on!” Sunday’s worship [...]
After our service yesterday, during which I preached on our responsibilities to “the least of these,” one of our young families was given an opportunity to put the message into practice.
As they were driving home, they passed a woman walking down the road and carrying a baby. It was a bitterly cold day, and [...]
Alan Jones, retired Dean of Grace Cathedral in San Francisco, begins his new book with these words: I owe a great deal to many great human beings who shared with me their vision of the fully human life. Three of them were great Christians: Hugh Bishop, Anglican priest and monk; Monica Furlong, novelist [...]
You may well have missed it, but the biggest news to come out of 1988 was that every human being on this planet today is descended from one woman who lived in Africa or Asia about 300,000 years ago. Anthropologists and geneticists say they have proved it. It is a fact.
Most people, actually, [...]
Almost in time for Valentines Day comes a story from an old preacher friend of mine:
Twenty years ago he announced he was going to preach a sermon entitled, “Great Sex for Christians.” On the appointed Sunday, the church was awfully full and awfully quiet. He began with an old joke: “Sex is [...]
There is a wonderful scene in the movie “Gandhi” where a broken man comes to the Mahatma. He says, “I have lost my soul. I am condemned to hell. The Muslims killed my children so I found a Muslim child and killed it!”
Gandhi tells him that he may yet be saved, if [...]
From fred Plummer, director of The Center for Progressive Christianity. Excellent! Please take the time to read. Just click here.
Chapter one of Luke tells first the wonderful story of the announcement of the birth, not of Jesus, but of John the Baptist. Zechariah, an old priest, “getting up in years” as Luke delicately phrases it, is married to Elizabeth, who is barren. An angel appears to old Zechariah as he comes to [...]
As most of you probably know, I’ve been suffering from a really bad case of the flu since Friday night…fever, chills, terrible cough, and my body feels as if I’ve been beaten with a rubber hose! Yesterday I went to the doc for the diagnosis I already knew, and came home with about $200 [...]
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