text "Too much of a good thing is wonderful!" The young mother and her two children were sitting in the booth behind me. I…
text “The person seeking revenge must be prepared to dig two graves.” The Chinese get blamed for a lot of things, especially in the business world…
text “Where two or three are gathered in my name, it’s time to pass the basket.” When the pastor got up to preach, the little girl turned to her mother and…
text “You duped me, O Lord, and I allowed myself to be duped.” “You duped me, O Lord, and I allowed mys Openly lamenting his faithful service to God, Jeremiah, the reluctant prophet…
text “Finding a way home.” The customer line did not look that long, but on a hot day any length of line…
text “Jesus, you got that right.” A few years ago, at the baptism of a street person who had found both Jesus…
text “Faith is walking on water against your better judgment.” Listening through both the silence and the chaos that surrounded us, Jack…
text “Whatever happened to the twelve baskets of leftovers?” Some years ago, I was invited to a luncheon held at The Old Country Buffet…
text “What’s important and what isn’t?” While waiting for someone to answer the front door, I noticed a note…
text “The Kingdom of God could be like a run down and abandoned farm.” There was the wonderful story about the priest who visited a young…
text “Jesus: A Preacher Outstanding In His Field.” There are no historical records indicating that Jesus was a farmer, fisherman…
text “What is the cost of discipleship?” The inquiry had begun long before the real question was asked. After guzzling…
text 12th Sunday of the Year: Honoring Our Fathers As people around the world observe Sunday in various ways, many are also honoring their fathers…
text 12th Sunday of the Year: Honoring Our Fathers As people around the world observe Sunday in various ways, many are also honoring their fathers…
text “I sing because I’m happy, I sing because I’m free, for His eye is on the sparrow, and I know He wat Growing up Catholic, I must confess that I had no knowledge of the…
text “Softly and Tenderly Jesus Is Calling, Calling For You and For Me.” On April 8, 1968 at the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia, the…
text Trinity Sunday 2020: A Dance of Perfect Love A “perfect storm” refers to a rare confluence of factors that greatly aggravates the force of a…
text “When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.” Last summer, while stopping at an intersection, a young boy came up to the…
text Pentecost 2020: Come Holy Spirit! Chaos and violence erupted in Chicago last night, as in large cities from coast to coast. This…
text “On the Wings of a Snow-white Dove.” One of the most popular Country singers during the 1950’s was Marty Robbins…
text The Ascension of Jesus as Lord Today in the midst of the COVID-19 crisis and the eve of Memorial Day in the United States, we…
text “around me surges a miracle of unceasing birth and glory and death and resurrection” The poetry of e.e. cummings was included in a funeral I recently attended…
text Sixth Sunday of Easter 2020: The Spirit of Truth The world is now in what is arguably the sixth month of the COVID-19 pandemic. The stress on people…
text “Why is it so hard to be happy?” In this unprecedented time of life, the Covid-19 Virus has redefined the…
