It is good to realize that if love and peace can prevail on earth, and if we can teach our children to honor nature’s gifts, the joys and beauties of the outdoors will be here forever.
03593 – Outdoors Here Forever?
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03549 – The Truth of the Matter is…
The truth of the matter is, we all come to prayer with a tangled mass of motives altruistic and selfish, merciful and hateful, loving and bitter. Frankly, this side of eternity we will never unravel the good from the bad, the pure from the impure. God is big enough to...
03505 – Too Good for Him
It's much too good for him; he did not know what to do with it. -response upon being asked why he [Handel] used music composed by Bononcini
03500 – Good Philosophy vs. Bad Philosophy
Good philosophy must exist, if for no other reason, because bad philosophy needs to be answered. from The Weight of Glory
03483 – Orthodoxy vs. Orthopraxy
Religion without the Spirit, without authentic spirituality, basically becomes a way to give divine sanction/endorsement/legitimization to our biases and prejudices and it becomes a way to maintain the status quo. It also becomes a means of exerting control over...
03406 – The Christian Snob
The Christmas spirit does not shine out in the Christian snob. For the Christmas spirit is the spirit of those who, like their Master, live their whole lives on the principle of making themselves poor—spending and being spent—to enrich their fellow humans, giving...
03394 – No Matter What
We knew that the promise has never been safety, or that bad things would not happen if we were good and virtuous. The promise is only that God is in it with us, no matter what it is. from Miracle on 10th Street and Other Christmas Writings
03309 – Seeking Love?
Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.
03238 – Radical Individualism is a Virus
Individualism does not make us more free, more equal, more fraternal. The mere sum of individual interests is not capable of generating a better world for the whole human family. Radical individualism is a virus that is extremely difficult to eliminate, for it is...
03228 – Our Leaning Side
A pastor of a small church would occasionally call on one gentleman to pray, and every time this one particular guy would pray, he would end with the strangest statement, “And, oh Lord, prop us up on our leaning side.” Finally, the pastor pulled him aside, and he...