I met Jesus and my former way of thinking has passed. [My] eyes have been opened... Craig
03443 – Anna
Anna is the very last character in the Christmas Story. Mary and Joseph have left behind the shepherds and the stable animals, stopping in the temple to fulfill their requirements of their faith. Upon arrival, they meet Simeon the Priest who would perform the...
01772 – You are Important!
If you could only sense how important you are to the lives of those you meet; how important you can be to the people you may never dream of. There is something of yourself that you leave at every meeting with another person.
03001 – Much in the Window; Nothing in the Room
We have bigger houses, but smaller families;More conveniences, but less time;We have more degrees, but less sense;More knowledge, but less judgment;More experts, but more problems;More medicines, but less healthiness;We've been all the way to the moon and back,but...
02582 – Ash Wednesday
If our lives were a long piece of fabric with our baptism on one end and our funeral on another, and we don't know the distance between the two, then Ash Wednesday is a time when that fabric is pinched in the middle and the ends are held up so that our baptism in the...
02573 – Let the Mothers Meet!
I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.
01470 – Preaching Both Comedy and Tragedy
Switching on the lectern light and clearing his throat, the preacher speaks both the word of tragedy and the word of comedy because they are both of them of the truth and because Jesus speaks them both, blessed be he. The preacher tells the truth by speaking of the...
01182 – Meeting God’s Presence
A man must have a sense of being cared for, of not being alone and stranded in the universe. All of us want the assurance of not being deserted by life nor deserted in life. Faith teaches us that God is--that He is the fact of life from which all other things take...
00014 – The Stuff of Prayer
“How was your day?”…A mother I know has a different way of asking the same question. As she tucks her children into bed each night, she asks them a question: “Where did you meet God today?” And they tell her, one by one: a teacher helped me; there was a homeless...