Music & the Spoken Word Library

The Courage to Make Decisions – Sunday, August 24, 1958

The power of decisions is sometimes seized from us by too long a delay.  And while we should never be stampeded, never too swiftly persuaded...

Safety – and the full living of life – Sunday, August 10, 1958

What follows is not a comment of the kind this hour generally suggests.  But that which pertains to people, to their health and happiness, to...

Slamming doors… – Sunday, August 17, 1958

If we were to title what follows in one phrase, we could perhaps call it "Slamming doors."

The Process of Repentance – Sunday, August 03, 1958

Last week we talked of the principle of repentance, with the principle of forgiving—and of forgetting what has been forgiven.  Now, what of the possibilities—what...

Repenting…forgiving…forgetting… – Sunday July 27, 1958

In moving through life, we all tend to pick up some prejudices, some resentments, perhaps some sense of injury at times, some feelings that we...

Things for which we don’t personally pay – Sunday, July 20, 1958

One of the sobering considerations of life would be an appraisal of the things we have for which we didn't personally pay a price.  We...

We can’t go with them – Sunday, July 13, 1958

We go through some interesting cycles in this life we live.  Our children arrive helpless in infancy, completely dependent upon us. 

The Partnership of Parents – Sunday, July 06, 1958

In commenting on the partnership of his parents, an eminent and grateful son once said: "Never in all my boyhood did they fail to stand...

Freedom – so rare, so precious, so perishable – Sunday, June 29, 1958

May we turn a moment or two to freedom—that freedom which relatively so few in all this world have bad, yet which is so essential...