The Spirit of Christmas – Sunday, December 12, 2021
Every year at Christmastime, small children put on makeshift costumes and gather household props to act out the Nativity story while someone reads from Luke...
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The Reason for the Season – Sunday, December 05, 2021
Christmas is a season of interesting contrasts. In many parts of the world, for example, Christmas comes in the darkest, coldest part of winter—and yet Christmas is a season of light and warmth, characterized by the warm glow...
An Invitation to Hope – Sunday, November 28, 2021
Christmas lasts much longer than one day. Weeks in advance, decorations are hung, and stores and streetlights are lit up in happy anticipation. Music sounds...
A Virtue for Every Season of Life – Sunday, November 21, 2021
Isn’t it interesting that sometimes those who have the least are the most grateful, and yet there are others who seem to have everything—except gratitude?...
To Join Him in His Yoke – Sunday, November 14, 2021
Sometimes we feel like pilgrims on a sea of strife. A pilgrim is one who has journeyed far from home, and that journey can leave...
The Dream of a Nation – Sunday, November 07, 2021
More than 20 years ago, Gene Scheer read a book about the creation of the Constitution of the United States. He read about the passionate...
He Simply Went to Work – Sunday, October 31, 2021
Sometimes we see things so often that we don’t really look at them anymore. When was the last time you stopped to watch a beautiful sunset, gaze at a canopy...
Our Songs of Loudest Praise – Sunday, October 24, 2021
In one of George Bernard Shaw’s plays, a successful young woman challenges the idea that we are victims of our circumstances. “I don’t believe in circumstances,” she declares. “The people who get on...
Good Thoughts – Sunday, October 17, 2021
A beloved children’s book from decades ago contains this keen observation: “A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a...