Music & the Spoken Word Library

The Secret of True Friendship – Sunday, January 26, 2020

What does it mean to have a genuine friend? We may have many acquaintances, and we can be friendly to all of them, but true...

That’s What a Community Is – Sunday, January 19, 2020

How does a group of individuals, all with different backgrounds and different perspectives on life, become a united community? Well-known author and newspaper columnist David...

Failure and Success – Sunday, January 12, 2020

Many decades ago, author and clergyman Henry van Dyke wrote a classic tale about a wise man named Artaban from the mountains of Persia. He...

Memories and Dreams – Sunday, January 5, 2020

In a film based on H. G. Wells’s classic novel The Time Machine, one of the main characters comments: “We all have our time machines,...

The Best Days Ahead – Sunday, December 29, 2019

“Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year,” wrote Ralph Waldo Emerson.1 At first, that may seem like...

Good King Wenceslas – Sunday, December 22, 2019

I’m standing at Wenceslas Square, in the heart of Prague, near a statue of the Duke of Bohemia, affectionately known as good King Wenceslas. A...

READING FROM LUKE CHAPTER 2 – Sunday, December 15, 2019

AND it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed. And...

The Gift of Love at Christmas – Sunday, December 8, 2019

Sometime after the birth of the Christ child on that first Christmas Day, the baby and His parents were visited by Wise Men from the...

The Holly and the Ivy – Sunday, December 1, 2019

People watch for the first signs of Christmas with great anticipation. Favorite holiday carols fill the air. Colorful, glistening lights illuminate the night sky. And...