Music & the Spoken Word Library

The Greatest of All Miracles – Sunday, November 04, 1984

Poet Robert Browning once wrote, "A man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for."

The Fourth Commandment – Sunday, October 28, 1984

One of the more interesting and important aspects of the Ten Commandments is that they are as valid today as they were when Moses came...

Youth and Age – Sunday, October 21, 1984

George Eliot once observed that we would never have loved the earth so much if we had not first been children here. It was then...

Asking the Right Questions – Sunday, October 14, 1984

Often in life we're concerned with giving or getting the right answer. But we must also be cognizant of the right question.

The Burden of Modern Civilization – Sunday, October 07, 1984

The burden of modern civilization is not, as many have supposed, that wealth is ill-distributed, or that social welfare has been neglected. It is rather...

Finding Contentment – Sunday, September 30, 1984

In “The Prayer Perfect,” just sung by the Choir, the supplicant asks the Lord to share with all the needy his own vast treasure of...

In Defense of Truth – Sunday, September 16, 1984

It is not true what some have said: that truth needs no defense, that truth will overcome the false, with power of its own, with...

Urgency in a World of Space and Time – Sunday, September 09, 1984

All that we are and all that we do is real. We are all part of a living world—part of a world that gives us...

A Veteran Is… – Sunday, September 02, 1984

America's war veterans come in a wide variety of sizes, shapes and ages. Their collective experience spans two world wars and several foreign conflicts. They...