Music & the Spoken Word Library

The Beauty of Humanity – Sunday, October 02, 1983

We live in a beautiful world, a world of not only beautiful objects, but of beautiful moments, beautiful experiences. Each season is glorious in its...

Observations on Aging – Sunday, September 25, 1983

Autumn is returning to the Northern Hemisphere with its brilliant colors and bountiful harvests. It is the fullness of all seasons, a time when we...

The High Road of Optimism – Sunday, September 18, 1983

Why is it that some people seem to roll pleasantly down the highways of life while others of us trudge a weary road from one...

Materialism – Sunday, September 11, 1983

Every morning is one of God’s best mornings for someone. But too often we don’t recognize it because we’re too busy counting our material possessions....

The Conquest of Scarecrows – Sunday, September 04, 1983

In America’s rural past, farmers used scarecrows in their fields. Timid birds, seeing the cross-sticks attired with an old coat and perhaps a hat was frightened...

The Advantages of Adversity – Sunday, August 28, 1983

The Lord will lead us to fertile fields and soft flowing rivers because we are His children, and He loves us. But because He knows...

The Astronomy Lesson – Sunday, August 21, 1983

We look to the night skies and see the summer stars. These heavenly lights have looked upon us from their whirling orbs since the dawn...

The Risk of Life – Sunday, August 14, 1983

Rudyard Kipling, in a poem titled simply, “If,” investigates the many attributes of maturity. Among the attributes he discovers, one recurs in several forms: the...

The Blessing of Freedom – Sunday, August 07, 1983

People arriving in the New York harbor by sea are greeted by the majestic Statue of Liberty, her torch raised high in a symbolic salute...