Music & the Spoken Word Library

A Merry Heart- Sunday, February 06, 1983

It is good to be merry, for a merry heart makes a cheerful countenance. It was Emerson who wrote about the wonderful expressiveness of the...

Season of Hope – Sunday, January 02, 1983

Today the New Year spreads before us open to our hopes, dedicated to our dreams. Certainly, there are problems ahead and always will be. But we,...

The Mystery of Christmas – Sunday, December 26, 1982

This Christmas season is drawing to a close. The nativity scenes which have beautified the American landscape will be carefully boxed to safeguard their storage...

The Coming – Sunday, December 19, 1982

Jesus, who created the world, could certainly have chosen any birthplace here. He must have come to a stable by design. Were there no palaces...

Home for Christmas – Sunday, December 12, 1982

Home. Home is where our mother and our father are. Home is where our children play and think about the holiday season and wonder what...

Building Strong Families – Sunday, December 05, 1982

The holiday season is an excellent time to enjoy our families. Those who nurture strong family roots watch their efforts bear fruit year-round. But the...

The Strengths of Our Weaknesses – Sunday, November 28, 1982

If we saw a person who could not even hear sounds struggling to be a musician, or a lawyer so shy that he could not...

Gratitude for Friends – Sunday, November 21, 1982

It seems woefully inadequate to set aside only one day out of the entire year for Thanksgiving. We are all recipients of countless blessings, enough...

Cease From Anger – Sunday, November 14, 1982

The English dramatist, John Webster, observed that, "There is not in nature a thing that makes man so deformed, so beastly, as doth intemperate anger."