Music & the Spoken Word Library

A Look inside the Heart – Sunday, February 16, 2020

Most of us know what it’s like to be interviewed for a job, hoping our answers to questions impress a potential employer. Some of us...

A Lifelong Love Story – Sunday, February 9, 2020

So many fictional love stories follow a familiar pattern—and yet we never get tired of hearing it. Boy meets girl. Friendship blossoms into romance. Adversity...

Strong, Positive, Hopeful – Sunday, February 2, 2020

Most of the time, life is pretty wonderful. The world around us is filled with beauty. We are surrounded by people who care about us....

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...