Romans 8:18-25; Matthew 2:6 For your Christmas enjoyment, here is a little humor. A man walked into a jewelry store to buy his wife a Christmas present. The clerk showed him a number of nice pieces of jewelry, and he said, those are all very nice, but can you show me something cheaper? She selected several […]
Isaiah 11:1-6; Jeremiah 31:3, 13b One summer early in my high school years, when I attended church camp, one of our counselors gave us a challenge to read four chapters of the Bible every day. He said if we would read four chapters a day it would help us greatly in our faith and in […]
Isaiah 9:2, 6-7 As we enjoyed the first Sunday of Advent last week, I found the music, the readings, and all the service to be very moving. At one moment, as I watched the flame of the first Advent candle, its vulnerability struck me as representative of the vulnerability of our lives. There are so […]
Matthew 2:1-8 Two Very Different Kings One of Mark Twain’s classic stories is The Prince and the Pauper. The story centers upon two young men. The first is a young man named Tom Canty, a poverty-stricken young man who lived in London with his impoverished family. The other is Prince Edward the VI, son of […]
Psalm 23 A friend of mind has a story that is an incredibly powerful reminder of the blessing of life. She works for IBM, and one day she was preparing for a business trip. She was booking her flight when her boss asked her to cancel the trip. She argued that it was an important […]