A sower went out to sow. –Matthew 13:3– Seeds come in many different varieties. I have here, ladies and gentlemen, a bag of sesame seeds. I love them sprinkled on a bagel, but they can sure be annoying. Whenever I eat a sesame seed bagel I usually get one or
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A Homily for the Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time – Year C Three Rings for the Elven-kings under the sky, Seven for the Dwarf-lords in their halls of stone, Nine for Mortal Men doomed to die, One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne In the Land of Mordor
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Go and show him his fault, between thee and him alone. –Matthew 18:15– I shall never forget the first time I met Cindy Gibson way back in our Moravian College days. She very discretely told me that I had something green on my front tooth! I liked her then
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A Homily Delivered 7 December 2014 for the Second Sunday of Advent (Year B) December 7, 1941, “a day that will live in infamy,” a day that marks our country’s entry into World War II due to the bombing of Pearl Harbor by the Japanese. Today, seventy-three years later,
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Character is who you are when you think no one is looking. –Dr. Laura Schlessinger– Of all the personal testimonies confided to me, I find none more compelling than the one related here. Decades later, I have written it down as best as I can recall, with the permission
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None but I makes much of naught. –Francis Thompson, The Hound of Heaven– When I was growing up in Allentown, Pennsylvania, during the 1960’s, a man who lived down the street from our family happened to be a fishing buddy of none other than Ted Williams, the retired left fielder
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Garrison Keillor and his Hopeful Gospel Quartet perform a wonderful song entitled, Life Is a Ballgame. Here are some of the lyrics: Life is a ballgame Bein’ played each day. Life is a ballgame Everybody can play. You know, Jesus standing at the home plate He’s awaitin’ for you there.
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The movie The Hobbit, which hit the theaters in 2012, broke all sorts of box office records. No wonder! J.R.R. Tolkien’s book of the same title, on which the film is based, is a timeless masterpiece. It tells the story of how Bilbo Baggins, a creature known as a hobbit,
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It is good to grasp the one and not let go of the other. Whoever fears God will avoid all extremes. –Ecclesiastes 7:18 (NIV)– That is what happens to those who pluck and eat fruits at the wrong time and in the wrong way. Oh, the fruit is good, but
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So should it be with you. When you have done all you have been commanded, say, ‘We are unprofitable servants; we have done what we were obliged to do.’” –Luke 17:10– It was August of 1969. There she stood on our front doorstep, a wide-eyed, impossibly thin teenager, speaking
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