(A Not-So-Nice Homily for Christmas) Delivered Christmas 2019 Relations, sparing no expense’llSend some useless old utensil,Or a matching pen and pencil.“just the thing I need! how nice!”It doesn’t matter how sincere itIs, nor how heartfelt the spirit,Sentiment will not endear it,What’s important is the price. “A Christmas Carol” –Tom Lehrer–
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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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Teach us to number our days aright, that we may gain wisdom of heart. –Psalm 90:12– I grew up during the era of television game shows. To Tell the Truth, Password, Let’s Make a Deal, Queen for a Day, Concentration, Truth or Consequences, The Match Game, I’ve Got a
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I am a great fan of good children’s literature. One of my favorite books for young people is The Adventures of King Midas by the British author Lynne Reid Banks. Banks got a lot more notoriety for having written The Indian in the Cupboard
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“For with what measure you measure, it shall be measured to you.” –Luke 6:38– Concerning the story I am about to relate, permit me to use the words of Father Peter Lonergan in The Quiet Man: “Well, I can’t say it’s true, and I won’t say it’s not.” Several years
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Teach us to number our days aright, that we may gain wisdom of heart. –Psalm 90:12– I go to prepare a place for you. –John 14:2– Whenever I discover that one of my students plays golf, I tell him or her all about Harvey Penick’s Little Red Book:
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Blind guides, who strain out the gnat but swallow the camel! –Matthew 23:24– In the novel Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, people are obsessing about unimportant things such as television shows, all the while failing to take any notice of the war that is threatening to destroy their society. That
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