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Jesus had this knack for making people very uncomfortable when they tried to entrap him. We just heard another fine example of this in...

Have you ever been invited to a wedding and really didn’t want to go? Maybe the bride or groom was the relative of a friend and you had...

A man had worked all of his life, saved all his money, and was a real miser. He told his wife, “When I die, I want you to take all my...

It’s a short story. A man asked his older son to go work in his vineyard and the son refused. But after a while he changed his mind—and...

One of the important realities of our faith is that God does not operate by the rules we humans have set up. Rules such as you go to...

Our readings today are all about rules for life and a recipe for maintaining healthy, functional relationships, especially within the...

I am sometimes amazed at the things we find in the Bible. Who said Scripture was boring? I never noticed until this week that Paul says...

One day a preacher came home and saw his wife in a brand new exotic red dress. He looked at her and said: "Didn't I tell you that you...

You may recall the theme song from the comedy Cheers set in the Boston Pub, a place you want to go “where everybody knows your name.”...

This was a woman who know her “place.” She had little choice in that, being from a part of the country where Canaanites were ancestral...

I don’t like storms. Never did. At the first sign of lightening and thunder, my great aunt Rose would bring out candles that were blessed...

Paddy O’Brien was driving down the street in a sweat because he had an important meeting and couldn't find a parking place. Looking up to...

Author Anthony De Mello tells a story about some people who were on a raft off the coast of Brazil. They were perishing from thirst, for...

“There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.” A preacher was sermonizing about this passage and in his fire and brimstone style strongly...

You are driving in a car at a constant speed. On your left side is a valley and on your right side is a fire engine traveling at the same...

I saw an interesting and nostalgic photo on Face Book this week. It was a scene from the 1960’s Andy Griffith show in fictional Mayberry....

In the movie, Sister Act, Whoopi Goldberg plays aspiring disco diva Deloris Van Cartier who falls in love with a very tough and very...

There’s a great saying in the South that goes like this: “That preacher’s just gone from preachin’ to meddlin.” Have you tuned into a...

Leo Tolstoy wrote a story about a lonely shoemaker named Martin, who was promised in a dream that Jesus would come to his shop. The next...

Pat and Mike were perched at their favorite pub in Donegal sipping their second pint of the afternoon. Directly across the street was a...