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Sing to the Lord, for He has done glorious things; let this be known to all the world. Shout aloud, and sing for joy, people of Zion, for great is the Holy One of Israel. ( Isaiah 12:5-6) These words of the prophet Isaiah are fulfilled in our own generation every time we sing the…

During Holy Week, the words of Isaiah the prophet, spoken more than seven hundred years before Jesus was born, speak to us more than two thousand years after Jesus’ crucifixion: Surely he took up our pain and bore our suffering, yet we considered him punished by God, stricken by Him, and afflicted. But he was…

Throughout history any triumphant kings and heroes have returned from conquests to a great celebration of cheers and waving flags and shouts of adoration. In the first century a carpenter’s son was greeted in Jerusalem with great excitement and celebration for being the son of David, and the son of God. Today we don’t re-create…

Jesus sent two of his disciples, saying to them, “Go to the village ahead of you, and as you enter it, you will find a colt tied there, which no one has ever ridden. . . If anyone asks you ‘Why are you untying it?’ say, ‘The Lord needs it.’ (Luke 19:29) The disciples did…

He (Jesus) says that in spite of her incredible pain, a new mother is filled with joy at the sight of her child. So Jesus has the audacity to say “That’s just a dim hint of the joy I sense when I look at you. All my suffering, torment and death I have willingly borne,…

In 1858 Christina Campbell and her husband settled in the frontier town of Salina, Kansas. They opened a small store and traded with the Indians for pelts and furs. Christina was in charge of the store and befriended the Indian women who traded with her. When Christina and her husband set up the store, she…

In one of the adventures of Arthur Conan Doyle’s character Sherlock Holmes, the great detective was approached by the servant of a nobleman of the Royal family to help discreetly to recover the noble man’s son. The boy was only eight years old, and had disappeared from the boarding school he attended. Holmes agreed to…

My mother didn’t have sterling silverware to use when guests came for a lunch or dinner; but my aunt Mildred made sure that all her nieces had sterling silverware, by giving each of us a spoon or fork or knife for every birthday and Christmas. As a child, I thought it strange, but not unkind,…

Of the sixty-six books in the King James Bible, twenty-four of them admonish the reader not to be afraid. Some of them emphasize courage, and some explain reasons for not fearing; but all associate fear with an absence of faith. Probably the simplest, gentlest and most direct message of “Do not fear,” comes from the…

“ Isn’t this what I said, Lord, when I was still at home? This is what I tried to forestall by fleeing to Tarshish. I knew that you are a gracious and compassionate God, slow to anger and abounding in love, a God who relents from sending calamity. Now, Lord take away my life,for it…