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  • Herod’s Story and Our Story Or A Viable Response to Wooden-Headedness

    There are times when the best laid plans of mice and humans go awry. There are also times when the best laid plans of preachers go awry. That time comes when one is ready to prepare the sermon only to find that he is grasp by another sermon. He is grasp so firmly by the… Read more

  • 20/20 Spiritual Vision

    I shall never forget the first time I stood at the point where the Metolius River is born. Suddenly, before my very eyes, a full-grown river burst out of the mountainside. I could hardly believe my eyes. I climbed down the steep bank to the very source of the river. I knelt down and drank… Read more

  • The Christ Child and Other Babies with Possibilities

    The world was looking for a kingTo slay their foes and lift them highThou earnest a little baby thingThat made a woman cry.   George MacDonald Every baby-thing is brought into the world by the birth pangs and tears of a mother. With the coming of each new baby, the future of humanity is born. The pain… Read more

  • Through the Eyes of a Stable Boy

    I am the stable boy at the Bethlehem Inn in Jerusalem. It was my job to take care of the camels and donkeys of the guests in the Inn. I would take the camels to the stable and securely tie them in a stall and see that they had hay to eat and fresh straw… Read more

  • Mary’s Song: The First Christmas Carol

    There is a beautiful story told about George Friedrich Handel. He was at the height of his career. He had been summoned to Italy by the Medici Prince Cosmo the third. While there, he wrote his great Italian operas Rodrigo and Agrippino. With all the success, he was not happy with his music. He thought… Read more

  • The Christmas Story is Future Tense

    Christmas centers in the story told from the heart and not from the head. It is totally left brain. It has stimulated poets and artist’s brushes as no other story has. The story of the baby Jesus is told to the delight of little children. The story is also loved by parents and the grandparents,… Read more