Forced From The Ideal

Forced From The Ideal

by | Apr 28, 2021

Leadership is never easy.  It wasn’t for Moses.  It won’t be for us.    The Ideal   Twice in Matthew 19:1-12 our Lord called the discussion back to the ideal, saying that marriage was permanent. One man, one woman, for life. That was the...
Canary in the Cage (Philip’s Funeral)

Canary in the Cage (Philip’s Funeral)

by | Apr 26, 2021

I laughed until the tears rolled down my cheeks, insisting that I wanted a square hat like the Anglican clergymen who officiated at Prince Philip’s funeral.  I also told my son that a cape like another official wore would make a grand birthday present. ...
Cuban Sunday School Literature

Cuban Sunday School Literature

by | Apr 23, 2021

While American children have flannelgraph,  maps, globes, visual aides, take home papers, audio-visuals, workbooks to color and/or fill out and teachers have quarterlies to assist their teaching,  Cuban Sunday School children have nothing.  Because of the generosity...
Speaking in Parables

Speaking in Parables

by | Apr 18, 2021

Matthew 13:1-23 is an amazing passage because it contradicts the popular assumption that the Living God is desperate for human response. God is thought of as leaning over the guard rails of Heaven, searching for any scrap of attention people may throw His way. ...
A Quirk of History

A Quirk of History

by | Apr 13, 2021

The Pilgrims of Plymouth Rock, 1620, fame were the outsiders, the disenfranchised, the minority.  They left England and Holland for freedom of religion. They sailed to the new world. As Separatists and non-conformists (against the Church of England), King James (the...