I begin this sermon where I ended the last one, by reciting Paul’s spiritual calculus for developing spiritual maturity.  He declared, “We rejoice in our suffering because we know that suffering produces endurance and endurance produces character and character...

The crowd began the countdown: “Ten – Nine –Eight – Seven – Six –“   The color commentator screamed over the roar -- “They’re gonna do it!” “Five  - Four – Three –Two – One” – Al Michaels uttered the line of his journalistic life:  “Do you believe in miracles?  Yes!”...

If I say the phrase, “Make my day,” most of you would instantly know who originated the phrase.  Indeed, in our age of media saturation, no small number of phrases from popular movies have leached their way into our common vernacular.  Phrases like, “Play it again,...

Paul was one of the world’s first psychologists.  Of all the Biblical figures, only Jeremiah comes close to Paul in probing deeply his own motives and behavior.  But not even Jeremiah approaches the profundity of Paul’s insight into his own fragmented, conflicted...

Thomas Hemerken, better known to the world as Thomas a’ Kempis, was born late in the 14th century.   Born of poor parents, he entered the monastery in 1399 and worked there for the next seventy-two years.  He was widely known as a preacher and spiritual advisor, but...