No End to Growth

The landscape gardener looked surprised. "Will you say that again, ma'am?" The lady-of-the-house waved a hand to include the several-acre ...

Sunday Evening Let-Down

I wonder if the strong sense of frustration which comes over me so frequently on Sunday evening and to which many other parsons have confessed is merely ...

Two Faces

No man can for any considerable time wear one face to himself and another to the multitude without finally getting bewildered as to which is the true ...

Guilt Is a Warning

In The New Yorker, (5/15/95) Sara Mosle recounts that on March 18, 1937, a spark ignited a cloud of natural gas that had accumulated in the basement of ...

Hopelessness Breeds Blessing

Our Lord begins where we would never begin, at the point of human destitution. The greatest blessing a man ever gets from God is the realization that, ...

Blind to One's Own Faults

The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.

A Captive Conscience

My conscience has been taken captive by the Word of God, and to go against conscience or Scripture is neither right nor safe.

The Wrong Measuring Stick

A little boy once told his mother that he was six feet tall. When she doubted the statement, he assured her that he had just measured himself. His calculations ...

All Have Sinned--That Means You

One of the interesting things about preaching to New Yorkers is you don't have to spend much time convincing them they're sinners. They know that ...

Dressing Room Mirror

A sign on a department store dressing room mirror:

"Objects in mirror may appear bigger than they actually are."