In the Name... One night, a burglar broke into an old woman's house.  She woke up and, as he fled, she shouted out "Acts 2.38" - a Bible...

In the Name... A priest was walking down a quiet city street late one night when a robber jumped out and pulled a gun on him.  "I've only...

In the Name... One day, the pastor's wife came home with an expensive dress in hand.  When her husband asked her about it, she...

LENT 1, February 18th, 2024 In the Name... A little girl was learning to say the Lord's Prayer from memory and she was doing quite well...

Just twenty years after the event we remember today, a riot broke out in Ephesus, the fourth largest city of the Roman Empire. Ephesus...

In the Name... A rabbi once told me the reason that it took ten plagues to convince Pharaoh to let the Hebrews go. He was in De-Nile. In...

In the Name… Sometimes, you just can’t invent this stuff. A letter from the Department of Social Services, Greenville, South Carolina,...

In the Name... A minister told his congregation, "Next week I plan to preach about the sin of lying. To help you understand my sermon,...

In the Name… A Sunday School teacher asked the class, “Why did the Hebrews wander in the desert for forty years?” One boy put up his...

In the Name... Some years ago I heard the phrase, "God so loved the world...that he didn't send a committee." I think we can all relate...

In the Name... There was once an old sailor nearing the end of his days in a nursing home. He confessed to the chaplain that he had...

In the Name... A woman once confessed to a priest that she thought she might be guilty of the sin of pride. "Whenever I look in a...

In the Name... There was once a young curate who always preached about confession. No matter what the Sunday texts, he always managed to...

In the Name... There's a saying that no good deed goes unpunished. In 2003, a woman in Dallas witnessed a violent crime which made the...

In the Name... Just as the graveside service ended, there was a tremendous burst of thunder and rain began to fall. One mourner turned...

In the Name... A priest woke up early one exceptionally beautiful and sunny Sunday morning and couldn't resist the temptation to play...

In the Name… An engineer was developing a high speed plane but, in testing, the wings kept falling off. An old rabbi friend of his heard...

By ancient tradition, no sermon is preached on Palm Sunday. Our usual liturgy consists of the cheerful Palm Procession followed by the...

In the Name... I was recently thinking that in Lent we should only eat turtle soup and escargots. No 'fast' food. I knew I should have...

In the Name.... One winter Sunday, a young Scottish minister had to make an afternoon visit to a farm on the far side of a loch. Noting...