In the Name... One Sunday, a little boy was kneeling with his mother before the service started, and he began laughing. “Johnny,” his...

ALL SAINTS’ SUNDAY, November 5th, 2017 In the Name... The story is told of two brothers who were involved in crime, corruption, and every...

In the Name… The story is told of when Henry Ford visited Ireland in the 1920’s and made a $1,000 donation to a local hospital. That was...

In the Name... There were once two men shipwrecked on a desert island. One of them started screaming and yelling, “We're going to die!...

In the Name... A Baptist minister and an Episcopal priest once agreed to hold a pulpit exchange. Since the priest would wear a plain...

In the Name... One Halloween, two boys went trick-or-treating and one brought some eggs to throw at houses. On the way, the older said...

In the Name... A few years ago, Sue and I were traveling in Ireland and we stopped late one night to get some fish and chips. The town...

In the Name... A fellow asked his boss for a raise because, he said, he was doing the work of three men. The boss said he wouldn't give...

In the Name... Once upon a time there was an elephant who worked in the forests of India moving logs with his trunk. His owner took good...

In the Name... There was once a barber who became a born-again Christian and couldn’t wait to share his new-found faith. So, one Monday,...

The Blue Screen of Death I remember the first time I put on sunglasses with polarized lens. The sky changed from a diffuse featureless...

In the Name... Among the fables of Aesop is one entitled “The Hunter and the Woodsman.” A hunter was out following the tracks of a lion....

In the Name... There's a scene I recall from one of the Frankenstein movies made in the 1970's. In this movie, the creature is given...

In the Name... A church put a sign out front which read “You will pay for your sins.” But, somebody wrote below it, “If you have already...

In the Name... A Sunday School teacher asked her class if any of them could define "prayer." One little boy raised his hand and said,...

In the Name... A fiery preacher was once banging his pulpit and regaling his flock on the torments of Hell including weeping and the...

In the Name... A man went to a farm stand, and, to make sure he was getting quality produce he asked, “Excuse me, I’m buying these for my...

In the Name... Attending a wedding for the first time, a little girl whispered to her mother, "Why is the bride dressed in white?'' The...

Sermon: PENTECOST 3, June 25th, 2017 In the Name... The late Senator Sam Ervin took pride in describing himself as just a “poor country...

In the Name... "Good morning, Mr Phelps." A lot of us may remember that as a tagline of the TV series "Mission: Impossible." The line...