Based in part on a sermon by Alan Hoskin, published in The Minister’s Manuel for 1994, ed. By James W. Cox.
Luke 2:1-3: “In those days Caesar Augustus issued a decree that a census should be taken of the entire Roman world. (This was the first census while [...]

Picture this: You’re driving to the house of a friend whom you haven’t visited in a few years. You know the neighborhood, and you know the correct street … or, at least, you think you do. But, as you pull onto the street which you’re positive is the correct one, all [...]

An 81-year-old woman took great pride in the fact that she didn’t look her age. Or so she thought, anyway! She received a rude awakening one day when she walked into a drugstore. Commenting to the clerk on the intense heat of that sweltering summer day, she said, “Going [...]