Weekly Bible Reflection
The Downcast
ippocrates, the 5th century Greek physician, identified four kinds of temperament: the sociable extroverts – the sanguine; the driven leaders – the choleric; the analytical and reflective – the melancholic; and the relaxed and inward looking – the...
Where is the joy?
C. S. Lewis once observed, ‘I think we all sin by needlessly disobeying the apostolic injunction to "rejoice" as much as by anything else.’ Was he right? Is there real joy in our lives? I am not talking about a manufactured, false kind of joy – putting on a brave face...
BREAD FROM HEAVEN
riting in The Spectator magazine last Saturday, Dr Jonathan Sachs, Chief Rabbi in the UK, said, "I love the remark made by one Oxford don about another: ‘On the surface, he’s profound, but deep down, he’s superficial.’ That sentence has more than...
SUFFERING
SUFFERING f God is great and good why is there so much suffering?’ is a question we often hear, especially when the topic of Christianity comes up. Certainly this is one of life’s tough questions that we all want answered. The reality of pain and...
IS ANYONE OUT THERE?
HG Wells, author of The War of the Worlds and The Time Machine, wrote: I am an historian. I am not a believer, but I must confess as a historian that this penniless preacher from Nazareth is irrevocably the very center of history. Jesus Christ is easily the most...
GOOD NEWS TRAVELS
y Thursday of each week I endeavor to have my sermon prep well under way. Since many New Yorkers are away over the weekend, especially over the summer, I thought it might be useful if I developed a ‘Thursday Thought’ each week. So here goes… GOOD...