Read Matthew 21:1-11 Thought for the Day: Real power comes from real humility. Imagine a triumphant globally-recognized hero was supposed to arrive in New York Harbor. Can you imagine what would happen? The entire international press would arrive with a commotion and impatiently wait for this hero...
Read Matthew 5:2-12 Thought for the Day: Jesus calls us to make peace! After failing to get re-elected, former President Jimmy Carter could have let bitterness and resentment rule his life. Instead, he publicly pledged to not criticize the new administration in its initial years. Or, he...
Read Matthew 5:2-12 Thought for the Day: Jesus calls us to stand together! Roddie Edmonds gave his life to Jesus at Vestal Methodist Church in Tennessee before enlisting in the Army in 1941. Serving as a master sergeant in the Battle of the Bulge, Edmonds was captured...
Read Matthew 5:2-12 Thought for the Day: Jesus calls us to live mercifully! In the ancient story “Androcles and the Lion”, a Roman slave found himself on the run and in the forest. Miles in, he stumbled, hit a rock, and fainted. When Androcles awoke, he heard...
Read Matthew 5:2-12 Thought for the Day: Jesus calls us to live with passion for what is right! It is highly unlikely that any player on the 2004 Red Sox had more of a hand in breaking the “Curse of the Bambino” than Christopher “Trot” Nixon. A...
Read Matthew 5:2-12 Thought for the Day: Jesus calls us to live meekly! An eccentric candymaker stunned society in Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory by opening his top-secret factory to five lucky guests. As soon as this was announced, the entire world succumbed to chaos and...
Read Philippians 2:5-8 Thought for the Day: Jesus chose humility and I need to as well! Who could ever forget young Wilbur from Charlotte’s Web? The runt of his litter, Wilbur found himself saved by little Fern Arable and later raised for eventual slaughter on Zuckerman’s farm....
Read Matthew 22:34-40 Thought for the Day: I am called to love my neighbors! Robert Frost’s timeless poem, “Mending Wall” gives us a lot to think about. Two neighbors gather each year to repair the stone wall separating their two pieces of land. While one clearly wishes...
Read Matthew 22:34-40 Thought for the Day: I am called to love God! In the Old Testament times, many Jewish rabbis began the practice of taking Deuteronomy 6:4-8 literally and wearing small boxes on their foreheads with the command to “love the Lord your God with all...
Read Matthew 21:12-13 Thought for the Day: Life is better when I reject greed! In the magnificent short story Civil Peace by Chinua Achebe, we meet a wise husband and father named Jonathan Iwegbu. After surviving a ruthless civil war, Jonathan learned that he didn’t need money,...