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I will never forget my first Memorial Day weekend in the USA. That Sunday morning in 1971 after I led the prayers at Christ Church, in Hamilton-Wenham, Massachusetts, I was greeting the worshippers at the door when a lady said to me, “You didn’t mention Memorial Day...
GOD KNOWS YOU AND HEARS YOUR PRAYERS
Father in Heaven! Great is your infinite kingdom. You bear the weight of the stars and govern the forces of the world through immense spaces; numberless as the sands are those who have life and being through you. And yet, you hear the cry of all the creatures, and the...
WHAT IS GOOD AND RIGHT AND TRUE?
There is much confusion and disagreement over personal morality today. What is good and right and true for one person is not accepted as such by another. People feel that what is good and right and true for them is nobody else’s business. There is no universal...
AMNESIA
John Swinton, Professor of Practical Theology and Pastoral Care in the University of Aberdeen, in his book on Dementia writes, The problem of forgetfulness is not confined to the individual with dementia. The experience of dementia brings to the fore a broader amnesia...
WHITEY HAUGAN
My good friend and highly esteemed pastor, Harald 'Whitey' Haugan has entered into glory after 93 years of a most productive and memorable life on earth. I have known Whitey since 1976 when I moved to Jacksonville, Florida. His wife, Mary, was the realtor who found us...
A GOOD AND UPRIGHT MAN
“Joseph of Arimathea, a prominent member of the Council, who was himself waiting for the kingdom of God, went boldly to Pilate and asked for Jesus’ body. Joseph bought some linen cloth, took down the body, wrapped it in the linen, and placed it in a tomb cut out of...
EASTER AND RESURRECTION
On September 7, 1952 my beloved grandmother died aged 59. It was totally unexpected. She had a heart attack and in those days there was little the local physician could do to deal with her blood clot. They gave her brandy to ease her discomfort. Having had two heart...
MAUNDY THURSDAY
“Jesus knew that the time has come for him to leave this world and go to the Father.” (John 13:1) What a way to describe your last night? When we die we leave this world and go to the Father. It is a journey from here to the presence of the Father. It is to leave the...
PALM SUNDAY
Palm Sunday reminds me of Corrie ten Boom who always replied when people praised her for her Christian ministry that she was only the donkey on whom Jesus rode. May we learn from her humility! Jesus, King of the universe; ride on in humble majesty: Lord, this Palm...
ADOLESCENCE
As I look back on my life I must have been a very idealistic adolescent. While I devoured the usual boy’s comic books such as Eagle, Rover, Classics Illustrated and many others, I also haunted the local public library housed in a Carnegie building and read...
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