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How do we make our deaths gifts for others? Very often people's lives are destroyed, harmed, or permanently wounded by the deaths of the...

We often wonder how death will occur for us. Through illness, accident, war, or a natural disaster? Will our deaths happen suddenly or gradu...

Many people say, "I am not afraid of death, but I am afraid of dying." This is quite understandable, since dying often means illne...

Emptiness and fullness at first seem complete opposites. But in the spiritual life they are not. In the spiritual life we find the fulfillme...

Jesus says [to Nicodemus], "The wind blows where it chooses, and you hear the sound of it, but you do not know where it comes from or w...

I was on a business trip, it was 3:30 a.m. and I simply had to pick up the phone and call my wife. I had just finished reading a riveting st...

Someone recently asked me the question: "How can I have more opportunities come into my life?" Good question, but I think my answe...

Charlie Tremendous Jones said that you will be the same person five years from now that you are today except for the books you read, the tap...

Many wise men have said in many different ways that there are at least four things by which men must live in the world. They were speaking, ...

We all must hold the cups of our lives. As we grow older and become more fully aware of the many sorrows of life - personal failures, family...

The Gospel has a once-and-for-all quality. It is unique. There is nothing like it in history or in any other world religion. Someone put tha...

Often we think that we do not know enough to be able to teach others. We might even become hesitant to tell others what we know, out of fear...

Some statistics from a recent presentation on health issues of Australian 13-24 year olds. Births to teenage mothers Year Married Not-mar...

When the mother of James and John asks Jesus to give her sons a special place in his Kingdom, Jesus responds, "Can you drink the cup th...

Another one that does the email rounds from time to time - not sure how accurate its portrayal is, but there is an element of truth containe...

An old chestnut... still worth pondering from time to time If you knew a woman who was pregnant, who had 8 kids already, three who were deaf...

1. You have to take it out of the box to have fun with it. 2. It comes in many styles and colors. 3. Somebody has to launch it on its way. 4...

How many of you are under sixteen? How do you like the idea that you might be driving a Cadillac when you're sixteen? When my son was yo...

I was at a dinner party the other night when someone posed this question: Who has influenced your life the most? I thought for a moment and ...

The opposite of a scarcity mentality is an abundancy mentality. With an abundancy mentality we say: "There is enough for everyone, more...