Matthew 6:1-4
One of the most significant events of the late nineteenth century was urban and city growth. Immigrants and those from rural areas poured in. I...
Matthew 5:43-48
Suppose you were a lifeguard rescuing a drowning person.
If the person was your best friend or even a casual acquaintance, we would probab...
Matthew 5:38-42
The Second Continental Congress met in Philadelphia on May 10, 1775. They had no legal authority, but had to make decisions because of milita...
Matthew 5:33-37
Truth is sometimes hard to find. There was a time when people were as good as their word—and some still are. There were no written contracts, j...
Matthew 5:27-32
Maintaining a marriage and a family takes work and a lot of maintenance.
As in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s, The Scarlet Letter, we’re often temp...
Matthew 5:27-30
Nathaniel Hawthorne’s, The Scarlet Letter, was written as an indictment against the Puritanical beliefs of his day. The main character, Heste...
Matthew 5:21-26
Dr. S. I. McMillen, in his book None of These Diseases, wrote, “What a person eats is not as important as the bitter spirit, the hates, and t...
Matthew 5:17-19
Books today certainly don’t last as they did years ago. I suppose the main reason is that they are not made from durable material as they wer...
Matthew 5:13-16
John Donne once said, “No man is an island.”
American diplomat, philanthropist, and social activist Elihu Burritt said, “No human being ca...
Matthew 5:10-12
One biographer said of Savonarola, the Italian preacher and Reformer, “His preaching was a voice of thunder, and his denunciation of sin was ...
Matthew 5:9
Our world has known little peace.
The terrorist attack on New York and Washington, DC, in September of 2001—along with the long war on terror ...
Matthew 5:8
People who own greenhouses are usually in the business of selling flowers or other shrubbery or just want one so they can keep flowers year round...
