... , during World War I, many of the cultural centers, the art galleries, and the universities of Europe were being destroyed, Sr. Edward Gray said, "War is destructive of many things of priceless value, but Beethoven’s music will survive. Shakespeare will survive. Handel ... Carthage. She didn’t want him to go to Rome lest he fall into wicked ways and never become a Christian. But Monica didn’t know what God knew. In Rome, Augustine came under the spell of Ambrose, the Bishop of Milan, and was radiantly ...
... over 300 years after Christ’s death on the cross. His father was a pagan. His mother was a Christian, later named St. Monica in the Roman church. He abandoned what Christianity he had and took on a concubine for fifteen years. For nine years, he ... stop paying attention to your sinful nature and satisfying its desires.’ " - Confessions, VIII, 12 translation, P.H.B. based on the translation of Edward B. Pusey. These words have a lot to say to us who live 1,600 years after the "defender of the faith." It is ...
... our Savior Jesus Christ who died for our sins." [1] Now, consider this scene from one of Shakespeare''s plays, Richard III. Remember the scene in which Lady Anne, the widow of Edward, Prince of Wales, follows the open coffin of her father-in-law, King Henry VI? Both men have been murdered by the Duke of Gloucester. The coffin-bearers stop to rest and ... 19, 1992, volume 24, no. 16, for this illustration. 4. Thanks to Donald Shelby, First UMC Pulpit, November 26, 1989, Santa Monica, CA, for this illustration.
... HUMAN THOUGHT TO EXPLAIN. It is exhausting--it can evaporate hope quicker than anything else I know on the human scene. When Dr. Edward A. Steimle was teaching and preaching at Union Theological Seminary in New York City, he shared: "The thing that always keeps bringing ... the Holy Bible instruct us to make. I close with a story told by Donald Shelby, a distinguished colleague in Santa Monica, who clipped this incident from a column by Penelope McMillian in the May 8, 1992, edition of The Los Angeles Times. ...
... . It was in Gethsemane that Jesus allowed his soul to be crucified; on Golgotha he merely relinquished his body.” (James R. Edwards, “Gethsemane: A Prelude to the Cross,” Pulpit Digest, March—April, 1981, p. 49) So, we are looking at Gethsemane today this ... , the most powerful, are those who serve.” Or as Schweitzer paraphrased it, “Those who have learned how to give themselves away.” Monica Helwig put it in such a piercing way. She said, “If it won’t play in a cancer ward of a shoddy ...
