Did you hear about the man who went into the preaching ministry, worked for seven years, then resigned to go back to medical school and become a doctor? "People," he explained, "don't want spiritual health. They just want to feel good." But after working as a physician for seven years, he again resigned, this time to go back to school. "I'm going to become a lawyer," he explained, "because, in the end, people don't want spiritual health. They don't even want physical health. They just want to get even."

I tell you, the world is like that: There is a growing surliness in our lives today. People are bristling with sarcasms, law suits, hand guns, and nuclear warheads. We are a people at war in our relationships. From our marriages to our child-parent relationships, to our next-door neighbors…