Last Friday Father Raniero Cantalamessa, preacher to the Pontifical household, delivered a sermon in the Vatican in the presence of Pope Benedict XVI entitled Called by God to Communicate With Son Jesus Christ. It is a simple and profound development of Philippians 3:7-12. The whole sermon is well worth reading for its emphasis on Jesus Christ as t…
Here’s my first Christmas gift recommendation. Mark and Vanessa gave Marlene an early Christmas gift at Thanksgiving, a board game called Ticket to Ride. It’s a cross-country train adventure where each player tries to build railway routes connecting various American cities. It’s a combination of strategy, timing and the luck of th…
I was asked about church discipline for a young adult who has made some very bad moral and spiritual choices. The question was, “When does 1 Corinthians 5 come into play?” That answer is, it comes into play at the end of the process, not at the beginning. Evidently the sordid situation inside the church at Corinth had been festering for a long time a…
With only ten days left till Christmas, and the roads jammed with cars and the malls filled with people, maybe you should think about doing your shopping online.Maybe you should shop on Amazon.com. If you do, there is a way that you can help KBM with no extra cost to yourself. Because we are an Amazon Associate, we receive a small referral fee for …
On Tuesday morning I’m doing an interview with Nancy Turner on WMBI-FM in Chicago from 10-11 AM CT. Since this is the Christmas season, we’ll take a “journey to Bethlehem” starting with the decree of Caesar Augustus and ending with the…
Several weeks I mentioned that the weekly sermon email (sent to 5200 people) has been blocked by AOL for the last six weeks. This sort of thing happens from time to time because the sermons somehow get wrongly rejected by the anti-spam software programs. This means that 500-600 people haven’t been receiving the sermons at all. They don’…
I used to say that bloggers rule the world, but that was so last year. Time to get over it and move on to the latest and greatest, by which I mean of course having a page on Facebook…
How would you capture the essence of Christmas in just two words?Two words.Nothing more.Nothing less.I started thinking about this morning and found it a helpful exercise—like trying to write a headline for the Bethlehem Daily Journal. And remember, headlines should be pithy, factual, memorable. Here are a few to get you started.Light Shines….
**We just sent out the final sermon in the three-part series from Psalm 103. Although it went out to over 5200 people, we have no idea how many will actually receive it because we continue to have problems getting it to the Inbox of all those people. AOL has been blocking the sermons for the last month. We are cautiously hopeful that we have a work…
Occasionally I’m in a meeting where someone will ask, “Are you closer to the Lord today than you were a year ago?” I never know how to answer that question in a satisfactory manner. I certainly hope that I am closer to the Lord today than I was a year ago, but my judgment is necessarily flawed because I don’t see myself clea…