Read the Lectionary Texts   A teacher in New York City decided to honor each of her seniors in High School by telling them the difference each of them had made. She called each student to the front of the class, one at a time. First, she told them how they had made a difference to her and the class. Then she presented each of them with a blue ribbon, imprinted with gold letters that read, “Who I Am Makes a Difference.” Afterwards, the teacher decided to do a class project, to see what kind of impact recognition [READ MORE]

Read the Lectionary Texts   Today, I want to invite you to heaven - well, to talk about heaven, and learn about heaven, and maybe even experience heaven. You know, I have some friends who say the Christian Faith would be complete for them even if there were no heaven. They feel strongly that the spiritual values and social ethics and moral principals of the Christian Faith are more than sufficient to cause us to follow Christ. Those things stand on their own, with or without an afterlife, they say. And I won’t argue with that testimony to the [READ MORE]