To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here Every day during this season of Lent we’re looking at the miracles of Jesus – his spectacular displays of supernatural power that are reported in the Gospels. Tourists at America’s national parks and monuments have been known to ask some really dumb questions. Here are some of the “winners” of… Read more »
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here Every day during this season of Lent we’re looking at the miracles of Jesus – his spectacular displays of supernatural power that are reported in the Gospels. Among the three dozen or so miracles that are attributed to Jesus, one of them scales two first-century social barriers in a single bound. That’s impressive. At… Read more »
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here Every day during this season of Lent we’re looking at the miracles of Jesus – his spectacular displays of supernatural power that are reported in the Gospels. A dad joke for fishermen: What did the magician say to the fisherman? Pick a cod, any cod. Mom’s fishing wisdom: Give a… Read more »
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here Every day during this season of Lent we’re looking at the miracles of Jesus – his spectacular displays of supernatural power that are reported in the Gospels. Touch matters. Laura Guerrero, co-author of Close Encounters: Communication in Relationships, cites recent studies that even a seemingly insignificant touch from a restaurant server often yields… Read more »
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here Every day during this season of Lent we’re looking at the miracles of Jesus – his spectacular displays of supernatural power that are reported in the Gospels. Jesus’ first recorded miracle didn’t save someone from a dreadful disease or an approaching storm front. Instead, he saved a bride and groom… Read more »
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here Every day during this season of Lent we’re looking at the miracles of Jesus – his spectacular displays of supernatural power that are reported in the Gospels. Almost every year of my childhood in Indiana, my parents and brothers and I piled into the family station wagon and headed south for Florida. Our… Read more »
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here Every day during this season of Lent we’re looking at the miracles of Jesus – his spectacular displays of supernatural power that are reported in the Gospels. On March 6, 2015, Jennifer Groesbeck, a 25-year-old single mom, was driving after dusk from her parents’ home in Salem, Utah, toward her home in… Read more »
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here If you’ve been a Morning Reflections reader for a few years, you know that on Ash Wednesday we typically use a Q&A format to address some of the questions associated with this first day of Lent. What’s different this year? Check out the section that deals with the special topic we’ll be… Read more »
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here The late Scottish actor Sean Connery won his only Academy Award playing a hard-nosed, incorruptible Irish cop in The Untouchables. Early in the film he schools a frustrated Elliot Ness, who has been thwarted at every turn in his efforts to stamp out organized crime. “You wanna know how to get Capone? They… Read more »
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here Christianity has been on the receiving end of a lot of flak in recent years, and from a number of different quarters. Take diversity, for instance. In a world that is increasingly multiethnic and multicultural, Americans (especially younger generations) tend to characterize Christians as angry, defensive people who sympathize with white nationalists and… Read more »
