I was horrified by the burning of the Notre Dame Cathedral in 2019. I thought of the beauty of this Cathedral and the years of work that went into it to be a place of prayer and praise to God, the creator of the beauty of the earth. I never visited Notre Dame but I did visit the Cathedral in Cologne Germany. When I was in graduate school, one of my professors told us of the bombing of Germany in World War II. He was a navigator in the Air Force and he said how it was “off limits” to bomb the...

I often think that Jesus had a great sense of humor, although we seldom preach on it or laugh at it! There are many instances in Scripture where his examples are both profound and humorous. In the first five verses of Matthew 7, we read about beams and splinters in our eyes. Of course this is humorous, but it works! If you have a beam in your eye how can you notice the splinter in your brother’s or sister’s eye? Jesus is talking about being judgmental. How can we judge another when we are...