Rev. John Kiehl
FeaturesDecember 31, 2000
FROM THE PULPIT: HAPPY NEW YEAR! -- WHAT'S NEW?What's' new? The new year is fast approaching. We'll soon inaugurate a new president and Congress, governor, and other officials. In each of our lives, we experience new things -- a new child or in-law, a new car or new home, a new job, a new relationship, new thin...FeaturesDecember 31, 2000
OUT OF THE DARKNESS -- JESUS IS THE LIGHT OF THE WORLDTouring Fisher Cave in Meramac State Park, one can see claw marks in various places, marks made by bears who became lost in the cave and were searching for a way out by pawing the walls, groping for a passageway to the cave opening by which their freedom could be r...FeaturesDecember 17, 2000
FROM THE PULPIT: TIS THE SEASON TO TELL THE TRUTHProbably the most familiar of Aesop's fables is the story of The Boy Who Cried Wolf. The boy'who was shepherding the flocks for the townspeople sounded so many false alarms that when a wolf really did come and attack the flock, no one came to help, and the flocks w...FeaturesDecember 10, 2000
FROM THE PULPIT: IN THE GOOD OLD DAYS?In the 70's, nostalgia for the 50's was quite the rage. TV shows such as "Happy Days," and "Lavern and Shirley" dominated the ratings, and "doo-wop" music made a comeback. Nowadays, the 70's seem to be in style, with classic rock stations among the most popular on ...FeaturesDecember 3, 2000
FROM THE PULPIT: TOMMY, ARTSENIUS AND JESUSWhat do the rock opera, "Tommy," and the fourth-century Christian monk Arsenius have in common? Tommy is the story of a boy who witnessed a terrible crime, and was thereby induced to be blind, deaf, and dumb. He was cured only many years later by a doctor who disco...FeaturesNovember 26, 2000
FROM THE PULPIT: WHO CAN WE TRUST?A man was walking down the road one cold, winter day, when he spied a snake on the road. It was nearly frozen to death and very stiff with cold. Having pity; the man picked up the snake, put it inside his own coat, and took it home. He then set it by the hearth, wh...FeaturesNovember 12, 2000
FROM THE PULPIT: WHOM TO ELECT?America is about to elect a new president. Of course, this is not news to most of us, because campaigning has becoming almost a perpetual activity among politicians. For many, nothing is done in the position they hold without an eye toward the next election. ...FeaturesSeptember 24, 2000
FROM THE PULPIT: LIKE RUBE WADDELL, WE CAN GET DISTRACTEDRube Waddell was a great pitcher for the Philadelphia A's baseball club in the early 1900's. He held strikeout records that stood until Nolan Ryan in 1973. His career was short, however, and he died young of tuberculosis. Even in his prime, he was known as an eccen...FeaturesSeptember 17, 2000
FROM THE PULPIT: DO WE RETURN TO SIN, LIKE A DOG TO VOMIT?Pet owners should bathe their dogs occasionally. It helps keep Fido clean and healthy, taking care of his skin, or those pesky fleas and ticks. How often does one bathe their dog? With us, necessity dictates. We have a big, black lab named Ebony. Ebony likes to occ...FeaturesSeptember 3, 2000
FROM THE PULPIT: FAITH COMES BY HEARING GOD'S WORDI recall two events in baseball history, in which one just knew what the final outcome would be after hearing these events. Ken Boyer of St. Louis hit a grand slam to beat the Yankees in game 4 of the 1964 World Series. Somehow, you just knew the Yankees were in tr...Advertisement
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