Tag Archives: Assurance

How We Know What We Know

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To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here “It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so.” That’s a great quote. Those 21 words are routinely attributed to Mark Twain. In fact, I attributed them to Twain in a reflection a number of years ago. So did the… Read more »

Just Because

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To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here Of the more than 4,300 episodes featured over the years on Sesame Street, #1839, which aired on Thanksgiving Day 1983, stands alone. That show has been identified as one of the ten most influential moments in the history of daytime TV. During that episode, the Sesame Street cast confronted the real-life… Read more »

The Treasure We Seek

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To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here Most people fantasize, from time to time, what it might be like to be the richest person on earth. What if we could buy anything a human heart might possibly desire? For William Randolph Hearst, that fantasy was reality. He actually did buy anything his heart desired.  In the process of… Read more »

The Spirit Reassures

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To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here During the month of November, we’re taking a look at 21 essential activities of the Holy Spirit, who represents God’s presence in and through every follower of Jesus. There aren’t many movies in which the hero is a pig. Babe is that wonderful exception.  In Chris Noonan’s 1995 feature film, a humble pig who… Read more »