Dear Friends, This is the third message in a series on Paul’s Letter to Philemon. . . . Paul was a prisoner when he wrote to Philemon. Captivity would be difficult for a man who had traveled far and wide around the Mediterranean telling people about the love and power of the resurrected Christ. But […]
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A Word of Grace – February 29, 2016
Dear Friends, This is the second message in a series on Paul’s Letter to Philemon. Paul began his letter to Philemon with this salutation. “Paul, a prisoner of Christ Jesus, and Timothy our brother, To Philemon our dear friend and co-worker, to Apphia our sister, to Archippus our fellow soldier, and to the church in […]
A Word of Grace – February 21, 2016
Dear Friends, Employer-employee relations have occupied a good deal of my attention during my almost thirty-seven year legal career. From the perspective of that experience, the Apostle Paul’s Letter to Philemon initially attracted my interest. The Letter is a twenty-five verse description of the power of Christ to transform a bad working relationship into a […]
A Word of Grace – February 14, 2016
Dear Friends: I wandered the streets of Pittsburgh alone one frigid President’s Day. The biggest blizzard in twenty years blended streets, parks and sidewalks into white meadows under cliffs of icy building facades. Because it was a holiday, the streets were not plowed. Only a bit of traffic scuttled crab-like across the icy intersections. Offices […]
A Word of Grace – February 8, 2016
Dear Friends, How we meet the challenges of our lives defines us. I recently read this aphorism — “Behind every strong person is a story that isn’t easy.” We would not know what kind of storms we can weather and what kind of battles we can survive and win, if we had not encountered hardship, […]