Dear Friends, This is the fourth message in a series on Paul’s Letter to Philemon. ——————————– Have you ever over-tightened a bolt with a wrench until it stripped out and wouldn’t budge? Have you pushed and pulled on a stuck moveable part and wished you had been more patient when you snapped it off ruining
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
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
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
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