God has written God’s law on our hearts. In a way, this message brings great comfort: The ways of God already dwell within.

Every person in the congregation this weekend will have a unique and separate experience of what “hour” it is. One person might be excited about a family reunion taking place later that day.

I’ve always felt a real affection for the anonymous Greeks who approach Philip in Jerusalem and make their request with disarming frankness: “Sir, we would like to see Jesus.”

Talk shows have become a staple of American daytime television, for better or worse. Some try to gear themselves toward helping people help themselves.

One of the secrets of successful businesspeople is, invariably, balance between their personal and professional lives. They’ll say that their weekends are sacrosanct or maybe it’s the nine-hour day.

Most parents want their children to grow up to be good and moral people. So parents can find some consolation in today’s reading from Jeremiah, “I will place my law within them and write it upon their hearts.

We bring our prayers to God like grains of wheat, hoping in faith they will produce much fruit.

Some Greeks who had come to worship at the Passover Feast came to Philip . . . and asked him, “Sir, we would like to see Jesus.”

Teach us, good Lord, to serve you as you deserve, to give and not to count the cost; to fight and not to heed the wounds; to toil and not to seek for rest; to labor and not to ask for any reward save that of knowing that we do your will. —Attributed to Saint Ignatius Loyola (1491-1556)