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

A-B-C. 1-2-3. These are among the first lessons a child learns in our culture. Our earliest formal training reveals something about what society deems valuable and necessary to know. We have to master our alphabet so that we can participate in the world of ideas symbolically represented all around us in the form of written words.

There were some Greeks in town who had come up to worship at the Feast. They approached Philip, who was from Bethsaida in Galilee: “Sir, we want to see Jesus. Can you help us?”

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. Whatever their terms, the rest of us in less rarified air often fail miserably at balance.

Talk shows have become a staple of American daytime television, for better or worse. Some try to gear themselves toward helping people help themselves. At the other end of the spectrum are those shows that try to show people at their titillating worst.

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.”

As our Lord Jesus Christ prayed to the Father, we pray for our salvation.

I know the power obedience has of making things easy which seem impossible.