Humility in our day has fallen on hard times. Such can be said for most of the attributes of Christlikeness. But humility is especially embattled. The contrast between the world's perspective and that of Jesus is drawn with yet starker clarity when we substitute the word Jesus used to describe humility--meekness.

Were you able to put yourself in the picture as I did, envisioning Jesus suddenly turning the world upside down where you live--be it office, factory, retirement home, school, store, small town, suburban neighborhood, city business district--with your being swept up in it too, like I was?

The Sermon on the Mount is astonishing on many levels. In three succinct chapters, Jesus outlined a revolutionary new morality which was henceforth intended to visibly characterize the life lived and the attitudes held by those who would call themselves his followers.

As I watch, gradually the scene before me begins to change...

One of the fascinating exchanges in the New Testament is recounted in the eighth chapter of Mark's gospel. In it we get a picture of Jesus' frustration with the disciples for not applying themselves to understand. To grasp it, we have to remember the storm at sea that took place after the feeding of the five thousand.

The astonishing news is true!...

Ours is a lethally superficial age. In an era of superhuman technological achievement, the facility to think judiciously is on the endangered skills list. Our computerized culture has rendered us dependent on machines to do our thinking for us.

I follow the silent procession to the funeral parlor belonging to a family friend named Joe who has offered its use without charge...

There may be those who wonder, when reading some of the Commands: When did Jesus ever say that? I don't remember reading those words in the New Testament.

Mortified at what I have done to this one who has given so much, who has given me life itself--denying him when he needed me most, following from a distance, pretending not even to know him--I approach the gruesome scence...