Little Johnny was not doing very well in math. His parents had tried everything—tutors, flash cards, “Hooked on Math,” special learning centers—in short, everything they could think of. Finally, in a last ditch effort, they took Johnny down and enrolled him in the local Catholic school. After the first day, little Johnny came home with [...]

What words or ideas come to your mind when you hear the name, Kennedy?  What about Carnegie?  Ford?  Rockefeller? Judas?  Hitler?  Behind every name is a story, an influence, a legacy.  What’s in a name? Last names were often derived from and created to preserve what a particular family was known for, like what they [...]

I think all of us here this morning would agree that life is full of ups and downs.  WVU making it to the final four was a great high for most of us in this room.  While Kentucky’s defeat in the elite eight was crushing for the small minority of us who knows the right [...]

A Sunday School teacher asked her class on the Sunday before Easter if they knew what happened on Easter and why it was so important. One little girl spoke up saying: “Easter is when the whole family gets together, and you eat turkey and sing about the pilgrims and all that.” “No, that’s not it,” [...]