Daily Reflections From Higher Things®

Today's Reading: Introit for the 18th Sunday after Trinity (Psalm 122:1, 6, 8-9; antiphon: Liturgical Text) Daily Lectionary: Deuteronomy 9:1-22; Matthew 11:1-19 I was glad when they said to me, "Let us go to the house of the Lord." (From the Introit for the 18th Sunday after Trinity) In the Name of + Jesus. Amen. Sometimes Pastor's right on point with his sermon. Sometimes the organ lifts you up into the heavens. Sometimes you're surrounded by the full-throated voices of 2,000 youth singing the hardest hymns in the book in four-part harmony at a Higher Things conference, and you think that even heaven can't be this good. But sometimes it can be a real drag going to church. Sometimes Pastor preaches boring sermons. Sometimes he chants like an alley cat. Sometimes the organist hits as many wrong notes as she hits right ones And sometimes, you were just up late last night partying—er, studying. What's there to be glad about?!? "I was glad when they said to me, 'Let us go to the house of the Lord'" (Psalm