Matt 5.1-5. You are blessed! Repent!
Hagner says we must step into the past to understand the original listeners. He says Jesus pronounces the people blessed by God and tells...
a class of nudist paupers
The experts say that Jesus' demand to “give to everyone who asks” would result in a class of saintly paupers and another of prosperous...
in a mirror, backwards
Richard Foster apparently thinks that seeing in a mirror dimly means everything is in reverse. A horse and cart in Prejmer, Romania, with...
Florentina
I met Florentina two years ago. I sat her on my knee and she immediately threw her head back and hit me square in the mouth. While I was...
they’re better off now
A child died in the orphanage. What people said afterwards might have been the same thing I would have said, before. My question is: who...
Imagine
Imagine a race where no one runs, a farm where no one plants, an army where all the soldiers stay home. Imagine the athlete who insists...
No worse than a pagan
This is your goal in life: to be no worse than the unbeliever? Possibly we should set our sights a bit higher. A gray mouser relaxes in...
You can’t be serious!
The rich young ruler says yes to Christ! The start of the road leading into the Roma village in Prejmer, Romania. Philippians 3.4-19 If...
Saved by faith, elected by logic
The Westminster Confession of Faith compared to Ephesians 1. The words are the same, but the meanings are often quite different. The Nazi...
I see, therefore I’m ok
What made Christ Christ? If we say that the veil has been removed and we are being transformed into his image, then what is the image?...
Copernicus figured it out 500 years ago. Why do we still believe it?
Ephesians 2.4-7 God, who is rich in mercy, out of the great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead through our trespasses,...
You shall not coddle the ox
Paul shamed the Christians at Corinth by quoting from Deut 25.4: “You shall not muzzle an ox.” We live in a new world. The ox insists it...
One step above some and miles below others
The problem with elders is that they imagine they're actually in charge. A city street, Bangalore, India. 1 Cor 4.3 With me it is a very...
Not unreasonable
Present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your reasonable worship. Nandor Glid was a Holocaust...
Act naturally
The caterpillar is transformed into a butterfly through a process we call metamorphosis. It's a natural process that involves the...