To rest is to refrain from striving, and that is God’s gift to us in Jesus Christ. All our labours towards God are wasted time and effort, since nothing we do can achieve for us the deliverance and fulness which we desire. In Jesus, these things are offered to us freely, and in a...
When he had come to the Jews, he said, as they were coming, "I look forward to succeeding well in my business tonight. Come with me and follow me. Be sure you do not make a noise, and I will kiss Christ so that you may recognise him." Dhe'n Edhewon pan dhodhya, y leveris...
Jesus asked.English Standard VersionWhich of these three, do you think, proved to be a neighbor to the man who fell among the robbers?”Berean Standard BibleWhich of these three do you think was a neighbor to the man who fell into the hands of robbers?”Berean Literal BibleWhich of ...
631 ff. For the rest, it may be said that, under the influence of grateful emotion, Jesus ascribes a special motive to the woman, though she herself simply meant to testify her love and reverence. Such feelings, intensified as they were by the thought of the approaching death of the ...
He was not afraid to recognise a teacher in Him whom his class scorned and hated; he was deeply sincere in his wish to possess eternal life, and in his belief that he was ready to do whatever was necessary for that end; he bowed himself as truly as he bent his knees before Jesus, ...
Tiny Tyrant-manakin, looking not only diminutive but also looking more like a tyrannulet than a manakin. In spite of 25 or so visits to the Neotropics I’m still in awe of those tour leaders who can take one glance at this type of minute sub-oscines and can recognise them immediately...
Nearly two thousand years earlier, Jesus of Nazareth pointed to the same thing, in debunking the money-lenders’ illusion (delusion) that “‘Time’ (‘God’)is‘Money'”: No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be loyal to...