In other words … perhaps this parable is less about comparison … or comparing yourself to someone else who is more sinful than you … so that you can feel good about yourself in the pretended knowledge that your sins only total 50 pence worth … while the other person’s sins exceed 500...
Just don’t allow yourself to swallow all the hype, stuff yourself and your children with stuff which will eventually rot or rust or lose their attraction. At the expense of depriving yourself and them of Joy, Peace, Forgiveness, Hope, Faith, and Eternal Life. Why don’t you read that ...
And, dear reader, if you have lost your appetite for extremism and want to prevent it in yourself and your group, then listen to the counsel of the Spirit: “Let nothing be done through selfish ambition or conceit, but in lowliness of mind let each esteem others better than himself” (P...
I think of this verse and the Savior’s methods of dealing with men, women, and children. I especially think of it when I approach the topic you are about to read. For some people, this willnotbe the right time to hear this; for others, it will be light upon their path and it w...
6Therefore let us not sleep, asdoothers; but let us watch and be sober. 7For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night. 8But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for an helmet, th...
Therefore, the keys to the “kingdom of heaven” refers to the authority over the earthly Church. Matt. 25:1-2 – Jesus comparing the kingdom of heaven to ten maidens, five of whom were foolish, further shows that the kingdom is the Church on earth. This kingdom cannot refer to the...
should say that it was accomplished in half the space of time it was wont, if it had been completed in so small a space as twelve hours; and comparing both times, we should call that single, this double time, although the sun should run his course from east to east sometimes in that...
He had been comparing Himself to a vine, His disciples to the branches in the vine. Some branches continued in the vine, that is, remained in living union with the vine, so that the sap or life of the vine constantly flowed into these branches. They had no independent life of their ow...