Above Painting: For He Had Great Possessions, 1894, George Frederic Watts (British, 1817–1904) ————————————- As Jesus was setting out on his journey, a man ran up and knelt before him and asked him, “Good Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?” And Jesus said to him, “Why do you call me good? No one […]
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A certain ruler asked Jesus, “Good teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?” “Why do you call me good?” Jesus answered. “No one is good—except God alone. You know the commandments: ‘You shall not commit adultery, you shall not murder, you shall not steal, you shall not give false testimony, honor your
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Above: Remote Russian village ————- In his book, The Insanity of Obedience, Nik Ripken (2014, pp. 279-287) tells about meeting Dmitri in the former USSR. Born of Christian parents, Dmitri found himself and his family living under communism in an area where the nearest church was a three-day walk away. He
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The Parable of the Wicked Tenants; Matthew 21:33-43 (…continued) Knowing what we know about renting and owning, what can we say about that? First of all we might want to ask, “What on earth could they have be thinking?” Were those tenants insane? Is that how it works: if you kill
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(Jesus said), “Listen to another parable: There was a landowner who planted a vineyard. He put a wall around it, dug a wine-press in it and built a watchtower. Then he rented the vineyard to some farmers and went on a journey. When the harvest time approached, he sent his servants to the tenants
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Matthew 24:42-44 — (Jesus said), “Therefore keep watch, because you do not know on what day your Lord will come. But understand this: If the owner of the house had known at what time of night the thief was coming, he would have kept watch and would not have let his house be broken into.
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Image above: Head of an Old Woman, 1563, Pieter Brueghel the Elder (Flemish, 1525-1569). ********************* Job 34:17-28: 17 Can someone who hates justice govern? Will you condemn the just and mighty One? 18 Is he not the One who says to kings, ‘You are worthless,’ and to nobles, ‘You are wicked,’ 19 who shows no partiality to princes
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(…continued) Doug and Gary were having coffee on a Monday morning. Doug said, “I was trying to find something on the radio on my way to the golf course yesterday, and I happened to run across one of these hellfire and damnation preachers. I kept listening just for laughs, but it turned out
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With such huge swings in the stock market every day now, we could all become billionaires in no time at all– if only we were able to look into the future. That would never work, of course, because if we could all look into the future, there would be no such thing as
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I once asked my grandfather why his grandfather left Germany in 1875 to come to America. Grandpa said that the old emigrant told him that Germany was always getting into wars and drafting all the young men, and he did not want to die as a soldier in some fight that did not
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