Devotion
The Hardest heart can’t resist
‘The hardest heart can’t resist’ My heart is transformed by the smile of trust given by some people who are terribly fragile and weak. They call forth new energies from me. They seem to break down barriers and bring me a new freedom. It is the same with the smile of a child: even the […]
Pick up your tab
Pick up your tab In the beginning God created the universe. In the beginning was the Word. For God loved the world so much that he gave. Love the Lord your God… and… your neighbour as you love yourself. Shameless nation, come to your senses… Turn to the Lord, all you humble people of the […]
The compassionate life
The Lord has told us what is good. What he requires of us is this: to do what is just, to show constant love, and to live in humble fellowship with our God. Jesus went through all the towns and villages, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the good news of the kingdom and healing every […]
Two friends, one soul
Two friends, one soul – (Euripides) My commandment is this: love one another, just as I love you. The greatest love a person can have for his friends is to give his life for them. And you are my friends if you do what I command you. I do not call you servants any longer, […]
Love that gives itself away
Love that gives itself away – (Anders Nygren) This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. You, O Lord, are loving. This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us. And we […]
The Moving finger writes
The moving finger writes…(Edward Fitzgerald) Enoch walked with God. Moses, whom the Lord knew face to face. Israel served the Lord all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders who outlived Joshua. Saul and Jonathan, beloved and lovely! Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin. Before him (Josiah) […]
Talk is cheap
Suppose a brother or a sister is in rags with not enough food for the day, and one of you says, ‘Good luck to you, keep yourselves warm, and have plenty to eat’, but does nothing to supply their bodily needs, what is the good of that? So with faith; if it does not lead […]
Like the corners of my mind
Like the corners of my mind – (Alan and Marilyn Bergman) This day shall be for you a memorial day, and you shall keep it as a feast [Passover] to the Lord: throughout your generations you shall observe it as an ordinance for ever. You shall remember that you were a servant in the land […]
Ah! Wilderness!
The Spirit immediately drove him into the wilderness. And he was in the wilderness forty days, tempted by Satan; and he was with the wild beasts; and the angels ministered to him. The tempter came to him and said to him, ‘If you are the Son of God, command these stones to become loaves of […]
A Dreadful prospect, a desirable end
God is a righteous judge, a God who expresses his wrath every day… He who is pregnant with evil and conceives trouble gives birth to disillusionment. He who digs a hole and scoops it out falls into the pit he has made. The trouble he causes recoils on him; his violence comes down on his […]
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