Devotion
Honey from dead lions
Jacob was left alone; and a man wrestled with him until daybreak. When the man saw that he did not prevail against Jacob, he touched the hollow of his thigh; and Jacob’s thigh was put out of joint as he wrestled with him. Then he said, ‘Let me go for the day is breaking.’ But […]
Christ’s law
Christ’s law of life For whoever would save his life, will lose it; and whoever loses his life for my sake and the gospel’s will save it. Master… I was afraid, and I went and hid your talent in the ground. A grain of wheat remains a solitary grain unless it falls into the ground […]
Hope in time of abandonment
Hope in time of abandonment – (Jaques Ellul) What, then, can I hope for, Lord? I put my hope in you. For God alone my soul waits in silence, for my hope is from him. O God of our salvation, who art the hope of all the ends of the earth. Don’t stay so far […]
Love without limits
You have learnt how it was said ‘Eye for eye and tooth for tooth’. But I say this to you: offer the wicked man no resistance. On the contrary, if anyone hits you on the right cheek, offer him the other as well; if a man takes you to law and would have your tunic, […]
Words! Words! Words!
Were not our hearts burning within us while he talked with us on the road and opened the scriptures to us? The words I have spoken to you are spirit and they are life. Man does not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God. My message and […]
Accepted… and celebrating
One of the Pharisees asked him to eat with him, and he went into the Pharisee’s house, and sat at table. And behold, a woman of the city, who was a sinner, when she learned that he was sitting at table in the Pharisee’s house, brought an alabaster flask of ointment, and standing behind him […]
A Faith that does justice
What to me is the multitude of your sacrifices? says the Lord; I have had enough of burnt offerings of rams and the fat of fed beasts; I do not delight in the blood of bulls, or of lambs, or of he-goats. When you come to appear before me, who requires of you this trampling […]
That steersman we call God
That steersman we call God – (Robert Louis Stevenson) Now when Pharaoh let the people go, God did not guide them by the road towards the Philistines, although that was the shortest; for he said, ‘The people may change their minds when they see war before them, and turn back to Egypt.’ So God made […]
Where is your sting?
Where is your sting? – (I Corinthians15:55) There in the land of Moab, Moses the servant of Yahweh died as Yahweh decreed; he buried him in the valley opposite Bethpeor; but to this day no one has even found his grave. Where could I go to escape your spirit? Where could I flee from your […]
As you worship, so you serve
As you worship, so you serve – (Calvin Coolidge) Shout for joy to the Lord, all the earth. Serve the Lord with gladness; come before him with joyful songs. Know that the Lord is God. It is he who made us, and we are his; … we are his people, the sheep of his pasture. […]
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