Commenting on celebrities and social events has its hazardous side. We are warned that even a fool can be considered wise if he keeps silent (Prov.17:28). The death of Archbishop Desmond Tutu, aged ninety, in December 2021 was followed soon after by Martin Luther King Day which is celebrated on …
To preach on this chapter is to run the grave risk of wrecking it, like studying a flower by taking it apart. The word ‘love’ (agape) is found nine times in this chapter. Karl Barth suggested that the reader should substitute the word ‘Christ’ for ‘love’.
start from 12:27; see 12:12, 14, 18, 20; Rom.12:5.
There are those who thought that Statler and Waldorf were the funniest part of The Muppet Show. Whether a jaundiced bleat from the bleachers always gets it right is another issue, but Christians look like having to live with a federal Religious Discrimination Act. The third exposure of the …
John Wesley said that there is no such thing as solitary Christianity. To be a Christian means to be a part of the body of Christ.
Christ as our example as in 2 Corinthians 8:9. B. B. Warfield:
O that we could once for all grasp the meaning of the great fact that self-forgetfulness and self-sacrifice express the divine ideals of life … Self-sacrifice brought Christ into the world. And self-sacrifice will lead us, His…
In her own delightful and resilient way, the quadriplegic Joni Eareckson Tada commented, without a hint of self-pity: ‘Perhaps I cannot stand on the shoulders of great saints, but I do sit on them.’ Not only do we stand or sit on the shoulders of great saints, but we do …
2 Corinthians 10:3-5 and 1 Chronicles 12:32.
2 Corinthians 10:3-5 and 1 Chronicles 12:32. Progress has become a rather tangled concept.
In 1784 Immanuel Kant saw history as ‘a steady and progressive though slow evolution of its original endowment.’
