Hammering it home
... he mocks the despair of the innocent... Job 9.23 Before she left France, Simone Weil wrote a letter in which she distinguished...
A pearl of great price
The beginning of wisdom is this: Get wisdom. Though it cost all you have, get understanding. Proverbs 4.7 Reflecting on her schooldays,...
Your church is too small
For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the LORD as the waters cover the sea. Habakkuk 2.14 What did Simone Weil...
Beyond the pale
"... those who wear fine clothes are in kings’ palaces." Matthew 11.8 The Pale was a strip of land along the east coast of Ireland around...
True friendship
One who has unreliable friends soon comes to ruin, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother. Proverbs 18.24 On the back of...
Go or stay?
I am torn between the two: I desire to depart and be with Christ, which is better by far... Philippians 1,23 Further illustrating the...
Hang-ups
Then it goes and takes with it seven other spirits more wicked than itself, and they go in and live there. And the final condition of...
Uncompromising
And if your eye causes you to stumble, gouge it out and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life with one eye than to have two...
True fatherhood
... for your Father knows what you need before you ask him... Matthew 6.8 To what extent does God reflect our experience of fatherhood...
Dualchas
How, then, can they call on the one they have not believed in? And how can they believe in the one of whom they have not heard? And how...
