Wise disciples or clever devils
"Start children off on the way they should go, and even when they are old they will not turn from it." Proverbs 22.6 When Pink Floyd sang...
All together
"Such a person is double-minded and unstable in all they do." James 1.8 There was apparently nothing "double-minded about Anselm of...
Up sleeves and dirty hands
“Blessed are you when people insult you, persecute you and falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of me." Matthew 5.11 The...
Abnormally perfect or perfectly normal?
"But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria,...
Not for nothing and not forgotten
"When Herod realized that he had been outwitted by the Magi, he was furious, and he gave orders to kill all the boys in Bethlehem and its...
Forgotten heroes
"These were all commended for their faith, yet none of them received what had been promised, since God had planned something better for...
A taste of things to come...
"After this I looked, and there before me was a door standing open in heaven. And the voice I had first heard speaking to me like a...
Oh, the wonder of it all!
"... Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea..." Matthew 2.1 That the King of all creation should enter creation, in the same way all those...
True friendship
"One thing I ask from the LORD, this only do I seek: that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to gaze on the...
Integrating life and faith
“Lord, if it’s you,” Peter replied, “tell me to come to you on the water.” Matthew 14.28 By any measure in any age, Gregory the Great...
