"I am the vine; you are the branches. If you remain in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing." John...

"Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other." Genesis 11.7 After God and life, language must...

"I appeal to you for my child, Onesimus..." Philemon 10 Not a reference to Mel Gibson and his battle-cry in the Hollywood epic...

"Go to the ant... consider its ways and be wise!" Proverbs 6.6 Last night we watched a charming film called 'My Octopus Teacher'. It...

"Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this..." German philosopher Friedrich Nietzche was the son of a minister....

"So I commend the enjoyment of life, because there is nothing better for a person under the sun than to eat and drink and be glad. Then...

"Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect." Matthew 5.48 In the 1986 comedy 'Clockwise', John Cleese plays a punctilious...

"Anxiety weighs down the heart, but a kind word cheers it up." Proverbs 12.25 Use of this verse by the preacher in the on-line Church of...

"Because you have seen me, you have believed; blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed." John 20.29 Many of us would...

"So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal." 2...