Matthew 7:13-14 “He used to be a junkie, now he’s on the straight and narrow” we say. And by that we mean that he’s cleaned up his act. Now he’s behaving. When Jesus coined the phrase “strait and narrow” He didn’t quite mean it like that. This is what He said: “Enter ye in at […]
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Matthew 7:12 Here is a famous phrase from the Bible. Yet it’s not in the Bible. Not in as many words anyway. Here’s how the King James Bible renders it: “Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets.” […]
Luke 18:1-8; Matthew 7:7-11 Everyone prays. At least when they’re desperate. But no-one seems to know why it works or how it could. It’s an uncertainty that keenly afflicts westerners labouring under three false assumptions. 1) We think of “nature” as a closed system, grinding along according to iron laws. 2) We consider ourselves to […]
Matthew 7:1-6 The most precious of jewels and the filthiest of animals are combined into a single memorable phrase: “Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you.” (Matthew 7:6) There are people who, at […]
Matthew 7:1-6 George Carlin once noted a universal rule of the road: Everyone who drives slower than you is an idiot. And everyone who drives faster is a maniac. To the speeding driver, everyone’s an idiot. To the slow driver, everyone’s a maniac. But one rule applies to all: My speed is just right. Hypocrisy is […]
Matthew 7:1-6 Last year the BBC, CNN, the Daily Mail, The Telegraph and many other news sites and blogs reported a hoax as fact. The hoax was this: Internet Explorer users are less intelligent than those using other web browsers. It was a lie that spread like wildfire, despite the thinnest of fabricated “evidence” produced […]
Matthew 6:25-34 Some people are good at multi-tasking. No-one is good at multi-seeking. Jesus has been teaching us that we have only one heart. And our hearts attend to what we treasure. Essentially we can treasure God or we can treasure the things of this world, mammon. To invest in earthly treasure is the way of […]
Matthew 6:25-34 Brian keeps getting mistaken for the Messiah. In this scene he must come up with some pithy teaching on the hoof. BRIAN: …Consider the lilies… in the field… ELSIE: Consider the lilies? BRIAN: Uh, well, the birds, then. EDDIE: What birds? BRIAN: Any birds. EDDIE: Why? BRIAN: Well, have they got jobs? ARTHUR: Who? BRIAN: The birds. EDDIE: Have the birds got jobs?!! […]
Matthew 6:25-34 In 1395, Wycliffe rendered it be not busy: “Therfor I seie to you, that ye be not bisi to youre lijf.” (Matthew 6:25) In 1534 Tyndale put the warning, be not carefull: “Therfore I saye vnto you be not carefull for your lyfe.” From Tyndale until 1611 all the translations rendered Jesus’ warning as […]
Luke 16:1-13; Matthew 6:16-24 We are all worshippers. We all give our hearts to something. And yet we only have one heart. Simone Weil put it like this: “No human being escapes the necessity of conceiving some good outside himself towards which his thought turns in a movement of desire, supplication, and hope. Consequently, the […]
