Teachers, Who Do You Love? Quicksilver Messenger Service – Who Do You Love “When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.” (John Ruskin, arti critic, around 1860). (1.) On the Pastoral Role of Teachers. Let’s turn the tables on the original meaning of this classic blues song by Bo Diddley (1956). After hundreds of variations over the …
Signs of Intelligent Life in Our Schools. “The person who loves shall alone be the person who knows. The one who loves well, will outstrip all the searchers in the knowledge of the very things that the intellect desires to understand… So it is better to love a little than to know everything.” (George MacDonald, Growth …
Our God is an Eternal Songbird Who Keeps Us Under His Wing. (1.) Before everything, When emptiness was waiting to be filled, and Nothingness was silent in the formless deep, The Spirit of God flutters over the thick eggshell of the watery abyss. A songbird hovering over her brood to come. God is waiting until …
Jesus Unloads His Seven Woes on the Pharisees and Us – His Closing Lament in Matthew 23. “Woe unto you hypocritical Torah-teachers and Pharisees, you frauds and imposters!” In Matthew 23, Jesus demonstrated the spiritual audacity of taking on the religious leaders of His day. To many of the listeners of His diatribe, His words …
Jesus Unloads His Seven Woes on the Pharisees and Us – Woe #7. “Woe unto you hypocritical Torah-teachers and Pharisees, you frauds and imposters!” (Matthew 23). In Matthew 23, Jesus demonstrated the spiritual audacity of taking on the religious leaders of His day. To many of the listeners of His diatribe, His words must have been …
Jesus Unloads His Seven Woes on the Pharisees and Us – Woe #6. “Woe unto you hypocritical Torah-teachers and Pharisees, you frauds and imposters!” (Matthew 23). In Matthew 23, Jesus demonstrated the spiritual audacity of taking on the religious leaders of His day. To many of the listeners of His diatribe, His words must have been …
Jesus Unloads His Seven Woes on the Pharisees and Us – Woe #5. “Woe unto you hypocritical Torah-teachers and Pharisees, you frauds and imposters!” (Matthew 23). In Matthew 23, Jesus demonstrated the spiritual audacity of taking on the religious leaders of His day. To many of the listeners of His diatribe, His words must have been …
Jesus Unloads His Seven Woes on the Pharisees and Us – Woe #4. “Woe unto you hypocritical Torah-teachers and Pharisees, you frauds and imposters!” (Matthew 23). In Matthew 23, Jesus demonstrated the spiritual audacity of taking on the religious leaders of His day. To many of the listeners of His diatribe, His words must have been …
Jesus Unloads His Seven Woes on the Pharisees and Us – Woe #3. “Woe unto you hypocritical Torah-teachers and Pharisees, you frauds and imposters!” (Matthew 23). In Matthew 23, Jesus demonstrated the spiritual audacity of taking on the religious leaders of His day. To many of the listeners of His diatribe, His words must have been …
Jesus Unloads His Seven Woes on the Pharisees and Us – Woe #2. “Woe unto you hypocritical Torah-teachers and Pharisees, frauds and pretenders!” (Matthew 23). In Matthew 23, Jesus demonstrated the spiritual audacity of taking on the religious leaders of His day. To many of the listeners of His diatribe, His words must have been …
Jesus Unloads His Seven Woes on the Pharisees and Us – Woe #1. “Woe to you hypocrites and Torah-teachers and Pharisees!” (Matthew 23). In Matthew 23, Jesus demonstrated the spiritual audacity of taking on the religious leaders of His day. To many of the listeners of His diatribe, His words must have been outrageous. But Jesus …
Jesus Unloads His Seven Woes on the Pharisees and Us – His Opening Salvo (Matthew 23). “Then Jesus said to the crowds and to His disciples, ‘The scribes and the Pharisees sit on Moses’ throne as the authorized interpreters of the Law. So listen and follow what they teach, but don’t do what they do, …