My blog this fortnight is about Maturity. So, if its title is misleading, sorry. The thing is, I have a certain pride (some might call it smugness) in being a man of few regrets. It’s not that I’ve never done anything wrong. On the contrary, life has contained plenty of failures, disappointments and embarrassments … [To read more, click on title]
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The Pharisee and the Publican
This delightful short drama, painted very economically by Jesus …
I doubt he meant it as comedy, but to me it seems so comical! Like a cartoon. We could almost do it as a little drama … a bit of street theatre:
There on your left stands a proud, dignified looking man, pompous and cartoonish, head held high and sneering sideways, telling God how righteous he is! Not like that sinner over there … [To read more, click on title]
Wrestling with God
Jesus tells a parable about a bothersome widow who seeks justice against her oppressor. Day after day, the judge refuses to help her. But she persists, tirelessly bothering the judge until he’s sick of her very presence: “I will grant her justice,” he says to himself, “so that she may not wear me out. (In the Greek, “so that she won’t give me a black eye”!) … [To read more, click on title]
Seven Deadly Sins?
Sin is on my mind this fortnight. It’s hard to even remember what the word means, it’s so seldom said or heard these days. Why is that, I wonder? It seems to have gone the way of thee and thou and Sunday roast and the national anthem before a movie … [To read more, click on title]
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