I once had someone tell me that God will only help you if you’ve done everything you can do to help yourself. Really? Is that how it works?
Christian Teaching
In not answering the leaders of the Sanhedrin directly, Jesus was showing them how little authority they had compared to his.
Some people sit in that space where they are neither insider nor outsider. And it’s okay. There are so many benefits of being in this space.
There was a time when kids could play out in the street a lot later. Can we rebuild that society again?
Ah, the old effort, excellence, exclusion dilemma: your level of excellence didn’t meet the standard and you are excluded from participating.
We all owe debts, and the greatest debt we owe is to our king, God himself. It is a debt that we can never repay…
Humans live in the fear of death, despite their denial of this truth. This fear leaks out of us in the way we live our lives.
Jesus wanted to expose the rule-keepers false assumptions, to show him that commandment-keeping was not the way to inherit eternal life.
Our bodies tell us what we need. But so do our souls. There is a hunger in each of us that food cannot satisfy.
There’s an idea in theology known as the ‘two books of God’. Brian Harris argues that there really is a third ‘book of God’ as well.