The value of the perfume and the jar was more than a year’s wages. But she didn’t care. She broke it to pour the perfume on Christ’s head.
Christian Teaching
Brian Harris shares his “public agonising about a very much ‘in progress’ journey” towards radical honesty.
In our modern, fast-paced world, it can be hard to stop and see the joys of this world. Maybe this passage can challenge us to slow down…
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?
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.