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Make Good As Soon As Possible

By ⋅ February 6, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

A lot of what the Bible says is practical, and today’s musing is no exception.  It’s always best to take care of situations when they are little, because the longer you wait the more it grows.  What started out as something that could have been handled can easily mutate into something that you’ll never get [...]

Ye Have Heard it was Said…

By ⋅ January 27, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

Jesus was an amazing teacher.  I mean, He was God and all, but when you actually stop to muse some of the things that He said and commanded, it goes a whole lot further than the teachings we generally hear from the pulpit or the Epistles. Have you ever spent time actually thinking through the [...]

Ye Have Heard it Was Said

By ⋅ August 16, 2009 ⋅ One comment

One of the interesting things about the Sermon on the Mount is that it didn’t serve as a sermon to nullify the Law, but to sharpen it.  In a series of comments that Christ makes after the Beatitudes, He states “Ye have heard it was said” and then intensifies a bunch of them. And what [...]

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