The Beatitudes – Showing Mercy, pt.1
Being merciful means to (1) take pleasure in forgiving others of their sins and faults and (2) doing works of compassion for those in need.
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Martin Luther
The Beatitudes – Becoming Righteous, pt.2
Jesus says that his “food is to do the will of him who sent me.” Therefore, our hunger, like Jesus’, is satisfied by doing the Divine Will.
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The Beatitudes – Learning Gentleness, pt.1
For Aristotle, the virtue of meekness is “the man who is angry at the right things and with the right people, and, further, as he ought, when he ought, and as long as he ought, is praised.”
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The Beatitudes – Putting Our Trust in God, pt.2
Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven
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The Beatitudes – Putting Our Trust in God, pt.1
Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven
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The Return of the Prodigal Son, Ch.4-6: The Older Son, pt.1
Nouwen calls the older son’s resentful conduct the “frozen anger among the saints.” This anger develops into a “pathology of darkness” from which the older brother cannot escape.
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The Lord’s Prayer – Lead Us Not into Temptation
It is in this clause that Jesus speaks most directly about the atonement for he is the one that delivers us from the evil one.
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2 Corinthians 10, pt.2
Within this chapter, we find the confluence of many themes that occur in Paul’s other letters.
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1 Corinthians 11, pt.1
The allevation of women having to cover their heads in church raises two questions: 1) upon what grounds does the church have the authority to dispense with a clear biblical directive (there are a lot more directives the church has let go of in the last century) and 2) what is the underlying principle of Paul’s directive and how do we continue to carry out that instruction today.
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