Bad religion
"Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this..." German philosopher Friedrich Nietzche was the son of a minister....
Eat, drink and be merry...
"So I commend the enjoyment of life, because there is nothing better for a person under the sun than to eat and drink and be glad. Then...
By the book
"Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect." Matthew 5.48 In the 1986 comedy 'Clockwise', John Cleese plays a punctilious...
A word in season
"Anxiety weighs down the heart, but a kind word cheers it up." Proverbs 12.25 Use of this verse by the preacher in the on-line Church of...
Is seeing really believing?
"Because you have seen me, you have believed; blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed." John 20.29 Many of us would...
To be or not to be...
"So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal." 2...
Free will?
"... what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do." Romans 7.15 So how free is free will? The apostle Paul outlines the dilemma in...
SOS
"... underneath are the everlasting arms." Deuteronomy 33.27 Today is World Suicide Prevention Day. It's a sobering thought that we need...
A sure foundation
"... we preach Christ crucified..." 1 Corinthians 1.23 Everybody knows René Descartes for his dictum "I think therefore I am". What they...
Use your head!
"... test all things..." 1 Thessalonians 5.21 Thomas Aquinas was another luminary to emerge out of the Dark Ages. His thinking was...