"Better a little with righteousness than much gain with injustice". So it is not how much you have, but how you came by it. All too often this world's assessors ... Read more
"the Way of Holiness". In his great prophetic vision, Isaiah sees the city of Zion where the redeemed of the Lord will dwell. The main thoroughfare running towards it and ... Read more
"they heard that he was alive". Some of their associates told them, but they could not believe what they heard. Later two others who met Jesus on the road to ... Read more
"Praise the Lord, O my soul". This phrase found at the end of several psalms comes like the crash of symbols on the final beat of a great anthem. The ... Read more
"What things". Jesus asked this of the two He joined on the Emmaus Road when they asked Him if He knew what had been happening in Jerusalem over the last ... Read more
"that you may heal him of his leprosy". Naaman and his entourage arrived at the King of Israel with the request for healing on the strength of a servant girl's ... Read more
"He is going ahead of you". If the empty tomb bewildered the visiting disciples, the message of the angel resurrected them. Mark the steps in the revelation that He gave: ... Read more
"the lion and the adder: the young lion and the dragon". This personification of our enemy can represent three kinds of trouble. The lion coming at us with a bound: ... Read more
"Put this fellow in the prison". Micaiah the prophet was not the last man to be interned at the whim of a ruling despot. He did not prophesy favourably according ... Read more
"What I have written I have written". Pilate meant that the wording of the superscription above the cross of Jesus was not going to be changed. How little did he ... Read more