Tag: Matthew
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Three Widows & a Widower
Fifteen years ago I became a widower. (We had been married more than two decades.) I know personally the loss of the widow (& widower). Jesus spoke of three widows: one, in a parable on the persistence of prayer to God one, of an unnamed widow who sacrificed only two mites to God at the Temple (leptons…
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What’s a Hypocrite to do?
It is enough for the disciple to be like his teacher, and the servant like his master. (It is a Higher calling, though.) It is a higher calling as Jesus pointed out also given to the Pharisees, whose hypocrisy was frequent target of our Lord. We should not think for one instant that we (because we are not Pharisees…
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The Mirror of Church Hypocrisy – 2
Is Christ’s church not His betrothed, as Israel was chosen of the Lord? A word for the Church from Prophets of old: Jeremiah 2 English Standard Version (ESV) Israel Forsakes the Lord The word of the Lord came to me, saying, 2 “Go and proclaim in the hearing of Jerusalem, Thus says the Lord, “I remember the devotion of your youth, your…
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