A Thought for Today 27-03-2013

Matthew 26:14-16 (NRSVACE)

Then one of the twelve, who was called Judas Iscariot, went to the chief priests and said, ‘What will you give me if I betray him to you?’ They paid him thirty pieces of silver. And from that moment he began to look for an opportunity to betray him.

“Only the Christian Church can offer any rational objection to a complete confidence in the rich. For she has maintained from the beginning that the danger was not in man's environment, but in man.”
(G.K. Chesterton) 

A Thought for Today 20-03-2013

John 8:31-32

To the Jews who believed in him Jesus said: ‘If you make my word your home you will indeed be my disciples, you will learn the truth and the truth will make you free.’

“As for the general view that the Church was discredited by the War—they might as well say that the Ark was discredited by the Flood. When the world goes wrong, it proves rather that the Church is right. The Church is justified, not because her children do not sin, but because they do.”
(G.K. Chesterton)

 

A Thought for Today 07-03-2013

Jeremiah 7:23-24 (NLT)

This is what I told them: ‘Obey me, and I will be your God, and you will be my people. Do everything as I say, and all will be well!’ “But my people would not listen to me. They kept doing whatever they wanted, following the stubborn desires of their evil hearts. They went backward instead of forward.

“Modern intelligence won't accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority.”
(G.K. Chesterton)

A Thought for Today 05-03-2013

Matthew 18:21-22 (NLT)

Then Peter came to him and asked, “Lord, how often should I forgive someone who sins against me? Seven times?” “No, not seven times,” Jesus replied, “but seventy times seven!"

“Love is not blind; that is the last thing that it is. Love is bound; and the more it is bound the less it is blind.”
(G.K. Chesterton)

A Thought for Today 04-03-2013

Luke 4:24-30 (NLT)

But I tell you the truth, no prophet is accepted in his own hometown. “Certainly there were many needy widows in Israel in Elijah’s time, when the heavens were closed for three and a half years, and a severe famine devastated the land. Yet Elijah was not sent to any of them. He was sent instead to a foreigner—a widow of Zarephath in the land of Sidon. And there were many lepers in Israel in the time of the prophet Elisha, but the only one healed was Naaman, a Syrian.”

“The function of the imagination is not to make strange things settled, so much as to make settled things strange.”
(G.K. Chesterton)

A Thought for Today 01-03-2013

Psalm (104) 105:17-19 (NLT)

Then he sent someone to Egypt ahead of them—Joseph, who was sold as a slave. They bruised his feet with fetters and placed his neck in an iron collar. Until the time came to fulfill his dreams, the Lord tested Joseph’s character.

You can't develop character by reading books. You develop it from conflict.
(Leonard Ravenhill)