A Sermon: Once More From the Top
Jesus reminds us again and again that only the little ones are welcomed into God’s Kingdom. Why do we find it so difficult to heed His call?
Jesus reminds us again and again that only the little ones are welcomed into God’s Kingdom. Why do we find it so difficult to heed His call?
THE distinguishing mark of religion is not so much liberty as obedience,
MEN find Christ through their fellow-men, and every glimpse they get of Him is a direct message from Himself.
It is in the power of the great Christian Sacrament, the great human sacrament, to become that rallying place.
THERE may be Worship without Words.
Liberty of thought is allowed; liberty of sinning is alone denied.
RELIGION consists not in knowledge, but in a holy life.
CALL him not heretic whose works attest
His faith in goodness by no creed confessed.
Whatever in love’s name is truly done
To free the bound and lift the fallen one
‘He must increase, but I must decrease.’ (John the Baptist)
When we learn to follow the first follower of Jesus we discover that the Christian life is about learning to grow smaller.
TO HIM, as to so many, truth is so infinitely great that all we can do with our poor human utterances is to try and clothe it in such language as will make it clear to ourselves, and clear to those to whom God sends us with a message,