Sunday Devotion: What Have the Romans Ever Done for Us?

October 16, 2011 by 4 Comments

“But real Christians – and this is the permanent truth which Jesus here lays down – are at one and the same time good citizens of their country and good citizens of the kingdom of heaven. They will fail in their duty neither to God nor to society.” – William Barclay, The Gospel of Matthew, Volume Two: 2 (New Daily Study Bible) (pp. 319-320)

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Daily Devotion: Monty Python, Blasphemy, and Bloodlust

February 19, 2011 by Leave a Comment

And now, a short “reenactment” (loosely defined) of our passage today from Leviticus 24, presented in the style of the stoning scene from Monty Python’s “Life of Brian”:

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