Moral Stop Signs

Wash, become pure, remove your evil acts from My eyes.  Cease doing evil.  Learn to do good . . .  Isaiah 1:16-17a  Robert Alter Cease – Yesterday we learned that God rejects all religious acts if the underlying principle of compassion for others is missing in society.  Oh, perhaps you need to read that sentence…

Highest Priority

February 20 “It is necessary for me to work the works of Him who sent Me while it is still day. John 9:4  (J. Green, TR) It is necessary – What is your highest priority?  What defines your life so that if everything else were taken away, you would still be about doing what you…

Driftin’ Blues

“Sirs, what must I do to be saved?” Acts 16:30 Do – “The ordinary believer is not necessarily someone who has made a major decision, but rather someone who continues the tradition of his ancestors, perhaps by merely drifting or wandering about.  . . .  The moral argument against such a person is that he…

Call Of Duty

And leading them outside, he said, “Sirs, what must I do that I may be saved?” Acts 16:30 Must – As I look back on some things written, I find this: “A growing sense of aloneness accompanies nearly every moment of my day.  My social connections to comrades and friends offer peripheral distraction, but do…