With Friends Like This ...
Christmas Is A Quantum Leap
Sermons For Advent, Christmas And Epiphany
Our sense of justice often causes us to insist that grace
should not be dispensed too cheaply. At least we demand a price
when we are the dispensers of the good things that are available.
Faith is the free gift of God, we confess to believe, but we
usually insist that the recipient pay up. Similarly, in response
to evil, we tend also to want the perpetrators to pay up. Perhaps
not so much when it's our own neck on the block, but with others
we tend to want the sin and evil to be punished. It may even be