“The most powerful weapon for silencing the mouth of the world is not brilliant theological apologetics, but the practice of a holy life that resembles Jesus Christ.” “Now it happened, as Jesus went into the house of one of the rulers of the Pharisees to eat bread on the Sabbath, that they were watching Him closely. And behold, there was a certain man before Him who had dropsy. And Jesus, answering, spoke to the lawyers and Pharisees, saying, ‘Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath?’ But they kept silent. And He took him and healed him, and let him go. Then He answered them, saying, ‘Which of you, having a donkey or an ox that has fallen into a pit, will not immediately pull him out on the Sabbath day?’ And they could not answer Him regarding these things” (Luke 14:1–6). (1) As I meditated on today’s passage, Luke 14:1–6, the phrase that first caught my attention was: “they were watching Him clos...
A debtor (1) [Romans 8:12-17] What do you think of when you hear the word “debtor”? When we think of a “debtor,” we can usually think of a person who has borrowed money and is in a position to pay it back. As an example, we can take Matthew 18:24. When a king was accounting with his servants, one “debtor” of ten thousand talents (v. 24) had nothing to pay (v. 25), so he fell on his knees and bowed before the king and said, ‘Be patient with me and I will pay you back everything’ (v. 26). Then the master of the servant had compassion on him and let him go and forgave the debt (v. 27). But the servant whose debt of ten thousand talents was forgiven met another servant who owed him a hundred denarius and grabbed him and began to choke him and said “Pay back what you own me! (v. 28). His fellow servant fell to his knees and begged him, “Be patient with me, and...