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When they experience a positive environment, children love naturally and spontaneously, as they are loved by the Savior, and when they learn of Him they naturally love Him.

Is there any drama like the drama of surgery? A skilled champion sweats; an agonized victim bleeds; life contends with death. Public surgeries did not cease to sell tickets for lack of spectacle-seekers.

Jesus always said, No, to people pleasing. He never played up the crowd or told them simply what they sought to hear because he came not as a man to seek the approval of man.

When Berliners Piet and Ulrike Jonas travel abroad, they head into local churches to gawk at stained glass windows, ponder over ornate altar pieces, and discern the meaning of devotional art.

It’s not so good when you’re caught out in the open, totally defenseless. Jesus – alas and alack – has no sofa to run to for cover when, in Matthew 22, the Sadducees and the Pharisees appear

In comparison to the other Gospel writers’ presentation of John, there is a real mystique surrounding Matthew’s Baptiser. John appears in verse one to no fanfare.

An irony: By officially designating some saints as doctors, the Church means to bring outstanding teachers from the past into closer contact with the faithful of the present.

We often hear that ‘God is in control’ as a kind of self-soothing mechanism. It can be comforting to believe that the difficult events of our lives have meaning.

Christlike qualities are needed today, and they are found not in outward expressions, but in the everyday life of Christians living their religion daily.

Why are we so bothered by what other people think or care so much about the opinions of strangers? Why do we put up with demanding bosses or commit to unhealthy levels of responsibility?