Posts from April 2023
Heart Tears
“Heart Tears” It’s not difficult to understand how she felt, this woman of the city with the bad reputation who had dared to enter the home of a strict Pharisee like Simon. She had come to anoint Jesus with the precious perfume, (Lk. 7:37 -50) and the tears which spilt upon the feet of the Master were the fruit of sorrow and gratitude – sorrow for past sins and gratitude for the gift of forgiveness. Luther calls them “heart…
Jesus Christ – Unique and All Sufficient
Jesus Christ – Unique and All Sufficient In his address to the first Parliament of World’s Religions which met in Chicago in 1893, Hindu monk Swami Vivekananda recited a hymn which met with the approval of most who were in attendance. In part, the hymn says: “As the different streams having their sources in different places all mingle their water in the sea, so, O Lord, the different paths which men take through different tendencies, various though they appear,…