All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
03080 – “War is a Racket”
A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of the people. Only a small, "inside" group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few, at the expense of the very many. Out of war a few people...
02354 – More Scalpel than Dagger?
When the Bible describes the word of God as "sharper than a two-edged sword," perhaps we should envision this probing and incisive word of truth more as a surgical scalpel or a gamma knife capable of going after our deepest sin, rather than using the Bible as a dagger...
02245 – God: Rich in Mercy
Nowhere else in the Bible is God described as rich in anything. The only thing he is called rich in is: mercy.-----------------------------------Gender-neutral version: Nowhere else in the Bible is God described as rich in anything. The only thing God is called rich...