Art as expression – NOT as market campaigns, will still capture our Imaginations
The Holy Spirit witnesses as to the terms of salvation; the saved person’s spirit witnesses to the fact that he has complied with the terms; and, in that instance, there are two witnesses to the man’s salvation.
Thanksgiving In everything.
The text before us stresses the need of prayer in all of life’s conditions and circumstances.
Any list, therefore, of things we should pray for must be partial and incomplete. “Everything” certainly covers a lot of territory.
The 10th commandment is the most comprehensive of the commandments, forbidding ALL unlawful desire of every kind.
We should remember that the prodigals are still with us, still enraptured with that mysterious allure that the fire has for the moth. This tragedy is reenacted somewhere on Earth every day.
In an absolute sense, goodness belongs to God the Father alone.
That this parable is an unqualified tragedy, first to last, may not be doubted, despite the rejoicing over the return of the prodigal; and, as is the case in many of Jesus’ teachings, the total unworthiness of the human race in the sight of God is plainly taught.
The imagination of men is involved in the violation of this commandment, because, if one does not tell the truth, the imagination is the only source of what he does tell.
