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Category: hypocrisy

  • plank-eye

    Some things are so blindingly obvious that we miss them. Jesus had worked in Joseph’s carpenter’s workshop for 20 years. He knew about wood. He knew too how much it hurt when you got a speck of sawdust in your eye. It would have been a regular occurrence as there were no safety glasses in…

  • revelation

    In correspondence to a friend earlier this morning I had a moment of revelation that I thought I would share with you: Is one reason that people think churches are full of hypocrites because Christians are imperfect people trying to follow a perfect Lord and our imperfections show up in greater relief against the life and…

  • some assembly required

    I have been given two books. The lovely Sally, my wife, went to a charity shop yesterday and came back with a carrier bag of books (they are selling them by the bag now!) and two were for me. One was a book of card tricks, and I won’t be sharing any quotes from that…

  • wooing and woeing

    I think Bibles ought to have a strong warning on them, along the lines of cigarettes: Warning: reading this book can seriously damage your religion. I am preparing for Sunday morning today and reading a passage in Luke 11 where Jesus goes a bit ‘woe-crazy’. He ‘woed’ those who were trying to get people back…

  • context

    Context is everything. “I never want to see you again” can be devastating if spoken to a person but fully understandable if spoken to a grey hair that has just been plucked from your head. It is entirely appropriate to greet someone and say, “How are you?” when you meet them in the street but…

  • cliché time once again

    I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: change is inevitable… except from a vending machine. I know that’s not very original, but it still makes me chuckle. None of us like change, but it is a fact of life: we are all getting older and that brings about change (male pattern baldness for…

  • sand art

    I will try to tread carefully today. That’s because the subject of this bloggage is still an active court case and I do not want to be guilty of contempt of court. Yesterday, shortly before his trial for perverting the course of justice was due to begin, Chris Huhne changed his plea from ‘not guilty’…

  • >balance your humours

    >I have been reading some books set in medieval times. In it there are many references to people having different humours. The thinking was that we need a balance of different ‘humours’ in our bodies for us to function at our best, they affect the way that we feel. The four are: blood, phlegm, yellow bile,…