“Do you think that I have come to bring peace to the earth? No, I tell you, but rather division!” (Luke 12:51) Did Jesus really say that? Are those really the words of the ‘Prince of Peace’? If you’ve been following our Gospel readings for the last few weeks, you’d be forgiven for thinking we […]
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“For forty days [Jesus] was tempted by the devil. He ate nothing at all during those days, and when they were over, he was famished..” (Luke 4:2) Hi Fighter, We are in Lent 2022 – the 40 days that lead up to Easter. Those who follow the church’s prescribed weekly Bible readings (known as ‘the
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“Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful” (Luke 6:36) Hi Fighter, How do you urge a fighter to be merciful? You don’t win fights by being merciful! I still remember the final words given to me before I climbed into the ring for my first fight. My cornerman urged me to put aside any
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Hi Fighter, “A house divided against itself cannot stand” If I were to ask you who said that, you’d probably recognise it as a quote from both Jesus and Abraham Lincoln. Jesus definitely said it first, but it was Lincoln’s use of the image in 1858, which he applied not to an individual (as did
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. Hi Fighter, “I did not come to bring peace, but a sword.” (Matthew 10:34) These must be amongst the most forgettable words Jesus ever spoke. Could the Prince of Peace really have said “I did not come to bring peace”? And had Jesus really ever been intending violence? To the latter question, I think
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Hi Fighter, I’ve just read a story of another two more young men who suicided due to the lockdowns – two young Queenslanders, both in their teens. I can’t know, of course, what pushed these poor young men along such a tragic trajectory. Even so, I know how the lockdowns affect me and, listening to
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