Sin's Knots

Sunday. Mark 7: 1-13.

Sin ties a man up, hands and feet, head and heart, and puts on hard knots. If it can’t do it directly, then indirectly. If it can’t do it fully, it gets all it can. If straightout sin can’t get hold, selfishness usually can, and tight hold, too. And custom, prejudice, habit, superstition — these tie a man up. It’s a pretty safe guess that every one of us is a slave to something. What is it with you?

Open in the reader The Bent-Knee Time

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