Cursed be the Blind Guides

In Matthew 15:14, wherein Jesus charges the Pharisees with leading the

"blind...into the ditch," he seems to be invoking the curse of Deuteronomy 27:18 on his opponents (cf. Lev 19:14). “Cursed be anyone who misleads a blind man on the road.' And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’”

Speaking, as he did, as the master Torah-expositor, to those who prided themselves as being teachers of the law, it seems certain that the connotations would have been unavoidably obvious to all involved.

W. H. Griffith-Thomas on Faith

Trust is the only adequate answer to God’s revelation.  Just as the absence of faith makes it impossible for human beings to have any dealings with each other, so the absence of faith in God makes it wholly impossible for us to have any association with Him.  “He that cometh to God must believe” (Heb. 11:6).  Trust is thus the correlative of truth.  Faith in man answers to grace in God.  As such it affects the whole of man’s nature...

Faith is not blind, but intelligent, since it rests on the conviction of the authority of Christ as Teacher, Savior, and Lord.  The three-fold Revelation of Christ as Prophet, Priest, and King, revealing, redeeming, and ruling, is met by the response of the whole life, intellect, emotion, and will.

The Principles of Theology: An Introduction to the Thirty-Nine Articles, xx—xxi.  

Eastertide Collect, Book of Common Prayer (1928)

Almighty God, who through thine only-begotten Son Jesus Christ hast overcome death, and opened unto us the gate of everlasting life; We humbly beseech thee that, as by thy special grace preventing us thou dost put into our minds good desires, so by thy continual help we may bring the same to good effect; through the same Jesus Christ our Lord, who liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Ghost, one God, world without end. Amen.

Motherhood: Its Meaning and Significance in the Market, Culture, and Bible

A brief presentation on motherhood by Fanny.  She looks at motherhood from three perspectives: the marketplace, the culture, and Scripture. 

Bishop R. D. Campbell on the Law-Gospel Distinction

Bishop R. Dennis Campbell with the AOC has a clear and concise explanation of the purpose of the Law, and the redemptive-historical relation between Law and Gospel as set forth in Galatians.  Below is the first paragraph of his insightful commentary for Monday’s BCP lectionary reading from Galatians 3:19—29.  It is soundly anchored in the traditional Reformed understanding, while being nuanced and articulated in creative ways.

“Galatians 3:19 opens with an important question; what is the purpose of the law of God?  Of course God's law has many purposes.  The moral law, summarised in the Ten Commandments and the teaching of Christ, reveals the absolute perfection of God.  It reveals the will of God for all mankind in everyday life.  It shows mankind how to live in harmony with God and each other, thus it shows the way of peace and happiness (Ps. 19:7-14).  The ceremonial law reveals that those who break the moral law are unacceptable to God unless something is done, apart from the moral law, to make them acceptable.  The law shows, then, that, by our own actions, we are unclean and unfit for any kind of fellowship with God, and that we need to be made clean by something outside of the moral law, or we will remain forever unacceptable to God.” Continue reading here.