Render unto Caesar ...
19Show me the coin used for
the tax." And they brought him a denarius. 20Then he
said to them, "Whose head is this, and whose title?"
21They answered, "The emperor’s." Then he said to
them, "Give therefore to the emperor the things that are the emperor’s, and to
God the things that are God’s."
Matthew
22:20-21
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RUBENS, Peter Paul
Fine Arts Museums of San
Francisco
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The imperial
denarius of Matthew 22:19 minted
under Tiberius
(14-37AD). |
Nobody
stands taller than those willing to stand corrected.
~William Safire
If we
want to produce people who share
the
values of a democratic culture,
they
must be taught those values
and
not be left to acquire them by chance.
~
Cal Thomas
Honor
is better than honors.
~
Abraham Lincoln
Workshop with Retha!
Retha with
some of her award-winning paintings
Carolyn and
Retha
Mick Miller's
shower after Rotary on Friday morning
10-14-05
(Mick with the
heart-beat teddy bear I gave him)
October 12,
2005
Standing on
my patio at dawn with a cup of coffee ...
this guy's
bugle was really loud!!!
Time
does not change us. It just unfolds us.*
~Max
Frisch
October 16,
2005 Twenty-ninth Sunday in Ordinary
Time
* Does that mean the wrinkles
will stretch away?
"Civilization is expensive, and taxes pay the
tab.
But absolute allegiance to an ultimate God,
rendering our entire selves to Him without preconditions or limits, without
hedging our bets, demands a higher order of magnitude. That takes a
lifetime."
Exodus 33:12-23
Psalm
99:1-9
1 Thessalonians 1:1-10
Matthew
22:15-22
