Sermons On The Gospel Readings
The trouble with words is that they can mean so many different things, depending on who is using them. And the bigger and more important the word, the more this tends to be true. Take, for instance, the word "freedom," or "free." That is a very important word to North Americans -- to most of the world, in fact -- and it appears to have been a very important word to Jesus. But I really wonder if we're all talking about the same thing?