A Tree and its Fruit
Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing but inwardly are ravenous wolves. You will know them by their fruits. Are grapes gathered from thorns, or figs from thistles? In the same way, every good tree bears good fruit, but every bad tree bears bad fruit. A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a bad tree bear good fruit. Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. Thus you will know them by their fruits. Matthew 7:15-20 Many of you know that I like hot peppers. I like them a lot. So much that I freq uently grow my own. Last year I grew two kinds: cayenne peppers and habanero peppers. But there was one plant that didn’t quite look like the others. It was bigger than the other cayenne pepper plants and smaller than the habanero plants. As its peppers began to grow, they looked like cayenne peppers, but they were smaller, and I recognized them as ornamental peppers. When they got ripe, I tentatively tried one, and though they had a...