“Peace I leave with you, My peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid. You have heard Me say to you, ‘I am going away and coming back to you.’ If you loved Me, you would rejoice […]
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How Will You Meet The Lamb?
“And the kings of the earth, the great men, the rich men, the commanders, the mighty men, every slave and every free man, hid themselves in the caves and in the rocks of the mountains, and said to the mountains and rocks, ‘Fall on us and hide us from the face of Him who sits […]
We’ll Praise Him For All That Is Past & Trust Him For All That’s To Come
“So God heard their groaning, and God remembered His covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob. And God looked upon the children of Israel, and God acknowledged them.” Exodus 2:24-25 Image: http://images.sodahead.com/slideshows/000018393/5240483668_moses_snake-81226511681_xlarge.png The Bible is filled with promises, but can one trust in them? After all, they were written millennia ago. Many assume that as […]
We’ll Praise Him For All That Is Past & Trust Him For All That’s To Come
“So God heard their groaning, and God remembered His covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob. And God looked upon the children of Israel, and God acknowledged them.” Exodus 2:24-25 Image: http://images.sodahead.com/slideshows/000018393/5240483668_moses_snake-81226511681_xlarge.png The Bible is filled with promises, but can one trust in them? After all, they were written millennia ago. Many assume that as […]
Finding The Love Of Your Life
Image found: http://visaodemenina.blogspot.com (via google images) In much of the western hemisphere, today, 14th of February, is Valentine’s Day – a commercially-driven, overly-sentimental excuse to give flowers, candy, greeting cards, and special dinners to one’s spouse/boy-friend/girl-friend, etc. Many people will experience disappointment today as they have no one to lavish these dainties upon them. Others will […]
Remembering God’s Goodness
Image from: http://www.bible-basics-layers-of-understanding.com/Jesus-Feeds-the-5000.html “I have compassion on the multitude, because they have now continued with Me three days and have nothing to eat. And if I send them away hungry to their own houses, they will faint on the way; for some of them have come from afar.” Mark 8:2-3 Skeptics frequently allege that God does […]
Remembering God's Goodness
Image from: http://www.bible-basics-layers-of-understanding.com/Jesus-Feeds-the-5000.html “I have compassion on the multitude, because they have now continued with Me three days and have nothing to eat. And if I send them away hungry to their own houses, they will faint on the way; for some of them have come from afar.” Mark 8:2-3 Skeptics frequently allege that God does […]
The Beautiful Body
“And from there, when the brethren heard about us, they came to meet us as far as Appii Forum and Three Inns. When Paul saw them, he thanked God and took courage.” Acts 28:15 Image found here: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/06/El_Greco_Apostles.JPG/358px-El_Greco_Apostles.JPG People sometimes imagine that Paul was a spiritual superman: an intrepid missionary, theological genius, and multi-gifted polymath, […]
Losing The Theological Beauty Pageant
Photo credit: http://webspace.ringling.edu “If you were of the world, the world would love its own. Yet because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.” John 15:19 For too long western Christians have cherished the comfortable fiction that Christianity can peacefully coexist with the […]
New Year, Same Story
From my father I inherited a fascination with cemeteries and obituaries – a morbid, but interesting hobby that leads one to the biographies and of “the dead, small and great” (Rev. 20:12.) Accordingly, I was delighted when some friends took my family on a tour of historic Hollywood Cemetery in Richmond, Virginia on the […]