“Run, Mom!” Anders’ voice startled me out of my reprieve. “You don’t want a branch to fall on you!” I laughed and obeyed. As he dashed ahead, I wondered if four months of quarantine had crushed his spirit as fully as it had my own. The walls of our house seemed to be c...
24If a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand.25If a house is divided against itself, that house cannot stand.26And if Satan opposes himself and is divided, he cannot stand; his end has come.27In fact, no one can enter a strong man’s house wit...
It’s a battle for your soul; to either help you or hinder you, and if you are unsure of who is doing what in your life, or it will bring confusion to the point where you will blame God when bad things happen, when it is obvious because of this Scripture it is the devil, (the...
24“Therefore whoever hears these sayings of mine, and does them, they are like shrewd persons who built their house on a good foundation: 25 and the rain fell, the floods rose, and the winds blew and beat on that house; and it did not fall, for it was built on a good foundation....
The Bible has more about this topic than most know, and this book offers the needed Biblical theology of justice from the whole story of Scripture. Yet, as I’ve said, it also has this spiritual formation piece and tone, offering a call to hope, a guide to perseverance. There is real...
We are also discipled through the instruction that we receive in our church services. The best counselling and instruction that you can receive will come through what you learn in the church services and Adult Bible classes. We use a lot of Scripture here in our preaching, and you will lear...
The general tone of the Enlightenment was thus not friendly towards the Church, Scripture, or Christianity as a whole. Revelation as a source of truth and understanding was to be displaced. The Renaissance dictum that “Man is the measure of all things” was now the new sacred Gospel, and ...
Use it for bibliomancy, the lost art of divination by book (with scripture or Virgil or Ho- mer or Hafiz). You flip at random but with intention to a section of the venerated tome, you place your finger on the page, and your fate is there in the text. That fate, those words: ...
“And Jesus knew their thoughts, and said unto them, every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation; and every city or house divided against itself shall not stand” Proverbs 9:10 “The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the holy is understa...
Scripture-based Advents. Nativities made of clothes pins. Christmas movie marathons. And I realized last night that none of that stuff really matters. My son really doesn’t enjoy crafts that much. He would much rather sit in my lap and read a Christmas book with me. The two little ones...