"A wedding reading can be almost anything, it can be scripture from a religious text, a poem, words of advice, song lyrics, amovie quote, a literary passage, or best of all something written especially for the
Where is scripture in 2020? We must have God’s words for our faith and practice. Are they in paraphrases or the Pope’s library? Do we pick and choose from the Babel of competing versions? God promised to preserve His words, and He gave rules to identify them, so a faith-based app...
ways that don’t help or make things worse. Daily prayer, reading the scriptures, reflecting on God’s love for us and His work to provide our salvation, worship, fellowship with the church, serving, and many other practices are prescribed in the scripture as exercises for spiritual fitness....
Over the years, Gramma and I have sung together, prayed together, and read Scripture together. She was one of my best mentors and one of my favorite people on the planet. A few months ago, she was jokingly bemoaning the loss of her good looks, and I told her, with 100% honesty, ...
for though that also is promised, believed, and prayed for; and when he will not be silent, but by his voice will raise the dead, summon all before him, and pronounce the sentence on all; and the world, and all that is therein, will be burnt with fire, and a horrible tempest raine...
We want our prayer meetings to be Spirit led and Scripture fed. We urge those leading not to “preach” but to pray. Planning is not about writing a script or being unnecessarily controlling but instead about building a platform to welcome the presence of God. In a local church’s ...
of Judah shall say in their heart, ‘The inhabitants of Jerusalemaremy strength in theLordof hosts, their God.’6In that day I will make the governors of Judahlike a firepan in the woodpile, and like a fiery torch in the sheaves; they shall devour all the surrounding peoples on the ...
The phrase was probably composed for the liturgy of the early church and most likely was based on 1 Chr 29:11-13; a scribe probably added the phrase at this point in the text for use in public scripture reading (see TCGNT 13-14). Both external and internal evidence argue for the ...
Treasury of Scripture And he said, Blessed be the LORD God of my master Abraham, who has not left destitute my master of his mercy and his truth: I being in the way, the LORD led me to the house of my master's brothers. Blessed. Genesis 24:12 And he said, O LORD God of my ...
take care that the fire never went out; and is by Virgil F13 called the eternal fire: and Vesta itself is thought by some learned men to be the same with (hy-va) "Esh-jah", the fire of Jehovah: now these were all satanical imitations of the perpetual fire on the altar of God. ...