it states that god loves his every child and mentions that his people has been gifted with special present of poverty of spirit which gives us the knowledge that people are powerless without the presence of god. Further the article states that the son of god, Jesus knew that how to deal ...
My upbringing had cultivated in me a feeling of worth as a child of God, a strong sense of right and wrong, and an enquiring mind. However, one of the reasons I even attended law school was because I had graduated college with no career plans. No one in my Church experience had ...
One Sermon, One Sunday; Sen. Obama in Church Published October 23, 2008 Uncategorized 2 Comments Tags: Obama, Rev. Wright As I ponder Barack Obama sitting in church listening to his pastor’s hate-filled sermons, I cannot help but think of my mother. I imagine her sitting in the next...
1895 (link to the full text at the end of this note) in which she offered herself as a “Victim of Holocaust to God’s Merciful Love.” As she explains in her autobiography she received a special grace that day to make her offering to God’s Divine Mercy: ...
re being whisked through the twists and turns of job applications and praying for the right door to open. This has been a test of our faith, but we know that God is in control. In our case, the road to parenthood has so far been a bit rocky, but we are also excited to see ...
the loud ding from a person’s cell phone letting them know they got a text, or those who walk down the aisle in the middle of the sermon. It’s hard not to be distracted by these things, but it’s also hard not to laugh at these things. That in the midst of what should be ...
It’s strange coming back to somewhere you’d sermoned about authoritatively for years to people who weren’t from there, and confronting your own total ignorance about it. I live in South Belfast which is the fairly, “gentrified” bit- not a deliberate choice but necessity in that I ha...
in the Bible, Jesus Christ used the word in his Sermon on the Mount, referring to people facing persecution. He used the Greek termmakarios, which means satisfaction from experiencing the fullness of something or self-contained happiness, indicating fulfillment and security in the presence of God...
The main theme that stood out, for me, was the emphasis on biblical marriage and the self sacrifice of man and woman as related to Christ and the church, as described in Ephesians 5. One plenary session, a breakaway session on “Dating and Marriage” and a sermon was devoted to this to...
We speak to God, and God listens to us, as if we were Jesus. Jesus is God’s child by nature, and we become God’s children by grace. Jesus is born of God; we are adopted. So when we confess that God is “Father,” it is not a theological idea but a confession of the defin...