they’ll be cut down in their prime and never know the first thing about life. Angry people without God pile grievance upon grievance, always blaming others for their troubles. Living it up in sexual excesses, virility wasted, they die young. But those who learn from their suffering, God ...
井边谈道 - 耶稣得知法利赛人听见祂收门徒、为人施洗比约翰还多,便离开犹太回加利利。其实不是耶稣亲自施洗,而是祂的门徒施洗。 祂回加利利的路上必须经过撒玛利亚。 于是,祂来到撒玛利亚的一座城,名叫叙加,靠近雅各留给他儿子约瑟的那块地。
Our next stop in the Bible is a verse from Genesis Chapter 6, speaking of “giants in the earth in those days,” (before the Flood). The word “giant,” we learn, was chosen to translate the Hebrew “Nephilim.” Our Genesis passage suggests the Nephilim are the offspring of angels mat...
As the verse for today says, it’s not about the good service that we do to our fellow Men, it’s about the good service that we do for God, for the sake of God – and we can do nothing for the sake of God unless we are doing it because we love God. Not because we want t...
In verse 56 of chapter 27 of the Greek gospel of Luke, we understand clearly enough that there’s somebody unmasking Peter as having been one of those “with” Jesus. She’s not a credible witness, exactly, since she’s a female. She’s surely young. There may be other problems with...
This verse is not a command for US to be strong, but to allow God to be strong within us, to empower us as we go about living the Christian life. You see, Christians don’t muster strength by our own will, but only by God’s power and strength. Be strong IN the LORD, and in...
The theme of the Book of James is spiritual maturity – how to grow up in Christ. The key verse isJames 1:4b“ …so that you may be mature and complete, lacking nothing.”Not everyone who grows old, grows up! There is a difference between age and maturity. The Book of Hebrews, whi...
In verse 15 he has more to say about what has been happening to him, “It is true that some preach Christ out of envy and rivalry, but others out of goodwill. The latter do so out of love, knowing that I am put here for the defense of the gospel. The former preach Christ out ...
Syed, have you not seen the fruit Islam bears? You talk about waiting to see if its a message of peace. Can’t you see its destructive nature? Here is a verse to ponder: “faith is the underlaying of things hoped for, the proof of things unseen.”– the opposite of this...
This verse is left out in some copies, and in others it stands before the former; in which order it is read in the Syriac, Arabic, Persic, and Ethiopic versions. (x) Hilch. Tephillah, c. 4. sect. 16. (y) T. Bab. Beracot, fol. 32. 2.((z) Ib. fol. 54. 2. Matthew ...