In some way, it references the innocence of a child, her gentle nature and the pure way she views the world, willing to give anything a chance, and spreading her unbounding love and joy everywhere she goes. Despite such beauty though, the name’s peak of popularity was in the early 200...
We have seen that the expression is a figurative or analogical one, and therefore we need not wonder that its references are varying. The appointment of the Savior, like all the other divine purposes, was of course from eternity: he "was set up from everlasting" (Pr 8:23); he "was ...
Mary wondered when Simeon took her child into his arms, and received him as the promised salvation of the Lord, the light of the Gentiles, and the glory of Israel; but it was the wonder of joy at the unexpected confirmation of the promise already given to her by the angel. The song ...
The verses above also exhibit how the Sun, Moon and Stars regulate the seasons, days and years of God's created temporal order. This reference from Genesis reveals the relationship between the cycles of the Sun and Moon, and the light which these two great lights shed upon the earth. ...
And now an angel tells Joseph in a dream about this Child conceived in Mary. “Joseph, son of David, Mary has not been unfaithful! The Child in her womb has been ‘begotten of the Holy Spirit.’” Consistent with the words of the Nicene Creed, “He (Jesus) became incarnate by the ...
I’ve skipped over a few verses that touch on another aspect of Satan: that of a fallen angel. Jesus says in Luke 10 that he saw “Satan fall like lightning from heaven”, though it’s unclear if he’s saying he witnessed this while his 72 disciples were out preaching and miracle-wor...
"It has to be understood in context" I find this amusing because it comes from the same crowd that likes to push likewise extracted verses that support their particular view. Often it is just one of the verses in the contradictory set is suppose to be taken as THE TRUTH when if you add...
had been on earth nearly 600 years before the Koran was written. Islam is a late comer on the scene. It offers nothing good except what it borrows from the gospel (which is always better stated in the New Testament), which it mixes, unashamedly, with a host of gospel-denying verses. ...
Thither he carried the ark of the covenant; and there he built to the Lord an altar in the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite, on the place where the angel stood who threatened Jerusalem with pestilence (2Sa 24:15-25). But David could not build a house for the name of the Lord...
(35); his sojourn with Laban (36); his wrestling with the angel (37); the selling of Joseph (38); Jacob's sojourn in Egypt (39); God's manifestation in the bush (40): the giving of the law (41); the exodus (42); the power of repentance (43); the conflict of Moses with ...