Audrey Farley, The New Republic, 21 Dec. 2020 But, beginning in the 1500s, the Protestant Reformation swept away the cult of Christian saints, denouncing them as unbiblical and idolatrous. Daniel Burke, CNN, 6 Dec. 2019 Word History First Known Use 1828, in the meaning defined above Tim...
Some Christians have a narrow view of what godly women can be and can do. They believe their view is based on what the Bible shows us about women. They have even named their view “Biblical Womanhood.” These Christians seem to think that godly women are limited to being wives and mother...
Examines the meaning of wisdom in the context of Homer’s poetry. Highlights the gods’ association with knowledge and superior power in this body of literature. Argues that for humans, (heroic) wisdom entails a capacity to understand one’s “allotted share” and to maintain a life of balanc...
Besides attending Sunday services and weekly Bible studies, I got into the habit of having a personal Bible study. I used Bible study workbooks on some books in the Bible. Some subjects I enjoyed studying and still do are Faith, Love, Marriage, Wisdom, and the Fruit of the Spirit. As I...
I heard this performed by a band at the school carol service at work two years ago and it’s really stuck with me. Such a beautiful tune and glorious words.“But to this little town of no great renown, The Lord had a promise to keep.”Let the sense of anticipation build in your ho...
Suzanne Woods Fisheris a Christy finalist, a Carol and Selah winner, a two-time ECPA Book of the Year finalist, and the Publishers Weekly and ECPA bestselling author of more than forty books. Her genres include contemporary and historical romances, Amish romance, and women’s fiction. She an...
171–200), meaning “Christmas Fasting”), a tragic and deeply touching narrative of the worst weeks of the Finno-German siege of the former Imperial capital of St. Petersburg, renamed from 1924–1991 Leningrad (“the city of Lenin”), during WW II, when hundreds of thousands of the ...
while further development and substantiation is presented in the footnotes, which reference additional research upon which the major arguments are based. The combination of these various tesserae, which comprise the canonical mosaic of meaning regarding Gen 3:16, yields a promising redemptive interpretatio...
27 Help me understand the meaning of your commandments, and I will meditate on your wonderful deeds.28 I weep with sorrow; encourage me by your word.29 Keep me from lying to myself; give me the privilege of knowing your instructions.30 I have chosen to be faithful; I h...
notes the meaning of the parable—namely, the withdrawal of divine providence from Israel, thereby placing them at the mercy of the nations. 80 Cf. (Tigay 2016, p. 387). Gersonides (ad loc.) contends that this refers to death by judicial sentence. 81 According to Hurovitz (2012b, p...