When I looked insideSimply Scripture for Lent and Easter,I was excited to see a prayer format that seems to fit me just right. Each day’s entries contain prayer inspiration from the Liturgy of the Hours and the daily Scripture readings, both of which are already part of my prayer routine...
But there is a bigger problem with the fires of hell. I’m not sure that I believe in those, at least not as the infernalists preach it. God is Creator, Lover, Healer. He is not killer, torturer, prison guard. Yet Scripture says, “Our God is a consuming fire.” (Hebrews 12:29...
These consisted in a form to be filled up with the applicant’s name, age, and school; a solemn declaration to be signed that he would read a set portion of Holy Scripture every night for a year; and a request for half a crown; this, it was explained, was demanded partly to prove...
It’s hard to understand, unless we take some time to ponder it, what is “good” about “Good Friday.” After all, it is the day that Jesus, the son of God, not only died, but was actuallyput to deathat the request of the very people who were God’s “chosen” ones. How can...
Marriage is acovenantrelationship. It is a union between two people (a man and a woman) that forms a new entity. There are other examples in Scripture of individuals (separate beings or entities) becoming part of a larger (not just a group) entity – of becoming “united.” ...
1.the collection of the books of the Christian Bible, comprising the Gospels, Acts of the Apostles, the Epistles, and the Revelation of St. John the Divine. 2.the covenant in which God's dispensation of grace is revealed through Jesus Christ. ...
"Am I made a real Christian washed in the Redeemer's blood. Have I union with the living Head of the body of Christ?" I want to speak as a poor helpless sinner, to those who know by the grace of God their own helpless ruined state. We hear much of the Do
Filed underGod's Love,Humility,Pride “Pride goes before a fall.” This is a Scripture found atProverbs 16:18, tucked in between verse17– “The highway of the upright avoids evil; those who guard their ways preserve their lives,” and verse19– “Better to be lowly in spirit along wi...
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This is an important detail of Scripture. First, that the wilderness came after the baptism. After Jesus made his public confession, the first thing God did to prepare Him for public ministry was lead him into the wilderness. He led Him at just the right time, when He was full of the ...