For all who are being led by the Spirit of God, these aresons of God. For you have not received a spirit of slavery leading to fear again, but you have received a spirit of adoption assonsby which we cry out, “Abba! Father!” The Spirit Himself testifies with our spirit that we ...
Treasury of Scripture But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that you should show forth the praises of him who has called you out of darkness into his marvelous light; a chosen. 1 Peter 1:2 Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the...
and bade them to make preparations. They accordingly ordered coffins, had a tombstone for their graves inscribed and designated the minister and pallbearers and the passages of Scripture they wished read and
If there was ever a section of Scripture that spoke to the importance of the Word of God in the life of a Christian, it is here. You see, it is easy in this fallen world to be caught up in the negative. Grumbling, disputing, trying to win the argument. And to the world around ...
Treasury of Scripture And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day. God. Genesis 1:5,10 And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day… Genesis 5:2 Male and female create...
each from a moment where I picked it up and desperately wanted to make it fit me. They’re not wrong, these pieces holding me together, they’re not lies — they’re just not the whole of me, not the core, not the light of the darkness. They tell a story, they tell me story,...
4:17 Tobit counsels his son to give alms in honor of the dead or, more probably, to give the “bread of consolation” to the family of the deceased. Cf. Jer 16:7; Ez 24:17. New American Bible (Revised Edition) (NABRE) Scripture texts, prefaces, introductions, footnotes and cross...
chains under darkness for the judgment of the great day; 7 as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities around them in a similar manner to these, having given themselves over to sexual immorality and gone after strange flesh, are set forth as an example, suffering the [d]vengeance of eternal ...
saying the process of transformation is automatic. We do have to resist the flesh and the devil. I am not backpedaling on what I have said in the previous paragraph; I am saying that the power to resist comes from the Spirit of God and that must come first to drive out the darkness...
of those early days has subsided and I finally experience moments of happiness. Small rays of light in the darkness that is Mike’s absence. But it’s taken this long and still, after all this time, an underlying operating system of continual sadness runs in the background of everyday ...