Wascoe, Dan
of the prophet, the priest and the king. The early patriarch contained in himself the threefold dignity, and discharged the threefold duty. As the family became tribal, and the tribe national, these duties were divided. The order of the household was lost for a while in the chaos of the ...
It may expose you to great troubles to own God and religion heartily; and if there be peace abroad, and magistrates countenance religion, yet many times at home a man's greatest foes may be those of his own household, Mat. 10:36. But for the pleasing or displeasing of your relations ...
WhenDan Brown's museum-mystery thriller "The Da Vinci Code" was published in 2003, it quickly became the new King of the Airport Novels, present in the hands of every beach vacationer and long-distance commuter in the country. Brown essentially blended the religious esoterica ofUmberto Eco's...
For thus says the LORD the God of Israel: The jar of meal will not be emptied and the jug of oil will not fail until the day that the LORD sends rain on the earth.” She went and did as Elijah said, so that she as well as he and her household ate for many days. The jar ...
Jesus wants us to be doing our jobs—showing and telling the Gospel, growing in Christ, loving one another in the household of faith, being a subversive counterculture in a Babylon world, representing our King’s values and message. He rescued us because He has work for us to do (Eph 2...
“St. Stephen, “a man full of faith and of the Holy Spirit” (Acts 6:5), was one of the Church’s first seven deacons. He was appointed by the leaders of the Church to distribute food and other necessities to the poor in the growing Christian community in Jerusalem, thereby giving ...
Believers in Christ are exhorted very definitely as to their behavior towards their fellowman in various New Testament texts, including this one: “As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all men, especially unto them who are of the household of faith” (Galatians 6:10; I The...
Consequently, you are no longer foreigners and aliens, but fellow citizens with God’s people and members of God’s household, 20 built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus himself as the chief cornerstone (Eph. 2:17-20, NIV). In Christ there is neither Jew...
33 And he took them that {very} hour of the night and washed their wounds, and immediately he was baptized, he and all his {household.} (NAS) 1 Corinthians 1:17 17 For Christ did not send me to baptize, but to preach the gospel, not in cleverness of speech, that the cross of ...