This morning, I read a post suggesting that one of the ways you can read is by theme. That is, choose not just a genre or category, but a theme you like, such as stories about Christianity in the 1800 America. (I just pulled that idea out of a hat.) Or adventures at sea. Pick...
It would be easy to fill pages with short, epigrammatic, proverbial sayings culled from his sermons, of which there is a rich abundance in many passages. But enough, perhaps, has been brought forward to give a general impression of the preaching that did such wonders at LIangeitho. Those w...
“A light skiff easily cruises the waves, while an overloaded vessel perishes by its weight. Thus the fast that alleviates the spirit makes it more agile to cross the sea of this world. Our eyes are turned to heaven and the things of heaven, and our thoughts despise the goods of the ea...
For thou hadst cast me into the deep, in the midst of the seas; and the floods compassed me about: all thy billows and thy waves passed over me. -Jonah 2:3 And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his ...
Namely, either what is believed to be a lie must be shewn not to be such; whether it be where a truth is left untold, and yet no falsehood told; or where a true signification willeth one thing to be understood of another, which kind of figurative either sayings or doing...
26And every one that heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand: 27And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall of...
65And fear came on all that dwelt round about them: and all these sayings were noised abroad throughout all the hill country of Judæa. 66And all they that heard them laid them up in their hearts, saying, What manner of child shall this be! And the hand of the Lord was with hi...
2I will open my mouth in a parable: I will utter dark sayings of old: 3Which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us. 4We will not hide them from their children, shewing to the generation to come the praises of the Lord, and his strength, and his wonderful works...
After a wonderful day together, I realized that it is Brad's life-tactics, ideals, and plainly terrific sayings (worthy of embroidery, "Home Sweet Home" style) that allow him to thrive in such a mad, mad lifestyle so fantastically. Balancing a music and photography career of his own ...
1:65Fear came on all who lived around them, and all these sayings were talked about throughout all the hill country of Judea. 1:66All who heard them laid them up in their heart, saying, "What then will this child be?" The hand of the Lord was with him. 1:67His father, ...