The Bible’s answer to the meaning or purpose of life is that we must glorify God. In 1 Peter 4, we’re told that we’re created to glorify Him (1 Peter 4). Jesus fulfills this mandate by centering His life around glorifying God (John 7:18). Just before His death, He reiterates...
Define Christian love. Christian love synonyms, Christian love pronunciation, Christian love translation, English dictionary definition of Christian love. adv. & adj. 1. In a state of wonder or amazement, as with the mouth wide open. 2. Wide open. ) n. 1
However, at my more mature age I’ve come to realize something. While I do love flamboyant shirts, lately I’ve been using them as a distraction. You see, I know what lies beneath them. For most of my life I maintained an active lifestyle and an athletic physique. On most Summer day...
The Meaning of Sex: Christian Ethics and the Moral LifeRichieCristina S.Cultural Encounters
It is an invocation of the World View which comes from our Faith which is focused on eternal things. In fact, much of the grief of our lives will never leave us because, focusing only on short-term worldly pursuits, we are continuously and forever to be disappointed in this world, and ...
view it as a purely allegorical representation of the relationship between Christ and His Church, there are quite a lot of other parallels along these same lines. Westley is introduced as being nothing more than a poor farm boy (cp. Isaiah 53:2—“he hath no form nor comeliness; and … ...
use it to make sure we don’t make the same mistakes again in the present. We shouldn’t dwell on the past. If we do, we are not living in the present. It’s kind of like driving a car with your eyes on the rear-view mirror all the time. You wouldn’t do that, would you?
from the ancient Church even back to the Old Testament while matched with an old Appalachian folk style, suggest how Orthodoxy presents in Christendom the fullest and truest and deepest view of relationality in the Trinity, which is the source of the beauty of the apostolic living Christian ...
View Latest Issue Comfort Through the Sorrow of Miscarriage Rev. Robert Fleischmann, National Director, Christian Life Resources Miscarriage is a deeply painful and often misunderstood experience that touches the lives of many families within the Christian community, including my own. As believers, we ...
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