The Danger of Falling Away - Therefore leaving the elementary teaching about the Christ, let us press on to maturity, not laying again a foundation
Warning Against Falling Away - We have much to say about this, but it is hard to make it clear to you because you no longer try to understand. In
Old friends are just like wine, and they turn into something special with every passing year. The older the friendship is, the more substantial it becomes with time. Old friends falling in love is just like fireworks. It is spectacular and impressive, a sight that can take your breath away...
There’s a good reason for the quiet. Lexicography is an intermingling of science and art, and both require a commitment to silent concentration. Your job as a definer is to find the exact right words to describe a word’s meaning, and that takes some serious brain wringing. “Measly,”...
What is the meaning of the curious horse-headed talisman Molly takes from its hiding place in the cellar? All through my first viewing of Lovely Molly, I found myself deeply impressed. Here, I thought, was a Bad House movie where it was clear — unambiguously clear — that the haunting ...
Why in this hotel, right now? I kept sneaking glances. I wondered if she was being trafficked. It would make sense. Take a bus into Reno and right away, volitionally or not, you set up shop. But why Sparks, a good ten miles out of downtown? I watched them, but I said nothing....
This is the Immanuel in the Hebrew Bible, the Tanach or the Old Testament. Literally: With-us-God. Daniel 3:24 – Suddenly King Nebuchadnezzar jumped up in amazement and asked his advisers, “Did we not throw three men, firmly bound, into the fire?”“Certainly, O king,” they ...
Just human delusion of self importance, a wishful longing for some meaning in an inherently cold world. BC 01/11/2016 at 3:48 pm “What is the struggle really for? It is all for nought. Nothing will exist, nothing will remain, nothing will be remembered. Just human delusion of self ...
Absolute atheism starts in an act of faith in reverse gear and is a full-blown religious commitment. Here we have the first internal inconsistency of contemporary atheism: it proclaims that all religion must necessarily vanish away, and it is itself a religious phenomenon. —Jacques Maritain ...
Would He REALLY deny me the very thing He called me to do- to stop sinning and continue improving in the good works department!? Why would He take away my ability to live up to the highest of standards, you know, works that prove my faith?