1. Write Down Your Favorite Bible Verses Start a list of options for your personal Bible verse. Think about verses that have encouraged you in the past, or ones that you have been drawn to during stormy times. Think, too, about some of your favorite hymns or worship songs. Many quote S...
Inspiration can fuel your spiritual journey. God who desires to bless us through the knowledge of His goodness and love. Our inspirational prayers have been taken from many poetic sources: the Essene Gospels of Jesus, the Book of Hymns from the Dead Sea Scrolls, and old liturgical prayer books...
They focus on learning phrases instead of individual words and offer access to audio from native speakers. Visit Mondly uTalk uTalk is a game-based language learning app that is particularly good for picking up useful phrases. When you start learning Latin, every word you hear in the app will...
But it was close enough and because of the other things he and a few of his colleagues were doing, a new science was invented called “fluvio-geomorphology”—the study of how water acts to form what we see around us. They also discovered really swell words like “thalwig” (the line ...
Elsewhere, Ricke takes a 15th-century lyric about Adam and “translates” it into a rambling, Beat-like poem that name-checks Harry Belafonte, while his “Four Sinful Hymns for the Love of Saint Mary Magdalene” imagine the biblical figure’s conversion and salvation from her own perspective,...
Now, here is something I never realized before: God takes no ‘rest’ periods from His creating everything from the first day to the sixth day. It is not only to the end of the 7th day’s work that God is mentioned as the day God allowed Himself to take a rest. In other words,...
These prophets teach us that if we are to obtain true happiness, or in other words, to partake of the precious fruit described by Lehi & Nephi, we must obey the word of God, or His commandments, which Nephi described as the iron rod. True happiness comes from the peace and joy we ...
I believe in the music that my soul is listening to these days as an explanation for my continued life.In particular, there are old, old hymns from my father’s youth that I am enjoying. I have not listened to these songs for more than 50 years, but I listen now, and I remember ...
are brought near by the blood of Christ. Let us not look askance at those returning from that far country; we, too, once dwelt in a distant land, as Isaiah teaches. For you have these words: “They who sat in the region of the shadow of death, light is risen to them.” Therefore...
The clear warning here is for God’s people to not be like the nations around them. Apparently, homosexual behavior was known and practiced openly among the Egyptians and Canaanites, and God did not want the people of Israel drawn into those behaviors. In other words, because the people we...