Students “may read their Bibles or other scriptures, say grace before meals, and pray before tests to the same extent they may engage in comparable non-disruptive activities.” “Students have a right to distribute religious literature to their schoolmates on the same terms as they are permitt...
The Angels said, “This same Jesus shall so come in like manner.” His coming is imminent. When He comes, “The dead in Christ shall rise first; then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air.” (Acts 1:11, ...
36 – The Impending Conflict 37 – The Scriptures a Safeguard 38 – The Final Warning 39 – The Time of Trouble 40 – God’s People Delivered 41 – Desolation of the Earth 42 – The Controversy Ended AppendixLet’s Get in Touch If you have a question or comment, drop us a note and...
Natural law theorizing about moral and social problems is rooted in the ethical and political writings of Thomas Aquinas. Aquinas' theorizing, in turn, is indebted to Greek philosophy, especially Aristotle, and to Christian morality as expressed in the Scriptures and the earlier tradition, especially...
he co-founded Zion's Watch Tower Tract Society, and in 1884, the corporation was officially registered, with Russell as president. From 1886 to 1904, Russell published a six-part series entitled The Millennial Dawn, which later became known as Studies in the Scriptures. (A seventh volume was...
She begins by considering the theme of making in the Hebrew Scriptures, examining their accountof a god who creates the world and leaves humans free to rearrange and reform the materials of nature. She goes on to follow the force of moods, sounds, rhythms, images, metrical rules, rhetorical...
As Luther puts it: “Nor can he be freed from his perversity (which in the Scriptures is called curvedness, iniquity, and crookedness [curvitas, iniquitas et perversitas]) except by the grace of God”.18Moreover, on Luther’s account, once we are so freed, the right relation to ...
The Celebration is in my Honor, some don’t know it’s my Birthday but it is and was always known to be from the day I was Born by those who Loved me and My Heavenly Father also had it recorded it in His Inspired Scriptures. The Celebration of my Birthday began many years ago as...
This verse provides an incredible insight into the purpose of theTorah. God gave the Scriptures to us as a guide so we know what is good and what is evil; nevertheless, it is up to each of us to either live according to God’s Word by accepting the good and rejecting the evil—or ...
I will walk in complete freedom because I have sought your commands.[a]Read full chapter Footnotes Psalm 119:45 Sought your commands: the psalmist strives to understand the meaning of the Scriptures and make them his rule of life (see vv. 94, 155; see also Ps 111:2; Ezr 7:10; Sir...