7.God’s grace creates radiant beauty in a life that was once a wasteland (Psalm 34:5). That radiant beauty is characterized by smiles of joy, an attitude of contentment, a voice of wisdom and encouragement, an outlook of faith, and a heart of love. Praise God, his love flows freely...
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Reading the end of Genesis 1 as part of a fresh prologue to a book which had begun with Genesis 5:1, gives fresh perspective to our view of Genesis 1:26-31. Compared with its source texts (Gen 5:1–3 and 9:1–7), the end of Genesis 1 places humans further from animals and clo...
mediated by the deeds of other agents; yet, as Wittgenstein noted down, we can only ‘hear’ God speaking when we ourselves are the addressees. Leibowitz clarified that there is no prayer without a response because God’s ‘answer’ is always already part of the invocation that asks for a...
It serves as a reminder of the inherent goodness of the world as originally created by God, before the fall of man introduced sin and brokenness. Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(21) God created great whales.--Whales, strictly speaking, are mammals, and belong to the creation of ...
existence in Christ of both natures, Godhead and Manhood, -- Godhead of His Father, Manhood of His Mother, the former being before all things, the latter derived from the Virgin. For the first, speaking as the Son, He called God His Father, and afterward, speaking as man, named H...
for a council of his bishops at Nicaea, located in the Eastern, Greek-speaking domain of his empire, across the Bosporus from the new city of Constantinople was in a certain way his goal to achieve some agreement by which many could live. Constantine […] Recent Posts on: Stepping Toes ...
53 four Desiring God Another way of speaking of the transguration of God is to speak of the desire of God. It is through such desire that the God-who-may-be nds voice, and does so in many different personas. We have been looking above at... ...
For example, in January 2006, while Klaus was in Germany on a speaking tour, he met with a good friend. Klaus mentioned they needed a civil engineer to oversee the hospital construction, but the person had to be willing to serve without pay. “I know someone who might be interested,” ...
Theologically speaking, morality (religion) is distinct from law (Sharia). According to the argumentation of historicist thought, today’s Muslim can establish new rulings by referencing the universal al-Din. Because the Sharia rulings are limited by their historical context, they cannot adequately...