“Then a few years ago when I researched our family ancestry, some of those names turned up on our family tree from a generation or two prior to Grandma’s—relatives she must have known when she was young and people of faith already in heaven. She had to have seen them from her deat...
The gifts of the Magi holding symbolic meaning: gold for Christ’s royalty, myrrh (used in embalming) for his humanity, and incense for his divinity But perhaps a new insight or two about the familiar story will add a bit of icing to your Christmas joy! For example, consider: A Disadvan...
God answered: “I am who I am.” And again he simply repeated: “I am.” Meaning: I am all that is. All that was and all that will be. A great – if somewhat cryptic – answer describing something so vast that our human minds don’t really have the capacity to fully grasp it....
The product of His handiwork, us, is to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do. He has a purpose for your life. He has a plan. You are more than a work of art for people to look at up on the wall, you’re a living exhibit. You’re an interactive display...
But in the following three verses, there is a shift: Nations will come toyour light, and kings to the brightness ofyour dawn. Lift up your eyes and look about you: All assemble andcome to you; your sons come from afar, and your daughters are carried on the hip. Thenyou will look ...
It must be buried the same day, because a dead body hanging on a post brings God's curse on the land. Bury the body, so that you will not defile the land that the LORD your God is giving you. International Standard Versionhis body must not remain overnight on the tree. You must ...
I used to be a flying fish. I loved going to the pool. All that experience kicked in to break my fall. After I stopped skidding, I gently pulled myself out from underneath the bike and stood right back up trying to lift my bike out of the road in shock the gas made my feet ...
“Their responsibility is to equip God’s people to do his work and build up the church, the body of Christ. This will continue until we all come to such unity in our faith and knowledge of God’s Son that we will be mature in the Lord, measuring up to the full and complete stand...
O LORD, you are my God; I will exalt you; I will praise your name, for you have done wonderful things, plans formed of old, faithful and sure.Berean Standard BibleO LORD, You are my God! I will exalt You; I will praise Your name. For You have worked wonders—plans formed long ...
And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also” (Jn. 14:1-3). So, the rapture will take place. Believers and the bodies of those who died during the Church Age will be “caught up” in one...