22 He who finds a wife finds a good thing, and gets favor from the Lord. 23 The poor man asks for loving-kindness, but the rich man is hard in his answers. 24 A man who has friends must be a friend, but there is a friend who stays nearer than a brother. Proverbs 18 King Jame...
The Beatitudes - Then He lifted up His eyes toward His disciples, and said: “Blessed are you poor, For yours is the kingdom of God. Blessed are you
26 And beside all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed: so that they which would pass from hence to you cannot; neither can they pass to us, that would come from thence. Like the rich man, Satan made his choices in his first estate, and he fell. He is now bound...
it was clear that he thought he was being witty. But this went deeper than a little smart mouthing. He was belittling his own little girl in front of other people. How does a father do that to
Finds that he lacks nothing; God alone suffices.” (“Poem IX”~St. Teresa of Avila~Spanish philosopher/mystic~1515-1582) © Paul Phillips. He’s Taken Leave. 2013. All Rights Reserved. “Hey Daddy! I’m pretty sure that the moon is blue.” ...
I hope the young man finds better material to sing. I hope that he will also find someone who can help him to learn a chord or two along the way. I somehow think that we all need what he needed today, which was simply to be accepted for who he is and to have his “gifts” app...
But if he finds no satisfaction in life and doesn’t even get a decent burial, it would have been better for him to be born dead.English Standard VersionIf a man fathers a hundred children and lives many years, so that the days of his years are many, but his soul is not satisfied ...
Would not that land be greatly polluted? You have played the whore with many lovers; and would you return to me? declares the LORD.Berean Standard Bible“If a man divorces his wife and she leaves him to marry another, can he ever return to her? Would not such a land be completely ...
birth there is no trace of the ungenerous triumph over Leah so marked in her rejoicing at the birth of the sons of Bilhah; and in her trust that "Jehovah would add to her another son," she evidently had in mind the covenant promises, which a son of her own womb might now inherit. ...
Beside, τῇ ψυχῇ would have been a far more appropriate term to use for the effective and sympathetic part of his nature than πνεύματι. It is possible, if "the spirit" expresses that part of his human nature in special fellowship with the Father, to suppose that he...