You then begin to put these precepts into practice, because after all you are going to driving school not just for the sake of learning the theory, but because you want to drive a real car, on actual streets. (This step is where a lot of philosophy gets lost: many of my colleagues, ...
God delights in the unity of His people, and seeks to emphasize it in every way, and so He pronounces a special blessing upon united prayer. We read in Matt. 18:19, "If two of you shall agree on earth as touching anything that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of My ...
Well Lynda, you have set yourself up as Pope Benedict’s judge, even going so far as to mock his Christian vestments — do you really consider yourself qualified to pronounce such a judgement? Perhaps you should read James 3 through 4:12. Lynda April 19, 2008 @ 3:00 pm Brenda, Are...
(Matthew 12.9-14)B. Leviticus 13.40-46 prescribes the social ostracism of those with skin diseases, but in Matthew26.6-12 Jesusdines with Simon the leper.The priest shall pronounce [the leper] unclean; the disease is on his head. The person who has the leprous disease shall weartorn ...
This variety of legalism reduces Christianity to a list of do’s and don’ts, a codified system of rigid moralism that is divorced from the covenant context of love. To be sure, God gives rules. He pronounces do’s and don’ts, but the purpose of these rules is to describe for us...