One God, One Lord: How Paul Redefines MonotheismHOW DOES a follower of Jesus live within the world of pagan culture? Paul bases his (thoroughly...Wright, N. T
1–4), Paul lists the benefits of being counted righteous in God’s sight. The second blessing he describes is that we have “obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand” (5:2). As members of the new covenant, we are privileged to be able to enter into the most ...
and how trying to obey the law only made things worse. And just when you think Paul is at the point of despair, and he cries out, “O wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death?” (Rom 7:24) he gives the answer that we are...
The Hebrew word that is used to describe the idols in Jeremiah 16:18,“lifeless,” literally means a carcass, basically a dead thing with no life-breath (Strong’s Hebrew: 5038). Such a statement correlates with what Paul says in the New Testament about how the Gentile Christians of Gala...
1 Songs Does Beyoncé Have? Beyoncé has had nine No. 1 hits on the Billboard Hot 100: "Crazy in Love" with JAY-Z (2003), "Baby Boy" with Sean Paul (2003), "Check on It" with Slim Thug (2005), "Irreplaceable" (2006), "Single Ladies (Put a Ring ...
In the end, as I like to say, He chased me until I caught Him. My encounters with God during the last few days of my husband’s life were filled with a kind of light that I can’t describe. I knew that I was on my way back to God, and that I would be where God wanted me...
I can’t lie: Getting that level of usage detail does appeal to my nerdy side. I can also see myself setting a custom cycle optimized for quiet when we have guests over, then adding another the next time I need to sanitize several dozen empty beer bottles for a future batch of homebre...
God loves us; we need only to summon up the humility to allow ourselves to be loved. — Pope Benedict XVI But if these beings guard you, they do so because they have been summoned by your prayers. — Ambrose I summon to the winding ancient stair; Set all your mind upon the steep as...
But if we are to use the wordomniscientto describe our Father and His glorified Son, itcannotmean that God knows our every choice before we make it in every circumstance, because Scripture tells us otherwise! For example, the Bible shows that when God gave Abraham the supreme test of sacrif...
God does not want the traditional teachers of religion to know the Truth -- God wants them to Become the Truth. God does not want the scholars and philosophers of this world to comprehend the true realities of life -- if they did, then they could never be subjected to the tests of lif...