How to Live the Bible — Finding Purpose Beyond Suffering Mel Lawrenz Minister at large for Elmbrook Church, and director of The Brook Network This is the ninety-eighth lesson in author and pastor Mel Lawrenz’ How to Live the Bible series. If you know someone or a group who would like ...
But our good intentions fall flat when reading the Bible just doesn’t seem to help us experience God in a real way. What should feel dynamic and important and alive often feels confusing and boring and irrelevant. But it doesn’t have to feel this way. In this bible study podcast, past...
Someone suffering from acute catalepsy could very well be mistaken for a corpse. Today, doctors have the knowledge and tools to accurately determine whether or not someone is alive, but in the past, people would decide based only on appearance. Embalming was unknown in most of the world ...
How was The Iliad originally passed down? How does The Iliad not glorify war? How are the Iliad and The Aeneid different? How are the Iliad and the Odyssey connected? How are the gods portrayed in the Iliad? How does The Aeneid interact with The Iliad?
Christianity is: the process of replacing bad habits with good habits and developing more good habits, all of which you work to continue doing continually with frequent regularity. Again, the Bible word continually (as does: always, diligently, and without ceasing) means regular and frequent sched...
The fall of Adam and Eve is the classic example, chronicled in the Bible. According to the Book of Genesis, God created Adam and Eve to take care of the world He had created and to populate the Earth. The first man and woman lived in the Garden of Eden, a perfect place. God told...
is modest about her body, and does not exhibit her nakedness to anyone, except her husband; is a virgin when she gets married, saving her charms, unspoiled, for the man she loves (a woman, almost always, falls in love with, and never forgets, the man to whom she gives her virginity...
Now that you know how antiheroes work and the various types of antiheroes, let's look at more examples of antiheroes so you can see how they work in literature, film and tv serials, and even in the Bible. “ Today's article highlights over 75 antihero examples: those heroes who are ...
the recovery of people who are suffering from substance abuse. We should emphasize that the benefits of faith to health can be seen in a variety of religious contexts, including monotheistic and nontheistic faiths and beliefs. For instance, Chan et al. (2002) noted that the inner, spiritual...
Does it serve anyone for me to live in remorse and regret? Nope. Not now, not ever. Never. Nobody had a perfect childhood – at least nobody in my generational gene pool. We all did the best we could with what we had to work with at the time. That is as true today as it ...