TAVIS SMILEY
In regions where there are no wolves, stories describe people turning into other carnivorous animals. Stories from parts of Africa describe people turning into hyenas or crocodiles. In Chinese folktales, people become tigers, and in Japanese stories, they become foxes. Some Russian stories describe...
I’ve heard it said that if hard work is the key to success, most people would rather pick the lock. Others describe work as the annoyance they have to endure between coffee breaks. Of course, some people really do like work. It fascinates them. They can sit and look at it for hours...
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 ...
As you will see when reading this woman’s testimony, it was her determination, tenacity, and courage that got God to move on her behalf and blow the demons right out of her. This was a very dramatic deliverance as you will see when I describe exactly what had occurred in the deliveranc...
Once the poem has turned, and we are fully associating the language Beasley is using to describe the kernel with a woman who is deciding whether to pursue sexual/romantic/reproductive passion, then the final two couplets are a kind of winking with us. The “pan, oil, flame” is of course...
bondage.Forgivenessisthemasterkeythatopensthedoorofhopeand healing. Iprayyouwillwalkwithmeinthisexcitingadventureoffaith.Iwill showyouhowtousethemasterkey,andwewillwatchwhatGoddoesin yourlifeasaresult! 1 AMasterKey God’sWayOut Alargehousehasmanyroomsandmanydoors.Eachdoorhasitsownkey. Butamasterkeyisdesi...
Psalm 1:3tnThe Hebrew imperfect verbal forms inv. 3draw attention to the typical nature of the actions/states they describe. Psalm 1:3tnHeb“in its season.” Psalm 1:3tnOr “fade”; “wither.”snThe author compares the godly individual to a tree that has a rich water supply (planted ...
But then I thought –“Wait…maybe by falling asleep when Jesus asked me to pray, I had just denied Christ for the first time. Could it be? Could Jesus really think that me falling asleep was denying him? I wouldn’t look at it that way, but does he?” ...
the words by which we describe our visible world have neither meaning nor application. At those levels, entities have neither form nor size, neither speed nor position but only qualities that resemble those of human minds and things like thoughts and memories. This is very confusing but the ...