in the Old Testament, the Bible encourages us to use positive self-talk. Joel 3:10 says, Let the weak say, "I am strong." It's very clear that self-talk is not about where you are at the present moment. It's about where you are going with God's help. Amazing things happen ...
The best sad death scenes in movies prove him correct. When a film is really working and the audience is engaged with the characters, tragic movie deaths can pack a real wallop. Anyone who claims they haven't cried at the passing of someone onscreen is either lying or has no emotions. ...
Deaths of anyone under the age of forty-something are almost always described astragically young, especially in the case of children or teens. And while a person who died in his or her 50s may sometimes be said to have “died young,” the word “tragically” is seldom used. People in t...
As Christians, we want to experience God through the Bible… we really do! 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....
Metaphorically, it was also used in the Old Testament to deem a soldier valiant or a hero. The Messiah as mighty God? On one hand, this seems a no-brainer. Our most fundamental understanding of God is as the Creator of the world–of all that we can see, of the ground we walk on...
Add in setting others free of the lordship of the devil whenever you come upon them, and you are now walking as a New Testament, “activated” Christian. And again: Phil 4:4“Rejoice in the Lord alway: and again I say, Rejoice. 5 Let your moderation be known unto all men. The ...
Arguably, this account is spuriously elaborate. It might seem simpler and clearer to account for peroratives as one of the many kinds of indirection that can be housed in the category of a speaker’s perlocutionary force; then we would be done.Footnote10But the considerations assembled here hi...
I see the Old Testament prophecies about to come true when the zionists attack Iran and Syria, where God compared the remains of the zionists kingdom to an olive tree where all but a few high hanging olives are left on the tree. It will be an almost total wipeout of the zionist king...
deaths and ones that might cause 100,000. This looks foursquare and tidy on the page but is a problem, thinks Martin Rees, the co-founder of the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk in Cambridge and author of “If Science is to Save Us”. To truly reflect megadisasters the doom-...
we’re going, a 20-acre island occasionally visited by hunters, but completely unknown to historians and archaeologists. Before Sayers, no archaeology had been done in the swamp’s interior, mainly because conditions were so challenging. One research party got lost so many times that it gave ...