Practicing these simple principles can bless anyone who needs support and encouragement. If they are willing to be encouraged, you can apply these suggestions to anyone you know or meet!Seek after and be confident of God’s plans for the person you wish to help. Ask questions, but be slow...
” I’ve been moving about in the world afraid of life and being angry with myself, sometimes to the point of being hateful. [As an aside, I’m not exaggerating when I write hateful. I am aware it is the kind of statement that can shock people. I am also aware that many people ...
As you can see, Stoicism has always been a dynamic philosophy, responding to challenges from rival schools (Academic Skeptics, Epicureans, Peripatetics), to changing cultural milieu (Athens, Rome), and as a function of who was practicing and teaching it (Zeno, Seneca, Epictetus). There is n...
meditating on these truths, and practicing sinking into myself and focusing on God. On Thursday, I curled up with my earbuds, and again began relating and worshipping God.As I did, a flood of gratitude welled up in me.God had been preparing me all this time.All these “false alarms” ...
https://holyword.church/how-many-words-in-the-bible/ (Yours is at the bottom, not as a sign of its importance, just due to the chronology of adding it today!) and as you can see your count is significantly longer than another source for the original language, but also significantly sh...
Today I want to answer the question which so many listeners have been concerned about since our first broadcast on the Sabbath question. How did the change take place, substituting Sunday for Saturday as the day of worship? This is possibly one of the most disturbing religious questions among ...
Calendars formed a key part of many cultures throughout history, even if the Gregorian calendar is the most commonly-used calendar today. The ancient Hebrew calendar is an important part of Jewish culture and religious practice, and practicing Jews still make use of this calendar throughout the ...
Like all of the 12 apostles, or disciples, of Jesus, Thomas was a practicing Jew, and was given the mission by his mentor to spread his teachings, both among the Jews and the Gentiles. The earliest record of the mission of Thomas to India is found in an early manuscript known as the...
With my non-practicing Lutheran father Walter on Confirmation Day. at my grandmother’s house, in second grade. There are areas of disagreement. Is homosexuality a sin? In grade school circa 1950 we never discussed it, and I had never heard of it. By the upper grades I’d read about it...
By the time of Trajan (98-117 AD) it was accepted policy that practicing Christians were to be executed, and Jews were to be taxed. There is no reason to infer that some variant of these basic policies were not in effect from the times of Nero and Vespasian respectively until the time...