Whether it’s for improving your mother tongue orlearning a new language, the desire to expand your vocabulary is natural. Other times, it’s required, like when I had to pass language requirements for my PhD an
Until then you are doing the process of bringing every thought captive to the obedience of Christ, and of “making your aiteo/requests known to God.” You are the one making it known to God with faithful actions of thanksgiving until you are in the emotion of thanksgiving. This is the ...
Does your interpretation of the Christian approach to the Old Testament imply a literal belief in the Gospels, for example, that interpret the Hebrew Bible in this predictive stance?DNF: There are at least two separate questions here. One is the way in which the Old Testament is used. And ...
1. Abram (Abraham)A key patriarch in the Bible, Abram is chosen by God to be the father of many nations. In Genesis 15, he is in dialogue with God, expressing his faith and seeking assurance of God's promises.2. Lord GOD (Yahweh)The covenant-keeping God who reveals Himself to Abram...
17In all, then, there were fourteen generations from Abraham to David, fourteen from David to the exile to Babylon, and fourteen from the exile to the Christ. 18 This is how the birth of Jesus Christ came about: His mother Mary was pledged in marriage to Joseph, but before they came ...
In the New Testament, Jesus is shown to be the “new Israel,” the culmination and fulfillment of God’s promise to bless all the nations through the offspring of Abraham (Galatians 3:7). Jesus fulfills the intended role of Israel as God’s faithful firstborn son in his perfect life ...
While King David is credited with writing this psalm, he didn’t write it about friends or relatives dwelling in unity. Like so many of his psalms, David penned it as a song of praise to God. The brethren in this psalm are all those who come together to wors...
they say, something the Jews alone undertook, of all the nations that might have, demonstrating the special qualities that uniquely qualified them for God’s service. The talmudic source, however, tells us that the choice was imposed from above, that the Jews had no alternative but to accept...
How do we call the Shabbat a delight in this context? Soldiers in Safed, Israel prepare to go home for Shabbat. Famous American Rabbi, theologian and philosopher, Abraham Joshua Heschel wrote the following in his 1951 book, The Sabbath: “Six days a week we wrestle with the world, wringin...
20 Our fathers worshipped in this mountain; and ye say, that in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship. 21 Jesus saith unto her, Woman, believe me, the hour cometh, when ye shall neither in this mountain, nor yet at Jerusalem, worship the Father. 22 Ye worship ye know no...