But now, after ye have known God, or rather are known by God, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements, to which ye desire again to be in bondage?Weymouth New TestamentNow, however, having come to know God--or rather to be known by Him--how is it you are again ...
But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, / I press on toward the goal to win the prize of God’s heavenly calling in Christ Jesus.Revelation 3:1-2“To the angel of the church in Sardis write: These are the words of the One who holds the...
But Jesus bent down and started to write on the ground with His finger. When they kept on questioning Him, He straightened up and said to them “If any one of you is without sin, let him be the first to throw a stone at her.” Again he stooped down and wrote on the ground. At ...
An assassination attempt on one's own home turf, however, could understandably inspire one heck of a "Come-to-Jesus" meeting, and from then forward, an official rig from the Vatican fleet accompanied papal travel at all times. The first Mercedes-Benz popemobile, a Nürburg 460, was given ...
1. Choose a Study Bible in a User-Friendly Translation The very first step to learning how to read the Bible for beginners is simply making sure you have a Bible translation you can read! Did you know: Originally, the Bible was written in Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek? In other words —...
Add this page to your favorites If you have your Bible available, I would ask you to open it to the passage (Mark 5:1-20) which tells us of the marvelous healing of the Gadarene--see/hear the bible pronunciation above--demoniac - when Jesus cast a thousand demons out of one man. ...
While Christmas is fixed to a solar calendar (and near the winter solstice), Easter is based on the lunar cycles of the Jewish calendar. In the Christian religion, the Last Supper (the final meal Jesus shared with his apostles before his crucifixion) was a Passover feast. Because Easter is...
The normal order of words in a sentence may differ between languages. For example, if we translate Ephesians 1:15-16 woodenly, word by word, it comes out like this: On-account-of this also I, having-heard the in you faith in the Lord Jesus and the love the to all the saints, not...
In the book, Is the New Testament Reliable?, the author Paul Barnett presents arguments that support the New Testament reliability. The first page I read was titled Did Jesus Exist, and the answer is yes. Roman sources testify that Jesus did exist. Barnett comes to the conclusion that Jesus...
"Mona" is a title meaning "my lady" in Italian, and the woman who sat for the portrait was named Lisa. "The Da Vinci Code" also proposes theories about Leonardo's painting of the "Last Supper." According to the book, it shows Mary Magdalene at the right hand of Jesus as well as ...