After the resurrection, Jesus appeared to some of His disciples while they were fishing. One of them was Peter, who denied Jesus three times the night of His Lord’s arrest. The Bible records: “When they had finished breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, ‘Simon, son of John, ...
The Bible in History: How the Texts Have Shaped the Times.(Book review)Duff, Paul B
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....
For the first time, the veil begins to lift and we see each other for the women we have become. When It Comes to Your Adult Children, What is Normal? Some estimate that 96% of American Families are dysfunctional in some way – making it the norm. But “normal” is not necessarily ...
women who were also victims, when I hear someone make an accusation of sexual abuse, my first thought is that I want to hear what the victim has to say, and I want to believe them. After all, who would make that kind of thing up besides my daughter. Turns out lots of women do. ...
women in a strange limbo state where they were neither married and neither divorced. They could not remarry nor return to their husbands and this was a cruel predicament for them to find themselves in. This is what God spoke against when he spoke against ‘divorce’, not actually properly ...
Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world. (James 1:27) There is one story in the Gospel accounts in the Bible of how Jesus treated one wid...
Some have suggested that demons are the result of the union of angels and women as described: The Nephilim (giants) were on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of man and they bore children to them. These were the mighty men who...
Upon seeing what they were about to achieve, God decided to do what they had feared – dispersing them and making them speak many different languages. Further Jewish thinking, however, shows that the problem is not the tower itself, but how they engaged with it. “T...
you have two related numbers in the same sentence, you should write them both as numerals if you would write one as a numeral. The idea is to write them the same way when they are in the same sentence. So even though you would normally write out the word “one” if you were ...