Agnostics, doubters and atheists are more often created by unenlightened readers of scripture without the Holy Spirit trying to discern spiritual things. Churches have been splitting for centuries over slights, or evolving mistranslations. Some more liberal churches use cultural mores no longer even ...
So skipping ahead a few decades, I now fight to not ever repeat feeling that helpless and defeated again. To the point of getting in the way of my own happiness by ruining the good relationships in my life now. I see clearly how my need to control everything is crazy making for me ...
He was speaking specifically to Jacob because from Jacob would come the nation of Israel. This command is not found anywhere else in scripture. If God truly meant for marriages to be baby factories, there would not be infertility issues within Christian marriages. Myth #3-“Just adopt a child...
You should be reminding yourself that you are a child of the King and you are too blessed to be depressed. o The scripture says in Psalm 103:12 that God has put our sins away from us as faras the east is from the west. This is a statement of infinitEven I...
I have defeated the world!" International Standard VersionI have told you this so that through me you may have peace. In the world you'll have trouble, but be courageous—I've overcome the world!"NET BibleI have told you these things so that in me you may have peace. In the world ...
Treasury of Scripture For I fear, lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I would, and that I shall be found to you such as you would not: lest there be debates, contentions, wraths, strifes, backbitings, whisperings, arrogance, tumults: I shall not. 2 Corinthians 12:21...
they will not be defeated. God is just and will punish (in this scripture, tumors broke out on the Philistines because they stole the Ark of the Covenant and Eli died because his sons blasphemed God and no one restrained the sons). God is to be respected. He is not to be mo...
“When they asked me why I don’t drink and smoke, I told them right off I am LDS. Somehow, I feel guided to keep my standard, so it isn’t really that difficult. I am reminded of my favorite missionary scripture to be an example in situations like these: ‘Let your light so ...
for I am truly blessed. I do live in a country of opportunity and plenty. Yet, I must never put my trust in this. I must never equate these blessings with the Gospel of the Kingdom or allow them to “Americanize” my understanding of Scripture. I must count all these things as loss...
ForI know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.Jeremiah 29:11 (ESV) When we absorb scripture, we realize the Creator of the Universe loves us. He wants the best for us. Before He set the stars in the...