Like Jesus and James the Just, Judaism and Islam are Abrahamic brothers, but Christianity is not Abrahamic or even Semitic but Japhetic— that is: Christianity as a singular culture; many individuals within the Christian culture understand and obey short Abrahamic commands despite their verbal handic...
1 Thessalonians 4:13-14 A Word of Comfort for the Believers Who Have Died 13 But I do not want you to be ignorant, brothers, about those who are asleep, so that you may not grieve as others who have no hope. 14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so God wil...
4 Therefore, my brothers, whom I love and long for, my joy and crown, stand firm thus in the Lord, my beloved. Share this: Read Full Post » Sermon Quote from Fr. Martin Luther on the First Sunday of Advent, anno Domini 1,532 Posted in Church year, tagged Advent, forgiveness, ...
Writers of the Gospel have often mentioned Jesus’s siblings. There have been heated debates over this considering that Jesus’s mother Mary was a virgin. Still, there are mentions of four brothers named James, Joseph, Simon and Judas. His sisters are also mentioned though without names. One ...
And so other question is, okay, well let’s say there’s seven brothers. They each marry a woman, none of them have children with her, and so none of them have fulfilled this duty and then they all die in the resurrection. Whose wife will she be? And they’re pretty clearly ...
BROTHERS OF JESUS, THE (ἀδελφοὶ̀ ̓Ιησοῦ). Relatives of Jesus usually found in the gospels in the company of Mary his mother, and variously identified as uterine brothers, stepbrothers or cousins of Jesus. Their names are James, Joses or Joseph, Simon and ...
Listen, brothers and sisters, there is no refuge from the King. There is refuge in the King. In the early church, the world was raging against Jesus’ servants. Kings and rulers were counseling together against the Lord’s anointed. His people felt threatened. Their faith was being challenge...
”(Matthew 5:39). Lord help us, I don’t think I could be a turn the other cheek type of person. I am the type that would fight back, especially if my family and brothers and sisters in Jesus Christ were being attacked. I don’t think I could just sit there and turn the other...
’ 27 So de the rich man said legō,‘ Then oun I beg erōtaō you sy, father patēr, to hina send pempō Lazarus autos to eis the ho house oikos of ho my egō father patēr 28 ( for gar I have echō five pente brothers adelphos), that hopōs he might warn diamartyromai them...
One of Satan’s names in Revelation 12:10 is accuser of the brothers and sisters. He does it day and night. What if we stopped agreeing with the devil’s accusation? What if we started overcoming him by the blood of the lamb, the word of our testimony, and because we loved our ...