Jesus said, “Do not hold on to me, for I have not yet ascended to the Father. Go instead to my brothers and tell them, ‘I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.’”New Living Translation“Don’t cling to me,” Jesus said, “for I haven’t yet...
The refusal to build as GOD says to build, ignoring and rationalizing away God’s Word on subjects such as “leaven in the batch” and biological family perspective, has created the tragic and dangerous plight that most people face.There can be no other “options” for those who claim to ...
However, Jerome argued that they were Jesus' cousins, which the Greek word for "brother" used in the gospels would allow. This was based on the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox tradition that Mary remained a perpetual virgin, thus having no biological children before or after Jesus. Luke's...
Rick Steves: If you take the things we learn in the Bible and the things we learn at church and the things we embrace, and if you take it on the road with you, you realize,Yeah, we’re all in this together. We’re all brothers and sisters in Christ. If Jesus says take ca...
It would, in any case, be quite impossible to take the word “begat” in the normal biological sense in the same v. which describes Mary as “virgin.” The references to Joseph as Jesus’ father (Matt 13:55; Luke 2:33, 48) imply the family and social position which Joseph occupied,...
brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me”(Matthew 25:40). It seems that in an almost mysterious way Jesus identifies with people like Patricia. Perhaps that is why we who knew her were so blessed by her friendship — as we loved and served her, somehow she was mediating the ...
system. These vaccines have not proven to be good for our people, especially for children who seem to have super immune systems when it comes to these deadly biological attacks. Do you remember the days after the announcement of this epidemic there were social distancing/mask signs appearing ...
Question: Since we are to be “a hundred fathers, mothers, brothers, sisters, …” how does the way the world would typically view the family unit, biologically, fit in? How should the Spiritual Family and the biological family be understood in relation to one another, as it pertains to ...
My biological father is dead, and the father who raised me abandoned my mother and subsequently me, and has not has not come back since I was sixteen. And so when I realized that, I broke into a million pieces, that I’m not able to even taste the fruit of my labor because every...
The custom at the time would have been for Mary to live with her biological sons since Joseph had apparently passed away sometime after the events of Luke 2. In places like Deuteronomy, Psalms, Acts, Ephesians, Hebrews and 1 Peter, throughout His word, God tells us and displays for us ...