Your human body, when faced with death, can become 10+ times stronger, more resilient, more resistant and more stubborn than normal. This is what would enable you, for example, to lift an entire truck with your bare hands if your precious child was under it. Similarly, if you were put...
Emmanuel is God. Jesus Christ is Emmanuel. Only God in the flesh could save us from our sins by His sacrificial death on our behalf which redeemed on the cross, by His blood, death and resurrection, all those who believe on Him.
When we hated Him to the point of death on a cross, He loved us. Our job as the church is not to make some moral outrage and boycott Target, that is the reaction of the world. That’s the reaction of a pagan nation when something doesn’t go politically the way that they feel ...
This shows that some of the very earliest Christians actually prayed to Jesus after his death and resurrection, even addressing him as “Lord,” a term used for God himself. So, though we can’t tell exactly what the first followers of Jesus believed about him, they surely held him to be...
No one knows the hour of life or death, but waiting is a key component. What joy we have that the wait for deliverance is over! God has heard our cries and sent His Son. In Christ’s death, He conquered death. In His resurrection, we too will most certainly be raised. Now, instea...
the utter heartache she dealt with as she and her son withered away to the point of death. Yet, amid this compilation of tragedy, we behold her, even at the expense of her last remaining strength, serve another. The lack of “self” is wholly incomprehensible. Recently, with great care,...
It is the way of the devil to arrange his temptation in a way that it would seem he is offering LIFE when he is packaging death and destruction up really nice so that we never even question what is actually inside. When I read these verses immediately it reminded me of when Jesus was...
Maybe you’re going through a time of sorrow, the death of a spouse, parent, child, or a dear friend; or possibly you’re walking through a divorce, a failed marriage, you are disillusioned and feeling alone. It’s easy to feel alone or overwhelmed by it all when we stare at our ...
The stone or rock removed from the tomb ultimately refers to Jesus taken away not only from His gravesite but also from His body of death! “To drive this point home, the very next verse of the Bible has Mary uttering these words confirming the thought: ‘They’ve taken the Lord out ...
He broke the power of sin and freed us Gave his life Light of the world Even death could not contain Darkness' spell It was defeated that day He is the light He is risen from the grave All our sins are washed away Light of the world ...