It is revealing that the Lord found it appropriate to encourage Paul after the uproar in the Sanhedrin. He must have needed it. He kept having to prove his innocence of both the Jewish and Roman laws, consistently a razor’s blade from vindication, bailed out repeatedly by Rome’s respect...
In his novelUnderworld, Don DeLillo chillingly mixes and confuses the primal images of divine and diabolical light when a nun, swept out of her conscious self into the informational totality of the Internet, has a visionary experience on a website devoted to the H-bomb: She sees the flash,...
49“Master,” said John, “we saw someone driving out demons in your name and we tried to stop him, because he is not one of us.” 50“Do not stop him,”Jesus said,“for whoever is not against you is for you.” Samaritan Opposition ...
I, even my hands, stretched out the heavens, and all their hosts I commanded. I am the Lord. . . . And my glory will I not give to another, neither my praise to graven images.” excerpts, Isaiah 45 Strange as it may sound to our ears, the righteous men and women of the Bible...
Many will say to me on that day, 'Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and in your name drive out demons and perform many miracles?' [And sadly, 'endorse/do massive slaughter?'] Then I will tell them plainly, 'I never knew you. Away from me, you evildoers!' "...
“Driving Out the Unclean Spirit” Our first step was the synagogue. The Father led me there but now all was new. The Spirit of the Lord was upon me. I was not just to attend. I had to speak and proclaim. Inside me, I also experienced a great faith...