A friend of mine once told me a story about his trips to the coffee house to sit, read, and, on occasion, discuss Christianity. My friend didn’t go to debate, he was there because it was a comfortable place with nice chairs and room to spread out his books for study. The coffee ...
The Labor Leader (Sept. 1919) called Ethel a “live wire” and “one of the strongest workers for the cause in the country.” As a gifted writer, Ethel personally replied to complaints to the San Diego Postal Office: “She probably met more people…than any other person in the city. S...
*NOTE: This link goes to a safe download site to download a zip file of the album* Undiscovered (from EP "Undiscovered") (3:59) - The Incandescent Lose One Friend, Lose All Friends, Lose Yourself (from "The Breakdown and the Fall") (2:37) - At the Wayside My Storm (from EP...
44After leaving them again, he went away and prayed the same prayer a third time.45Then he came back to the disciples and said to them, “You might as well sleep now. The time is near for the Son of Man to be handed over to sinners.46Get up! Let’s go! The one who is betray...
28 This is my blood of the[b] covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins. 29 I tell you, I will not drink from this fruit of the vine from now on until that day when I drink it new with you in my Father’s kingdom.” 30 When they had sung a hymn,...
This is the idea behind the old hymn, “What a Friend We Have in Jesus.” We all need a friend to turn to and Proverbs 18:24 tells us that “there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.” Now what exactly does “closer than a brother mean?” Think about it. It is not...
“A charge to keep I have. A God to glorify; A never-dying soul to save, And fit it for the sky;” and some of his followers, both early and later, seem to have thought that this was the whole of the hymn; but the verse goes on without a full stop– “To serve the present...
From The Book of Concord: The Augsburg Confession, Article X, The Holy Supper:“…there is a long exposition of Cyril on John 15, in which he teaches that Christ is corporeally offered us in the Supper. For he says thus:Nevertheless, we do not deny that we are joined spiritually to ...
“Grant them eternal rest, O Lord”. (“Requiem” is theaccusativesingular form of the Latin noun requies, “rest, repose”.) The Roman Missal as revised in 1970 employs this phrase as the first entranceantiphonamong the formulas for Masses for the dead, and it remains in use to this ...
spirits He sustained by the promise of the Comforter. Then they sang a hymn, probably the psalm known to the Jews as the Great Hallel, and in the darkness walked to the olive garden of Gethsemane, where Jesus passed through His hour of mysterious agony and passion, while even His most be...