In Matthew’s gospel, chapter 6, we see Jesus expressing his understanding of what it means to have no other gods before God. In verse 24 he says, no one can serve 2 masters, or slavery the hate the one and love the other or be devoted to the one and despise the other. You canno...
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Because of the entire context of this discussion, it shouldn’t be necessary to state that these two chapters are about giving to the poor, but because of how many times I have heard these verses taken out of context, I want it to be stated for the record that these two chapters are ...
“Therefore, I urge you,brothers and sisters,in view of God’smercy, to offer yourbodiesas aliving sacrifice, holy and pleasingto God—this is yourtrue and properworship. Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformedby therenewing of your mind. Thenyou will be able to...
"There are instruments so dangerous to the rights of the nation and which place them so totally at the mercy of their governors that those governors, whether legislative or executive, should be restrained from keeping such instruments on foot but in well-defined cases. Such an instrument is a...
I know that this is a strange time to pray, but I believe that You will hear and will have mercy on us-“ “Shhh- Loni!” Marta interrupted in an urgent whisper. “Someone is moving in the brush outside! See their shadows on the windows!” ...
We are, if not entirely at their mercy, influenced greatly by these cosmic spheres; perhaps on occasion becoming a little too obsessed with our ‘birth sign’ traits… The ancient seers and rishis of India developed Vedic astrology (a moon based system) from the time of the Vedas, the ...
See Swartz (2010), for a discussion of these questions. 2. There are, of course, still those who believe that various forms of disability – and especially, but not exclusively, cognitive impairments – constitute grounds for selective abortion and even ‘mercy killing’ (see, for example, ...
and had followed them with goodness and mercy all the days of their lives; just as Moses aggravates the ingratitude of the Jews in Deuteronomy 32:6 from whence this phrase is borrowed, and to which it manifestly refers: "do ye thus requite the Lord, O foolish people and unwise! is not...
However, you are clearly at the mercy of policy 15 And I, for one, am not yet close to being worried about inflation. But that is a topic for another paper. 16 A formula designed to provide recommendations for how much a central bank should change the nominal interest rate in ...