A clear image in which faith and family are linked together by love, appears in the last verses that precede the two final refrains in which Jackson states that if you went home and clung to your family you should thank God that you had someone to love (ll. 44-45). These lines summa...
He was really intelligent and thoughtful. He went to church as a kid, and had some exposure to the Bible, but he wasn’t a “believer.” And he knew all the verses I expected him to know. Matthew 7:1 is one of those verses even unbelievers tend to know – even if they don’t ...
Well, that little bit of self talk was never going to work. A rāhui had been placed over the area to protect it from the spread of Kauri dieback and it was not our place to challenge that law, or to argue about what the law was. The fierce and bloody lettering told us all we n...
Repetition of Word “Again” (Verses 20-21)• “Revive me again”• “Bring me up again”• “Increase my Honor and Comfort me once again”In our ailments, pains, and distresses it’s very easy to fall into the trap of only seeing the present troubles and infirmities. This Psalm...
The panel had to depict Abraham’s sacrifice of Isaac, using Genesis chapter 22 verses 2 – 13 as reference. The candidates had a year to complete the very skilled process of producing the panel. The first stages were lengthy and involved modelling the figures in clay and wax, over laid ...
I often find myself longing to hear Him or feel Him hugging me in spite of the fact that I know He is already here with me. That’s the human being inside that longs for the tangible stuff. But I am not missing anything this side of heaven in having a real and awesome relationship...
According to Gauchet (1997, pp. 34–37), it is the coming of the state that tears heaven and earth apart, thereby destroying the primal unity of what he terms ‘religion’. The state creates ‘theology’ as part of its desire for order and structure on which its legitimacy greatly ...