6 Sarah said, “God has brought me laughter, and everyone who hears about this will laugh with me.” 7 And she added, “Who would have said to Abraham that Sarah would nurse children? Yet I have borne him a son in his old age.” Hagar and Ishmael Sent Away 8 The child grew and...
Where she awaits her husband On and on the river flows. Never looking back, Transformed into stone Day by day upon the mountain top, wind and ram revolve Should the traveller return this stone would utter speech Wang Jian 望夫石 王健 望夫处,江悠悠, 化为石,不回头。 山头日日风复雨, 行...
Verse 6. - All we like sheep have gone astray. "All we" means either the whole nation of Israel, which "went astray" in the wilderness of sin (Psalm 107:4; Psalm 119:176; Ezekiel 34:6), or else the whole race of mankind, which had wandered from the right path, and needed ...
By faith Abraham, when called to go to a place he would later receive as his inheritance, obeyed and went, without knowing where he was going. / By faith he dwelt in the promised land as a stranger in a foreign country. He lived in tents, as did Isaac and Jacob, who were heirs ...
” But since the wordנֶפֶשׁcan also be used for animals, the restriction would be for any kind of corpse. Death was very much a part of the fallen world, and so for one so committed to theLord, avoiding all such contamination would be a witness to the greatest ...
“The joy of the Lord is my strength” is a familiar line. There are numerous songs based on it. We use it to encourage ourselves and others. But what does it really mean? Where do we get it from? What is “the joy of the Lord?” What does the joy of the Lord do to provi...
Thro' lands where not a leaf was dumb;But all the lavish hills would humThe murmur of a happy Pan:When each by turns was guide to each,And Fancy light from Fancy caught,And Thought leapt out to wed with ThoughtEre Thought could wed itself with Speech;And all we met was fair and ...
So we find that the Third Key or chance to get through Heaven's Door is the knowledge that it is Our Lady that is a member of the real Catholic Trinity, not the Jewish Lord, the “Our Father.” And this makes sense. It would be logical that Our God would have a Mother (Notre Da...
I won’t lie to you, there is an element of blood lust in this that I’m not completely comfortable with, but we must not forget that God does not wink at sin, and some of the greatest sins are to persecute and kill those who are on the side of God. Personally, I would desire...
but we can be sure of his evil presence in times of temptation. Furthermore, we know that we will experience various tests and challenges in this life (Jam 1:2). Surely, the Lord would not want us to pray that we would avoid these experiences. Rather, we should pray that we could ...