but only such as is good for building up, as fits the occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear.”This verse encourages us to speak words that are edifying and full of life. In our conversations with others, we should strive tobring hopeandjoyrather than hurt and despair. ...
great works and a spiritual life that by itself was edifying. I don’t think I ever heard a cross word pass his lips. He had a great spirit a hearty laugh and deep love of the lord. Joe was definitely someone you were grateful was in your corner. If I close my eyes I can see ...
according to LOT, 529, "an imaginative development of a thought or theme suggested by Scripture, especially a didactic or homiletic exposition or an edifying religious story." 2 Chronicles 24:27 refers to a "midhrash of the book of the kings," and 2 Chronicles 13:22 to a "midrash of...
Considering that the word “sovereignty” is not in the Bible and considering the actual meaning of the word, rather than Calvin’s distorted meaning (which he needed to support his theory), we see God is no less sovereign because He, according to His own good pleasure, gives man a...
may grow up in all things into Him who is the head--Christ-- 16 from whom the whole body, joined and knit together by what every joint supplies, according to the effective working by which every part does its share, causes growth of the body for the edifying of itself in love (Ephesi...
since it applies to a variety of objects. "Parts the hoof and chews the cudd" was sufficient to define animals that were clean and allowed for eating in the Bible [Leviticus 11:3]. As with analytic necessity, essences presuppose a synthesis, which is the result either of factual association...