But is he? Wrapped up (包藏) in this phrase is the thought that your problem isn't important. It's telling you to think of all the starving people in the world when you haven't got a date for Saturday night.How can you tell the real meaning behind someone's words? One way is ...
The Hebrew name Ezra, translating to “help,” has continued torise in popularityevery year since 2003 and made a considerable jump in popularity from 2018 to 2019. A heroic figure in the Bible, Ezra has also had a place in popular culture over the years, from children’s author Ezra Jac...
The phrase rhetorical devices might ring a bell to some. Maybe you vaguely remember hearing about them in an English class that you took years ago. But you probably haven’t thought about them since. That’s totally understandable, but whether we know it or not, rhetorical devices play a s...
As the situation in Ukraine heated up, my mind kept turning to a phrase from the Bible; “wars and rumors of wars,” which are supposed to run wild as we near the return of Jesus and the tribulation period. Could this be a part of that prophecy? I decided to look into it and was...
Nay (adv.) Not this merely, but also; not only so, but; -- used to mark the addition or substitution of a more explicit or more emphatic phrase. Nays (pl. ) of Nay Nay (n.) Denial; refusal. Nay (n.) a negative vote; one who votes in the negative. Nay (v. t. & i.) ...
You hear people say that phrase all the time. It could not be truer than when talking about the last day of Jesus’ life. In 24 ... Adam Hamilton | 9660 views | 3 years ago updated The Grace of Les Miserables The hit Broadway Musical, Les Miserables, based on Victor Hugo's 1862...
I have been trying to think of the best phrase or word to describe her, Ohna Jo Jordan—known though to most children and adults as TuTu for at least the last forty years—since she went home on hospice several weeks ago. I’ve noticed over the last few days that the word I landed...
The young men and women of America who marched off to war in 1941 had grown up during the Great Depression. Strange to say, this gave them more respect for working - to use the popular phrase - "within the system". Although there was a slight increase in radicalism during the Depression...
They made the ultimate sacrifice.— used for someone who died for a cause. They laid down their life.— another sacrificial phrase. They gave up the ghost.—possibly originatingin a 17th century English translation of the Christian Bible, this phrase means that a person’s spirit has left th...
The thing to note about the Great Commission is that Jesus never called it great. And the Bible never calls it great either. The phrase ‘Great Commission’ became popular during the 19th-Century missionary movements to Asia. Of course, it is important. It’s the final teaching of Jesus, ...