the size of the congregation may grow as much as 80% between the last verse of the opening hymn and the end of the homily. Some folks try to be discreet about their tardy arrival, sneaking into the “Cry Room” off to the side, even though they have no...
Larkins wrote each of the Psalm Hymns books (a series) in the given biblical context of chapter and verse. They are meant for teaching and experiential learning in Bible studies, as introductions to pastoral messages in the Psalms, for devotions during tours of the Holy Land, and for religiou...
The second verse took a philosophical tack -— “Help a stranger, help yourself/ Pull that Bible off the shelf” — that brings to mind the parable of the good Samaritan and ultimately encouraged the listener to remember what matters most. Then it rolled again into the chorus, with its foc...
filled with treasures gained by cheating?What about the disgusting practice of measuring out grain with dishonest measures?[b] Read full chapter Footnotes 6:9 Hebrew “Listen to the rod. / Who appointed it?” 6:10 Hebrew of using the short ephah? The ephah was a unit for measuring grain...
The Bible says that government may only tax to buy guns to kill people not to rebuild tornado-damaged homes or provide health care for sick people. Or, as Jesus said succinctly of the moochers and parasites: “Tough noogies, folks.” ...
(who played the main character in the big New York production of it in the middle 1980s) giving a lot of direction for the direction of the play, including some interpretations that he did not care for in some productions. I’ll be honest, that’s a bit of cheating: In my playwright...
I would have to say that since it is no longer acceptable to whack your wife for cheating, which was in a sense getting rid of your wife, divorce seems to be much more a modern, humane, way of dealing with adultery. But hey, if you are against the humane way of dealing with it ...