If so, then you understand what the Ephesians were thinking here. Paul tells them in chapter 2 to live at peace with each other, and they are thinking, “But Paul, you don’t know what you are asking! I can’t get along with them. It’s…impossible! You don’t know what’s betw...
This set of 16 cards includes a cover card and 15 prompts designed to help you better pray for the pastors in your life. One side of each card has a verse to pray for your pastor. The other side has a corresponding prayer request. Use these cards on your own or with your small gro...
From context, we have a several possibilities. But I think Paul is trying to be inclusive as possible. He has already talked about how Jews and Gentiles are to be one in Christ – to have fellowship with each other (Ephesians 2:11-22). He has mentioned how we are saints together with...
Dr. Whitney:In every other case I can think of, when we come to the Bible a primary concern should be accuracy of interpretation. We never have a right to read into the text what we want it to say. It’s our job to dig out of the text what it says and means. Hermeneutics—being...
Second he corrects their motivation – its all about loving each other when they gather (Follow the way of love – 14:1; Everything must be done so that the church may be built up – 14:26). The problem was that they had placed themselves at the center and what they wanted in a ...
I looked in the mirror the other day and said to myself,I look dreadful for 30!Then I thought,Hang on , I’m nearly 50, I LOOK GREAT! Is 50 old? Cos is isn’t young! I don’t feel old, although my knees would disagree. Age may only be a number, but next year it’ll be...
The Book includes original art for each Mystery (created by Annie ofPaper Monastery), Bible verses, a virtue, prayer, and beautiful reflection for each of the 20 decades of the Rosary. And this beautiful little book is on sale now for just $8. Yup, just $8 because, more than anything...
An amalgamation of these seemingly mutually exclusive characterizations was achieved by an interesting accommodation of each to the other. That is, while it could no longer be maintained that mantids are simply gentle insects, neither could it be accepted that they are all cruelty and viciousness....
16 Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous man is powerful and effective." (James 5:15c-16)It was common when someone was sick to suppose that he had committed some sin that caused the sickness. That is ...
For many humans language has become, not a tool of communion, understanding, and edification, but, rather, a knife which separates our experience of reality into sharp, hard slivers of “meaning,” with which we stab and poke each other. Words, mere symbols, which only point toward reality...