The pursuit of every Christian life leans forward into one goal: Christ Himself. In Hebrews, Scripture likens this faith-filled striving to a race that’s run with preparation, purpose, and endurance. Casting aside any burdens that threaten to weigh us down, let’s run with confidence in the...
Scripture is filled with complicated families, as seen through favoritism and unhealthy parenting strategies of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in the Old Testament and even in Jesus’ own fraught relationships with his siblings in the New Testament. What might these biblical narratives of pain tell us ...
A false unity that rejects both Scripture and Tradition serves only the goals of those who attempt to borrow from our credibility so that they can violate the rights of the poor while they wash themselves clean in a fount of cheap grace. We cannot separate the person of Jesus from his work...
Woe to the wicked; disaster is upon them! For they will be repaid with what their hands have done. Treasury of Scripture For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood. Proverbs 4:16 For they sleep not, except they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless...
Now if any of you lacks wisdom, he should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to him. Treasury of Scripture When you go, your steps shall not be straitened; and when you run, you shall not stumble. thou goest Proverbs 6:22 When thou ...
every creature that moves along the ground according to its kind and every bird according to its kind,everything with wings.15Pairs of all creatures that have the breath of life in them came to Noah and entered the ark.16The animals going in were male and female of every living thing, ...
we think of God the Father being outside of space and time, but God the Son, Jesus, entered space and time to be born of the Virgin Mary in a town called Bethlehem over 2000 years ago. This 144 word prose is something that I think Jesus might have written, if He was into journalin...
You can choose to go one direction or another, knowing […] Through The Lens of Scripture By Vickie Munton on August 9, 2024 • ( 3 Comments ) Despite the fact that cataract surgery is one of the safest and most commonly performed surgeries, I had more trepidation than I thought I...
Moreover, the New Testament deepens this concept by presenting Jesus as the mediator of a new covenant (Hebrews 12:24), through which believers are invited to enter into a renewed state of shalom with God. This is not just a return to the original state before the fall but an entrance ...
34 Jesus answered them, “Is it not written in your Law,‘I have said you are “gods”’[d]? 35 If he called them ‘gods,’ to whom the word of God came—and Scripture cannot be set aside— 36 what about the one whom the Father set apart as his very own and sent into the ...