“Take my life. I’m no better now than my dead ancestors.” All he can do is lay down and sleep. So we see that God does not prevent Elijah from experiencing depression. Elijah recognizes he’s in a bad situation, and he feels it like a huge weight upon his chest and shoulders....
Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends. John 13:34 A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. Ephesians 4:2 With all humility and gentleness, with patience, ...
Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends. You are my friends if you do what I command you. No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all that I have ...
A couple who, as very poor newlyweds, would make decisions like forgoing stouter fare and opting for oatmeal or pancakes for a while so they could afford to go out to a movie, yet would find something in the cupboard for happy siblings and spouses who would stop by with their own paltr...
Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends. John 3:16 “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. 1 John 4:7-8 ...
18. Proverbs 25:25 - "As ___ waters to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country." 19. Proverbs 27:17 - "___ sharpeneth iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend." 20. Proverbs 28:20 - "A faithful man shall abound with blessings: but he that maketh...
“This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. No one has greater love than this, to lay down one’s life for one’s friend.” - John 15:12-13 This blog serves as part 2 of a series of entries that I’m writing on hospitality and Christian service. ...
‘A memorized work (like a lover, a friend, a spouse, a child) has entered into the fabric of its possessor’s intellectual and emotional life in a way that makes deep claims upon that life, claims that can only be ignored with effort and deliberation.’… A memorized text has a pecul...
2There was a violent earthquake, for an angel of the Lord came down from heaven and, going to the tomb, rolled back the stone and sat on it. 3His appearance was like lightning, and his clothes were white as snow. 4The guards were so afraid of him that they shook and became like ...
1. When the psalmist says: "The Lord God is a sun and shield" (Psa.84:11), he means that God is to all his creatures the source of life and blessedness, and their almighty protector; but this meaning he conveysunder the figureof a sun and a shield. When, again, the apostle James...