“I just want to be an ordinary person!” Those were the emphatic words of my four-year-old niece. We, her uncles, a theologian and a medical doctor, were asking about her aspirations. We were stunned. Don’t you want to be something special, exceptional, best at something? Shouldn’...
Even full-blown believers think about these things, but unlike the unbeliever, they have read and understand the words of the prophets about the fall of mankind, sin, the love of God, redemption through Christ, and the path mankind has been on for thousands of years. 2.) Suffering in the...
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But to those who are called, Jew and Greek alike, Christ, the power of God and the wisdom of God. For the foolishness of God is wiser than human wisdom, and the weakness of God is stronger than human strength. (1 Corinthians 1:22-25) If I preach the Gospel, this is no reason ...
for they never think about Him, or trouble their heads concerning either Him or their relations to Him or anything that flows therefrom. It is a strange faculty that we all have, of forgetting unwelcome thoughts and shutting our eyes to the things that we do not want to see, like Nelson...
#LIFELESSON. This is a big one for me. V.29 She used her own independence to problem solve in step 2. How many times do I turn inward trying to cast about in my mind for a way to make my fear make sense? I’m not alone on this. Independence isn’t the problem. It is normal...
“For the Jews require a sign, and the Greeks seek after wisdom: BUT…we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumblingblock, and unto the Greeks foolishness;“1 Corinthians 1:22-23 KJB My initial approach to resolving the issue of whether or not...
“My grace is sufficient for you.” Christ gave him what he needed not by taking away the festering pain but by strengthening him on the inside through grace. And I think Paul tells about the experience and does not say what the thorn was, because it wasn’t true just for him; it’...
In the fourth part of the manuscript de Vallone deals with Scripture, asking whether it is worthy of God to use such a means of communication, whether it bears the marks of Divine origin, and whether it was written by the authors to whom it is attributed. He then discusses the nature ...
“Apocrypha: These books are not held equal to the Sacred Scriptures, and yet are useful and good for reading.” Complete List of 54 Books in the Apocrypha Tobit Judith Wisdom Sirach 1-4 Baruch 1-4 Maccabees Apocryphal Esther Apocryphal Psalms ...