“[Certain men in church] come in gazing about at the beauty of women; others curious about the blooming youth of boys. After this, do you not marvel that [lightning] bolts are not launched [from heaven], and all these things are not plucked up from their foundations? For worthy both ...
Get Behind the Easel – Thanksgiving Verses: A fun and easy Bible memory verse game to help your kids memorize 3 great Bible verses about being thankful. Bible memory verse games will help your children hide God’s Word in their hearts and for this one… ...
Bible Song #2:“Monkey See, Monkey Do”– Here is one of the Scripture Lady’s newest and funnest songs all about being forgiving. It includes a large inflatable monkey and some little monkeys to make it extra fun! Mama Monkey teaches her baby monkeys that they need to forgive each other...
one mind, and that they all speak the same thing and have the same judgment on matters. With this call for unity being so evident in the testimony of scripture, how does scripture explain these conflicting interpretations of the Holy Scriptures by men who have credentials in theology? And mor...
John’s account, Jesus’ final meal occursbeforethe Passover feast (John 13:1) and Jesus dies on Nisan 14asthe Passover lambs are being sacrificed (John 19:14, 30-31, 42). Has John sacrificed historical accuracy here, in support of a theological statement about Jesus, the Lamb of God...
Tobias Frese, Kristina KrügerSacred Scripture / Sacred SpaceThe Interlacing of Real Places and Conceptual Spaces in MedievalArt and Architecture. An IntroductionThinking about scripture means thinking about space: scripture in its material formoccupies space, evolves in space and is virtually bound to ...
Greek and Roman discourse about civilized citizens and “barbarians.”1In Iran’s Sasanian Empire, Zoroastrian thinkers and officials made a firm distinction between “Iran” and “not-Iran” (anīrān), and there was no doubt for Sasanian authors that being Iranian was superior in every way....
the plain, surface meaning of the text. When Paul cites Psalm 19 in Romans 10 (“their voice is gone out into all the worldâ€), he applies the Psalmist’s statement about the heavens to the preaching of the apostles. This runs against the plain meaning, said Wilk...
Given the deep connection of both Romans 1 and Aquinas to the perennial debates about natural theology, we might expect Thomas' engagement with those verses to be concerned chiefly and resolutely with the questions animating these debates. But this is not at all the case. Far from being ...
He brings gifts into our lives, much the same way that fruit appears in an orchard—things like affection for others, exuberance about life, serenity. We develop a willingness to stick with things, a sense of compassion in the heart, and a conviction that a basic holiness permeates things ...