4They will spring up like grass in a meadow, like poplar trees by flowing streams. Read ChapterAll Versions Ecclesiastes 3:1-8 1There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens: 2a time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to...
When you are generous, you are not bestowing a gift, but repaying a debt. Everything you possess materially comes from God, who created all things. And every spiritual and moral virtue you possess is through divine grace. Thus, you owe everything to God. More than that, God has given ...
This phrase is only a reference to 2 Corinthians 7:1: “Since we have these promises, dear friends, let us purify ourselves from everything that contaminates body and spirit, perfecting holiness out of reverence for God.” (NIV) It should be noted that Philip Doddridge did not write the ...
11While the women were on their way, some of the guards went into the city and reported to the chief priests everything that had happened. 12When the chief priests had met with the elders and devised a plan, they gave the soldiers a large sum of money, ...
When Being an Easter People Is a Bad ThingHappy Easter, friends! We are an Easter people over here–all 50 days of it. So along with my feasting (and there has been plenty of feasting) all during the Easter season I’ve been trying to use the stories from Acts as much as I can....
has little to do with individualism, where the “I” (instead of the self-giving Christ!) is the centre of everything. I find that I have to come to terms with the fact that Christianity in the West is quite individualistic, and often people don’t see that it is a problem. But ...
It isn’t even a faith. It’s a hope.Christianity is the thing we’ve put our trust in for life, for eternity, for how to live this life and how to really know what it means to have life. Christianity is that hope, and we find it in the promises that God has given to us. ...
“If there is a God,“why” did He let my mother die?” “If” there is a God, “why” do I struggle all the time? The insinuation from this question is that“if” God is good and in control, then none of these things would be present on earth. Therefore, everything that ...
“Hour” is the Greek word hṓra; It means an hour, a time, a season, or a definite space or division of time. The word hour is a common word, yet it can also mean a variety of things, such as a season. As I try to explain what is coming, I frequently allude to the...
Being human, and therefore sinful, had everything to do with it. Would you and I have handled the situation differently? Do we handle it differently today? Really? Leave a comment Posted in Uncategorized HIS BLOOD BE UPON US Posted on March 18, 2013 | Leave a comment “When Pilate ...