But also for this very reason, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue, to virtue knowledge, to knowledge self-control, to self-control perseverance, to perseverance godliness, to godliness brotherly kindness, and to brotherly kindness love. For if these things are yours and abound, you...
I am blessed by the prayers of four women in my life: My Grandmother, Mother, first wife (Mother of my children), and now my wife of two years, who encourages me along in my “Jesus Journey.” Also, those two female cousins I mentioned at the start also pray for me as I do for...
I am always looking for new prayers, and these are beautiful Reply Chester Malinowski says: Joined a prayer group which dedicated itself to saying 2,000 Hail Mary’s on the first Saturday of the month for the deceased. A list of deceased relatives for everyone who participated was kept ...
“But that we may believe on the authority of holy Scripture that such is the case, hear how in the book of Maccabees, where the mother of seven martyrs exhorts her son to endure torture, this truth is confirmed; for she says, ‘ ask of thee, my son, to look at the heaven and th...
did not live to see the return of Christ. He ends the encouraging description with “Comfort one another with these words.”This is where I find comfort for my mother and father, who passed away. They were “in Christ.” They sleep for a moment; then they see Jesus coming in the ...
David was one of 4 sons and a daughter of a family run by a tough ex-Army Sargent father, made callous by WWII. My brother and I was drafted into the family in 1963 when my mother remarried. My step-father took a particular interest in toughening me up, but that is a different sto...
“Do not think that I came to bring peace on earth. I did not come to bring peace but a sword.For I have come to ‘set a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law’;and ‘a man’s enemies will be those of his own...
“Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long upon the land which theLordyour God is giving you.” Exodus 20:12 But, the leaders said this law could be voided through the offer of a gift as a substitute for giving honor and respect to those who bore and raised the...
Lately, it has been suggested by the Pope and Tony Palmer (now deceased) that the divisions within the Christian church happened when the Protestants “protested” and broke away from the Catholic church. Martin Luther a priest of the Catholic church found a Bible chained to a monastery wall ...