Concerning this passage, MacDonald states, “Too often we tend to think of discipline as meaning punishment, but it actually includes all that is involved in the proper training of a child, i.e., instruction, warning, encouragement, advice, correction, and chastening. Everything that God allow...
When Love Is Found 601 Where True Love and Charity Are Found / Ubi Caritas 857 Wherever You Go 860 Wherever You Go (also Topical Index: Love of God for Us, Love for Others, Praise, Thanksgiving, Voca- tion) PASTORAL CARE OF THE SICK 597 All That We Have 586 Amazing Grace 351 Awake...
Those last words of Daniel confirms the vision in Daniel 8 is the purpose of Gabriel’s visit. The visit is also for encouragement to Daniel from the throne room of God! At the beginning of yoursupplicationsthe command went out, and I have come to tell you,for you are greatly beloved; ...
One of the tough things about life in Zambia since our arrival nine years ago has been how everything seems to come to a halt when anyone dies so that people can attend funerals of people they might not know very well. I’ve tended to see this as a weakness in the culture. But as ...
There is no need to write you, friends, about the times and occasions when these things will happen.For you yourselves know very well that theDay of the Lord will come as a thief comes at night.When people say, “Everything is quiet and safe,” thensuddenly destruction will hit them!It...
These were twelve men who had bought in and could now do the work of Jesus – bringing the Good News to those who had not yet been exposed, healing the sick, and caring for the poor. This type of work is never finished. Jesus sends us out as well. We’ve had the benefit of ...
Discussion on the atonement - Revival revived - Further discussion - Encouragement from Elder H. - Lectures on Universalism - Licensed by presbytery - Father Nash - Review of Mr. Gale's theology. CHAPTER V. - PREACHING AS A MISSIONARY. Labor at Evans' Mills - The people pledged - ...
Heb. 6:18 – we who have fled for refuge might have strong encouragement to seize the “hope” (not the certainty) that is set before us. Heb. 6:19 – we have a “hope” that enters into the inner shrine behind the curtain, where Jesus has gone before us. Heb. 7:19 – on the...
encouragement of Paul to “comfort one another with these words” which is found after the description of the coming of Christ and the dead rising first and then is being caught up to meet Him in the air…(1 Thessalonians 4: 16-18). It would also negate “the mystery” Paul discloses...
For everything that was written in the past was written to teach us, so that through the endurance taught in the Scriptures and the encouragement they provide we might have hope. Romans 15:4 NIV When Jesus prayed for His disciples and all believers in John 17, he prayed to the Father th...