19. John 10:9a - "I am the ___: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved," 20. John 10:14 - "I am the good ___, and know my sheep, and am known of mine." 21. John 10:27 - "My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they ___ me:" 22. John 11:...
But that person has different political beliefs than me? My neighbor is weird Lord, you don’t understand. Well, they don’t value me, so why should I value them?It is easy to become hardened by the sins of ourselves and others. We can decide to just ignore God’...
When I was around 12 years old, I was told by my mother that I would be beaten (and yes, that is the term mom used) if they found out I had defended myself. Now think about that; how would they find out that I defended myself unless I, or someone else, told them? They would...
“I am prepared, first because of the goodness and grace of God, who wants me to be saved (2 Peter 3:9). It all started when He brought conviction of sin upon me through the Holy Spirit and led me to confess and turn away from a life of sin. His death on the cross for my si...
If the texts are leather, they may be heavy and need to be unrolled. Finding the proper passage in each scroll is a bit of a chore. If texts are papyrus, they are read held in the arm, one hand clasping or “supporting” the “bulk” of the scroll, while the other unrolls. Did...
They hated being under the boot of Roman authority, and also feared that any uprising on their part would be cause for the iron fisted, full fury of Roman wrath to fall upon them. (In 70 A.D., their worst fears were realized.). As you follow the career of Jesus, you can see ...
The form which God's judgment will take upon the Jews is to be in full accord with the unchanging law of recompense -- what they have sown, that shall they also reap. This was expressly affirmed by our Lord Jesus: "I am come in My Father's name, and ye receive Me not: if anothe...
7 but YOU are not responsible if they will not purify themselves. 8 As for those who come to YOU, full of earnest striving 9 and devout, 10 YOU ignore them. The great historian and Qur’an commentator Muĥammad b. Jarīr al-Ţabarī (d. 923) quoted the Prophet’s third wife,`Ā...
you has your own gift from God; one has this gift, another has that. Now to the unmarried and the widows I say: It is good for them to stay unmarried, as I do. But if they cannot control themselves, they should marry, for it is better to marry than to burn with passion. To ...
Could we assume that people in these different religions are of that faith because they studied and selected that religion due to their research or because they were born into it? If you are born in the Middle East, you will likely be Islamic. If you are born in the southern states of ...