Now, the question is, what will you do with the man upon the cross. His name is Jesus, and He is the only way to the Father. The thief on the cross next to Jesus merely asked, will you remember me and Jesus said yes. To some, this equates to asking Jesus into your life. Time...
These verses speak of strong people with convictions, delivering an answer that takes guts, but in a gentle, even a weak way, depending on the truth of the matter to sway the hearer rather than the volume of the message. How awesome is the communication of truth dependent on it’s own ...
As I write this, the world focuses on numerous catastrophic events, including wars and rumors of wars. The new President of the United States is preparing to take office with an agenda addressing various issues, from economic challenges to mass migration from other countries. On the religious fr...
3In the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men shall bow themselves, and the grinders cease because they are few, and those that look out of the windows be darkened, 4And the doors shall be shut in the streets, when the sound of the grinding is low, an...
How else can God show us the fullness of what we human beings can be, except to become one of us and to give Himself so completely and utterly to us in unconditional love that he lets us torture and beat him, ridicule and reject him, and kill him like a common thief? The dead body...
“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...
mind that Jesus is the Son of God, that he died on the cross for you (John 3:1-18) in your place, and was raised back to life. There is no one else you can turn to (John 14:6): “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me....
which was rebuking the bad thief when he and others were reviling Jesus. This was a “work” which justified the good thief before Jesus and gained His favor. Moreover, we don’t know if the good thief asked God for forgiveness, did works of penance and charity and was reconciled to Go...
This is an allegory, de Hamel suggests, of Christ on the cross (Latin, the language of the Church), with a thief on either side (Hebrew being tainted by Judaism and Greek by Greek Orthodoxy). Vernacular languages (even though Latin had once been vernacular) like English are way off the...
2Pe 3:10 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up. ...