The Apostle Peter, writing to Christians, said, “Be of sober spirit, be on the alert. Your adversary, the devil, prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour. But resist him, firm in your faith, knowing that the same experiences of suffering are being accomplished by you...
You cannot even think that you are being called to learn what you can from the new clergyman instead of looking for cutting ways to teach him a few lessons on what happens when he treats people that way. If you are called to do anything, it’s to criticize him behind his back and l...
they expected the Messiah to be a commander of an army who would free Israel from their enemies, in particular Rome. Sometimes, we want the Bible to say what we want it to say. We want a Messiah on a white horse to come to free us from oppression...
Scripture Memory I Old Testament Memory Verses For the "Memory Challenged" Eight Lessons Bible Study Course "Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth." II Timothy 2:15 A BRIEF NOTE ON HOW TO EFFECTIVELY...
Why is the length of time of death significant? For a few reasons: 1.) Their coming back to life was not a few moments or even minutes on an operating table or elsewhere. It was to the point of decay! This is why I cannot put much confidence in the modern stories of those who “...
Why does God show mercy on Cain? So he can start a new life, and prevent him from being killed. Why did God send the flood? To wash away mankind, which he thought was wicked and evil. Why did God choose Noah? He was a righteous man ...
2. The Rapture is not a secret event. Zionists believe that Christians who are living right before Christ comes to rule for the 1,000 year period will be secretly taken up into heaven (although they differ on whether this will happen before, during or after the tribulation period that prece...
“But, since in Christ there is the fulness of the Godhead, we have herein a revelation of God the Father joining to raise us in Him Who died; and we must confess that Christ Jesus is none other than God in all the fulness of the Deity.” Hilary of Poitiers, On the Trinity, 1:...
a concourse of people, it is the particular act of every one of those that were present, and gave their aid to the performance of it; and not the act of them all in grosse, as of one body; much lesse that act of them that were absent, or that being present, were not willing it...
On a more practical level, I have found that most people want something almost as spectacular before they will believe and put their trust in God. They want God to stop all wars, stop disease, death, and destruction before they believe.” “Give me wealth and security so that I don’t...