Living on the side of the woman’s foot is a simple yet elegant phrase. The piece is delicate and pretty and serves as a reminder to the woman that she is a servant. The font here is simple but lovely. In the tattoo, the citation appears as if it is printed, which is a less pop...
God’s son and servant, your friend and fellow student, ><> donkimrey ><> **This appears to be the same “Mark,” who had jumped ship on the first missionary journey and was the reason for the split between Paul and Barnabas. Mark had become discouraged or disillusioned during his firs...
and to offer Himself as a perfect sacrifice on the cross where He was judged in our place (Rom 5:8; 1 Pet 3:18), and where the payment for our sins was His “precious blood, as of a lamb unblemished and spotless, the blood
In subsequent verses we find further clarification: The husband's headship suggested here does not mean a role of unquestioned authority to which you are to be blindly obedient. What is described here is a model based on Christ's relationship to the church: Jesus was the servant of all who...
“Who is the faithful and sensible servant whose master puts him in charge of the household staff, to give them their food at the proper time?” Matthew 24:45CJB Referring to you as a servant would almost be insulting, but Jesus did. I have a question. ...
With Baruch, he was a servant to the weeping prophet, in the days when God was tearing down the nation, plucking up the vine He planted centuries ago. Baruch had suffered with Jeremiah, being a servant to God in the midst of a very depressing, forlorn time in Israel’s history. Babylon...
17He did this so as to make what God had said through the prophet Isaiah come true: 18“Here is my servant, whom I have chosen, the one I love, and with whom I am pleased. I will send my Spirit upon him, and he will announce my judgement to the nations. 19He will not argue ...
Humility and sacrifice. “Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. And bei...
Second, the widow’s offering is the last thing mentioned before Mark 13, which speaks of the destruction of the temple. If Jesus, the “faithful suffering servant” figure was the one who had the authority to prophetically announce judgement on the temple system, then the widow, given the...
I became a servant of this gospel by the gift of God’s grace given me through the working of his power. Although I am less than the least of all the Lord’s people, this grace was given me: to preach to the Gentiles the boundless riches of Christ, and to make plain to everyone ...