communal (awareness of God’s presence and fellowship with one another), a symbol of covenant with God (eating a meal together in the ancient Near East), symbolic of Christ (New Testament believers “feed” on Him spiritually,not transubstantially). ...
30 、All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness.───圣经都是神所默示的(或作凡神所默示的圣经),于教训,督责,使人归正,教导人学义,都是有益的。 31 、It Satan dared to use Scripture for the temptation of our Lord he will ...
Provan makes much of Moses at prayer: thrust into seemingly impossible situations, he had come to depend upon God and to trust God, so much so that he became an intercessor, praying even for his enemies. Now, in this episode of the golden calf he again prays, standingagainstGod’s expres...
High Tower. “The LORDismy rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation,andmy high tower” (Psalm 18:2, KJV). A high tower has two advantages: it’s hard for enemies to fight against it, and it...
Sometimes loving our enemies and doing good means being gentle and kind and tender, meeting physical and spiritual needs as they arise, but others times it means speaking strongly, rebuking, and even giving offense.How we behave in love depends on what they need to bring them to God. Love ...
Paul tells women to put a veil on their heads for worship “because of the angels” (1 Cor. 11:10). If a woman does not wear this symbol of submission when she prays (and particularly at the Holy Mass, where the angels intimately assist), then the angels will report to God their ...
But Jesus says to love our enemies and pray for them. This is a tall order. It is nothing that we can accomplish on our own, but we can with the help of Christ. This means that we are called to love people who don’t believe in Jesus. This means that we are...
4As arrowsarein the hand of a mighty man;soarechildren of the youth. 5Happyisthe man that hath his quiver full of them: they shall not be ashamed,but they shall speak with the enemies in the gate. Come, and let us return unto the LORD: ...
If the Church insisted with such determination on theDivine dignity of her Founder, then obviously she did not regard writing to be the essence of His work. It was the Incarnation of the Son of God that was necessary for thesalvationof mankind, and not a book. No book is able, nor cou...
"So let us come boldly to the very throne of God and stay there to receive his mercy and to find grace to help us in our times of need." Heb. 4:16