I’ve shared this many times before, but I’ve always been inspired by a missionary who struggled with loving those in her charge. Every time she saw her failures and thought, “I need to be more loving,” she grew more discouraged by more failure. But when she began to meditate on G...
Teaches That Loving God Involves Acting On That Love. This Book Focuses On Six Key Scripture Passages, Helping Viewers Understand How To: Handle Their Emotions By Focusing On What Is True About God And About Life; Grasp His Purpose For L... ...
so that, when they look on me, on him whom they have pierced, they shall mourn for him, as one mourns for an only child, and weep bitterly over him, as one weeps over a firstborn.
I can go on and on, but I hope you get the picture. I set out to look for hidden power dynamics in Mark’s Gospel. And I ended up finding the most powerful story in a widow—the most powerless person whose voice is arguably the loudest even though she didn’t say anything. The q...
One can hope for a better world, a better life, peace from a disaster or joy in times of sorrow. However, the first step in finding this peace and joy is by having faith in Jesus Christ. We must rely completely on Him, trusting in His infinite power, intelligence and love. ...
In his reflection on the nature of human being, Emil Brunner suggests that the ‘image of God’ is a dynamicbecoming: He created man as a personal being, that is as a being that does not simply develop of itself into that for which God created it, but rather as a being who achieves...
What a truer interpretation?” Tertullian, A Treatise on the Soul, 35 (A.D. 210). “All souls, therefore; are shut up within Hades: do you admit this? It is true, whether you say yes or no: moreover, there are already experienced there punishments and consolations; and there you ha...
but the things necessary to believe for salvation are very clear; and by reading and searching the Scriptures on his own, the believer grows in the grace and knowledge of the Lord, is informed how God is to be honored and worshipped, instructed in righteousness, finding hope and comfort for...
in them, the more we will see Jesus there and be made like Him. The more we are made like Him, the more we will see Him in all His works, and the more our hope will grow and be visible to others, some of whom may ask a reason for the hope that is within us.”—T.M. ...
Bible Verses on Peace: Matthew 5:9“Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God.” John 14:27“Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid”. ...