This article has a focus on finding models in Old and New Testament scriptures for those who have disabilities and are experiencing suffering. Habakkuk, David, the apostle Paul, and Jesus are presented as models whose faith perspective carried them through suffering. Possibilities for application in...
After His resurrection on that 1st Day of the week, the resurrected Jesus caught up with two discouraged disciples who had just left the horror of Jerusalem that occurred on the Preparation Day (Friday). Their Rabbi had been nailed to a wooden cross like an animal! The One they loved was ...
Thegospeltraditionthatcontainsthedeedsandwords of Jesuswascirculatedandpreserved orallybeforeit wasproducedin written form(Kee 1997, 447). Writingswereundertakento extendthespokenword,HolyScripture/HermeneuticalPractice/OralLiterature503 giventhatliteracyrangedfrom2to15percent(Allen2008,101)inthefirstcentury.One...
1.) The disciples were gathered on the first day of the week behind closed doors for fear of the Jews. They were not together to worship a risen Savior. It would be later that evening before Jesus appeared to them. Jesus would give them a Scripture study that told of the prophecies abo...
immediate cessation of bloodshed, for the complete restoration of peace, for the well-being of the people in Ukraine and for the rebuilding of Christian love between the peoples of Russia and Ukraine. Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ commands us to love one another as our Heavenly Father ...
Father. “See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God!” (1 John 3:1). When we believe on the Lord Jesus Christ as our Savior, we become God’s children. Fathers instruct, guide, and discipline their children, but they also love to...
Through His sacrificial death on the cross, Jesus bore the wrath of God by taking upon Himself the sins of all humanity and bearing the punishment that was due for our sins. His death on the cross paid the price for the sins of everyone. Jesus’ death for sins is the foundation for ...
Why this is important: Life with Jesus as his disciple is all about a relationship. We learn the way of … Continue reading→ In The Cool Of The Evening, God Walked With Him There | A poem November 7, 2024 [Based on Genesis 2:15 “Then the Lord God took the man and put him in...
1I chargetheein the sight of God, and of Christ Jesus, who shall judge the living and the dead, and by his appearing and his kingdom:2preach the word; be urgent in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort, with all longsuffering and teaching.3For the time will come when they...
presumably, the word of truth (1:18), the perfect law of liberty (1:25), and the contours of ‘pure and undefiled religion’ (1:27). James does not reference either the gospel per se, or the ‘word of Christ,’ though his own reliance on Jesus’ teaching would suggest this. In ...