This posture toward Scripture is far removed from the discipleship to which Jesus calls us. He says teach them to obey everything I have commanded you. Take up your cross, let the dead bury the dead, don’t look back. Not turn your back on my word. Not take your fill of popular opi...
some Protestants refer to this verse to condemn the Catholic Church’s practice of fasting. But Paul is referring to abstinence and any other practice that is performed apart from Christ’s teachings. Fasting, on the other hand, is done in obedience to Christ’s teachings of taking up our ...
Taking notes. Gathering false testimony. Exchanging knowing glances. Finding the one weak link in that original Band of Brothers, then bribing Judas to help them ‘take Jesus down.” Making plans which would find culmination on Golgotha’s brow. In light of this it is no wonder that Annias ...
By using our gifts and talents to bless others, we reflect Christ’s love and build up the body of Christ (1 Peter 4:10). Pray for Each Other: Praying for one another is a powerful way to support and encourage fellow believers. It fosters a sense of unity and dependence on God. ...
Hi Brandon – your website has been a great help to me and my family – thank you for taking the time to earnestly contend for the faith and the precious Word of God. On another matter, based on your submission to scripture, I am hopeful that I could entreat you to consider that cal...
So, during this difficult period of life, let’s remember that Jesus gave Paul what he needed for his life of ministry not by taking away the festering pain but by empowering him through grace. Let’s not give up. Let’s keep going to God with open hands and hearts. Let’s see if...
As Christians we think of Jesus’ famous last words on the cross, “It is finished.” He successfully and obediently completed the work that God gave him to do, and he fulfilled the Law. It is finished! His complete work means that all people have hope of new life, both abundant life...
7rather, he made himself nothing by taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. 8And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to death— even death on a cross! Read ChapterAll Versions ...
In their preface of 1617, taking up Peter Lombard’s remark about the Gloss as the ‘tongue’ of Scripture, the Douai theologians gave voice to this sentiment. Many generations, they suggested, ‘thought of this collection of scriptural interpretation so highly that they called it the “normal...
“I am prepared, first because of the goodness and grace of God, who wants me to be saved (2 Peter 3:9). It all started when He brought conviction of sin upon me through the Holy Spirit and led me to confess and turn away from a life of sin. His death on the cross for my si...