Sometimes you’ll sit down with a passage in mind to meditate on; other times you’ll want to do lectio and you’ll flip through your Bible for a highlighted passage (another reason to get abeat-up Bible); my favorite experiences of lectio come when I’m just reading and the Spirit ...
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 ...
Taking up our cross. “Then Jesus told his disciples, ‘If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. For whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will find it'” (Matthew 16:24). There are also ...
The realization that salvation is offered freely, based solely on the perfect work of Jesus on the cross, offers profound relief to the person who has been laboring under the yoke of a works-based system. Those who operate under a works-based system of salvation will never reach a place of...
(2 Thess 2:15; 3:6). When Jesus condemned the tradition of the Pharisees, he was referring to those traditions that they made up to nullify the word of God (in this case, using the Corban rule to avoid taking care of their parents). When Paul commands us to obey tradition, are ...
This script looks subtle on the inner arm. The flowing design makes it almost look like it is handwritten. The addition of the simple cross right below completes the design. Tattoo ideas for women like this are simply magical and cute at the same time. ...
Take up your cross (your idiosyncrasies) and follow Him. Reference Isaiah 61 Jesus' mandate. REMEMBER, sickness and infirmities can come about through bad habits, weak constitutions, exposure to danger, crimes, accidents, birth defects, etc. But while experiencing sickness it can also reveal atti...
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...
and worked to put food on the table for my wee precious family. Those were difficult days, and yet the Lord was always there, taking care of us, talking to us, disciplining us – (too many times if I am honest with you) – but as before, we were living on the edge. Living by ...
Until that time, death is like taking a nap (sleeping), where the passage of time is a microsecond. You lay down on the bed of death, and in the twinkling of an eye, you rise to see Jesus and receive your package of eternal life. There is no pain, no conscience waiting room whil...