‘others’ consider the woman’s act a ‘waste’ though Jesus says that she has done him a good deed (v. 6). She has, in a public act that appears to spring from gratitude and devotion, given him an outrageous gift, perhaps all she possessed (cf. 12:44)—and he has with ...
After reading his book it became clear to me that Beckwith’s decision to return to Rome was based on his conviction that the Protestant Evangelical church is deficient on two important points. He is convinced that the Roman Catholic Church can claim historical validation for being the one true...
When John writes, “God is love,” John is not viewing the love of God as just an idea. God’s love is not just an attitude or posture that God has toward the world. John says God proves that he is love by his actions.
“The culture so quickly says, oh it’s over, it’s not going to work. We live in a consumer society. If something doesn’t work, you chunk it away and get a new one. And that has been translated into relationships … It’s a very pervasive myth today, that a marriage only works...
Trusting in a God who Redeems is at the root of the virtue of hope, and like all virtues, we can strengthen and grow in hope with practice. Here one practice that we have been doing in our family to cultivate hope: The Rose: Every night, when we gather for family dinner, we pray...
Finally … it needs to be mentioned that there are two totally different skill sets when it comes to (1) ministering and (2) administering! Ministering is all about grace. One must develop the capacity to listen … to see others as God sees them … to have compassion … to know how ...
all-clear scriptures of God... If you speak of the internal clearness, no man sees one iota in the Scriptures, but he that hath the Spirit of God... If you speak of the external clearness, nothing whatever is left obscure or ambiguous; but all things that are in the Scriptures, are...
that thereby He might fashion corrupt Adam anew.”[12]St. Irenaeus says that the Son of the Most High became the Son of man in order to make man a son of God.[13]In the new humanity, built upon the foundation of the Incarnation of the Son of God, the unity of our human nature...
signified it by His angel to His servant John,who bore witness to the word of God, and to the testimony of Jesus Christ, to all things that he saw.Blessed is he who reads and those who hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written in it; for the time ...
We know that all things work for good for those who love God and are called according to his purpose. For those he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his son, so that he might be the firstborn of many brothers. and those he predestined, he also called, and...