The difference, as can be surmised, is what Jesus is being described as “founding” or leading His followers into. In the previous post, the passage described His way of life, the faith He displayed for us to follow after. It is a faith of self denial, of self sacrifice, of full su...
One of the reasons I know the Bible is true and that its writers are honest is because they do not try to sugar coat the bad stuff. We live in a world where the bad stuff is often kept secret. Advertisers would never talk about the negatives of their product. If they are forced to...
you probably won’t master the advanced ones. But, as I’ve said already, many of these traits come quite naturally to us as human beings. The more you have of them, the easier it will be to develop the
But this is just the beginning of the process leading toward justification. Faith alone does not justify a person. Justification is only achieved by faith and works, as we see below. Also, this gratuitous gift of faith from God also includes the grace of hope and love the moment the ...
Therefore, since we are justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have obtained access to this grace in which we stand; and we boast in our hope of sharing the glory of God. And not only that, but we also boast in our sufferings, know...
like a head does a body. He was supreme in the beginning and—leading the resurrection parade—he is supreme in the end. From beginning to end he’s there, towering far above everything, everyone. So spacious is he, so expansive, that everything ofGodfinds its proper place in him witho...
Col. 2:15 –“despoiling the principalities and the powers, he made a public spectacle of them, leading them away in triumph by it.” 4. Powers The word “power” comes from the Greek exousia, which literally means power that is “out of” (ex) the “substantial being” (ousia). Th...
Because of those in leadership who were supposedly leading us to dispel the darkness were dark themselves my husband and I had to make a decision based on Eph 5. We could no longer be partners. It was the right decision. It hasn’t been easy. We continue to experience...
and we may not like our coworkers, neighbors, or the people in our community, but they have been chosenfor usby God. They are part of our destiny. Let’s not cast them out. Let us embrace them and see where God is leading us… For God desires our ultimate happiness and knows how...
demonstration of the compatibility of science and the Hindu faith. His unusual and unfortunately short life was recounted in the 2015 filmThe Man Who Knew Infinity. An early math prodigy, he ultimately ended up at Cambridge University working in partnership with the leading mathematicians of his ...