As with Archbishop Paglia’s recent guidance for priests to simply (simplistically?) hold hands even while Physician Assisted Suicide is being administered? (Ironically, it was Martin Luther who distrusted the potential vagrancy of human reasoning as a wax nose capable of being bent...
Luke may have been a Gentile) and had various livelihoods: several were fishermen, one a physician, and another a tax collector. The full list of the Twelve is given with some variation in the three Synoptic Gospels—Matthew 10:2−4, Mark 3:16−19, and Luke 6:14−16—and further...
and so he tries these first. The run of men are drawn to sin by some form or other of these, and the hunger of Jesus laid Him open to their power-if not on the side of delights of sense, yet on the side of wants. The tempter quotes...
So ask your Pastor or trusted Christian friend the question: "If I take during these times and think on those things which the Super represents (1 Cor. 11:24...as Oft as you do this, do this in Remembrance of me), expecting great things, will God set every thing else in order when...
“Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick. I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners, to repentance.” Mark 2:17 His biggest enemies were the Bible scholars and religious people of the day. His friends were not particularly gifted Bible students,...
The book of Acts is a continuation of the book of Luke (Both written by Luke). As a physician, Luke must have been impressed by this healing. No doubt he had seen many people with similar problems, but could do little about it. Perhaps he only prescribed something for the pain. But,...
“There is one Physician who is possessed both of flesh and spirit; both made and not made; God existing in flesh; true life in death; both of Mary and of God; first possible and then impossible, even Jesus Christ our Lord.” Ignatius, To the Ephesians, 7 (c. A.D. 110). ...
MAT 8:23-34 The Folly and Danger of parting with Christ for the Pleasures and Profits of Life George Whitefield MAT 9:12 The Characters of the Healthy and Sick Samuel Davies MAT 9:12 The Sin Sick Soul and the Great Physician J. C. Philpot MAT 9:36 The Compassion of Jesus C. H. ...
Luk 5:31 … They that are whole need not a physician; but they that are sick. Luk 5:32 I came not to call the righteous,but(DEAD)sinners to repentance Rom 7:5 For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which were by the law, did work in our members tobringforth fru...
the apprehension of personal evil, has the same function in the moral world as pain has in the physical. It is a symptom of disease, and is intended to bid us look for the remedy and the Physician. What is an alarm bell for but to rouse the sleepers, and to hurry them to the refu...