10. This too shall pass. It's more stoically philosophical than scriptural, a phrase used when things are pretty bad but likely to be only temporarily so. One suggestion for its origin is an Old English poem of the 10th century by the minstrel Deor, but this seems unlikely given its obsc...
I am so sorry to hear about your losses, your mom's surgeries, and your depression. You are a sensitive and good hearted person. Bad things probably have a greater affect you. I wish I have better words to comfort you except to say that this, too,...
How much good this money might have done! How noble it would have been to give the money to the poor! How practical, how necessary! What a waste simply to pour it out! And how virtuous the critics appear, quite prepared to do something with someone else’s money! It is too easy to...
This concept of Scripture is fully upheld by theChristianteaching.Jesus ChristHimself appeals to the authority of Scripture, “Search the scriptures” (John, v, 39); He maintains that “one jot, or one tittle shall not pass of the law, till all be fulfilled” (Matt., v, 18); He regar...
Often patterns from the Bible are so deeply profound and important and openly relevant to the betterment of mankind, that secular thinking comes up with it too. Sometimes the secular conclusion is openly identical to the Biblical one. An example of this are the Commandments six and eight 'you...
--This must not be pressed too far, as implying an absolute indefectibility of the divine favour. God, having in His eternal counsels set His choice upon Israel as His peculiar people, will not readily disown them. Nor is their case really so bad as it may seem. Now, as in the ...
Generally I stay away from this as there is too much debate with one person saying one thing and Continue reading The Faithful Witness November 11, 2017 robrichmond What is a faithful witness? We see Yahshua being called this in Revelation 1. Revelation 1:4 4 John, to the seven churches ...
Share this: Share Christian Reads James 1:5: If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him. Hebrews 4:12: For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercin...
thief. Then the heavens willpass awaywith a terrible noise, and the very elements themselves will disappear in fire, and the earth and everything on it will be found to deserve judgment. Since everything around us is going to bedestroyedlike this, what holy and godly lives should you live...
So this begs the question … why is all of this so important?? The answer is simple! No matter who you are … you too belong to a pack … a pack of humans … who also have a hierarchical structure … irregardless of whatever political environment you may find yourself living in. ...