I walked back and held his hand and we walked to the to top of the ridge. When we got there, we looked down a crossing trail when about 50 feet away a large, black bear started crashing through the trees away from us. I picked up my son and slowly backed away down the trail away...
"When this position is taken to an extreme (as it has been by some Protestants) the individual becomes the supreme authority on the meaning of Scripture, claiming revelation from the Holy Spirit to authenticate an interpretation not necessarily validated by the Church as a whole."[4] Common ob...
This becomes clear when you understand that we are all subject to death, but for those who don’t believe, they die forever (the second death) after their resurrection of the condemned that Jesus spoke of in John 5:29. John makes it even clearer when He was inspired to write these word...
he thinks it his duty like to tell ’em what’s wrong; and very oft he comes o’ purpose to reprove folk for not coming to church, or not kneeling an’ standing when other folks does, or going to th’ Methody chapel, or summut o’ that sort… (...
the Gibeonites is not recorded in Scripture. But it is certainly right in line with Saul’s unhinged behavior that we studied earlier in this series. Remember the story of Saul killing 80+ priests and their families simply because one of them helped David, when David was a fugitive from ...
while the poor got poorer. I felt upset when a misogynist politician got into power. I forgot that God’s ways are higher than ours, and that the Almighty God is working behind the scene to put things right. Those in positions of power do not have the last word. Our job is to remai...
But right now I’m concentrating on the “power of the resurrection.” When I wrote about the Incarnation I was amazed at how so much Divine energy and personality could be compressed into such a small space. Deity becoming an infant! Eternity being compressed into a mere moment of time. ...
Justification is turned into a legal process which makes all hearings and readings of Scripture as commands even when/where the promise is in view. That is, the promise becomes *conditional* and hence effectively functions as a demand. As to the ontological distance between Scripture and us, ...
“Lord, see all that I have done. I asked you to go away. How can you ever forgive me and make things right again?” Then a passage of scripture came to my mind. “And he arose and came to his father. But when he was still a great way off, his father saw him and had compas...
when there is widespread confusion and ignorance about the true nature of Christ’s Church and about the right approach to Holy Scripture. It can provide invaluable help to Orthodox Christians in understanding their Faith more deeply, and in defending and giving an account of it when confronted ...