6. “Dear friends, do not be surprised at the fiery ordeal that has come on you to test you, as though something strange were happening to you.But rejoice inasmuch as you participate in the sufferings of Christ, so that you may be overjoyed when his glory is revealed.” 1 Peter 4:12...
Indeed, the hour is coming when whoever kills you will think he is offering service to God. 3 And they will do these things because they have not known the Father, nor me. 4 But I have said these things to you, that when their hour comes you may remember that I told them to you...
Mark 11:24"Therefore I say to you whatever things you ask when you pray, believe that you receive them, and you will have them."Surely this includes healing! Job 33:24-25"Then He is gracious to him, and says, deliver him from going down to the Pit; I have found a ransom'; His...
scriptures. For example, there is a protective practice invoking the nagas(dragons or serpent spirits) found among the earliest surviving Buddhist manuscripts from the Gandhara region. Then there’s the Bower manuscriptfound in the Taklamakan desert that seems to have belonged to a monk practicing ...
As feared, Jones’s actions did lead to further violence, as twelve people ended up dying when people took to the streets in Afghanistan to protest this desecration.38(2) In February 2012, several days of protests led to the deaths of thirty Afghans and four American soldiers after it ...
the sacred name God gives to Moses. It means "I am who am" or I am who I am" it is translated into English as LORD. LORD in Hebrew is Adonai. YHWH is not pronounced by devoy Jews. It is called the Four Letter or Tetragrammaton in greek. In the New Testament, when Jesus says...
We were given agency. The American experiment gave us a voice and authority over government through our constitutional republic. This thing is rare indeed for each and every one of us in contrast to all the souls born into the world since the beginning of time. At a time when everything ...
Do you feel God is drawing you to Him? For me, I felt I was dying in this world. I felt like I couldn't face another day. And God saved my soul through the death of His Son. I experienced it when reading the gospels as if it happened in front of me right then in 1997. And...
Then, these passions are focused on a victim who is ritually sac- rificed, re-presenting the founding murder. Sacrificial victims may be human or animal, both representing the original human mur- der victim. When ritual sacrifice is effective, it unifies the community Stirling: The Cultural ...