Today is the last Sunday in Advent, a few days before Christmas. During this Advent season, we’ve been reflecting on Christ’s coming into the world, both 2000 years ago and one day in the future. We’ve also reflected on John the Baptist, and the prophets before him, who prophesied...
Jesus said He was the Light of the world and the only way to peace with the Father. The apostle Paul elaborates on that idea—Remember that at that time you were separate from Christ, excluded from citizenship in Israel and foreigners to the covenants of the promise, without hope and ...
Elizabeth Kubler-Ross tells about a woman she encountered when she was writing her famous book on death and dying. Part of Dr. Kubler-Ross’ research involved interviewing dying patients in the hospital, trying to find out how they felt and what they thought as they faced death. As she wen...
Luther counseled those preparing to die to ponder the three ‘glowing pictures’ of Christ –‘life, grace, and heaven’, as well as the affective ‘sign’ of the sacrament – to drive out the three counterpictures produced by the devil –‘death, sin, and hell’. The proper timing of...
2009. Carter Conlon "Run For your Life" 9/16/01. I posted this quick message before but I had to again.May God continue to pour out mercy on us all because I know I for one am not living sold out for Christ forgive me LORD. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Http:/ www.serm...
Clemency as Cruelty: Forgiveness and Force in the Dying Prayers of Jesus and Stephen the literature of the Maccabean martyrs, the ethical exhortations to enemy love and non-retaliation in the Sermon on the Mount/Plain, and Roman discourse... Shelly,Matthews - 《Biblical Interpretation》 被引量...
Christ's Church of Tucson - First Thessalonians Habakkuk 3:16-19 Where's Your Focus? 46:44 Robert J Story • 6/13/21 Amboy Baptist Church - Habakkuk Dying Thoughts 39:36 Rev. Trevor Kirkland • 4/11/21 100+ Ballyclare & Doagh Free Church - Isaiah What...
Who is disposed to charge him with having made any mistake? He will commit no mistake in 1862. He will allow no one to thwart or circumvent his plan. That plan is already formed, even to the minutest detail; it includes all the events of the year up to its dying second; many of th...
Some people try to punish themselves for their sins. They do not stand on the promises of forgiveness and Christ' propitiation. "Many years ago, a father and his daughter were walking through the grass on the Canadian prairie. In the distance, they saw a prairie fire, and they realized th...
paraphrasing on the Psalmist: "In time of persecution and tribulation, a thousand shall fall by thy side; but in a time of prosperity and good fortune ten thousand shall fall at thy right hand." So, too, is it more like Christ in all His life and death; and, moreover, it is a gr...