Pilate's wife has been named Procula or Claudia and in the Eastern and Ethiopian Churches she is revered as a saint. The apocryphal but influential Gospel of Nicodemus mentions her dream and Pilate's reaction to it: he is more concerned in that account than St. Matthew's Gospel indicates....
A Franciscan monk named Roman Llull is considered one of the first people to use distillation purely for alcohol, Dane Huckelbridge writes in “Bourbon: A History of the American Spirit.”“In his journals, he is the first to pen specific formulas for ‘loosening’ the alcohol from wine (...
In any case, it’s easy to imagine that the Mint Julep never really lost a foothold in the South. As medicine, it is a particularly effective palliative against the kinds of paper-wrinkling humidity and weapons-grade mosquitoes that attend Southern summers. It was named the official drink of...
Charismatics heretics claim to believe in the inerrancy of the Bible, but their behavior is completely contrary to the Bible. (Pastor Samuel Ling(林慈信牧師) believes that anyone who claims to believe in the inerrancy of the Bible can be considered a brother in Christ, so he believes that ch...
Bible Book List Font Size Acts 8:7-9 New International Version 7For with shrieks, impure spirits came out of many,and many who were paralyzed or lame were healed.8So there was great joy in that city. Simon the Sorcerer 9Now for some time a man named Simon had practiced sorceryin the...
21And when Jesus had passed again in the ship over the strait, a great multitude assembled together unto him, and he was nigh unto the sea. 22And there cometh one of the rulers of the synagogue named Jairus: and seeing him, falleth down at his feet. ...
us. Just maybe they hang around us, more than unknown ghosts, in attempts to stay with or assist us. Might it then be more proper to recognize that many of the ghosts around us, who are in need of our help to move unto the light might be family and better named, “familial spirits...
20 Adam named his wife Eve, because she would become the mother of all the living. 21 The LORD God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife and clothed them. 22 And the LORD God said, "The man has now become like one of us, knowing good and evil. He must not be allowed to...
(in the book of Tobit), andUriel(Fire of God), the watcher over the world and the lowest part ofhell(in II Esdras). Though these are the only four named, seven archangels are noted in Tobit 12:15. Besides the archangels, there were also other orders of angels, thecherubimandseraphim...
20 Adam named his wife Eve, because she would become the mother of all the living. 21 The LORD God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife and clothed them. 22 And the LORD God said, "The man has now become like one of us, knowing good and evil. He must not be allowed to...