“On the evening of that day, the first day of the week, the doors being locked where the disciples were for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood among them and said to them, “Peace be with you.” When he had said this, he showed them his hands and his side. Then the discip...
For Erasmus, accommodation is a universal concept: humans must accommodate each other, must accommodate the church and vice versa, and must take as their model how Christ accommodated the disciples in his interactions with them, and accommodated humans in his incarnation; which in turn merely refle...
4. Examples of the “Shi’i Verses” of the Qur’an Until the first half of the 4th/10th century, the questioning of the integrity of the official version of the Qur’an has been encountered by many authors and in a number of schools. This is particularly the case with some of the ...
As Jesus modeled for us with his first disciples, we need churches that are intentionally calling people out of the social and public spaces where we “fellowship” and enjoy corporate worship. Jesus invited people out of those spaces, be it in a synagogue or on a hillside, for the deepenin...
4) Have Received The Promise of the holy spirit 5) Believers are Cleansed from ongoing inadvertent sin [purification through the antitypical ashes of the red heifer – depicted in Jesus washing of the disciples’ feet] ii) Partaking of the Bread [eating of the flesh of Jesus] shows: ...
And then, after repeated examples of the disciples’ blindness throughout Mark’s gospel, suddenly we hear a plaintive voice cry out from the crowd: “Jesus! Have mercy on me. Remove this grievous blindness.” That’s our prayer too, isn’t it?
Meaning of the Lord's Prayer he Father-Son relationship within the Trinity reveals our potential relationship with God. Christ, the Son of God, grants us the privilege of calling God Our Father by the grace of adoption (Galatians 4:4-7). As a "son of God," the Christian is called to...
It shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the LORD shall be delivered. Joel 2:32 Meditate on Bible verses like the one mentioned above and pray with faith: “God, in the name of Jesus Christ, and according to Your Word, I ask You to set me free from this ...
those of Ashin Ādiccavaṃsa (အရှင် အာဒိစ္စဝံသ Arhaṅ Ādiccavaṃsa, 1881–1950; hereafter Ādiccavaṃsa), another Burmese scholar-monk calling for the re-establishment of the bhikkhunī-saṅgha in the first half of the twentieth century...
St. Peter the Apostle(died 64ce,Rome[Italy]) was adiscipleofJesus Christ, recognized in theearly Christian churchas the leader of the 12disciplesand by theRoman Catholic Churchas the first of its unbroken succession ofpopes. Peter, a Jewish fisherman, was called to be a disciple of Jesus ...