My Father’s house has many rooms; if that were not so, would I have told you that I am going there to prepare a place for you? 1 John 3:2 2 Dear friends, now we are children of God, and what we will be has not yet been made known. But we know that when Christ appears, ...
Father, please remind us all that you are for us and not against us and that even when we cannot see it, you are always working. We love you. Help us to trust you in this season and every season we face. Amen. Photo Credit: ©iStock/Getty Images Plus/PeopleImages ...
ME:Thank You, Father, for encouraging me toward greater intimacy with You, to enjoy You more fervently.Help me pause and sense Your presence, even in the ordinary moments of life. May I create space for You through attentiveness to Your attributes on display, gratitude for Your countless bles...
When God spoke to Abraham (Genesis 17:4) he declared that he would bless him and make him a father of many nations. This is exactly what we see throughout the Bible and history. God's promise here is called the Abrahamic Covenant and is prophecy of the coming Messiah through the bloodl...
the family has a reunion, he causes uneasiness in the clan, he is an empty space. My father’s mother, who is 93, and who keeps the Family Bible with everybody’s birth dates (and death dates) in it, always mentions him. There is no place in her Bible for ‘wherabouts unknown....
Benedict of Nursia - Father of Western Monasticism Verse: John 12:35 Quote: "To you, therefore, my words are now addressed, whoever you may be, who are renouncing your own will to do battle under the Lord Christ, the true King, and are taking up the strong, bright armor of obedience...
you have found favor with God. You will conceive and give birth to a son, and you are to call him Jesus. He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High. The Lord God will give him the throne of his father David, and he will reign over Jacob’s descendants forever...
As a late teen, Isaac complained often to his father about the tiresome, chanted hymns of the church. How was a person supposed to sing them withjoyas the Bible-psalms often urged, when the music droned in a minor key? From a 1600’s hymnal ...
You are the light of the world. A city on a hill cannot be hidden, nor do we light a candle and put it under a basket, but on a candlestick so it lights everyone in the house. So let your light shine before men that they may see your good works and glorify your Father in heave...
love for the antagonist, preparedness to suffer, and no fear of death. All these aspects are embodied by the Gandhian Daniel. Gandhi emphasized the active role of Daniel as a resister, not the traditional view of the victim of court intrigues. In this paper, I argue that the image of th...