Through this generosity we have the opportunity to live in a different way, and encourage others to do the same. Jesus offers the world a way out of selfishness and sin, a chance to be God’s people living life in all its fulness. As well as being non-violent and generous, Christ cal...
In the way of furniture, there is a stove with a voluminous funnel; an old pine desk, with a three-legged stool beside it; two or three wooden-bottom chairs, exceedingly decrepit and infirm; and-not to forget the library-on some shelves, a score or two of volumes of the Acts of ...
The proper way to dispose of a sacramental is to burn it or bury it. Not only do these methods of disposal show the correct reverence, but they prevent the sacramental from falling into the wrong hands and from desecration—the loss of a particular quality of sacredness. Sacramentals are ...
The interesting thing, though, is that while we may hold divergentpositions,when we look at the way people actually live: they way they use their time, money, and sexuality…behind the ideological bumper stickers, the life-scripts on both sides of the American political divide are nearly ident...
To tell the world I'm yours, by heck去告诉全世界我是你的,管它呢Let them know I love you so让那些人知道我有多爱你And let them know by the ring around your neck也让他们明白你脖子上戴着的戒指Well they say that goin' steady is not the proper thing噢那些人说你我谈恋爱并不合适They ...
the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us through wordless groans.”Through prayer God can sometimes lead us to an understanding of the purpose of the tears of depression, and ultimately to ...
“Go back to your proper place; you can linger here in self-pity only so long and then you must remember your call and perform your responsibility.” So Elijah is freshly dispatched back to his dangerous work. He is dispatched by the one who has lordly authority for him. The only assura...
The proper force of words lies not in the words themselves, but in their application. A word may be a fine sounding word, of an unusual length, and very imposing from its learning and novelty, and yet in the connection in which it is introd...
The proper way to dispose of a sacramental is to burn it or bury it. Not only do these methods of disposal show the correct reverence, but they prevent the sacramental from falling into the wrong hands and from desecration—the loss of a particular quality of sacredness. Sacramentals are ...
Now the man watched the dip of the three sticks over the side of the skiff and rowed gently to keep the lines straight up and down and at their proper depths. It was quite light and any moment now the sun would rise. The sun rose thinly from the sea and the old man could see the...