To die is gain –What could be better than living for Christ, shining light and winning people to the kingdom of God? As crazy as it sounds, death is better. Look how Paul states it in verse 22-24: “If I am to go on living in the body, this will mean frui...
‘Cause even in the fire to live is Christ, to die is gain I know that You are good I don’t understand the sorrow But You’re calm within the storm Sometime this weight is overwhelming But I don’t carry it alone You’re still close when I can’t feel You ...
For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain. If I am to live in the flesh, that means fruitful labor for me. Yet which I shall choose I...
Do you know, if you read this, that you cannot read that—that what you lose to-day you cannot gain to-morrow? Will you go and gossip with your housemaid, or your stable-boy, when you may talk with queens and kings; or flatter yourselves that it is with any worthy consciousness of...
Christ suffered for our sins once for all time. He never sinned, but he died for sinners to bring you safely home to God. He suffered physical death, but he was raised to life in the Spirit. So he went and preached to the spirits in prison—those who disobeyed God long ago when God...
William Shakespeare (1564-1616),actor,playwright and poet,was born in Stratford-up-on-Avoninto into a family of some prominence.Little is recorded about Shakespeare's early life;he might have attended the Stratford grammar school,where he received an education in Latin,but he did not go on ...
We all have times in our lives when we need to make decisions. You know the type: those decisions that require wisdom. This kind of wisdom can only be found in Christ; wisdom we need to seek through His Word. However, Scripture is not a catalogue of “do’s and do nots” of all ...
As you pray for guidance, comfort, and God's presence in their lives, these verses can serve as a powerful reminder of His love and strength in the year ahead. Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here!
36 For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? 37 Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul? 38 Whosoever therefore shall be ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation; of him also shall the Son ...
where God is said to give to His beloved while they sleep all that others toil early and late for in vain.) Pulpit CommentaryVerse 22. - The blessing of the Lord. The Septuagint adds, "upon the head of the righteous," as in Ver. 6. Not chance and luck, not even industry and ...