can only refer to Christ slain as a sacrifice to redeem us to God by his blood. John came as a preacher of repentance, yet he told his followers that they were to look for the pardon of their sins to Jesus only, and to his death. It agrees with God's glory to pardon all who de...
23John said, “I am the voice of one crying in the desert. ‘Make the road straight for the Lord,’ as the early preacher Isaiah said.” 24Those who had been sent were from the proud religious law-keepers.25They asked John again, “Then why do you baptize if you are not the Chris...
阅读理解 MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR: A MAN OF PEACE Martin Luther King, Jr. was the son of a black Baptist preacher . His mother was a school teacher. Young Martin spent a fairly quiet childhood in Atlanta, Georgia. After high school, he went to college
Tiberius Cæsar.—He had succeeded Augustus A.D. 14, so that we get the date A.D. 29 for the commencement of the Baptist’s ministry. The history of his rule lies outside the scope of this Commentary; but the rise of the city Tiberias, and the new name—the sea of Tiberias—gi...
In a salient example, once in a Southern Baptist church in a place far away, after the sermon and during the singularly Baptist invitation time, an increasingly restless congregation stood singing innumerable verses ofJust as I Amwhile the preacher-man stood on the main floor in front of the...
4For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but sent them to hell, putting them in chains of darkness to be held for judgment; 5if he did not spare the ancient world when he brought the flood on its ungodly people, but protected Noah, a preacher of righteousness, and seven ...
As Cura de Taos, the Padre occasionally opened his pulpit to a Protestant preacher. HIn his later years, he liked to use the Anglican Prayer Book, and seems to have flirted with becoming an Episcopalian. Anglican Bishop Talbot visited the Padre at his home, but the Anglican hierarch insiste...
Rabbinic Traditions About Elijah, the Forerunner of the MessiahTo complete the evidence, presented in the text, as to the essential difference between the teaching of the ancient Synagogue about the Forerunner of the Messiah' and the history and mission of John the Baptist, as described in the ...
Peter was a fisherman by trade, along with his brotherAndrew(also a disciple of Jesus), but he grew into a gifted preacher and bold leader. In the gospels, he’s portrayed as impetuous, always speaking his mind and acting on impulse. In the Book of Acts, Peter’s decisiveness transforme...
Paul spent the next few days with the very Christians he had come to capture, and he immediately began preaching the gospel of Jesus Christ—to the confusion of Christians and Jews alike. It would take time for Paul’s reputation as a Christian preacher to outgrow his reputation as a perse...