which accords with godliness, 2 in hope of eternal life, which God, who never lies, promised before the ages began 3 and at the proper time manifested in his word through the preaching with which I have been entrusted by the command ...
When Jesus appears to raise Lazarus from the dead, we'll talk about it in just a minute. And he says to Martha, "Do you believe?" She says very spontaneously, in this sort of emotionally supercharged situation, she says, "Master, I believe that thou art the Christ, the S...
They became ashes and the surrounding towns could eventually walk through there with amazement and see ashes everywhere of those who were incinerated.Notice the Jewish apostle Peter draws this same conclusion, "And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes condemned them with an overthrow...
At his resurrection, the rich man will see the flames of the lake of fire beginning to surround him. He knows these flames will destroy him forever. Being in great mental agony, he asks for just a little water to cool his tongue which has become dry from his mental anguish. He does n...
Remember the story of lazarus, and the rich man? It didn’t work out well for the rich man in that story, did it? This is where I plead, and beg you to pull out your dusty bible and, read those verses about the poor, and all the good Lord has to say about us!?
From as early as the third century, many Christian teachers began to teach the idea of “leaving earth and going to heaven,” which became mainstream by the Middle Ages, and the source of what we were taught as kids. But let’s face it, so many of us still view heaven ...
Cornelius became convinced of who Jesus was – God’s Son- and obviously shared his faith. Going off this ESV map, I assumed that Cornelius lived on the Southern border of Syria. Again, there is no way to validate this. Look at where Caesarea is located. This map is from ESV Maps and...
“the Great Rewiring of childhood,” based upon a rapid introduction of new handheld techno wizardry. His book—The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness—"tells the story of what happened to the generation born after 1995, popularly ...
Students of the arts need to know stories like the prodigal son (Luke 15:11-32), the raising of Lazarus (John 11:1-44), and the “passion” of Jesus (i.e. his trial, suffering, and death) or they will be at a disadvantage when studying many works of literature, art, and music...
not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which comes through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God that depends on faith—that I may know him and the power of his resurrection, and may share his sufferings, becoming like him in his death,that by any...