Jesus said, “I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly” (John 10:10, NKJV). By using alcohol we participate in destroying not only our own life, but often the lives of others. Even in moderation, alcohol use causes significant problems—physically,...
I find my manger test disturbing and enlightening. For me, all babies are beautiful, pure, and full of promise. A black baby Jesus is unusual, but I think I could accept Him. However, little boys grow up into men. I realize that I cannot imagine a black adult male on the cross. Wh...
It just makes them a “whitewashed tomb.” There has been no heart change. And this is what God is after. A heart in love with Him and an embrace of “grace only” living because of all Jesus did for us. Better behavior can be a sham, and there is no person who would be most...
As the Gospel of Luke recounts, Jesus told them what he would need to endure, as well as the self-denial and risk they, too, must experience as his followers. As he told them, “’The Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests and the tea...
53"While I was with you daily in the temple, you did not lay hands on Me; butthis hour and the power of darkness are yours." Matthew 26:51-5651And suddenly, one of those who were with Jesus stretched out his hand and drew his sword, struck the servant of the high priest, and ...
the Holy Father will suffer much, and various nations will be annihilated." The last apparition took place on October 13, 1917. Our Lady's last request was that a chapel be built in her honor where she appeared. She also told them to continue praying the rosary, and that the war would...
In Where the Red Fern Grows, what did Billy mean when he said coon crazy? How did Allie die in The Catcher in the Rye? Who is Doc in Cannery Row? Is Kurunmi a book by Wole Soyinka? Was Jesus in the book Stranger in a Strange Land? Did Edgar get sick and die in...
— Yet to all who did receive him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God. (John 1:12, NIV) Examples of Faith in the Bible The Bible is full of examples of faith that serve as powerful lessons for all of us. Through faith in Jesus, there...
and that he hoped she would not suffer. He grounded himself in the full knowledge that he was loved by his beautiful wife, his father and sister and brother, and that he was proud of himself for who he had become. He made a plan that nothing his mother said to him on her deathbed ...
The idea here is that Jesus connects sins of the heart (in your thoughts) with sins of the body (in your actions), so that lust is adultery and hate/anger is murder. Therefore, the argument goes, having thoughts of adultery is identical in its badness to committing adultery (with the ...