The word gargoyle derives from the French gargouille, meaning "throat." This would appear to take its inspiration from the statues' water-siphoning gullets, but in fact the name comes from the French legend of "La Gargouille," a fearsome dragon that terrorized the inhabitants of the town of ...
Why do we play jazz music? What makes jazz music special? What does jazz music represent? What do we want to take away from this music (emotionally, intellectually, spiritually, etc.)? How do we want our audiences to be changed, moved, inspired, or affected by our music?
Those who accept a martyr’s death are promised a crown, but nowhere does the Bible grant an exemption for those who reject Jesus, coercion notwithstanding. Not in the Church Age, and not during the Tribulation. “Whosoever shall seek to save his life shall lose it; and whosoever shall ...
God declares that before the end of the age, if the modern descendants of ancient Israel don’t make a real return to Him, He will chastise them for their sins. The peoples of these nations largely represent those to whom He previously gave His laws and statutes, and God wanted them to...
To represent by parable. Which by the ancient sages was thus parabled. Analogy (grammar) The correspondence of a word or phrase with the genius of a language, as learned from the manner in which its words and phrases are ordinarily formed; similarity of derivative or inflectional processes. ...
If a person is spiritually dead, they will be blind to the signs, as the people were in the days of Noah. They will not be able to discern the times and will think that nothing has changed in hundreds or thousands of years so why should it change now!? I guess the mockers who liv...
An energetic barrier that does not allow free movement in and out of the space surrounding earth has us spiritually bottled up here, endlessly repeating cycles of death and birth and sometimes very interesting but always short lives. We are forced to lead our lives of “three score and ten”...
As we wrote last month, Dream Theater deserve acclaim for effectively inventing modern progressive metal; however, they’ve been spinning their wheels for a while. This LP doesn’t completely correct that issue, but it certainly does enough to be both Dream Theater’s best record in years and...
16A Chinese dragon has claws on four legs, can fly in the air, and is large enough for humanor a transcendent to ride on it and fly, while anāgadoes not have claws, does not fly, and israther small in size.17According to Wogihara ([1979] 1986, 994b), one of the original ...
(2) In the various stages of development which the struggle of the working class against the bourgeoisie has to pass through, they always and everywhere represent the interests of the movement as a whole. The Communists, therefore, are on the one hand practically, the most advanced and resol...