“your invitation” I will write this stating “you” in place of “me” or “us.”) Fully accepting this requires you to humble yourself and admit: You are not perfect and even when you try, you still mess up
The Greek word which is translated as “suffer loss” iszemiothesetai. It comes from the Greek wordzemioo. Forms of this same Greek word,zemioo– which is translated as “suffer loss” in 1 Cor. 3:15 – are found in other passages in the Bible.The word is used to mean punishment....
25 Since we live by the Spirit, let us keep in step with the Spirit. 26 Let us not become conceited, provoking and envying each other. Footnotes Galatians 4:3 Or under the basic principles Galatians 4:5 The Greek word for adoption to sonship is a legal term referring...
16 For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work. 17 But the Wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy" (James 3:13,15-17).Our...
and, for my part, I will keep on envying your elite writing skillz… awesome stuff… (sigh) ie Now I’m slightly depressed, a little discouraged and feeling slightly inadequate. LOL. Really strong writing always makes me kinda feel like quitting… 🙂 (But dont feel bad – later, I ...
Music. We all know the emotional power of music, but in one seminar there was a scientist, Charles J. Limb, who showed us what it does to our brains that other languages or art forms can’t. It wasn’t just about self-expression, it was more scientific and granular than that. It’...
If you allow ANYONE to give you defining information about Satan which cannot be found in the Word of God, you have been deceived by Satan and the person teaching the heresy about him. There are no scripture references for this point. The fact is, nowhere in the Word of God does Satan...
just as attending a mass does not make you a Christian. The tenets of your faith will demand specific things from you, but that does not mean you should deprive yourself of knowledge. Learning is the key to understanding, and many religions and belief systems encourage knowledge in combination...
“But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law.” (Galatians 5:22-23) The Fruit of the Spirit is a phrase found in the Bible in Galatians 5:22-23, written by the ...
Then, of course, there were Mary and Joseph, the center of the entire scene. I mean, yes,Jesuswas the center of the scene, if you want to get nitpicky, but he was usually played by a doll, at least at our church, given that we had around 100 congregants and therefore few opportun...