big accomplishments.If your coworker gets the promotion you wanted,it doesn't mean you haven't done great work.List out your accomplishments and think about how you got them and what you've done since then.You'll quickly find that you're just as worthy as the pe...
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 to ...
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...
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’...
Gal. 5:20-21Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, thatthey which do such things shall not inherit the ...
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...
1 Corinthians 3:3- “… for whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men?” So the context of 1 Corinthians 3 deals with the different kinds of works of believers; some of them are not so good. These different kinds of works (...
While reading the opening scene of Oscar Wilde'sA Picture of Dorian Gray,set within a fragrant, blooming, English garden in Spring, I remember thinking, “This is beautiful writing.” It wasn't just the writing that was perfectly evocative, it was the subject. The scene Wilde described so ...
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...
4I mean that the heir, as long as he is a child, is no different from a slave,[a]though he is the owner of everything,2but he is under guardians and managers until the date set by his father.3In the same way we also, when we were children,were enslaved t...