You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You're on your own, and you know what you know. And you are the guy who'll decide where to go. -Dr. Suess
instead of a rejoicing choir all I heard was a faint whisper of bird sound, a faint tiny heart beat or two, a thump and groan of a green frog lost in the garden, coming here from some distant watery land, and bemoaning its tiny stupid brain blunder… oh dear this throttling life, a...
You can’t turn to a place in the Bible and find teaching on Advent or a command to set aside four weeks prior to Christmas as a season of waiting, hoping, and yearning. Does this mean that biblically-oriented Christians shouldn’t observe Advent? For some, the answer is “Yes.” If...
8. To emit or utter: gave a groan; gave a muted response. 9. To submit for consideration, acceptance, or use: give an opinion; give an excuse. 10. a. To proffer to another: gave the toddler my hand. b. To consent to engage (oneself) in sexual intercourse with another person. ...
Sin includes a failure to do what is right. But sin also offends people; it is violence and lovelessness toward other people, and ultimately, rebellion against God. Further, the Bible teaches that sin involves a condition in which the heart is corrupted
For in this hope we were saved; but hope being seen is no hope; for does anyone hope for what he sees?King James BibleFor we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for?New King James VersionFor we were saved in this...
After this Katy used to go every day. Sometimes Mrs. Spenser would be up and moving feebly about; but more often she was in bed, and Katy would sit beside her. The house never looked a bit better than it did that first day, but after a while Katy used to brush Mrs. Spenser’s ...
Romans 8:22For we know that the whole creation [and here they got it creation] groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now. You see God did not complete the creation even of the earth. I know now that he intended the angels to work on the earth. In the earth is living matte...
came three steps down and five steps up, and then a kind of little upstairs hall and a door that led out on to a balcony, and then a whole series of rooms that led into each other and were lined with books — most of them very old books and some bigger than a Bible in a ...