What Does it Mean to Observe and Participate in Lent? In other words, there are numerous ways to approach Lent, some more legalistic than devotional. Still, the origins of Lent seem to be rooted in Christians giving up food or money in order to emulate Christ’s obedience to the Father....
Phileocan be defined as strong affection. Most commonly, this applies to kindness between friends. When Jesus wept at Lazarus’s gravesite in John 11:36, the eyewitnesses said, “See how He loved [phileo] him!” Phileo forms part of the words philosophy, an affection for wisdom, and philan...
Second, he was walking a thin blade between hope and despair and he told me, ‘I chose hope.’ Third, [a line from the Bible:] ‘Jesus wept.’ That was a consolation.” Father Paul’s own father died just before he became rector at the Shrine. Before that time, he wanted to be ...
Noting that John the Baptist often called Jewish people to repent and be baptized for the remission of sins, some evangelists today also call people to repent of their sins, believe in Jesus and be baptized in order to receive eternal life. Some go off the deep end on repentance and tell...
The Covenant Setting - This is what Moses said to all of Israel in the Transjordanian wilderness, the arid rift valley opposite Suph, between Paran
Jesus is the bread of life! 1/4-1/5 Enlightenment is when a wave realizes it is the ocean 1/6 & 1/7 have disappeared 1/8 You can’t do everything, but you can do something *I did mean to write this day 1/9 Physical strength is measured by what we can carry, spiritual by ...
And when God came back to his people in the form of a person—the story of Jesus is meaningless unless that’s what it’s about—he wept at the tomb of his friend. St. Paul speaks of the Holy Spirit “groaning” within us, as we ourselves groan in the pain of the whole creation...
* Surprise the world! Not to mention transforming the whole world in the process with Gods glory wrapped around you shining like the Lords love hanging there on his bloody cross! Please the Lord Jesus Christ, and the Father by being at the very least kind to a poor, needy person, family...
The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. But thanks be to God! He gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. Therefore, my dear brothers and sisters, stand firm. Let nothing move you. Always give yourselves fully to the work of the Lord, because you kn...
John wept loudly because no one was found worthy to open the scroll, but one of the elders comforted him because Jesus was worthy to open it. Expand Chapter SummaryRevelation 5 tells us John saw a scroll in God's right hand. The scroll had writing in it and on its back. Also, the...