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While I would never presume to suggest Christian clergy re-read the Holy Bible with an eye to early scripture and suicide, I would suggest they read, What Does the Bible Say about Suicide? by my now deceased friend and colleague, Reverend James T Clemons. Ignorance of your own scriptures ...
All the people of the Bible needed knowledge and wisdom. There was no regard for stations in life.Proverbs 1:7says, “The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and instruction." As one continues to read, they will come acrossProverbs 9:10wh...
The Bible frequently emphasizes God’s agape love for humanity, portraying it as unmerited, steadfast, and enduring. John 3:16, perhaps the most famous verse on love, says, “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have...
Did God create disorder and chaos? What does it actually mean to be evil? And how do you tell your kids that in the Bible dragons are actually the ?bad guys?? In this episode, Tim and Jon respond to your questions from the first half of the Chaos Dragon series. Thank you to our...
And yet, here was Jesus, speaking things that did not make sense, things that did not fit with the idea of God that they held. Here he was, this son of Joseph, the lowly carpenter, the one who they had known as a child, the one that they had seen playing with the other kids in...
BibleProjectWhat Does Jesus Mean by Ask, Seek, and Knock? EPISODE 427Sermon on the Mount E32 ? In his fourth teaching on relationships and conflict in the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus encourages his listeners to ask God for what they need. Because the three previous teachings don't directly...
Churches and other religious buildings were filled with paintings that depicted people and stories from the Bible. Although most people couldn’t read, they could still understand biblical stories in the pictures on church walls. By contrast, one of the main characteristics of art in the Middle ...
Nowadays I am more familiar with the Bible in modern language, and the NIV puts it like this: “Taste and see that theLordis good;blessed is the one who takes refuge in him.” As I look back over what has endured and what is reliable and the source oflifein my life, it is the ...
Sarah, hoped in God, submitting to Abraham, and did good, not fearing anything that was frightening. Man did she have a lot to be afraid of. I was sitting down this morning to read my Bible, and I began as usual with a short devotional from Spurgeon’s Morning and Evening (the excer...