I am not saying that we should not address these things biblically, but what is happening, in my estimation, is that those topics are being addressed in the church by worldly thoughts and not in biblical thoughts. It is that very thing that led our church into a more biblically based deno...
Humans often turn to cannibalism when food runs out. The Biblical story of the siege of Samaria in Israel some 3,000 years ago (2 Kings 6) relates that, unable to afford asses’ heads and doves’ dung, two women agreed to boil their babies for sustenance. But after they’d eaten the ...
demands to know why he has been betrayed by the god he has believed in and honored his whole life. God's answer is to strike down Seth's dog in a bolt of lightning. Pushed beyond his limits, Seth decides to respond to his years of torment by breaking each of the biblical Ten ...
There is no doing left for me here. Not when it comes to healing my spirit. And the being is the excruciating part. The part where the emotions must be felt. The part where the feelings must be allowed to exist. The part where true compassion is discovered. The part where I simplyexi...
*Church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul(Antakalnis borough, 1675) has the prettiest interior in Vilnius. It includes over 2000 white statues and bas-reliefs made to reflect the idea that life is a theater. Many Biblical scenes are depicted here in this uniform way. ...
In conclusion, let us remind ourselves of this well-known principle of biblical interpretation.When there are Scripture texts that treat the same general theme, and yet one passage is more obscure than the other, the more enigmatic textalwaysis to be interpreted in the light of the clearer. ...
Now is the time. Let the hunger burn. Let our churches experience a purging of fire and repentance from the top to the bottom. Let there be a freedom to worship with abandonment. Let there be a release of the gifts of the spirit. ...
The Biblical era The first significant mention of Petra is in the Old Testament, as the Israelites approached Edom after their forty years in the desert. Local legend – running against the geographical evidence – maintains that it was in the hills just above Petra that God ordered Moses to ...
In each of these customary group settings the biblical saying is repeated so often that it can be thought of as a chant: “Hell is the fate to any woman who refuses a man another wife, and it is a selfish wife who will not accept a sister-wife into her family.” Despite the ...
8.1. We believe the Biblical account of the creation of the physical universe, angels, and man; that this account is neither allegory nor myth, but a literal, six-day, historical account of the direct, immediate creative acts of God without any evolutionary process; that man was created by...