Biblically, however, the object of faith is not the divine offer but the Person of Jesus Christ. Faith in Him is what saves, not just believing His promises or accepting facts about Him. Saving faith has to be more than accepting facts. Even demons have that kind of faith (James 2...
I realized I didn’t have a clear biblically based understanding- only what I had been told throughout life. I plan to write about this later because I think others might have this question too. Ironically- in hindsight, after all this “death” surrounded me, late summer when I was...
Job is expressing his deep sense of despair and physical weakness. In the context of the Book of Job, he has lost his wealth, children, and health, leaving him in a state of profound suffering. This rhetorical question highlights his feeling of powerlessness. Biblically, strength often symboliz...
How can you justify to your daughter or sister that it is Biblically and religiously OK to insert a (middle) finger (whether by male or female; it doesn't matter) into her vagina to take away her virginity?I mean, beside the woman's husband, who should really have the authority to ...
It is that very thing that led our church into a more biblically based denomination. My thoughts this morning are disturbed by what I see going on in the world and in the churches and denominations that have been seduced by the world. My other thought this morning is to pray what Jesus ...
One prominent image that recurs from Genesis to Revelation is that of living water. In the Middle East, water is scarce and precious.
When I would go to look for a t-shirt et al with Scripture or some faith message on it, I noticed I had to look far and wide to find such t-shirts. I couldn’t understand how there weren’t enough vendors out there to produce biblically inspirational products. It was a bit frustrat...
Usually, cover-ups occur when something significant is at stake when someone would stand to lose status, power, or reputation if the truth was revealed.” Grave offenses like adultery, embezzlement, and sexual abuse should be exposed appropriately and dealt with biblically. In contrast, to cover...
Biblically, it echoes themes of God’s sovereignty over chaos, similar to His control over Leviathan in other scriptures. who says, ‘The Nile is mine; I made it myself.’This phrase highlights Pharaoh's arrogance and self-deification, claiming ownership and creation of the Nile, which was ...
Clark Pinnock’s –A Wideness in God’s Mercy. I happily was empowered to imagine that God may eventually saved all people either here on earth in the life to come. Mickelson –Women, Authority, and the Bible. One of the first books I read on biblical gender roles that confirmed my int...