group of people receiving ashes on Ash Wednesday. It's not just for Catholics; many Christian denominations, including Anglicans, Lutherans, Methodists, and some Protestant churches, take part in this meaningful tradition. So, if you're wondering whether you can join in, the answer is likely...
it is nowhere presented as a condition for receiving eternal life. Instead, repentance is always a condition for temporal deliverance from death, sickness and enemies and is a condition for ongoing fellowship with God. When people repent of their sin, it withholds God’s judgment upon them...
Look sharp about you, or you will be deceived by it, and when you think you are entertaining angels, you will find you have been receiving devils unawares. The true throne of pride everywhere is the heart of man. If we desire, by God's grace, to put down pride, the only way is ...
When a woman hangs up the receiver from a phone call, or is sitting face to face with her medical doctor who conveys her worst fear–a breast cancer diagnosis–her life is no longer on solid ground. When each woman waits for this news, she begins a journey that will take her through ...
But I was clueless. I had no idea of what her loss meant to her. How could I? That was a decade before I shared the designation of widow.A decade before new bereavement taught me the private manifestations of receiving the news that another loved one was dead. ...
23 When Jesus came into the ruler's house, and saw the flute players and the noisy crowd wailing, 24 He said to them, "Make room, for the girl is not dead, but sleeping." And they ridiculed Him. 25 But when the crowd was put outside, He went in and took her by the hand, an...
When I was around 12 years old, I was told by my mother that I would be beaten (and yes, that is the term mom used) if they found out I had defended myself. Now think about that; how would they find out that I defended myself unless I, or someone else, told them? They would...
Is it only for bowing one’s head like a reed and for lying in sackcloth and ashes?Is that what you call a fast, a day acceptable to the Lord? 6 “Is not this the kind of fasting I have chosen:to loose the chains of injustice and untie the cords of the yoke,to set the ...
A restaurant where food is cooked on a grill Roast To cook by surrounding with hot embers, ashes, sand, etc.; as, to roast a potato in ashes. In eggs boiled and roasted there is scarce difference to be discerned. Grill A framework of metal bars used as a partition or a grate; He...
shares a zip code with country club neighborhoods and million-dollar homes. When we visit the homes of friends we’ve made through church or our daughter’s school, I just struggle. As Theodore Roosevelt wisely said, “Comparison is the thief of joy.” Those houses, after all, have the ...