"For everything in the world—the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life—comes not from the Father but from the world."(1 John 2:16) What Is Lust? The dictionary definition of lust is "1. intense or unrestrained sexual craving or 2. an overwhelming desire...
So, just what is leaven? According to the American Heritage Dictionary, the definition of leaven is: “1. An agent, such as yeast, that causes batter or dough to rise, especially by fermentation. 2. An element, influence, or agent that works subtly to lighten, enliven, or modify a whol...
In every book, each and every one this one not excepted, I have to look up the definition of a word. Now that may not be a plus for you, but I taught English for a decade, and I love love love learning new words. But in this case, since Storm Waters is set in 1934 post-...
the destructive aspects of the self become idealized. Erich Fromm’s definition is equally comfortable with toxic religious ideologies enabled by violence as well as in western democracies where the murder of young men and women cast as heroes is celebrated as a sacrifice for good. Even more ...
What is a Christian? The Biblical Definition Since the Bible is the authority for the Christian faith, let’s see what it says about the word “Christian.” The word is only used 3 times in the New Testament and each instance is referring to the first “Christians” of the early church...
If everything that falls under this broad definition of homophobia is a sin—which is the implication when anyone says it needs repentance—then the conservative pushback against the LGBTQ+ cultural onslaught is also sinful. That is the charge, a charge implied by the very fact that Johnson ci...
In discussing this topic, it is necessary to reach some kind of working definition for a quotation, especially as distinct from a proverb or saying. For the purposes of this paper, I am taking a quotation to be a fixed group of words said or written by a particular person at a ...
Jacobs’s highly enjoyable The Year of Living Biblically, which is exactly what it sounds like. Jacobs, a secular New York Jew, decided he’d one-up all the fundamentalists by trying his best to follow all the Bible’s commandments to the best of his ability. The original idea was to ...
It is not what they are supposed to be doing, not what they are supposed to be taxing for, not what they are supposed to be spending for. We talked about massive intrusion of Marxist “principles” into American government largely though the efforts of the Democrat Party in the Blessed ...
Peter wrote, for example, about “fiery trials” – being accused unjustly, suffering horribly in spite of being good people. That’s happening to many in our world today, for many different reasons.The crucial thing here is to learn what approach WE should take when developments in the ...