A good example is the best sermon. 身教胜似言教。 A good face is a letter of recommendation. 好的相貌就是一封[s:215]的介绍信。 A good face needs no paint. 美貌无需擦脂抹粉。 A good fame is better than a good face. 好的名望胜于好的相貌。 A good friend is my nearest relation. ...
We do not anticipate, or second-guess God. It is only after long reflection that we are finally struck with what God has been doing all along.
At the end of the his music, he always wrote “Soli Deo gloria” (Glory to God alone) and in the beginning, “Lord help.” Therefore, you can pray during Bach’s music because the music itself is prayer. You could, then, consider Bach’s music a conversation between man and God. H...
The truth is, we have expectations of God. And sometimes, honestly, He fails those expectations. Here’s why. We Have Expectations of the Expected One We’re not alone in our expectations. Do you remember that John the Baptist struggled with his own sermon? He had proclaimed the Messiah’...
Stott, John. The Message of the Sermon on the Mount (The Bible Speaks Today Series). IVP Academic, 1985. Wink, Walter, Violence and Nonviolence in South Africa: Jesus’ Third Way. New Society Publishers, 1987. Dr. Rula Khoury Mansour is the founder and director ofNazareth Center for Peace...
So clever, to have the novel begin with an Anglican minister writing a funeral sermon, thereby ensuring the reader is hooked into guessing for whom the sermon is intended! Clever, well written and very funny at times, I’m now up for exploring more of Kennedy’s work. Who knows? perhaps...
was also the subject of the sermon at church this morning…Numbers 11, God teaching the Israelites a lesson to be content with what and where God has you. It was truly touching and then to read your post really confirms that was a lesson I needed to hear and something I must work on...
Don had been a faithful churchgoer all of his 80 years but when he came to our church his faith didn’t know what to think. He waited for the sermon like a man who hadn’t eaten. He’d sit right down front in rapt attention. He believed in Christ. He loved Communion more than ...
It’s true of all of us. We give up on ourselves, we give up on each other. It seems the world is crazier than ever before. But one thing, well, one Person anyway, hasn’t changed. God still waits in the wings of our lives until we beckon Him in. What I always say is that...
behavior. There is no room for arrogance. One sin makes us guilty of breaking all of God’s commands. “First take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye,” Jesus teaches us in his Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 7:...