Historically, death was seen as the ultimate enemy, a force that no human could overcome. However, in the context of 1 Corinthians 15, Paul is addressing the Corinthian church with the triumphant message of Christ's resurrection, which has fundamentally altered the believer's relationship with ...
And he came into all the country about the Jordan, preaching the baptism of penance for the remission of sins; As it was written in the book of the sayings of Isaias the prophet: A voice of one crying in the wilderness: Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make straight his paths. Every...
So then, when Liber came to that place and was about to descend, he left the crown, which he had received as a gift from Venus, at that place which in consequence is called Stephanos, for he was unwilling to take it with him for fear the immortal gift of the Gods would be contamina...
who has never been wholly without it; here in a sermon or a prayer, there in the lessons of childhood; now by the example of a noble life or the lessons of history; again in the study of Scripture or the truths written on the page of nature--the Spirit breatheth where it willeth....
If the Bible had anything in it that was opposed to reason, or to our sense of right, then, perhaps, we might think that it was like all the books in the world that are written merely by men. Books that are only human, like merely human lives, have in them a great deal that is...
Over the years I have written several blogs after a mass killing and other disasters. Unfortunately, things have not changed, and they won’t either. Why? The first reason for which I’ve stated in previous blogs is because all these things was predicted in the bible! The second reason wh...
45 So it is written: “The first man Adam became a living being”; the last Adam, a life-giving spirit. 46 The spiritual did not come first, but the natural, and after that the spiritual. 47 The first man was of the dust of the earth; the second man is of heaven. 48 As was ...
The word “pope” comes from the Greek term “pappaas,” and means “father.” At one time, all bishops used the title because they were all considered fathers. It is difficult to determine which pope was the first to apply the term to himself. By the eleventh century, the title of ...
Our fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, as it is written: ‘He gave them bread from heaven to eat.’” / Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I tell you, it was not Moses who gave you the bread from heaven, but it is My Father who gives you the true bread from heaven. ...
First of all, I was in Jim’s band, and then when I played with Jackie Flavell in the band we formed, Blues Experience, we backed a lot of these guys. But I had the day job and although I had many, many offers to go fully professional into the music business, I chose to stay,...