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Again this week as last, our first reading today is from the First Book of Kings and like last week’s, it is a prayer spoken by King Solomon. Last week, it was a private prayer spoken in a dream late at night. Today, it is a public prayer. As long as it was, this reading is...
27Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature? 28And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: 29and yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like ...
Study Bible Book ◦ Chapter Are they not the onesThis phrase refers to the rich and powerful individuals mentioned earlier in the chapter. In the context of James 2, these are the people who are often given preferential treatment in society and even within the church. Historically, the ...
On the other hand you also probably know people who never did anything that will go in a history book, and yet they lived a good life, a beautiful life. Their families knew they loved them; their children remember them fondly. Their magnum opus was the way they cared for their families...
It was found by Robinson to be connected by a tunnel with the fountain of Siloam, and the relations of these wells have been quite recently submitted to fresh examination ('Palestine Expl. Soc. Rep.,' Oct. 1883). Robinson identified this pool with "Solomon's Pool" of Josephus and "King...
And this Seraiah was a quiet prince. 60 So Jeremiah wrote in a book all the evil that should come upon Babylon, even all these words that are written against Babylon. 61 And Jeremiah said to Seraiah, When thou comest to Babylon, and shalt see, and shalt read all these words; 62 ...
Today’s Encounterwas written by: Crystal B. Filed under:Discipleship| Tagged:Discipleship|Leave a comment » Formula for Personal Growth Posted onJuly 29, 2023by llamapacker James 1:22-25 22But prove yourselves doers of the word, and not just hearers who deceive themselves.23For if anyone...
3And he came into all the country about Jordan, preaching the baptism of repentance for the remission of sins; 4as it is written in the book of the words of Esaias the prophet, saying, The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, Make his paths ...
King Solomon, the most powerful and the most respected Israeli king, once said, “Kings take pleasure in honest lips; they value a man who speaks the truth.” He wrote a book called Proverbs, which is part of the Bible and studied carefully even today. There was a college graduate in ...