It reflects the biblical truth that God is the Creator and Sustainer of all things, and therefore, He is not dependent on anything outside Himself. This echoes Job 41:11, where God declares His independence and
She has enriched my life more than I could calculate, and it gives me pleasure to know our forever-road is a shared one. She was full of beauty when we met, more when we married, and now full ofstill moreas the candles on our cakes increase. Being loved is a good thing, being lo...
Hence some have thought, that these are meant by the Hosanna in this text; and that the sense is, that the multitude cried, saying, These branches of palm trees we carry in our hands, and strow by the way side, are in honour to the Son of David, the true Messiah, Jesus of Nazaret...
Abraham looked up and there in a thicket he saw a ram caught by its horns. He went over and took the ram and sacrificed it as a burnt offering instead of his son. So Abraham called that place The Lord Will Provide. And to this day it is said, “On the mountain of the Lord it ...
Percussionists tapped out a rhythm on congas and the tambourine. Eight horn men played a swinging fugue. Earth, Wind & Fire vocalist Philip Bailey brought a church full of people to their feet when he unleashed his high-soaring rendition of the hymn “Precious Lord.” ...
wherein we may be like God, or united to him. In the hymn resembling this, recorded by Isaiah, (Revelation 6:3,) is added,The whole earth is full of his glory.But this is deferred in the Revelation, till the glory of the Lord (his enemies being destroyed) fills the earth.”— ...
The story is told of a widowed trapper who lived deep in the Alaskan wilderness with his 2 year old son. On one occasion their food supplies had run out and the trapper was forced to go and catch some more food. The weather outside was so fierce he reluctantly decided to leave his so...
The only point of the piece is to point out how the image punks the “other side”, while naturally ignoring that “their” side got punk’d, too. “I make you think about those questions precisely because we all get bombarded with this stuff every day, and unlike the tabloids when I...
My Christian faith is who I am. It's not something I do. Our faith is not an overlay that goes on top of our life, like the trombone. The trombone is not essential to my being. If God had not called me to play the trombone, he would have called me to do something else. And ...
“This is terrible!” gasped the deacon. “Martha, is the door locked?” “No.” “Then I’ll get up and lock it. O Lord, what will become of us?” Sam was now ascending the stairs, and, though he tried to walk softly, the stairs creaked beneath his weight. ...