There are, of course, a thousand possible answers to this question. Maybe God’s apparent delay had something to do with God’s perfect timing. Maybe God did immediately answer our prayer request, but Satan temporarily stopped us from receiving God’s answer (cf. Daniel 10:12-13). Maybe ...
Now the LORD attended to Sarah as He had said, and the LORD did for Sarah what He had promised. / So Sarah conceived and bore a son to Abraham in his old age, at the very time God had promised.Psalm 113:9He settles the barren woman in her home as a joyful mother to her ...
I stand in the presence of God, and I have been sent to speak to you and to tell you this good news. 20And now you will be silent and not able to speak until the day this happens, because you did not believe my words, which will come true at their appointed time.” 21Meanwhile...
and after the triumph of the Civil Rights Movement the remnants of American racialism became virulently anti-Semitic. Previously, there had been no great obsession with the Jews. While anti-Semitic groups in the U.S. did exist, anti-Semitism did not generally go hand in hand with racialism,...
For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God. / For you did not receive a spirit of slavery that returns you to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption to sonship, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!” / The Spirit Himself testifies with our spirit that we are ...
Why did God become man? The Roman Catholic answer to this question differs from the teachings of the Holy Orthodox Church. Following the holy Fathers, Orthodoxy teaches that Christ, on the Cross, gave “His life a ransom for many” (Matt. 20:28). “For even the Son of man came not...
In 1 Samuel 16:14, the Holy Spirit departs from Saul. God had rejected Saul from the kingship, but nowhere were we told that the Holy Spirit was connected to the consequences of Saul’s sin. And yet, we see the Holy Spirit depart from his life. Why did the Holy Spirit depart from ...
When God created Adam, he gathered the already existing dust-of-the-earth into a vital composition, released into it the breath of life and Adam became a living soul (Genesis 2:7). Later, God told Abraham that his seed would be like the dust-of-the-earth (Genesis 13:16). Since ...
And if they did, it is unlikely they would ever be able to avail themselves of the "support advantage" since there are no ISPs in many areas of the world. I have two current reactions to this scenario. Theft is still theft, no matter how you look at it. This kind of theft is no...
Years ago, I did the same with the Scriptures that pointed to Jesus (Yeshua). After much study, I was convinced that the Jewish Bible and the New Testament were correct and that Jewish tradition was wrong. Jesus (Yeshua) was/is the Messiah and is Deity and is fully God incarnate....