Life threw me an off-speed pitch while I was looking for a fastball, and I barely managed to foul it off and stay at the plate. To read about my biggest challenge while creating this story, click on my past post:How Writing Helped Me Escape The Halo. I didn’t cry when I wrote t...
(verb) to offer devout petition, praise, thanks, etc., to (God or an object of worship).“Please, God, don’t let me fail this exam,” prayed Heather. quavered (verb) to sound, speak, or sing tremulously. (Tremulous is defined as: characterized by or affected with trembling or trem...
Lyric Example: “Que Dios bendiga mi corillo” (“May God bless my squad”) —“Que Dios Bendiga (Remix),” Arcangel Dura Slang Meaning: Its literal translation means “hard,” but in urban lyrics, “dura” is used to describe a woman who’s all that. Lyric Example: “Que estás ...
/ Go to your people, the exiles; speak to them and tell them, ‘This is what the Lord GOD says,’ whether they listen or refuse to listen.”Acts 2:4And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit enabled them.Isaiah 51:16I have ...
[1] My parents rationalized that they simply were beating me to “Save me from the policeman’s bullet!”“God’s word dictates that we use the whip on you accordingly.”[2] Frequently I was whipped in tandem fashion[3] by both of my parents. To them, in the “real world” it ...
The ten most powerful two-letter words in the English language are: If it is to be, it is up to me. —Harvey Mackay 0 Four Word Quotes There are four principles we need to maintain: First, read the Word of God. Second, consume the Word of God until it consumes you. Third believe...
In short, they were you and me. They weren’t royalty or even the popular or famous. Nope, the Son of God chose to be born among the lowly. The ordinary. I have always loved the fact that Jesus, the King of Kings, chose to be born in a very humble stable rather than a palace...
These words of God through Isaiah are similar to the words heard at the baptism of Jesus.Water plays an equally precarious role in our spiritual lives. On one hand, it challenges. Saint Paul understands baptism as dying and rising again. He says, “We were buried therefore with him by ...
He said, “Write, for these words of God are faithful and true.” Literal TranslationsLiteral Standard VersionAnd He who is sitting on the throne said, “Behold, I make all things new”; and He says to me, “Write, because these words are true and steadfast”;Berean Literal BibleAnd...
It enters into his heart, and tempts the believer to set up an independent business for himself, and until the Lord brings about a spiritual bankruptcy, pride will keep him from going to God. Pride has ten thousand shapes; it is not always that stiff and starched gentleman that you ...