Describe your book, its format, and how it helps people abide in Christ’s words.Steven K. Scott: Jesus Speaks provides 365 teachings on the teachings of Christ. Each day starts with a red-lettered statement. The entry then springboards off of that statement and reflects or paraphrases ...
I was raised in a church and a faith that told us we should always be seeking God’s will for our lives. That well-meaning admonishment became a burden I would bear for years to come. My friends would tell me that they felt God calling them to be a pastor or to be a missionary i...
Those are words that describe a lack of intelligence. Smart people don’t use those kind of dirty words, because they find it an insult to their intelligence. — Nouman Ali Khan 336 There are two dirty words in photography, one is art, the other is good taste — Helmut Newton 72 So...
1) Beyond the Guitar –It’s difficult to fully describe the joy this guy’s music brings to me. He posts videos on YouTube a couple of times a month (have you subscribed?). Sometimes it’s a recent film theme, this time Pixar’s Luca with music by Dan Romer. Other times he reac...
According to Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, the term “nationalism” is generally used to describe two phenomena: the attitude that the members of a nation have when they care about their national identity, and the actions that the members of a nation take when seeking to achieve (or sust...
The Seattle Times headline (above is especially awful. I say awful only because I can’t think of a word bad enough to describe how bad it is. Whywouldn’tpeople believe that the law would apply only to abusive parents? You may not consider “gender affirming care” of minors to be a...
Christians accept and believe the Old Testament and all its teachings and both faiths believe in the perfect creation of the world by an infinite God. They both also believe that Satan introduced sin into the world, that God judges sin, and that sins must be atoned for. Judaism is the ...
Are there things we Christians need to un-learn, or re-learn? What other lived contexts do we need to take more seriously as we do spiritual formation (external curriculum)? And—most important—how does the good news of Jesus speak into all of the contexts that shape us?
Color words that are used to describe the color of all kinds of things have different cultural connotations in different languages. Color words are common yet special words in both English and Chinese, for, except that they can be used to refer to specific color, they have so much semantic ...
Words may be formedby the deliberate imitation of sounds they describe (onomatopoeia). ... Sometimes, the imitation may have originally occurred in a source language, and only later borrowed into English, and by its very nature sound imitation tends to result in similar cognates in several langu...