1) The Garden of Eden — Adam and Eve were judged by the tree “of knowledge of good and evil”. Cherubims and a flaming sword (time?) which turned every way kept mankind from going back to eat of the tree of life. 2) The Flood — It rained 40 days. After a 40-day period a ...
And yet, as it was in the days of John the Baptist, many are fleeing these emergent churches in search of the truth. Indeed, the genuine gospel is difficult to accept, and the Christian life is not easy; but eternal life is a precious treasure. God’s message will never remain hidden...
Paul covers a lot of ground in the life of faith as he points to this person who has known God through a sublime, rare, spiritual experience, and Paul himself, who most days has to seek God in the kingdom of here and now, of aches and pains, of thorny people and situations and ...
hardier performers on the cliffs at the Minack Theatre hearing new words to The Magic Flute; and about crowded little clubs like the Folk Cottage in the depths of Cornwall where Folk was defined so liberally that there was always a welcome for songs written simply to make people laugh, or ...
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My family, like most families, has a lot of inside jokes. Many of them have beginnings so obscured by time, it would take at least two of us to nail down its origin story. Most of them are throw away lines we laughed disproportionately at in the moment. Others weren’t that funny to...
God is not a hostage-taker. We, like James and John, like their aggrieved and angry companions, tie ourselves up in knots, bind ourselves to ambition and external recognition, envy and rage – these are not the attributes of God.
Lessons in “sexual orientation or gender identity” before lessons in human biology or reproduction are premature, to say the least. But that is the point for the transgender activist movement: to introduce children to the concept of “gender fluidity” before they have any science-based ...
There’s activity all around us, and also ongoing inside many of us, all the time. Quiet and solitude are rare commodities. But God lets us know, time and time again, that we need to settle our minds and hearts and allow stillness to reign over our lives…mainly so we can let Him ...
”)offended me. I could not relate to the things I had endured as light. Another version of that scripture reads,“For our present troubles are small and won’t last very long. Yet they produce for us a glory that vastly outweighs them and will last forever!” (NLT). I now ...