There’s a great call to action by the Prophet Isaiah on what can happen (if I could interject) when we don’t withhold. When we show up, God shows up in exponentially greater ways. Is that your experience? Strengthen the weak hands, and make firm the feeble knees.Say to those who...
“Here is how platforms die: first, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. Then, they die. I call this enshittification, and it ...
Expressive gestures, usually made with the hands and arms, showing strong feeling, action, or passion. used in: The Tell-Tale Heart The Man of the Crowd The Cask of Amontillado ghee A clarified butter without any solid milk particles or water. Ghee is used in India and throughout South As...
Verse (Click for Chapter) New International VersionIn everything I did, I showed you that by this kind of hard work we must help the weak, remembering the words the Lord Jesus himself said: ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’“New Living TranslationAnd I have been a constan...
My role is to receive.And yet, we know from the live of Jesus that to receive without responding is to live without faith. The Letter to the Hebrews reminds us that faith is “the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things unseen.” But faith is what moves us, it’s ...
He is saying that he has fallen beneath the level of mankind. Cf. NRSV “I am too stupid to be human.” Proverbs 30:2 tn Heb“than man.” The verse is using hyperbole; this individual feels as if he has no intelligence at all, that he is more brutish than any other human. Of ...
Of (prep.) Denoting that by which a person or thing is actuated or impelled; also, the source of a purpose or action; as, they went of their own will; no body can move of itself; he did it of necessity. Of (prep.) Denoting reference to a thing; about; concerning; relating to;...
it is the action of the mind that vivifies, that of the body profits nothing: the words that I have delivered to you, spiritually understood, give life.Weymouth New TestamentIt is the spirit which gives Life. The flesh confers no benefit whatever. The words I have spoken to you are ...
Fundamentally, a prayer calling God to take action against his enemies is an affirmation of trust in God. It’s to say, “This is God’s job; not mine.” Deuteronomy and Romans and Hebrews all quote God as saying, “Vengeance is mine; I shall repay.” Vengeance is not ours. We do...
What I’ve really been doing besides this DVD thing is just going in and noodling around with musical ideas. I’ve got about 50 bits of might-be-a-verse, might-be-a-chorus—basic chunks of things just to see what’s inspirational. For example, when I thought of this next Nine Inch...