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- DictionaryFlesh·ly/ˈfleSHlē/
adjective
- 1. relating to human desire or bodily appetites; sensual: "fleshly pleasures"
- 2. having an actual physical presence: "we will shed the lofty metaphysical Cage and incorporate the earlier dynamic and fleshly Cage"
3 days ago · Several times in Paul’s letters, the grace of patience holds hands with another Spirit-given virtue: kindness. “Love is patient and kind,” he tells the Corinthians ( 1 Corinthians 13:4 ). He writes also of “the riches of [God’s] kindness and forbearance and patience” ( Romans 2:4 ). In the garden of the Holy Spirit, the two grow ...
2 days ago · The Law is not at fault, but the passionate impulses within our fleshly constitution use the injunctions and commandments of divine Law to launch themselves to completion in our behaviour. These raw passions use the Law to make missing the mark and self-forfeiture even worse (Romans 7 v 7 – 12). The letter of the Law kills.
2 days ago · The very act of singing together cultivates harmony in our homes and in our churches. Singing harmonizes God’s people. 3. Singing forms mature affections. Paul said in verse 16 that singing teaches and admonishes us. Now I do not doubt that the teaching here involves using the words to teach truth as well.
5 days ago · This is a symbol of the present age, where gifts and sacrifices are offered that are incapable, concerning the conscience, of making the worshiper perfect, being only (with meats and drinks and various washings) fleshly ordinances, imposed until a time of reformation. (Hebrews 9:9-10 WEB)
3 days ago · They see, in Christ, that the sun of another’s life is rising, not setting, and then they define this person by the coming day, not the lingering night. And so Paul, though discouraged and disappointed by the Corinthians’ slow progress, begins his letter with their true name: “To the church of God that is in Corinth, to those sanctified ...
2 days ago · Adulthood, as illustrated through the lens of the Bible, encompasses a transition from innocence to maturity, marked by the development of wisdom, discernment, and virtue. Adults are called to lead by example, nurturing and guiding younger generations while embodying compassion, patience, and integrity. The principles laid out in the biblical ...
2 days ago · The body-mind housed in these libertine poems insists upon bodily debility as a source for imaginative capacity, not limited incapacity. Under the caricature of the libertine is a character that holds space for the imperfect, the flawed, the damaged, and the diseased, as sources for the creative renewal of the self.
