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Jan 18, 2021 · Scripture calls us to build our goals on things of lasting value and to fix our eyes on Christ and the joy that is to come ( Matthew 6:19-21, 1 Corinthians...
Nov 13, 2020 · Since there is no indication in the Bible that God has stopped using dreams, the simple answer to whether God still speaks through dreams and visions is “Yes.” But we must be careful how we apply this.
- Africa Study Bible
Jan 15, 2024 · The Bible gives no evidence that God uses angels, visions, or dreams as the principal means of a person’s salvation. Instead, if angels or visions have a role in the task of missions, it’s ancillary to the responsibility of Christians and churches to herald the gospel to the lost.
- Joshua Greever
The Bible is a collection of sacred writings that form the basis for the Jewish and Christian faiths. It’s best thought of not as one book, but a collection of books, compiled over nearly 2,000 years and set across three continents.
Bernard McGinn defines Christian mysticism as: [T]hat part, or element, of Christian belief and practice that concerns the preparation for, the consciousness of, and the effect of [...] a direct and transformative presence of God.
Key Themes. The hope of Jesus’ final return. Faithfulness to Jesus throughout one's life. The comfort of Jesus in suffering and persecution. Structure. Revelation can be divided into seven parts. Chapters 1-3 introduces John ’s vision. Chapters 4-5, 6-8a, 8b-11, 12-16, and 17-20 focus on various visions of John.
Oct 30, 2015 · What is Christian mysticism? D. D. Martin offers a good working definition of the key elements involved in such practice: Christian mysticism seeks to describe an experienced, direct, nonabstract, unmediated, loving knowledge of God, a knowing or seeing so direct as to be called union with God.
