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Apr 21, 2022 · The Bible was not created by mere human wisdom but was inspired by God (2 Peter 1:20–21) and will last forever (Matthew 24:35). While the Bible addresses many topics, its central message is that the Jewish Messiah, Jesus Christ, came into the world to provide the way of salvation for all people (John 3:16).
Oct 14, 2022 · The Bible has a lot to say about being mean-spirited and the fact that it dominates the lives of many who reject God. Jesus offers a makeover for us when we give our lives to Him. Second Corinthians 5:17 says, “Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.”. One of ...
Dec 29, 2018 · A Domesticated God. I’ve come to see that the problem—my lack of faith, my passionless heart, and my struggle to surrender—came from a fundamental deficiency in my vision of God. The God I imagined in my heart was not the same God who reveals himself through the Scriptures. I had traded the true God for a much smaller version.
Meekness is therefore an active and deliberate acceptance of undesirable circumstances that are wisely seen by the individual as only part of a larger picture. Meekness is not a resignation to fate, a passive and reluctant submission to events, for there is little virtue in such a response. Nevertheless, since the two responses — resignation ...
Oct 23, 2023 · Spare the rod – The word for spare in Hebrew means to keep back, withhold, restrain, or halt. The person who is sparing is preventing something from happening. The rod on the other hand was useful in correcting, defending, protecting, guiding, and even punishment. The rod was an instrument that as you can see had many functions.
Dec 20, 2023 · That word, slavery, doesn’t mean what you think it means. Or at least it might not mean that. When we think of the word slavery in our context, we tend to think of chattel slavery. This was not what slavery looked like in Paul’s day when Ephesians 6 was written. Because of this, some have translated Ephesians 6 as if the meaning is ...
Jun 24, 2022 · Our tongues, as expressions of our fallen and sinful nature, will run free and unrestrained as exemplars of our nature and character, whether we like it or not, because we can’t control them ...