Archive for the ‘ Christianity ’ Category
True prophets of God both afflict the comfortable and comfort the afflicted. - Willem A. VanGemeren [ READ MORE ]
The Backward Creed of the Upstream Swimming Fish from Woodmen Valley Chapel on Vimeo. [ READ MORE ]
In the Problem of Pain (one of my all time favorite books), C.S. Lewis addresses how the Bible often uses the analogies of various relationships between man & beast to help us make sense of the relationship between God & man. Reading the quotation below, I can’t help but smirk as I picture the dynamic [ READ MORE ]
It is written (Matthew 9:2), Some people brought to him [Jesus] a paralyzed man on a mat. Seeing their faith, Jesus said to the paralyzed man, “Be encouraged, my child! Your sins are forgiven.” Notice the plural language: ‘Seeing their faith’, Jesus forgives the sins of (and later physically heals) the man that had been paralyzed. [ READ MORE ]
For since I am free from all I can make myself a slave to all, in order to gain even more people. To the Jews I became like a Jew to gain the Jews. To those under the law I became like one under the law (though I myself am not under the law) to [ READ MORE ]
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