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“If your enemy is hungry, give him food to eat; if he is thirsty, given him water to drink; for you will heap coals of fire on his head, and Yahweh will reward you.” (Proverbs 25:21-22, WEB) Paul quotes the passage from Proverbs in Romans 12:20 and then goes on to say in verse 21, ”Don’t be...

When is the last time you read this passage of scripture? Some people read the Bible cover to cover and have never read it. If the translation you use is one of the following, you won’t have read it and may not even be aware of it: CJB, DLNT, ERV, GNT, NABRE, NIV, NIVUK, and TLV...

A story from my X / Twitter feed this evening. “An Arkansas Baptist Church, under fire for alleged cover-up of sexual abuse, has devised a new way to control negative publicity - forbid members from speaking anything with ‘(negative) intent’ in public. …” (Josh Shepherd, “Embattled Southern...

The subtitles are helpful but not necessary. The message is clear, in all languages. Or no language at all. Thank you for watching. You benefited from it. So, potentially, did others.

John Harper.

“DailyMail.com has heard from scientists in other fields whose life-long pursuit of empirical truth in the lab has lead them ‘to believe in God as the author of creation.’ …”...

“The opening ceremony of the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, France, turned heads while prompting backlash from some faith-based viewersd.” https://www.oann.com/newsroom/olympics-opening-ceremony-features-drag-queens-mocking-biblical-last-supper-scene/ Only “some”?

“Too long have I lived among those who hate peace. I am for peace; but when I speak, they are for war.” (Psalm 120:6-7, NET) In 1869 the Russian author Leo Tolstoy had published a novel titled War and Peace. What a pity, the word order in the title. How true, though, the word order is in this...

I saw this on my Twitter / X feed this evening and thought it would be an interesting topic to discuss here. ”You see a new Bible translation, and immediately flip to some verses to see how they’vd been handled. What are those verses for you?”...

It sounds like a simple enough question. Right? “Return.” What does it mean? Is it literal or is it only symbolic? For the Christian: Following his bodily resurrection from the grave, Jesus of Nazareth himself ascended into heaven. Jesus of Nazareth himself will return from heaven to the...

“Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.” - Henry Ford (deceased) I was encouraged as a pastor by the church ministerial recognition board to pursue continuing education. I wasn’t interested in obtaining formal advanced degrees in...

I recently had occasion to speak with a licensed psychiatrist through my work on the Kentucky Citizen Foster Care Review Board. Several psychiatric test methods were briefly discussed, one of them being the Meyers-Briggs Personality Test. I learned about this test in a biblical counseling course...

“Founded in 1975, the Women’s Ordination Conference (WOC) is a grass-roots driven movement that promotes activism, dialogue, and prayerful witness to call for women’s ordination and gender equity in the Roman Catholic Church.” This is a music video the WOC produced for the cause. The lyric...

I’ve run across them. You’ve run across them. They might even, at times, be us. Who are they? Christians who aren’t acting Christlike in the conduct of their conversation. Why does it happen? There are several potential reasons but the one that I would like to focus on is instruction. No one...

Mr. Butker is a Catholic. He delivered the commencement address this year at Benedictine College, a Catholic institution of higher learning. A Catholic to Catholic delivery. He’s taking a lot of heat for the content of his speech. I wanted to find out why. I’m not a Catholic, but I watched...

“The Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith will publish its new norms for the discernment of apparitions and other supernatural phenomena May 17, the Vatican press office said. Cardinal Victor Manuel Fernandez, prefect of the dicastery, and Msgr. Armando Matteo, secretary of the doctrinal...

My God is only one -> Yahweh, the God and Father of Jesus Messiah. That will come as no surprise to anyone who has read my posts on the subject. I came across a Christian yesterday who stated that God is probably more than three. No explanation for the belief was presented. This is a highly...

I saw this question posed on my X / Twitter feed and thought it was interesting. https://x.com/revivedthoughts/status/1788920944112914934?s=61 Why did he ask? ”I was listening to In Christ Alone when I thought to ask this question.” The day approaches. Plan for it, or someone else will. I...