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It's a good metaphor, this idea that we are on a spiritual journey. In Ephesians 4:1 Paul appeals to the saints to walk worthy of the vocation they are called to, and in 4:17 not to walk as others in the vanity of their mind having their understanding darkened and being alienated from the life...

25 Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave Himself for it; 26 That He might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word, 27 That He might present it to Himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it...

A STUDY OF THE ORIGINS AND MEANING OF THE WORD CHURCH AS USED IN SCRIPTURE: The word “church,” which is derived from κυριακός, kuriakós, “of or belonging to the Lord,” represents in the English Versions of the Bible of the New Testament the Greek word ἐκκλησία, ekklēsı́a; Latin, ecclesia...

Excerpt From: http://www.whitehorseinn.org/archives/276.html It Pays to Go to Church In 1840, Alexis de Tocqueville observed that, This problem has continued to plague practitioners of religion in America since the time of de Tocqueville, right down to the present day emphasis on “the...

Some Scriptures I am reading indicate that God has given us the ability to make choices, and these have predestined consequences. Deuteronomy 30:19 (19) I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse: therefore...

Heavenly Father, in the precious Name of your beloved Son Jesus Christ our Lord, I prayer for your will to be done on earth in the new year, as it is done in heaven. I ask for wisdom in ministering both to the body of Christ and to the world. Help me to resist ungodliness in its various...

Matthew 26:39-44 (39) And He went a little further, and fell on His face, and prayed, saying, O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me: nevertheless not as I will, but as You will. (40) And He comes unto the disciples, and finds them asleep, and says unto Peter, What, could...

These are my spiritual goals: 1) S - Submit to Scriptural Leadership 2) E - Edify the Body of Christ 3) R - Resist Unscriptural Forms of Control 4) V - Value Genuine Ministries 5) I - Ignore Insults 6) C - Continue in the Faith of Christ 7) E - Earn a Respectable Living

We know from Genesis 2:17 that Adam and Eve were forbidden by God to eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. I am currently working on a theme that explores the combination of good and evil in our world and am interested in the fact that the knowledge of evil was present in the...

Amos was a herdsman and a fruit picker. He is very unpopular with Amaziah the priest of Bethel who treats him with disdain and disrespect. As a shepherd and a fruit-picker, Amos would have simply taken some bread with him for his lunch each day, as was the tradition among field workers. Amaziah...

Bibliology is the doctrine of the Bible with regard to: [list type=decimal]The nature of revelation.The nature of inspiration.The nature of inerrancy.The nature of illumination.[/LIST]A key Old Testament passage is: Deuteronomy 6:4-9 A key New Testament passage is: 2 Timothy 3:14-17 Who? What...

Philippians 2:5-11 Humiliation is both the act of humbling and the state of being humbled. As an act of humiliation Christ descended from an elevated state: Philippians 2:5-6"Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be...

Economics, Politics, Religion. These three spheres of human interaction seem to be linked by a common denominator. PART ONE:WORK. Since the dawn of history there has been economic activity. (Gen 2:5) And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it...

The web is chock full of sites that give food for thought regarding numbers and their meaning. Some of the stuff is occultic and some of it is just drivel, but there definitely are numerical associations represented in significant themes and threads throughout Scripture. The fact that adding...

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