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I Samuel 1:1-28 covers the story of Hannah and her prayer, her vow and the keeping of her vow and her son, Samuel the judge and prophet who was to anoint both Saul and David as kings of Israel. It is a very interesting read when you have the time. I've not heard anyone speak about this in quite...

Perhaps @Giuliano will be by here to help us with that. I seem to recall him providing information on that previously, but it probably was not on this forum. It seems to me that anyone who followed the instructions to place the blood on the lintel and the doorposts would have also been passed...

Also going way back on this, remember what happened to the first born of Egypt? The children of Israel were spared, but what of those mothers of Egypt? What was the difference between the Egyptians mothers and the mothers of Israel who lost their children to the soldiers of Herod?

And remember also the type or shadow of Mary seen in Hannah, the mother of Samuel the last of the judges. Hannah promised to give him to God when he was weaned and kept her vow. That would a hard thing for a woman who wanted so badly to be a mother. She could not have known that God would bless...

No matter what anyone might think, I am not anti-Catholic... not absolutely anyway. I am, I guess, anti-anti-Christ if there is such an expression. If not, maybe I just made one up. Having said that I don't hold up anyone so high as all that. I try to give honor where I believe it is due, but...

@Jennifer Welcome to the forum! "A man that hath friends must show himself friendly: and there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother." Prov 18:24 Hopefully you will find what you need here as well as elsewhere as you follow the Lord!

Proceed with doubts by all means. Even one who believes a certain thing/doctrine to be the Absolute Truth should be careful about accusing another of blasphemy because that other disagrees. Remembering myself some things that I have declared in my own past to be "truth", which now I cannot...

Who among us has no bias against someone else, when we should not? Jesus respond the devils which were in or were people. Some people may be devils at times [all of the time?] or allow devils to direct their words or actions, but I would be slow to call anyone a devil. Jesus spoke that way to...

These words of yours give me a clue about a question I've had for a long time and which was at least mentioned on another thread recently: How does a person become hungry... hungry that is for the righteousness, Jesus mentions here? Consider now the following: "Blessed are they which do hunger...

I do agree and while both Jesus and Paul support the same view I do like how James puts it: "From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members?" James 4:1 For me it is the old man fighting against the new man born from above within...

I remember thinking to myself, when that high school coach told me that I should not quit: I really wish that big talented coach would have tried to help me then... but he did not. Never another word anytime even though I was in his P.E. classes. I tried hard, but that only got me a C and I held...

Don't be too quick with conclusions based on the way a person speaks. It is also at times simply a matter of communication. Everyone who has actually met Jesus is now in that "life to come" because he answered the Lord's call to him. Before, however, for him it was still "to come". Even people...

"If this man were not of God, he could do nothing." John 9:33 "I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing." John 15:5 Nobody, alone, we certainly are. But with Him in us? "To whom God would make...

You know I remember in high school when the head coach of the football team was testing everyone who attended physical education classes they had us all run a certain distance and being small of stature at the time introverted, afraid of everyone and frustrated with my life, I dropped out saying...

Indeed it is not a race to win against our fellow competitors [other believers in the promises of God?] but simply to be accepted because we have come to love God that much. Those who endure to the finish line are the winners. Those who never get into the race or who drop out along the way are...

Well I would say that He will also accept the Body of Christ! How does one become and remain a part of that Body?

Not only the Special Forces I would say. When I was in basic training at Fort Ord, Calif with the U.S. Army [1963] and all of us had run and run again with full packs and rifles day after day and week after week. Toward the end of our training guess what? Our platoon sergeant was a very tough...

The essence of the man of flesh has never changed. It would seem to me that when Clement encountered God, God revealed things to him as He did to those He inspired to write scriptures. God certainly has never changed, but while the man of flesh may choose to continue in his own ways as...

For everything according to His will, give God the glory!

Actually anyone who has really met Jesus, already has.