We will go back into the book of Acts in chapter 26 just for a little bit of review. Chapter 26 begins with Paul before Agrippa. Agrippa, remember, was a king under Rome at the time. He was considered by the Roman government to be an …
God’s actions at times make us uncomfortable. When a recorded deed or attribute of God does not fit our ideas, we tend to hurry past such disconcerting passages rather than allow the holy and pure Word of God to mold our minds. One act …
It may sound impossible, but we can have hope in the face of the monumental problems facing, not just the United States, but also the entire world. Our hope is not physical, for no place exists on earth where we can run and expect to …
(31) "Behold, the days are coming, says the LORD, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah— (32) not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt, My covenant which they broke, though I was a husband to them, says the LORD. (33) But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the LORD: I will put My law in their minds, and write it on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people. (34) No more shall every man teach his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, "Know the LORD," for they all shall know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them, says the LORD. For I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin I will remember no more."
The ultimate fulfillment of of the process implicitly mentioned in Jeremiah 31:31-34 will culminate when we are completely composed of spirit, and God's law will be our first nature, not just second nature. But, while we are in an …
What is truth? What is knowledge? I grew up in a household of scientists who could jabber on and on at the dinner table, and while they spoke with a lot of knowledge, the subject of truth never came up (unless it was to find out who ate the ice cream without permission). I studied physics and mathematics under numerous professors in high school and college, but truth never came up. So, what is truth? According to the semantic definition, truth is “a property of a sentence.” But it is not actually. One can say, “This sentence is a lie,” leaving others with a paradox: Is it or is it not? …
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