It is Thanksgiving Day in Canada today. Thanksgiving Day in the USA happens in November.
Thanksgiving Day is a day to remember, reflect and give thanks to the Immortal, Invisible,God who was and is and is to come.
Thanks be to God for the natural world that sustains us and feeds us and give...
The New Testament Church is older than the New Testament Bible.
The New Testament Church was founded by the Lord Jesus Christ and began its mission of evangelism when the Holy Spirit was given on the Day of Pentecost.
The New Testament Bible required:
Decades to be written
Centuries to be...
Re: "In essentials unity, in non-essentials liberty, in all things charity."
Sometimes, it seems like some people want to reduce the Bible down to John 3:16 and reduce doctrine down to Justification by faith.
I am not one of those people who wants to reduce the Bible and reduce...
Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/27/arts/television/leonard-nEimoy-spock-of-star-trek-dies-at-83.html
Each of us is important. Each death is a loss.
God has His purposes. There have been words sealed since the time of the prophet Daniel (approximately sixth century B.C.).
And he said, Go thy way, Daniel: for the words are closed up and sealed till the time of the end. - Daniel 12:9
In Revelation 5, there is a dramatic scene in the throne...
Agreed. God doesn't need a record book for Himself but I'm sure that He would have a purpose for keeping a record.
While I can't endorse the whole catalog of Chick comics, "This was your life" is a classic that I first encountered in Hollywood, CA several decades back. French title is: "Le...
Giants became extinct.
The quagga is a form of zebra from the South African plains that became extinct in 1883. The rear portion of the animal does not have stripes and resembles a horse.
The numbers of quagga was reduced by hunters.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quagga
Many...
There is a giant described in the Bible who had six fingers on each hand and six toes on each foot.
And there was yet a battle in Gath, where was a man of great stature, that had on every hand six fingers, and on every foot six toes, four and twenty in number; and he also was born to the...
The Bible contains many marvelous prophecies for the future that have not yet been fulfilled.
There is hope for better days to come here on Planet Earth.
Consider this prophecy from Isaiah. It mentions that "the sun shall no more go down" and other marvels.
Prayer: May Thy Kingdom come and...
5045 τέκτων [tekton /tek·tone/] n m. From the base of 5098; GK 5454; Two occurrences; AV translates as “carpenter” twice. 1 a worker in wood, a carpenter, joiner, builder. 1A a ship’s carpenter or builder. 2 any craftsman, or workman. 2A the art of poetry, maker of songs. 3 a planner, contriver...
Great God, what do I see and hear — Luther's Hymn
Original Trinity Hymnal, #240
Great God, what do I see and hear!
The end of things created!
The Judge of mankind doth appear
On clouds of glory seated!
The trumpet sounds; the graves restore
The dead which they contained before:
Prepare, my...
God is a Spirit. Spirit resides in a dimension that science cannot detect.
The philosophical rules of some will not permit acknowledgment of a spiritual dimension with properties that naturalists cannot detect.
The spiritual did once become physical and dwelt among us. His Name was Jesus. We...
“There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations – these are mortal, and their life is to ours as the life of a gnat. But it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub and exploit – immortal horrors or everlasting...
Do atheists require a higher standard of proof in favor of Christ and Christianity than they do for their doubt and disbelief?
Is there a bias that accepts more easily one type of evidence and reasoning (away from belief in God)? Is there a bias that rejects more easily another type of...
But there is forgiveness with thee, that thou mayest be feared. - Psalm 130:4
Almighty God can sovereignly grant forgiveness and He can withhold it. God is a Person to be reverenced and feared.
The forgiveness of God cannot be treated lightly. There is a mighty power at work. The mighty power...
Jesus:
Before the foundation of the earth
The divine eternal Son of God
Foretold by the prophets
Took on manhood
Born of Mary the virgin
Healed the sick
Raised the dead
Crucified for the redemption of His people
Came alive from the dead
Appeared to many and ascended to Heaven
Rules on the...
Atheists appear to be unscientific, inconsistent and unkind here in promoting myth and fairy tales related to Santa Claus while casting aspersions at others.
First, Jesus prayed to His Heavenly Father. John 17 records Jesus’ great prayer to the Father shortly before He went to the cross. He begins:
“Father, the hour has come; glorify Thy Son, that the Son may glorify Thee, even as Thou gavest Him authority over all mankind, that to all whom Thou...
People have been trying to get a connection with the Tree of Life for thousands of years.
Apotheosis of Rameses II of Egypt. He is seated on his throne while three gods (Amen-Ra-Tum, Safekh,and Tahut) inscribe his name on the fruits of the Tree of Life. - Source: Elwell, W. A., & Beitzel, B...