In the book of Acts 14:8-19 the Bible touches on a very unique encounter Paul and Barnabas had during their ministry. The account begins in verse 8 where it says, “In Lystra there sat a man crippled in his feet, who was lame from birth and had never walked.
Martin Luther was truly a great man of God. He lived roughly 500 years ago. He is best known as the man who stood up to the heretical teachings of the Roman Catholic Church. If not for his bravery, we would not have the freedom of worship we enjoy today.
Martin Luther was not only a great crusader of the faith, he was a very loving husband and father. There was a time in his life when he was forced to wrestle with the brevity of life. His time of realization and struggle came when confronted by the illness and eventual death of his young daughter Magdalene.
Men huddled together in small cabins, coughing, hacking, sneezing, shivering, and cold to the bone. They were sick, hungry and considered themselves successful, if they managed to survive another day. Their leader knew, that if they failed to endure this seemingly endless cycle, their hopes and dreams would evaporate, in the blink of an eye.
HEADLINE: Daily Mail (United Kingdom), “Kentucky fans run riot, burn jerseys and hurl liquor bottles in the streets as they take NCAA final defeat badly (… and UCONN students smash up their OWN campus in celebration of victory).”
It is altogether fitting and appropriate that your first act as a married couple is to place yourselves under the instruction of the Word of God. May this not be a mere formality, but may it signify your determination to live your married lives to the glory of God in obedience to his will as revealed in Holy Scripture. For it is only as both of you seek to honor God and grow in your love and obedience to him that your relationship to each other will flourish and yield the joy and blessing that God has intended for the marital union.
In learning to recognize counterfeit money, experts say, you should spend most of your time studying genuine money. Modern counterfeiters, unfortunately, are making it increasingly difficult to distinguish their product from the real thing. But the principle still holds in the spiritual realm, where there is no “paper money” and Satan can’t afford to mint in real gold.
When I was a boy one of my favorite folk songs was “Grandfather’s Clock.” Do you remember it? I suppose what arrested me was the idea that it was “bought on the morn of the day that he was born” and ran continuously until the old man died at age 90. I often found myself singing it and ticking the minutes as they went.
In 1980 a group of 58 prominent persons in the United States, Great Britain, and six other countries signed “A Secular Humanist Declaration,” a document that expresses principles and goals of a growing movement and a pervasive attitude that threatens to erode and destroy the biblical principles that have formed the core of the Judeo-Christian heritage of western culture and society.
Once I dreamed that I walked through a beautiful forest with an atheist friend. As we followed a winding trail, my friend explained his understanding of the universe. He said,”There is no reason for believing in God. Science has shown that everything can be explained by natural causes.”
This is a very important subject today. If you turn on your radio or television you will frequently hear preachers, preaching on the Baptism of the Holy Spirit. If you go into Christian bookstores you will find many books written about the Baptism of the Holy Spirit… Therefore, we need to understand what the Word of God has to say concerning it, that we might have a proper understand of just what the Baptism of the Holy Spirit is.
Most everything surrounding man’s existence here on earth is somehow related to the concept of time and physical space. From the point of conception, to the time of our death, from the rising of the sun, to its setting, we are reminded that all things in this world expire. Science itself predicts that the sun, as we know it, will slowly transform into a “red giant” (a step in the process of the death of a star) in roughly “5 billion years.”
On March 11, 2004, three days before Spain’s general elections, 191 people were killed by a series of explosions set off in the city of Madrid. Based on a fingerprint match, attorney Brandon Mayfield was arrested and jailed.
The quality of the fingerprint match was considered to be an “absolutely incontrovertible match.”1 Typically, examiners demand that “12 unique traits correspond to declare a match.”2 Mayfield’s print shared 15 traits with the one found in Madrid. The fingerprints were so close, even the expert witness Mayfield hired testified it was a match.
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