Who is “The Bride of Christ” ?
Husbands, go all out in your love for your wives, exactly as Christ did for the church—a love marked by giving, not getting. Christ’s love makes the church whole. His words evoke her beauty. Everything he does and says is …
I want to know Christ
In 1973, my grandfather died of a massive heart attack. I didn’t get to say goodbye. To this day, I don’t know if I will see him in Heaven. This man loved me – he was my favorite grandpa – …
“slow-motion genocide”: Christians in Nigeria
CBN reports:
Jeff King, president of International Christian Concern (ICC), told CBN Digital there have been an estimated 100,000 deaths over the past two decades, with 3.5 million [Nigerian] Christian farmers being unfairly driven from their lands.
The ongoing and intense persecution …
The behavioural crisis driving ecological overshoot
BeauHD reports on Slashdot:
In a new paper published in the journal Science Progress, author Joseph Merz argues that climate issues are symptoms of ecological overshoot, driven by exploited human behaviors such as overconsumption, waste, and population growth. The paper emphasizes the need to …
“I brought you into this world, and I can take you out”
Parents used to sternly joke with a misbehaving child, saying “I brought you into this world, and I can take you out”. Who would have thought that a few years after the saying became popular, it’s no longer a joke?
We …
People are people, no matter what – “Religion” is not the threat
Romans 3:23 states:
for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God
No person has existed, except Jesus, who is without sin.
There was an atheist named Adam Lee who once said “that people become irrational and dangerous to the precise degree …
The Selkirk Grace
Some Folk hae meat that canna eat,
And some can eat that want it;
But we hae meat, and we can eat,
So let the Lord be Thanket!
traditionally accredited to Robert Burns, born January 25, 1759
The Parental Blessing (Blessing Your Child)
I’ve been intrigued by instances in the Bible, where the parent formally blesses the child(ren) before the parent dies. So I did a study to collect some references of early blessings, to understand it better.
The ideas I’m looking into, are:
whether …