“We [earnestly] urge you, believers, admonish those who are out of line [the undisciplined, the unruly, the disorderly],
encourage the timid [who lack spiritual courage], help the [spiritually] weak, be very patient with everyone [always controlling your temper].
See that no one repays another...
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Please pray for my aunt who was just diagnosed with stage 4 cancer. She will be unable to take care of my cousin who is quadriplegic and is in a wheelchair. Please pray for them, for the rest of the family, their friends, and other loved ones. Please pray that our God will...
Like Paul in Romans chapter 6, we can define freedom as freedom from sin. If we were perfectly free from sin, then we would fulfill God's will without fail.
For the sake of argument: Would we be free (according to Paul's definition) if 1 and 2 below obtained?
1) God determined that we would...
We must know that the person who is not born-again, a new creature in Christ, led by the Holy Spirit, is, according to God’s own word, a hater and enemy of God.
(John 3:3 - Romans 1:30 - Romans 8:7, 14 - 2 Corinthians 5:17).
We must know that such a person is under the dominion of disobedience...
What is the soul?
The soul is one's mind, will, and emotions.
The Mind Being a Part of the Soul:
The soul is of three parts—the mind, the will, and the emotion. This is clearly and definitely proved by the Word of God. Proverbs 2:10 gives us the spiritual ground to prove that the mind is a...
Matthew 12:1-9
In all my years I have never seen any other verses used more to do away with the Laws of God than these.
I am always amazed how satan confused Adam and Eve with 1 command. I am always amazed how hard we try and find Scriptures to do what we want or not love what God wants...
Matthew 9
I have studied healing in Scriptures for years for my husband and his terrible disease. The one common theme in healing is faith and what God wants.
It was my answered prayer for my brother when I learned much about healing , suffering and death. The number one thing that needs...
When one comes from the mindset of the copycat thesis they tend to read nonsense into history. They start with that bias and see things that are not really there.
That alone makes his worthless to others. Church History: An Introduction to Research Methods and Resources, Second ...By James...
Imagine if you will a wagon with a driver being pulled by two horses. The two horses are your mind and your emotions. The driver is your will and the cart is your body. The two horses, your mind and emotions, will take your body, the cart, wherever your will, the driver, wants to go. Simple...
Follow the fruit.
To be a Christian is just the same as the night is to light. God’s first act was to shed light upon the darkness of the Earth just as if one would shed a right perspective of clarity on an issue that is based on ignorance. Simply put; a Christian ought to be someone who is not...
Here's the Traditional Catholic understanding of the human person, made up of three parts or aspect, and how these aspects are effected by sin:
The Aspects
The Mind
The Will...
I have done respite for these boys for seven years and love them dearly. Their single adoptive mother divorced from their 'Dad' who has a drug habit and is a closet homosexual before they could adopt them together (were his son's children). They see him once a week. She has no living parents...
“For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast” (Ephesians 2:8-9)
The grace of God, the ‘loving-kindness’ of God, the ‘favor’ of God, is never to be understood as something that is manifest among men based on...