This post delves into the my personal struggles with my faith in Jesus and my relationship with God. It explores feelings of anger, bitterness, and a desire for change.
God wants you to go to Him in this conversation. He wants you to include Him as you seek Scripture in wonder and awe of how it all leads to Jesus. We are called in our pursuit of God to seek out how Jesus is in all of Scripture. Do not seek out your trusted biblical authority first. But seek God first through prayer and Scripture intake. Let God become your trusted biblical authority.
This article highlights portions of Abraham’s story to bring out one aspect. Constantly we find Abraham interceding on behalf of people, except for Sarah. I look at my wife and see a wondrously beautiful example of the struggle of faith for a woman. The more I desire to pray for her, the more God shows me how to pray for her.
Emmaus Road offers the setting for a captivating short story following two disciples of Jesus, Cleopas, and the narrator, on their heartbreaking journey to Emmaus. Along their way, they meet a mysterious sojourner who guides them through understanding all the prophecies of Jesus’ messiahship culminating in an incredible encounter with the risen Lord himself.
I am on the hunt for the ostensive phrasing of Fee’s Axiom. The treasure I seek is the hermeneutic, as in THE Hermeneutic. This hermeneutic applies to every letter, word, and sentence in Holy Writ. It always applies. A biblical interpretation is deficient if it does not adhere to this rule. Here is the ostensive hermeneutical principle.
Gamblers scheme the ghoulish affair,
Cover bases,
Parlay the pair.
A sonnet with the rhyming scheme of ABAB BCBC CDCD EE. Iambic pentameter. Jesus is the Paragon of Sweetness. None is sweeter. more gentle. more kind.
Jesus nurses the hurting as a friend,
Jesus calms in the deep, as we are frail.
Be as the children, Jesus does commend.
Sit upon his lap, share every detail.
Many people have suffered extreme traumas at the hands of others! They can testify to how offensive this call for forgiveness is. Jesus tells us to pick our cross and follow him. What does Jesus obtain for us on the cross? Forgiveness. How do we know? He bodily rose from the dead.
There is more to forgiveness than its legal aspects. And more manifestations than just the act of mercy. God beckons us to pursue forgiveness in our lives because of how good forgiveness is to us.
God’s forgiveness is like a blossom,
Its beauty bright; its fragrance awesome.
For Mercy’s glory is beyond compare,
And to the cross, it takes us there.