“The lip of truth shall be established for ever; but a lying tongue is but for a moment.” (Proverbs 12:19)
Truth wears well. Time tests it, but it right well endures the trial. If, then, I have spoken the truth and have for the present to suffer for it, I…
and Then God Has Done Some Great Thing Through Them…
Isaiah 40:29-31 (NIV) 29 He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak. 30Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall; 31but those who hope in the LORD will renew…
Edward O’Hara Tue 12/31/2019 1:21 PM…
In our last study we left off with the question; But, what about the people that God destroyed in the flood? Or at Sodom and Gemorah? Weren’t these punished by God for their sins? Isn’t that the imputation of…
Why Context Is So Important Something Paul Says the Rest of the World(Gentiles) Did Not Have
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By, Edward O’Hara, Fri 12/27/2019 12:24 PM…
When reading the Bible we always need to remember who the letter we are reading from is written to. Because while the whole Bible is writtenforus. The whole Bible is not writtentous. For…
LOVING YOUR ENEMIES
It is always easier to submit to Christ when he tells us to love our spouse, family, and friends. But when Jesus commands us to love even our enemies, how can we be counter-cultural and obey his teachings? The truth is all of us are sinners, while we…
Daniel 9:2-3, 19 (NIV) 2 in the first year of his reign, I, Daniel, understood from the Scriptures, according to the word of the LORD given to Jeremiah the prophet, that the desolation of Jerusalem would last seventy years. 3So I turned to the Lord God and pleaded with him…
The book of Hebrews is an excellent place to find answers to our questions aboutfaith. Chapter 11 begins with this short definition of faith: “Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see” (Hebrews 11:1).
What, then, is a…
James says, “For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also” (James 2:26). Faith without works is a dead faith because the lack of works reveals an unchanged life or a spiritually dead heart. There are many verses that say that true…
The miracle of Jesus walking on the water, recorded in three of the Gospels (Matthew 14:22–36;Mark 6:45–56;John 6:16–21), came on the heels of His miraculous feeding of the 5,000 with only five loaves of bread and two fish (Matthew 14:17). But it was the…