Have You Closed Your Eyes, Stopped Your Ears and Hardened Your Heart?
(Carroll Ray Sutton)
It is obvious that God has given us eyes to see, ears to hear and hearts to understand. Although this is true, many do not see, nor hear nor understand God's Will for their lives. Why is this true?
In Mt. 13:14-15 Jesus explained why he spake unto the multitudes in parables. He said: "Therefore speak I to them in parables: because they seeing see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand. And in them is…
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THE CROWN
(by Wayne S. Walker)A few years ago, I had to have a gold crown put on a tooth that kept chipping. As I was sitting in the dentist's chair waiting, it occurred to me that the word “crown” appears quite frequently in the New Testament, so when I arrived back at the office I did some studying on it. Our English word “crown” comes from a Middle English root, which in turn comes from the Old French, which is based on…
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“Martha, Martha”
Luke 10:38ff records a visit Jesus made to Bethany, the home of three of his most
intimate friends, Lazarus and his sisters, Mary and Martha.
Now as they were traveling along, He entered a certain village; and a
woman named Martha welcomed Him into her home. And she had a
sister called Mary, who moreover was listening to the Lord's word,
seated at His feet. But Martha was distracted with all her
preparations; and she came up to Him, and said, "Lord, do You not care
that my sister has left me to do all the serving alone? Then… -
Bryan Johnson has one chief purpose in life: not dying.
The 47-year-old tech entrepreneur notes that immortality is “the most fundamental of all human desires” and that most world religions focus on some version of it. But now, he believes, something like immortality is “technically, potentially possible.”
Johnson explains: “What I’ve done as a project is I’ve said: Can I slow down my speed of aging to the greatest extent of any human on the planet? And can I then eliminate all the sources of death? Can I become…
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“Redeemed, how I love to proclaim it!” we often sing. But what does it mean to be redeemed? Think about two New Testament words that our English versions usually translate “redeem.”
One word means “to buy out” (Gr. exagorazō, from agorazō, to buy). It was used, for instance, when someone purchased a slave in order to set him free. It is this word that Paul uses when he says, “You have been bought with a price” (6:20; 7:23). Having been redeemed from slavery to sin, we must not allow ourselves to become…
