Have you not heard that God made human for immortality? Truly unable are the loved to die; agreeably, love is for immortality. That’s why love keeps growing infinitely! Yes, it appears that numerous long for immortality who don’t know what to do with themselves even on a rainy Sunday afternoon! What? I have seen many uniquely devoted to making money, I mean, making money even without the knowledge of when they will part eternally with their money. Yes, for sheer…
1. “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.” 2. “For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God.” 3. For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.” 4. “A Psalm of David. The Lord is my shepherd;…
Have you not heard that goodbyes are not forever; Goodbyes are not the end? They mean I’ll miss you until we get to meet again! Therefore, the best thing about memories is making them! For example, when things get tough, you may feel you are on your own, but Christ Jesus says I am here and always here for you. The excellent memory says that Jesus is ever with you and will be with you; you are not alone. Keep…
Fyodor Dostoyevsky said: “You must know that there is nothing higher and stronger and more wholesome for life in the future than some good memory, especially a memory of childhood, of home. People talk to you a great deal about education. But some good, sacred memory preserved from childhood – that is perhaps the best education. For if a man has only one good memory left in his heart, even that may keep him from evil.… And if he carries…
1. “Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life. He does not come into judgment but has passed from death to life.” 2. “He has made everything beautiful in its time. Also, he has put eternity into man’s heart, yet so that he cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end.” 3. Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever you had formed the…
Let me share this with you: In the 1930s, an Australian alcoholic named Arthur Stace was converted and heard an inspiring sermon on the subject of eternity. The preacher said, “I wish I could shout ETERNITY through all the streets of Sydney!” Stace was so moved that as he left the church, he felt an immediate urge to write the word Eternity; he had a piece of chalk in his pocket and bent down and wrote on the pavement. Stace was hardly…
Wendell Berry said: “The Bible leaves no doubt at all about the sanctity of the act of worldmaking, or of the world that was made, or of creaturely or bodily life in this world. We are holy creatures living among other holy creatures in a world that is holy. Some people know this, and some do not. Nobody, of course, knows it all the time. But what keeps it from being far better known than it is? Why is it…
1. “To know wisdom and instruction, to understand words of insight, to receive instruction in wise dealing, in righteousness, justice, and equity; to give prudence to the simple, knowledge and discretion to the youth.” 2. “And if anyone will not receive you or listen to your words, shake off the dust from your feet when you leave that house or town. Truly, I say to you, it will be more bearable on the day of judgment for the land of…
Have we not heard that rap is more like literary fiction than pure fantasy? Are the monsters within the rap context monsters that are indeed real? Are the messages conveyed via the rap Gospel? Remember, speak no evil and restrict the devil: “To speak evil of no one, to avoid quarreling, to be gentle, and to show perfect courtesy toward all people. For we ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, led astray, slaves to various passions and pleasures, passing our days…
Zito Madu said: “Rap has real problems, and some criticisms are valid. But I think of rappers as great American storytellers. They structure their work around rags-to-riches tales, that most American narrative of overcoming circumstance and reaching success through talent and hard work. Their stories can be heroic, too, in the exaggerated tradition of folktale, with struggles against a tragic circumstances or great beasts in the form of grim conditions or implacable haters. But rap is more like literary fiction…