Tag: theology
member name: James Stemmle
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November 18, 2008 10:23 AM EST --
Though he was in the form of God, he did not deem equality with God something to be grasped at. Rather he emptied himself and took the form of a slave, being born in the likeness of men. . . .
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March 06, 2009 11:50 AM EST --
Keep your eyes open for you know not the day or the hour. Mt 25:13
Would Jesus have said such a thing? Did Jesus believe in judgement? And what, at any rate, does it say about God? . . .
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November 10, 2009 09:48 AM EST --
Good and upright is the Lord; thus he shows sinners the way. He guides the humble to justice, he teaches the humble his way. All the paths of the Lord are kindness and constancy toward those . . .
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February 15, 2007 10:19 AM EST --
With Jews and Greeks alike I insisted solemnly on repentance before God and on faith in our Lord Jesus. Acts:20:21
Luke has Paul saying that his message was twofold. Actually it was manifold, . . .
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December 06, 2008 03:10 PM EST --
Those slaves whose masters are brothers in the faith must not take liberties with them on that account. They must perform their tasks even more faithfully, since those who will profit from their . . .
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January 13, 2009 12:00 PM EST --
“No one lights a lamp and puts it under a bushel basket or under a bed; he puts it on a lamp stand so that whoever comes in can see it. There is nothing hidden that will not be exposed, nothing . . .
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March 20, 2009 12:59 PM EDT --
He told them a parable on the necessity of praying always and not losing heart: “Once there was a judge in a certain city who respected neither God nor man. A widow in that city kept coming to . . .
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July 18, 2007 12:16 PM EDT --
As your fellow workers, we beg you not to receive the grace of God in vain. 2 Cor 6:1
Ok, this passage is ripped from context. But what an astounding statement! Paul clearly assumes . . .
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September 30, 2008 01:18 PM EDT --
Let us greet him with thanksgiving Ps 95:2
Him? Greet him? Greet the male God of the Old Testament. What is going on here? The psalmist speaks of encountering . . .
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February 23, 2009 12:33 PM EST --
we thank God constantly that in receiving his message from us you took it, not as the word of men, but as it truly is, the word of God at work within you who believe 1 Thes 2:13
The word of God at . . .
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August 08, 2008 10:54 AM EDT --
Happy the man who makes the Lord his trust; who turns not to idolatry or to those who stray after falsehood . Ps 40:5
In a marketplace of ideas where we cannot know God exactly but only . . .
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September 18, 2008 11:36 AM EDT --
To other towns I must announce the good news of the reign of God, because that is why I was sent Lk 4:43.
Not many of us can say this. I must announce the good news of the reign . . .
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November 14, 2008 09:52 AM EST --
God is one. One also is the mediator between God and man, the man Christ Jesus, who gave himself as a ransom for all. 1 Tim 2:5-6
See. Here is one reason why we should write . . .
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November 11, 2009 01:35 PM EST --
In times past, God spoke in fragmentary and varied ways to our fathers through the prophets; in this, the final age, he has spoken to us through his Son, whom he has made heir of all things and through . . .
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September 12, 2007 10:34 AM EDT --
those who are in the flesh cannot please God. But you are not in the flesh; you are in the spirit since the Spirit of God dwells in you. Rom 8:8-9
I don’t want to debate or ponder . . .
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September 07, 2009 11:19 AM EDT --
Let not the foreigner say, when he would join himself to the Lord, “The Lord will surely exclude me from his people”; Nor let the eunuch say, “See, I am a dry tree.” For . . .
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February 18, 2007 07:47 AM EST --
You are a people sacred to the Lord, your God; he has chosen you from all the nations on the face of the earth to be a people peculiarly his own. Deut 7:6
And this was written by Jewish scribes . . .
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September 19, 2007 11:05 AM EDT --
Keep me as the apple of your eye; hide me in the shadow of your wings. Ps 17:8
Jesus continued his tour of all the towns and villages. He taught in their synagogues, he proclaimed the good . . .
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February 19, 2009 11:56 AM EST --
Consider your ways! You have sown much, but have brought in little; you have eaten, but have not been satisfied; You have drunk, but have not been exhilarated; have clothed yourselves, but not . . .
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September 08, 2009 09:46 AM EDT --
I will treat of the mighty works of the Lord; O God, I will tell of your singular justice. O God, you have taught me from my youth, and till the present I proclaim your wondrous deeds ; Ps 72: . . .
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