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Clear searchSir Robert Anderson · Biblical and apologetic argument · 1897
…urishes and His people cry to Him? Anderson refuses the easy answer that every unanswered prayer is caused by defective faith. He places the apparent silence of heaven within his reading of the biblical programme and argues that God's patience is not absence, weakness, or indiffe…
View recommendation →Augustine of Hippo · Spiritual autobiography and prayer · c. 397–400
…biblical interpretation, and readers will not agree with every conclusion. Read the work prayerfully but discerningly, receiving its insight while testing its theology and exegesis by the Word of God. Conversion Grace Sin Desire Prayer Providence Memory
View recommendation →A quiet invitation to draw near to Christ
…ather hide than pray. We know the neglected places in our lives. The distracted days. The prayers left unsaid. The familiar weakness we thought we would have outgrown by now. We come before the Lord painfully aware of everything that seems unfinished. In the Song of Songs, the wo…
Read article →Spiritual ecstasy, altered states, and discerning what is from God
…study of mystical experience has given us valuable information. Researchers have examined prayer, meditation, epilepsy, near-death experiences, brain injuries, and psychedelic substances. They have identified changes in brain activity associated with altered awareness, diminished…
Read article →Marvin W. Meyer · Historical sourcebook · 1987
A wide-ranging collection of ancient texts which opens a window onto the mystery religions of the Mediterranean world—their gods, initiations, sacrifices, prayers, festivals, secret rites, and hopes for blessing or life beyond death.
View recommendation →Christ the promised Seed, Gentile inheritance, and Paul's final blessing
…thful community than an unbelieving nation. The reading remains possible, especially as a prayer for Israel's promised future mercy, but it is less natural than a reference to believing Jewish people in this immediate context. What does the word "and" prove? The KJV accurately pr…
Read article →Why the Son assumed a complete human nature, not merely a body
…ws describes the days of His flesh: “Who in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death, and was heard in that he feared; though he were a Son, yet learned he obedience by the t…
Read article →What the Father's love for the Son reveals about God
…4). Three facts belong together. First, Jesus addresses the Father as another Person. The prayer is not one Person speaking to Himself under a different role. Second, Jesus says He possessed glory with the Father before the world existed. He does not begin at Bethlehem or at His…
Read article →History, heresy, and the temptation of private Christianity
…n revivalism was commonly a public and collective event governed by preaching, testimony, prayer, and organised follow-up. Sola Scriptura does not mean that every interpretation is equally good or that the isolated believer has no need of teachers. It means that the final norm is…
Read article →Jesus and the fountain of living water
…to rely upon Him as the Christ who gives life. This faith is not a magic form of words. A prayer can express faith, but the wording of a prayer is not the Saviour. Nor is faith a work by which a person earns the gift. The thirsty sinner brings no supply of his own. He comes to Ch…
Read article →Divine judgement, the character of God, and the promise of escape
…ategory. Christ did not rebuke His hearers for desiring it; He commanded watchfulness and prayer in relation to it. The Christian hope is not a desire to avoid faithfulness. Believers should be prepared to suffer, serve, lose possessions, and die rather than deny Christ. The pret…
Read article →Two failures, two responses, and the difference between remorse and repentance
…ttempt to pay for sin through self-punishment. It may withdraw from Christian fellowship, prayer, Scripture, and anyone who speaks of grace. It tells us to hide from God until we can somehow make ourselves worthy to return. But we cannot cleanse ourselves before coming to Christ.…
Read article →The peace Christ gives in a troubled world
…ng lost our hope. There is no virtue in pretending to be unaffected. Some burdens require prayer, patient fellowship, practical help, medical treatment or wise counsel. Seeking such help is not necessarily a denial of faith. God often cares for us through ordinary means and throu…
Read article →The divine identity of Jesus across the Gospels
…f glory which He already possessed with the Father before the world existed. Later in the prayer, He speaks of the Father's love for Him "before the foundation of the world" (John 17:24). The prayer preserves personal distinction: the Son speaks to the Father. It also rules out t…
Read article →The Messiah cut off before the Temple fell
…elᵉ or 4Q116, preserves small portions of Daniel 9:12–17. Those verses belong to Daniel’s prayer. They do not include the seventy-weeks prophecy in verses 24–27. Therefore, no currently identified Dead Sea Scroll preserves the statement that the Messiah would be cut off. The scro…
Read article →Creation, judgement, and the coming reign of Christ
…n heart rather than intoxicated by desire; peacemakers rather than destroyers. The Lord's Prayer directs their hope towards earth without making earth their god: Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven. (Matthew 6:10) The Christian hope is not that the ear…
Read article →The brothers of Jesus, the sons of Mary, and an argument of strong plausibility
…e material proceeds in parallel: Waters, mire and sinking in verses 1–3 correspond to the prayer for deliverance from waters, mire and sinking in verses 14–15. Enemies who hate without cause in verse 4 correspond to the plea for deliverance from those who hate him in verse 14. “T…
Read article →Israel's Messiah, Israel's Scriptures, and a gospel for the world
…rd. The believers continued in the apostles' doctrine, fellowship, breaking of bread, and prayers. Peter and John still went to the temple at the hour of prayer (Acts 2:41-47; 3:1). Peter should not be imagined as a Gentile bishop transplanted backwards into Jerusalem. He was a G…
Read article →Christianity, Islam and the verdict of the evidence
…abulary. Both speak of one God, creation, revelation, prophets, angels, judgement, mercy, prayer and Jesus the Messiah. But shared vocabulary can conceal incompatible meanings. Christianity says that Jesus is the eternal Son made flesh. Islam denies that God has a Son. Christiani…
Read article →One Messiah, one gospel, and God's continuing purpose for Israel
…gs. The proper response is neither boasting nor patronising fascination. It is gratitude, prayer, evangelistic concern, and confidence that God is able to graft in the natural branches again. We should grieve over Jewish unbelief as Paul grieved, desire Jewish salvation as Paul d…
Read article →Constantine, Arius, the Trinity, the biblical canon—and the myths that refuse to die
…in which deacons and presbyters received the Eucharist; standing rather than kneeling for prayer on Sundays and during Pentecost. The bishops also agreed upon a common observance of Easter and attempted a lenient settlement of the Melitian schism. Nicaea standardised the date of…
Read article →Labour, purpose, and faithfulness in a fallen world
…shaped the whole direction of my career. I do not tell that story as a promise that every prayer for employment will be answered in the same way. I tell it because uncertainty taught me to receive work as a stewardship rather than an entitlement. Work began before the fall The fi…
Read article →How Christians can think politically without surrendering conscience to a package deal
…them as self-authenticating. Isaiah confronted a nation whose sacrifices, assemblies and prayers continued while its hands were full of blood. God's answer was not more impressive religious ceremony: "Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless,…
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