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A storm descends on a small town, and the downpour soon turns into a flood. As the waters rise, the local preacher kneels in prayer on the church porch, surrounded by water. By and by, one of the townsfolk comes up the street in a canoe. "Better get in, Preacher. The waters are rising fast." "No," says the preacher. "I have faith in the Lord.
16 For the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. 17 After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air.
Sinner's prayer. William Holman Hunt 's 19th century The Light of the World is an allegory of Jesus knocking on the door of the sinner's heart. The Sinner's prayer (also called the Consecration prayer and Salvation prayer) is an evangelical Baptist term referring to any prayer of repentance, prayed by individuals who feel sin in their lives and ...
Ground was broken on Sunday for a new building at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, which will house a memorial and museum to combat antisemitism at the site of the 2018 hate crime shooting.
John 3:16. For God loved the world in this way: He gave His One and Only Son, so that everyone who believes in Him might not perish but have eternal life. The Holman Christian Standard Bible ( HCSB) is a modern English Bible translation from Holman Bible Publishers. The New Testament was published in 1999, followed by the full Bible in March 2004.
Ananias ( / ˌænəˈnaɪ.əs /; Biblical Hebrew: חָנַנְיָהּ, romanized: Chānanyah) and his wife Sapphira ( / səˈfaɪrə /; סָפִירַה, Ṣafīrah) were, according to the biblical New Testament in Acts of the Apostles chapter 5, members of the early Christian church in Jerusalem. The account records their sudden deaths ...
Benjamin Rush (January 4, 1746 [O.S. December 24, 1745] – April 19, 1813) was an American revolutionary, a Founding Father of the United States and signatory to the U.S. Declaration of Independence, and a civic leader in Philadelphia, where he was a physician, politician, social reformer, humanitarian, educator, and the founder of Dickinson College.
They focused on Bible study, methodical study of scripture, and living a holy life. Other students mocked them, saying they were the "Holy Club" and "the Methodists", being methodical and exceptionally detailed in their Bible study, opinions, and disciplined lifestyle. Eventually, the so-called Methodists started individual societies or classes ...