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Have you ever had a day where frustrations were mounting and you said a little prayer along the lines of: "oh, Lord, give me patience"? You may have noticed that G-d often seems to answer those prayers by bringing something (or someone?) into your life that will test your patience... a lot. I usually seem to have an appetite for more wisdom. As it is with desert, my response to wisdom has usually been "May I have more, please?"
In short, you are free to marry a man who has never been married before or a widower. We have a lengthy article concerning the Biblical view of marriage (and remarriage), which can answer this question in more detail. Meanwhile, while we hope the ...
The traditional teaching within the church is that Jesus was crucified on a Friday, and churches commonly observe the Friday before Easter Sunday as the day of Jesus' death, but a Friday observance is a matter of church tradition rather than bibli...
<p>We stood in the garage of one neighbor’s house at 5:50 this morning and watched the other neighbor’s house burn down. The family – two parents, three kids, and one very traumatized beagle – stood lined up across the front of the garage peering through the rain, watching as all their accumulated earthly wealth burned. It gave new meaning to the scriptures. It all burns. These are the castles we build while we’re here. These are the efforts that drive our days and haunt our nights. This. This, that smolders even now hours later as we look out the windows from our comfortable home across the street and think about having no silverware. No shoes. No keys to start the car with. No charger for our phones. It all seems so important, so vital to our existence. And you know what… it is. For now. But this is not our home.</p>
<p>One of Merriam-Webster's words of the day was manumit. They defined the word as "to release from slavery". Where do we find this concept in Scripture?</p>
<p>A friend of mine recently shared an astounding fact. Ninety percent of children who grow up in evangelical homes make a decision to follow Christ, yet only 22% of that group are still following Christ by age 35. I had to check this out...</p>
<p>My husband is the only person I know who uses a lint roller on the insides of his pockets. I caught him doing it this morning. It just troubles him to have all that build-up in there. He asked me with his face wrinkled in disgust, “What is it? And where does it come from?”</p>
<p>Nothing, absolutely nothing, enters our lives without the express permission of God for the purpose of making us more like His son. That is a gift worth appreciating.</p>
<p>Sometimes it's easier to stay in our dark place of self-loathing and pity. But, God gives us a way out. He calls us to the Light!</p>
There are two passages in scripture that are relevant to this question for the New Testament believer. The first is found in Matthew 5: “33 “Again, you have heard that the ancients were told, ‘You shall not make false vows, but shall fulfill you...