Interested in learning Biblical Greek? BibleMesh Biblical Languages will guide you to become a confident reader of the biblical text—and it begins with taking your first steps. Find out more and get our Greek First Steps course for free. First-century Greek speakers didn’t pronounce words like most modern seminarians are taught to pronounce them. While …
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And when he had finished speaking, he said to Simon, “Put out into the deep and let down your nets for a catch.” And Simon answered, “Master, we toiled all night and took nothing! But at your word I will let down the nets.” And when they had done this, they enclosed a large number …
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John Winthrop set sail for the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1629. He had already been elected governor and would serve intermittently in this position until his death nineteen years later. Winthrop typified the Puritan settler; he was committed to both the church and the state being built on Christian principles. In January 1637, Winthrop elaborated …
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Imagine a man, his name is Samuel. He is a scribe. The year is AD 1008 and he sits, day after day, in Fustat, now part of modern-day Cairo, painstakingly copying text onto pages of parchment. The manuscript he is creating must be of the highest possible quality — it is the Hebrew Bible, and …
14 For when Gentiles, who do not have the law, by nature do what the law requires, they are a law to themselves, even though they do not have the law. 15 They show that the work of the law is written on their hearts, while their conscience also bears witness, and their conflicting thoughts …
Most people recognize that they need rest from their busy and hectic lives. But what this usually means is taking a slight “pause” so they can get just enough energy to get back to their busy and hectic lives. In this sense, “rest” simply becomes another tool, another blunt object, to force the machine to …