I Find this article to be a poor example of asserting Christ’s authority, but good evidence of the church’s culpability in the decline of America… “The Spirituality of the Church” D. G. Hart and John R. Muether Extracted from Ordained Servant vol. 7, no. 3 (July 1998), pp. 64-66. What is the Christian’s duty to society? Such a broad question suggests many different answers and conjures up images as diverse as the...

GENNESARET: (garden of the prince), Land of. It is generally believed that this term was applied to the fertile crescent-shaped plain on the western shore of the lake, extending from Khan Minyeh (two or three miles south of Capernaum (Tel-Hum) on the north to the steep hill behind Mejdel (Magdala) on the south, and called by the Arabs el-Ghuweir , “the little Ghor.” Mr. Porter gives the length as three miles, and the greatest...

“In the kingdom of nature. In the wonderful effects of natural causes, and the operations of the powers of nature, we ought to take notice of God’s glory and strength, which we are called upon to ascribe to him; in the thunder, and lightning, and rain, we may see, [1.] His glory. It is the God of glory that thunders (thunders is the noise of his voice, Job 37:2), and it declares him a God of glory, so awful is the sound of the...

-MERRIAM WEBSTER (today): “Sin… 1 a : an offense against religious or moral law b : an action that is or is felt to be highly reprehensible

“A chiasm (also called a chiasmus) is a literary device in which a sequence of ideas is presented and then repeated in reverse order. The result is a “mirror” effect as the ideas are “reflected” back in a passage. Each idea is connected to its “reflection” by a repeated word, often in a related form. The term chiasm comes from the Greek letter chi, which looks like our letter X. Chiastic pattern is also called “ring structure.” The...