But even if you suffer for doing what is right, God will reward you for it. So don’t worry or be afraid of their threats. Instead, you must worship Christ as Lord of your life. And if someone asks about your Christian hope, always be ready to explain it. But do this in a gentle and respectful way. Keep your conscience clear. Then if people speak against you, they will be ashamed when they see what a good life you live because you belong to Christ. Remember, it is better to suffer for doing good, if that is what God wants, than to suffer for doing wrong!” (1 Peter 3:13-17, NLT)
Jesus related a parable of a sheep who became lost (Luke 15:1-7). All activity stopped until the lost sheep was found, then rejoicing celebrated the return of the lost.
Anti-wolf extremists will stop at nothing until the Gray Wolf species is put to rest for good. Over the years the so called “hunters” have created a cultural background to the Gray Wolf. The bible states, "Religious convictions support our hatred of the wolf. “ Then God said, ‘Let us make man in our image, after our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth.'”,
I recently read The Screwtape Letter by C.S. Lewis, and the most striking thing I learned was that the devil does not put things in our mind, but rather lets us succumb to temptation on our own. In every instance of temptation, we must resist the urge to sin and
Three little pigs move around singing "Who's apprehensive about the enormous,awful wolf?" Little Red Riding Hood scarcely gets away from the guile advances of the avaricious wolf camouflaged as her grandma. Such myths and legends have depicted the wolf as a danger to human presence. Dreaded as inhumane executioners, they
Wolves aren’t interested in following the Sheppard to refuge, they want to eat his sheep. Sheep are naïve and wolves
This quote could not be truer. The apostles will become targets once Jesus ascends. They will be ridiculed, mocked, and persecuted because of the things they preached and believed. Despite all of this, the apostles persevered and spread the Good News until the very end. When I saw the quote, one thing came to my mind the most. All of the apostles except one died violent deaths because the apostles they would not stop preaching. That made me realize Jesus’ words were so true, and Jesus knew what was going to happen to his
If a lion and a wolf got in a fight A single lion could easily kill several wolves if cornered. A pride would be formidable and no wolf pack would ever take them on. By the way From the small number of documented attacks, it can be concluded that the
Scripture quoted in this paper is from the New American Standard Bible (NASB), as it appears in the Comparative Study Bible, for the purpose of compliance with Bacone College’s Christian Ministry Degree program.
What does it feel like to be rejected, to be abandoned? To be ignored? What do you do when others disappoint you in ministry? How do you respond when you are not getting the response you were expecting to an idea? What do you do when other rub you the
truth above makes us enemies of society that’s why state churches love and practice lies! But we are not of the world, we have been chosen out of the world. Therefore, every truth our Lord reveals to us and teaches us, we will lay down our lives to proclaim it! Even so, come Lord Jesus!
Countless people regard Jesus as one of the greatest leaders in history, as evidenced by the fact that Christianity continues to be one of the largest religions practiced worldwide. Christians see Jesus as a role model because of the parables he teaches about being loving, faithful, and merciful. Followers of Christ, both the contemporary disciples and modern Christians, create a focus around these parables, use these parables as a model by which to live. What people fail to recognize by focusing on only the parables, however, is the fact that Jesus was really a fear-based leader, especially in guiding the disciples. While the stories Jesus tells preach love and mercy, the stories the Mark tells about Jesus show a Jesus that instills terror.
Description: Exegesis on Matthew 16: 13-19 A. Literary Criticism Context. What follows and precedes your passage? Is your passage affected by this context? Matthew 16: 13-19 is where Jesus explains to the disciples for the first time that he is really the Messiah, which they had not known before, while
Theological Analysis In reflecting on this situation, the passages of on the characteristics of those who are shepherds and those who are not come to mind. In the Gospel of John, Jesus communicates the demands of being a shepherd of church.
Wolves are nearly always portrayed as the bad guy, the one you want to stay away from, because you know they always cause disaster and havoc in their midst, they kill, and you must be very clever to escape without harm. Fairy tales and fables are full of examples of wolves; Little Red Riding-hood, The Three Little Pigs, The Boy who Cried Wolf, Lambert the Sheepish Lion, each with a wolf set about trying to steal something which doesn’t belong to it. Even the Savior, Jesus Christ is our figurative shepherd, and we His sheep, and He keeps us safe from the wolves of life. This, however, is a blog on marriage, so what do wolves have to do with marriage?