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By Elizabeth Prata The problem of the evil that is in each and every person on earth is troublesome. For many reasons, of course, but for this reason today: we can’t see it all. We don’…
By Elizabeth Prata The problem of the evil that is in each and every person on earth is troublesome. For many reasons, of course, but for this reason today: we can’t see it all. We don’…
What is so extraordinary is that these leaflets were distributed so widely, as in telephone booths, mailed to important professors, and taken by courier to other universities, that the Nazi party thought it was being backed by a very large terrorist group rather than a small group of students. Her friend, Else Gebel remembers the last words Sophie said, “How can we expect righteousness to prevail when there is hardly anyone willing to give himself up individually to a righteous cause…What does my death matter if, by our acts, thousands are warned and alerted.” And then she said, “God, my refuge into eternity.” But this phenomenal story doesn’t end here! Playwright Lillian Groag said in Newsday on February 22, 1993, “It is possibly the most spectacular moment of resistance that I can think of in the twentieth century…The fact that five little kids, in the mouth of the wolf, where it really counted, had the tremendous courage to do what they did, is spectacular to me.
LUST IS A SPIRIT By Babatope Babalobi babalobi@yahoo.com +234 80 35 897435 Save the World Christian ministry App: Join WhatsApp Prayer Group: 2 Kings 9 vs 30-37 30 And when Jehu was come to Jezr…
14 Temptation comes from our own desires, which entice us and drag us away. 15 These desires give birth to sinful actions. And when sin is allowed to grow, it gives birth to death. -James 1:14-15, NLT Emotional Affairs (EA) are wrong. They are sin as they are the breach of marriage vows to “forsake all others.” The … Continue reading "Smokescreen: Emotional Affair As “Symptom” Blameshift."
All this was more than a little unsettling to my twenty-first century sensibilities. We simply don’t talk about people in those terms. However, because all scripture is “God breathed” (1st Timothy …
But those elders who are sinning you are to reprove before everyone, so that the others may take warning. -I Timothy 5:20, NIV Over the years, people like to judge me for continuing this blog ministry: “He must be bitter.” “I am concerned about his new family. He you would think he would have moved on … Continue reading "Adultery needs exposure for the evil it is."
Last week we looked at the imprecatory psalms. This week, we are taking one step to the side and looking at a couple of specific statements from the psalms that are a bit difficult to understand or swallow. Several times over the past week, I have seen this concept floated, “Love the sinner but hate…
21 “For it is from within, out of a person’s heart, that evil thoughts come—sexual immorality, theft, murder, 22 adultery, greed, malice, deceit, lewdness, envy, slander, arrogance and folly. 23 All these evils come from inside and defile a person.” -Mark 7:21-23, NIV A typical response from some folks about cheating is treating as a symptom of marriage problems. That … Continue reading "Symptom? Sure, of a wicked heart!"
Black smoke from a fire. (Photo by Pixabay from Pexels)It has been one month since Hamas launched its brutal terror attack on Israel, killing over 1,400 people. In response, the death toll from Israel's onslaught in the Gaza Strip has soared to over 10,300, according to the Palestinian territory's Hamas-run...
Contrary to many people's perception, demons in the Bible are real.We all know the Temptation of Jesus in the desert.In Matthew 4:1-11, after His baptism, Jesus enters the wilderness where Satan tempts Him three times. First, Satan tempts Jesus to turn stones into bread, but Jesus responds that life is...
Abstain from evil By Babatope Babalobi babalobi@yahoo.com +234 80 35 897435 Save the World Christian ministry App: 1 Thessalonians 5 vs 22 Abstain from all appearance of evil. Abstain from…
“Because the sentence against an evil deed is not executed speedily, the heart of the children of man is fully set to do evil”(Ecclesiastes 8:11). Solomon spoke in Ecclesiastes 8, about keeping the…
This series, first published in January of 2017, answers many of the common questions—asked today by believers and unbelievers alike—about why evil flourishes in this world while God remains sovereign over it. -ed. In times of disappointment and trials, believers take great comfort from the apostle Paul’s reassuring words: “And we know that God causes
This series, first published in January of 2017, answers many of the common questions—asked today by believers and unbelievers alike—about why evil flourishes in this world while God remains sovereign over it. -ed. How can a good and powerful God tolerate all the evil in the world? That question—frequently posed by skeptics and liberal theologians—is
This series, first published in January of 2017, answers many of the common questions—asked today by believers and unbelievers alike—about why evil flourishes in this world while God remains sovereign over it. -ed. One of the most common excuses given by those who reject the God of the Bible is the issue of evil in
Evil plans shall not succeed By Babatope Babalobi babalobi@yahoo.com +234 80 35 897435 Save the World Christian ministry App: Acts 25 vs 2-3 2 Then the high priest and the chief of the Je…
Evil covenants shall not prosper By Babatope Babalobi babalobi@yahoo.com +234 80 35 897435 Save the World Christian ministry App: Acts 23 vs 21 But do not thou yield unto them: for there lie in …
By Elizabeth Prata The most asked question and the most offered objection to Christianity are the two in the headline. Philosophers have struggled for eons to describe and resolve “the proble…
This post was originally published in July 2015.–ed. Is God’s wrath compatible with God’s love? One of the greatest modern assaults on the character of God has come from professing Christians who try to argue that wrath and hatred are antithetical to a good and loving God. Instead of magnifying God’s love, they end up
The evils of polygamy By Babatope Babalobi babalobi@yahoo.com +234 80 35 897435 Save the World Christian ministry Join Telegram prayer group Subscribe to YouTube channel 1 Chronicles 3 In 1 Chroni…