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The Battle Hymn of the Republic Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord: He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored; He hath loosed the fateful lightning of His terrible swift sword: His truth is marching on. (Chorus) Glory , glory,  Hallelujah ! Glory, glory, Hallelujah! Glory, glory, Hallelujah! His truth is marching on. I have seen Him in the watch-fires of a hundred circling camps, They have builded Him an altar in the evening dews and damps; I can read His righteous sentence by the dim and flaring lamps: His truth is marching on. (Chorus) Glory, glory, Hallelujah! Glory, glory, Hallelujah! Glory, glory, Hallelujah! His truth is marching on. I have read a fiery  Gospel  writ in burnished rows of steel: "As ye deal with my contemners, so with you my grace shall deal; Let the Hero, born of woman, crush the serpent  with his heel, His truth is marching on." (Chorus) G...

The Antidote to Worry Matthew 6:25-34 Some of us are more prone to anxiety than others. Yet as we read in today's passage, persistent worry is not our calling as Christians. We need not be anxious about tomorrow if we are serving Jesus, for while we may not get all of our wants, He will certainly give us all of our needs. If you are struggling with anxiety this day, take your eyes off yourself and do a good deed for another person. Then, ask God to help you learn how to trust in Him confidently. For further study: Matthew 6:25-34 Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition (DRA) 25 Therefore I say to you, be not solicitous for your life, what you shall eat, nor for your body, what you shall put on. Is not the life more than the meat: and the body more than the raiment?     26 Behold the birds of the air, for they neither sow, nor do they reap, nor gather into barns: and your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are not you of much more value than they?   ...

What if I told you Jesus came to abolish religion What if I told you voting Republican really wasn't His mission? What if I told you republican doesn't automatically mean Christian And just because you call some people blind doesn't automatically give you vision I mean if religion is so great, why has it started so many wars Why does it build huge churches, but fails to feed the poor Tells single moms God doesn't love them if they've ever had a divorce But in the Old Testament, God actually calls religious people whores Religion might preach grace, but another thing they practice Tend to ridicule God's people, they did it to John The Baptist They can't fix their problems, and so they just mask it Not realizing religion's like spraying perfume on a casket See the problem with religion, is it never gets to the core It's just behavior modification, like a long list of chores Like lets dress up the outside make look nice and nea...

WHAT DOES THE BIBLE SAY ABOUT... GRIEF? by Betty Miller Proverbs 15:13-14(Amp): 13 A glad heart makes a cheerful countenance, but by sorrow of heart the spirit is broken. 14 The mind of him who has understanding, seeks knowledge, inquires after and craves it, but the mouths of (self-confident) fools feed on folly. In these verses in Proverbs we find a comparison between a merry heart and a sorrowful heart. Verse 13 tells us that you can tell the condition of a man's heart by looking at his countenance (his facial appearance). When people are happy, you can tell by the sparkle in their eyes, their smile and their cheerful attitude. When they are older, they will even have what we call "smile wrinkles" instead of the wrinkles caused by frowning. Indeed, facial looks reveal a lot about a person. You can also read on a person's face when they have sorrow in their heart, especially when you know a person. We have all experienced someone saying to us, whe...

Jeremiah 17:9-10 9 . The heart is deceitful above all things , and desperately wicked: who can know it? 9 . Insidiosum cor prae omnibus (super omnia) et perversum ( vertunt quidam ; alii , durum; alii , eagrotum; possumus vertere , vitiosum, vel , morbidum;) quis cognoscet illud? 10 . I the Lord search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings. 10 . Ego Jehova exquirens ( vel , explorans) cor, examinans renes, ad dandum ( id est , ut dem, ut reddam) cuique secundum vias ejus, secundum fructum operum ejus. What is taught here depends on what is gone before; and therefore they ought to be read together. Many lay hold on these words and mutilate them without understanding the design of the Prophet. This is very absurd: for we ought first to see what the prophets had in view, and by what necessity or cause they were led to speak, what was their c...

Biblical Accommodation Biblical Accommodation   is the adaptation of words or sentences from the   Bible   to signify ideas different from those expressed therin. Thus, if a sinner excuses his fault by saying, "The serpent deceived me", he applies the scriptural words of Eve (Gen., iii, 13) to express an idea which the sentence does not convey in the Bible. Similarly, a blind person might use the words of Tob., v, 12, "What manner of joy shall be to me, who sit in darkness, and see not the light of heaven". Here, again, the words would have a meaning which they do not bear in Sacred Scripture. This accommodation is sometimes incorrectly styled the accommodated, or accommodative, sense of Scripture. From the definition it is clear that it is not a sense of Scripture at all. The possibility of such accommodation may arise, first, from some similarity between the ideas in the sacred text and the subject to which the passage is accommodated; secondly, from the fact...

What is the Olivet Discourse? Answer:   The Olivet Discourse is the name given to the orderly and extended teaching given by Christ on the Mount of Olives . This discourse is recorded in   Matthew 24:1 - 25:46 . Parallel passages are found in   Mark 13:1-37   and   Luke 21:5-36 . Though the discourse itself begins at   Matthew 24:3 ,   Mark 13:3   and   Luke 21:7 , Christ's discourse is in response to questions from the disciples, questions based on what Jesus told them in   Matthew 24:1-2 ,   Mark 13:1-2 , and   Luke 21:5-6 . The record in Matthew is most extensive, so reference here will be to Matthew's Gospel. Before discussing the teaching found in this discourse, it is important to recognize that the interpretation of this discourse must be with reference to Israel and not the Church. Christ was speaking of God's program concerning Israel , and the content of this discourse in large part has direct reference to ...