A collection of spiritual topics, digests, and biblical teachings to help further your Christian growth
The Heilingenstadt Testament was a personal letter written by the great virtuoso Beethoven on October 6th, 1802 to his two brothers. The letter was discovered after his death and as a result, we know the composer had at one period in his life considered committing suicide. At the height of Beethoven’s fame and skills, the composer began to lose his …
Gonxha Agnes Bojaxhiu was born in 1910 to parents, Nikola and Drana Bojaxhiu in Skopje, a Balkan city in Macedonia. The youngest of 3 children, Gonxha was only eight years old when she lost her father, leaving her mother Drana to shoulder the responsibility of parenting alone. The sudden death of her father left the family financially burdened. Nevertheless, her …
The evil queen would often ask the magic mirror, “Who’s the fairest of them all?” The mirror would respond, “Thou, O Queen, art the fairest in the land.” And she was, at least for a time, until the day Snow White came of age and became the fairest in the land. The queen’s vanity could not abide this shift and …
Lord Byron was a famous poet of the 19th century and still regarded as one of the greatest British poets who ever lived. Aside from his poetry, he is also known for his daughter, Ada Lovelace who was a gifted mathematician and considered the first computer programmer. But the poet also had another daughter. Her name was Allegra. She was …
During the era of the French revolution, came a period known as the Reign of Terror which lasted about a year (1793 – 1794). The Reign of Terror introduced death by Guillotine, an execution device. Maximilien Robespierre, the man who spearheaded the Reign of Terror campaign gave a speech saying, “…the basis of popular government during a revolution is both …
Empress Dowager Lu Zhi of the Han Dynasty in China was said to be an effective ruler who improved the conditions of the poor, lowered taxes, and promoted peace. However, in the winter of 194 BC, following the death of her husband (Emperor Gaozi), she had her husband’s concubine (Concubine Qi) killed in the following manner: she had Qi’s eyes …
Shortly after Sam Cooke’s death in 1964, A Change Is Gonna Come was released. The song was an instant classic, a haunting melodic masterpiece written and sung by Sam Cooke. Sam was born at a time where being black in America was seen as an everyday obstacle to overcome. The perpetual and blatant racism of the period had no doubt …
The “5 Truths” series comes to an end in a gripping message that
calls for introspection on Salvation according to truths revealed by
Jesus Christ in the gospel of Matthew. The lecture is provided by Bro. Seyi of Celestial Sanctum Parish.
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If the obedience of children is part of the natural law which God has written on human hearts, it belongs also to the revealed law which God gave on stone tablets to Moses. So Paul goes on: ‘Honor your father and mother (this is the first commandment with a promise), that it may be well with you and that you …
The instruction to children to obey their parents presupposes, as we have seen, the fact of parental authority. Yet when Paul outlines how parents should behave towards their children, it is not the exercise, but the restraint, of their authority which he urges upon them. The picture he paints of fathers as self-controlled, gentle, patient educators of their children is …