A collection of spiritual topics, digests, and biblical teachings to help further your Christian growth
There appears to be an increasingly waning demonstration of the power of God as compared to the early church even up to the church of the early 20th century. If we are sincere enough, most of us will agree that what we see this days is an occasional “drizzling” of the demonstration of the power of God in all the …
In Colossians, chapter 3, Paul gives us two general principles governing personal relationships. Here they are: ‘Whatever you do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus.’ The second is: ‘Whatever you do, work at it heartily as to the Lord and not unto men’ (verses 17 and 23). Now let me tell in my …
The Greek hero Daedalus built two pairs of wings for both himself and his son Icarus as a means of escaping a king’s prison tower. Daedalus had warned his son before taking flight, not to fly too high in the sky otherwise the sun’s heat would melt the wax holding the feathers together, causing the wings to fall apart and …
King Hiero once gave his craftsman gold to make him a golden crown. And when the craftsman had finished the work, he presented the crown to the king. The king however was not convinced that the crown was entirely made of gold. The king believed he had been duped, that the craftsman had replaced some gold with silver and kept …
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 …