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Why People Are Destroyed For Lack Of Knowledge

From Religion News Service  WASHINGTON (RNS) — When Sen. Raphael Warnock of Georgia walked into Speaker Mike Johnson’s office last month, the two men already held starkly different political views. By the time the meeting ended 30 minutes later, it was clear they also sit on different ends of the Christian spectrum. Warnock, a Democrat and pastor of a prominent Black church, had raised questions in an  interview with The New York Times  a few days prior about whether the speaker’s Republican politics reflected his professed faith. The senator described himself as a “Matthew 25 Christian,” referring to a biblical passage that features Jesus telling his followers a parable in which “all the nations” are judged by how they care for the “least of these” — described as the hungry, the stranger and the imprisoned, among others. How, Warnock had told the Times, do you “say a long prayer, hold hands with your fellow legislators and then cut a trillion dollars out of Medicaid?” In...

The Lord Is Risen!

  The Fact of Christ’s Resurrection 15  Now I make known to you, brethren, the gospel which I preached to you, which also you received, in which also you stand,   2  by which also you are saved, if you hold fast  [ a ] the word which I preached to you, unless you believed in vain. 3  For I delivered to you  [ b ] as of first importance what I also received, that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures,   4  and that He was buried, and that He was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures,   5  and that He appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve.   6  After that He appeared to more than five hundred brethren at one time, most of whom remain until now, but some have fallen asleep;   7  then He appeared to  [ c ] James, then to all the apostles; 8  and last of all, as  [ d ] to one untimely born, He a...

Psalm 18

Psalm 18:1–50 (NASB95): PSALM 18 The Lord Praised for Giving Deliverance. 0 For the choir director. A Psalm of David the servant of the Lord, who spoke to the Lord the words of this song in the day that the Lord delivered him from the hand of all his enemies and from the hand of Saul. And he said,   1 “I love You, O Lord, my strength.”   2 The Lord is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer,  My God, my rock, in whom I take refuge;  My shield and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold.   3 I call upon the Lord, who is worthy to be praised,  And I am saved from my enemies.   4 The cords of death encompassed me,  And the torrents of ungodliness terrified me.   5 The cords of Sheol surrounded me;  The snares of death confronted me.   6 In my distress I called upon the Lord,  And cried to my God for help;  He heard my voice out of His temple,  And my cry for help before Him came into His ...