Category: Bible

Scholars now believe that the stories that would become the Bible were disseminated by word of mouth across the centuries, in the form of oral tales and poetry – perhaps as a means of forging a collective identity among the tribes of Israel. Eventually, these stories were collated and written down. How was the Bible […]

Today in church our pastor taught on the Bible scripture, “Be still and know that I am God.” Psalm 46:10. “Be still’ means to stop striving, stop fighting, relax. It also means to “put your hands down”. Sometimes we put our hands up to defend ourselves from all that life can bring our way. How […]

Stephen, (died 36 ce, Jerusalem; feast day December 26), Christian deacon in Jerusalem and the first Christian martyr, whose apology before the Sanhedrin (Acts of the Apostles 7) points to a distinct strand of belief in early Christianity. Who was Stephen in the Bible and what happened to him? Saint Stephen is recognized as a […]

A prophecy is a message that is claimed by a person (typically a prophet) to have been communicated to them by a deity. Such messages usually involve inspiration, interpretation, or revelation of divine will concerning the prophet’s social world and events to come (compare divine knowledge). What does prophetic mean in the Bible? 1: of, […]

1 : to work hard and long. 2 : to proceed with laborious effort : plod. transitive verb. 1 archaic : overwork. What does painful toil mean? battle; strife; struggle. to engage in hard and continuous work; labor arduously: to toil in the fields. to move or travel with difficulty, weariness, or pain. What does […]