#thebodyofchrist

PUT AWAY EVIL SPEAKING "Therefore, laying aside all malice, all deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and all evil speaking." 1 Peter 2:1, NKJV. I often think how humorously wise the English language is.

I have always thought that God must have had something to do with creating that word - backbite. "Backbite" means to bite behind the back. If you try to bite anybody in front, you have to face

Nothing humiliates a person more than to be cut down to size by some bully. That a fellow is big, a fellow comes along and belittle him. Even among Christians, there are those who get tremendous joy cutting

First, the word "defame." Fame, of course is a high reputation somebody has and then along comes somebody and defames him. He just cuts the horns off, de-horns that fame and then we have the

What Abraham was going to physically do with his son had already been done in his heart. So that it was not obedience out of obligation, it was obedience springing forth from a heart bowed to the will

Prior to his obedience, Abraham had already submitted to God in His heart. We see this clearly written in Hebrews 11 thus: “By faith Abraham, when God tested him, offered Isaac as a sacrifice. He who had

The word WORSHIP in the Hebrew is 'Shacha' and it means to depress, i.e. prostrate (especially reflexive, in homage to royalty or God), bow (self) down, crouch, fall down (flat), humbly beseech, do (make)

WORSHIP: WHAT IS IT REALLY? The very first time the word worship appears in the entire Bible is in Genesis 22: 5 and the circumstance surrounding its premier appearance is when Abraham was enroute

Our Father, God, is the God of excellence. He defines what excellence means. We as His creature are a candid expression of His excellence. Nature itself reveals a dimension of how excellent God is. A man