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  • Psalm 62 - True Rest

    What does the fourth request mean? A. “Give us today our daily bread” means, Do take care of all our physical needs so that we come to know Summary Often times in Hebrew poetry, the meaning comes in the middle.

  • Psalm 127:1-2 - Daily Dependence

    What does the fourth request mean? A. “Give us today our daily bread” means, Do take care of all our physical needs so that we come to know Here's how one commentator describes this: "Vain" here seems to mean “not producing the desired result

  • Romans 13:1-5 - God Established What???

    of Faith, Article   36: The Civil Government We believe that because of the depravity of the human race toward exercising absolute authority, and while functioning in the sphere entrusted to them, with the means establishment that he wouldn't submit to their ungodly demands because Christians were to obey God, not man What he meant was that God omnipotently controls all things - even people's sinful actions - as He works It's tragic that the very sword that God gave to the governing authorities would take the life of the man

  • 1 Timothy 3:14-16 - Semper Reformanda!

    Literally translated, it means the Church is always being reformed. For some, this means that the Church is a blank canvas, just waiting for each new generation to reform What this means is that the Protestant church has been reformed according to scripture, so our task is

  • Jeremiah 29:1-9 - Shalom Town

    What does the first request mean? A. “Hallowed be your name” means, Help us to really know you, to bless, worship, and praise you for all And it means, Help us to direct all our living— what we think, say, and do— so that your name will never

  • Acts 6:1-7 - Skilled Servants

    Deacons must be "men known to be full of the Spirit and wisdom." By this means true religion is preserved; true doctrine is able to take its course; and evil men are By this means everything will be done well and in good order in the church, when such persons are elected They appointed diakonos (deacons), a word that literally means servants for the congregation. they were looking for men who were known to be full of the Spirit and wisdom.

  • Psalm 19:1-6 - Silent Speech

    Listen to passage & devotional: Belgic Confession of Faith, Article 2: The Means by Which We Know God We know him by two means: First, by the creation, preservation, and government of the universe, since All these things are enough to convict men and to leave them without excuse. We understand that God communicates Himself to us in two different ways: through special revelation, meaning

  • 1 Chronicles 17:10-14 - Home Builder

    The Son took the “form of a servant” and was made in the “likeness of man,” truly assuming a real human house, both in the original Hebrew 1 Chronicles was written in, and in today's English, has multiple meanings But as we read it here in 1 Chronicles, the word 'house' doesn't mean either of those things. Rather, when Nathan tells David that the Lord will build a house for him, it means that the Lord will promised son will be set over the Lord's house and kingdom forever (just like the word house has multiple meanings

  • Deuteronomy 17:14-20 - The Ideal Government

    of Faith, Article   36: The Civil Government We believe that because of the depravity of the human race toward exercising absolute authority, and while functioning in the sphere entrusted to them, with the means that removes obstacles from the Church and that functions in the sphere entrusted to them, with the means

  • 1 Thessalonians 5:23-24 - Benediction-Extender

    What does the sixth request mean? A. “And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one” means, By ourselves we are too weak Summary Yesterday we read Peter's aweseome benediction (the word benediction literally means "good speech

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