Bereishit bara Elohim et hashamayim ve'et ha'aretz. In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

Bereishit (בראשית)in Hebrew means "at the head of." Since the first letter bet (ב) is closed on three sides, and since Hebrew is read right to left, the midrash Bereishit Rabbah 1:10 says that interpretation can only go in the open ( Read more... )

There's book entitled The Father's Spirit of Sonship: Reconceiving the Trinity, written by a leading Catholic theologian and scholar named Thomas WeinandyI'm trying to get my hands on my own copy (out-of-print, very expensive, campus library has other books by same author but not this one), but I have read a number of excerpts, previews and reviews ( Read more... )

If you've been walking around with a weight on your shoulders, trying hard to be great by the world's standards, you now know you need to take a new path in your life, stand up and say "I need to be spiritually great, I need to be a servant. I've been high maintenance, I've been thinking it's about me, if somebody would just do something for me, I' ( Read more... )

But I tell you the truth, It is expedient for you that I go away; for if I do not go away, the Comforter will not come to you; but if I go, I will send Him to you.
When He, the Spirit of reality, comes, He will guide you into all the reality...-John 16:7, 13a
Here the Lord says that the Spirit’s presence is better for us than His pre-resurrection ( Read more... )

What really is spirit ( Read more... )

Heb 4 :12 ( Read more... )