The solitary seed has to ‘die’ to produce many seeds.
Very truly I tell you, unless a grain of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains only a single seed. But if it dies, it produces many seeds. John 12:24. When a seed gets planted, it’s like it dies. The moisture from the soil enters, the seed swells, and the...
For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. John 3:16
Mary Maclead Bethune (1875-1955) is listed as one of the 100 most influential black American women. She actively worked in getting herself educated, then, when her hopes of becoming a missionary to Africa were denied, she set up a school and a hospital in Florida that...
Be angry but do not sin.
When Jesus cleared out the animals from the temple, and overturned the moneychangers’ tables, he was angry (John 2:13-22). The same Jesus is also the Lamb of God, who quietly chose to go to the cross, in order to take away the sin of the world. There’s that contrast:...
