... can. Today, more than any other time in history perhaps, we understand what food does for our bodies and how what we eat affects how we live. What we put into our bodies in large part determines how long we can sustain our health and the quality of our lives. We know that many diseases can be prevented by eating the right kinds of foods with essential vitamins and nutrients. We know scientifically, as our ancestors knew from experience, what kinds of herbs and spices will help with certain kinds of ailments ...
... the Great Physician and change agent of the heavenly kingdom. Jesus makes us whole. Out of our brokenness, Body, Mind, and Soul are healed when Jesus enters your life. What does it really mean to live? Perhaps it isn’t only about the length but the quality of your life. Are you the walking wounded? The walking dead? Or are you full of the Holy Spirit of Life? Have you been healed --with scars perhaps that remind you of your story of redemption? You see, you don’t have restoration or redemption without ...
... makes today’s “Ezekiel Bread” tells us: “We discovered when these six grains and legumes are sprouted and combined, an amazing thing happens. A complete protein is created that closely parallels the protein found in milk and eggs. In fact, the protein quality is so high, that it is 84.3% as efficient as the highest recognized source of protein, containing all 9 essential amino acids. There are 18 amino acids present in this unique bread - from all vegetable sources - naturally balanced in nature ...
... life. The church was no longer the hub of the village green. People had many other choices, many other places they could go and socialize. Suddenly, culture too developed “commitment” issues. As times change, priorities change. In the 21st century marriage, quality of relationship triumphed over security and stability. The nature of the marriage relationship became important. Love became all important. In a personal relationship, if a man wanted a woman to commit, he would now need to court her in a way ...
... Without Elizabeth’s recognition of Mary’s gift and her kind and knowing encouragement, Mary may have had difficulty facing an angry Joseph, and the long road ahead. We all need that special “aunt” in our lives, that person who sees in us those special qualities, and gifts, and blessings that we cannot see in ourselves, that mentor and friend who looks at us and sees only beautiful, who takes us in, and nurtures us through difficulty and pain, who prophesies for us a hopeful future, who sings us into ...
... ” in the eyes of God. As usual, several of the disciples in his inner circle are vying for who should be granted the most respected “leadership” positions in their rabbi’s posse. Now, they want to know who of them will be(or what kind of qualities it takes to be) the greatest in the coming kingdom of heaven. Jesus answer is not what they expected. While they were most likely expecting either accolades or a list of accomplishments that would lead to such an esteemed position, Jesus instead calls up a ...
... a different voice than the way I tend to read it and hear it read. Because when I read it or hear it read I have an image of a sedate, esoteric Jesus speaking calmly, authoritatively, mysteriously, even mystically, and definitely with an otherworldly quality, even though Jesus is in the middle of dinner. Mathematics teachers sounded like that to me, and left me just as lulled or befuddled. Some clergy’s sermons come across leaving me similarly lulled. The mental picture that recurs for me of Jesus doing ...
... for that. Faith requires trust and love requires sacrifice. Every great relationship is built on trust and love. And that’s what God wants with you—a relationship. God is doing God’s part. He came in the flesh, in the person of Jesus Christ, to show us the quality of his life. Now it’s time for us to do our part. Every faith journey, no matter how rocky, begins with getting out of the boat and walking toward Jesus. Are you ready to take that step, even if it’s a baby step like Peter’s? Jesus ...
We must recover the element of quality in our traditional pursuit of equality. We must not, in opening our schools to everyone, confuse the idea that all should have equal chance with the notion that all have equal endowments.
At thirty a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities. . . . And above all, accept these things.
I think we love bacon because it has all the qualities of an amazing sensory experience. When we cook it, the sizzling sound is so appetizing, the aroma is maddening, the crunch of the texture is so gratifying and the taste delivers every time.
Human relations are built on feeling, not on reason or knowledge. And feeling is not an exact science like all spiritual qualities, it has the vagueness of greatness about it.
There are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man, beyond history, and beyond science. The moods and qualities of nature and the revelations of great art are equally difficult to define; we can grasp them only in the depths of our perceptive spirit.
To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces and record the qualities of nature and humanity which live or are latent in all things.
We say nothing essential about the cathedral when we speak of its stones. We say nothing essential about Man when we seek to define him by the qualities of men.