... marijuana, and crack combined.1 There are those who protest the classification of alcohol as a drug, but Dr. Marvin Block, former Chairman of the American Medical Association's Committee on Alcoholism, said, "Ours is a drug-oriented ... you as firmly as I can, teach your children total abstinence from alcohol, and you be a total abstainer as well. General Robert E. Lee was correct when he said, "My experience through life has convinced me that abstinence from liquor is the best safeguard to morals and health." ...
... a small town in Connecticut. This is her first book.” When you have Katherine Hepburn’s credentials you don’t have to boast. The late Marvin Hamlisch was like that too. The gifted composer filled Hollywood movies with his scores, films like “The Sting, “The Way We Were,” and many ... ://www.calvaryraleigh.com/wpcontent/uploads/sermons/2014/07/WHAT_DO_I-_DO_WHEN_GOD_DOESNT_ANSWER_MY_PRAYER_doc.pdf. 6. Lee Roberson, The Man in Cell No. 1 (Murfreesboro, TN: Sword of the Lord Publishers, 1993), p. 192.
Big Idea: Paul reverses the role that the law played as the stipulation of the old covenant. He argues that the very attempt to obey the law is keeping Israel in bondage. This is because obsession with the Torah derailed Jews from accepting Jesus as the Messiah and from seeing that the law was fulfilled in him and finished at the cross. Understanding the Text Romans 2:17–24, together with 2:25–29, focuses on the twin themes of the law of Moses as the stipulation of the Old Testament covenant and ...
Big Idea: Unlike the Mosaic covenant, based on obeying the Torah, the Abrahamic covenant is based on faith. Abraham becomes Paul’s star witness that justification is by faith alone. Paul marshals five arguments to refute the commonly held view that Abraham was justified by his good works: theological (4:1–5), hermeneutical (4:6–8), historical (4:9–12), logical (4:13–17a), and experiential (4:17b–25). Understanding the Text The general context of Romans 4 is that it continues the discussion of 3:27–31: the ...
