(ThyBlackMan.com) “After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name.” Matthew 6:9 God as King It is pretty typical, but not necessarily untrue, that when our minds consider God to be the Supreme Ruler and the governing authority of the universe, we ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Read Luke 2:7-12. The gentile translators got it wrong. It should have read “laid Him in a booth (or a sukkah), because there was no room for Mary in the inn”. When Joseph and Mary arrived in Bethlehem, maybe on Wednesday the 25th of September, Mary was supposed to ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Of the 40,000-plus practiced religions around the world, no following has been more persecuted than those of the Christian faith. Christians have been targeted to the point of being martyred for their beliefs dating back to early Rome in the first century of the Christian era and continue to ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I believe it’s important to, as much as we can, learn as much as we can from the Scriptures themselves. This is no knock against theologians, scholars, or philosophers that aid our understanding of the Scriptures. However, more often than not, many will think they have grasped the totality ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Yeshua was born after sundown, on Thursday September 26, 3 BC. It was the first day of the seven-day Feast of Tabernacles, which starts on the 15th day of the seventh Hebrew month of Tishri. He was not born on “Christmas Day”, which is the birthday of pagan sun ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Those who do wickedly against the covenant he shall corrupt with flattery; but the people who know their God shall be strong, and carry out great exploits. Daniel 11:32 NKJV A believer must caution himself against the feeling of satisfaction. We must not allow ourselves to feel that our ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Today we who call ourselves Believers and Children of God are surrounded by popular teachings absorbed by millions and millions of people. The problem is that too many of us have rationalized these teachings to be correct because we don’t believe that many people can be deceived. But sadly, that ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) 2 Corinthians 9:8: “And God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that having all sufficiency in all things at all times, you may abound in every good work.” Grace is defined by most dictionaries as “God’s unmerited favor.” It is God’s unconditional love and never-ending ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Hebrews 6: 1-3 Therefore let us leave the elementary teachings about Christ and go on to maturity, not laying again the foundation of repentance from acts that lead to death, and of faith in God, instruction about baptisms, the laying on of hands, the resurrection of the dead, and ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Many of us can remember the arguments made about taking prayer out of the schools. If your parents were “devout” Christians, the argument was simple…removing prayer from schools would unleash hell in a sense. Many that argued for prayer to be in the schools had no regard for the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Churches proclaim divorce to be a sin with certain exceptions. These exceptions depend on which church you attend. Some believe divorce is a sin unless there is sexual infidelity, but what about abuse or neglect of a spouse? Most would say that sexual infidelity may warrant a divorce, but ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Pain and suffering is a reality in life. It’s hard to sit back and watch someone you love suffer with bad health while they try to invoke some Harry Potter like healing magic. I believe in the power of prayer, and meditation just as much as the next sistah. ...