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all posts by Gwendolyn Culbertson
God. Who is God? In Spanish the word for God is Dios. In French: Dieu. In Portuguese: Deus. In Italian: Dio. In Norwegian, Swedish, and Danish: Gud. In Croatian, Bosnian, and Slovenian: Bog. In Estonian: Jumal and in Finnish: Jumala. ...
Many of you have heard of agape love. Agape is love, benevolence, good will, or esteem. (Strong’s Concordance) Agape is self-sacrificing love, unconditional love. It’s a kind of love that we can show to others because of God working in our...
Eureka, I found it. Our use of this word is credited to Archimedes, a Greek scholar, after he discovered something. I found two different stories about what it was that he discovered. One was about water displacement and the other was...
Did you know that the Hebrew alphabet also represents numbers and words? I’m just going to share the numbers in this post. A note here on the spelling of the Hebrew letters: the correct way to spell these letters is not something that...
Faith to move mountains. Faith like a mustard seed. The shield of faith. The faith of Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and others in Hebrews 11. Pistis is the Greek word for faith. Pistis can also be translated as belief, trust, or...
When I first heard the word laos, I thought of the country Laos in Southeast Asia. I wondered if its name somehow came from the Greek word. The answer is no. So, moving on. The Greek word laos usually means...
The land is parched, The flowers are wilting. Send Your rain, Lord, send Your rain. The earth turns and turns, But the clouds don’t yield. Send Your rain, Lord, send Your rain. The rivers are low, Seeds barely will grow....
There are and have been many kings on this earth. Some have had much more power than others. The word for king in ancient Greek is basileus. Basileus can mean leader of the people, prince, commander, lord of the land, or...
