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A Christian child's prayer is Christian prayer recited primarily by children that is typically short, rhyming, or has a memorable tune. It is usually said before bedtime, to give thanks for a meal, or as a nursery rhyme. Many of these prayers are either quotes from the Bible, or set traditional texts.
John 13:35 “This is how everyone will know that you are my disciples when you love each other.” The Good News: Love is a connector as powerful as family.When you love a friend, God, or a co ...
Around the same time, laws intended to prevent marriage between family members were extended to include marriage between god-parents and god-children. A decree of Justinian, dated to 530, outlawed marriage between a godfather and his goddaughter, and these barriers continued to multiply until the 11th century, forbidding marriage between ...
One God. Hear, O Israel: the L ORD our God, the L ORD is one. And you shall love the L ORD your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your might. And these words, which I command you this day, shall be upon your heart; and teach them thoroughly to your children, and speak of them when you sit in your house, and when you ...
The first notable prayer [citation needed] whose text is recorded in the Torah and Hebrew Bible occurs when Abraham pleads with God not to destroy the people of Sodom, where his nephew Lot lives. [7] He bargains with God not to destroy the city if there are fifty good men within, and eventually lowers the total to ten.
The Talmud says that since there are three partners in the creation of a person (God and two parents), honour showed to parents is the same as honour shown to God. [15] It also compares a number of similarly constructed passages from the Torah and concludes that honour toward parents and honour toward God are intentionally equated:
The gospels record words that Jesus spoke in prayer: Thanking God for his revelation (Matthew 11:25, Luke 10:21) Before the raising of Lazarus (John 11:41-42) "Father, glorify your name" (John 12:28) His prayer in John 17; Three prayers in the Garden of Gethsemane; Three prayers on the cross:
Noting the refrain of "Holy, holy, holy" in Isaiah 6:3 and Revelation 4:8, R. C. Sproul points out that "only once in sacred Scripture is an attribute of God elevated to the third degree... The Bible never says that God is love, love, love; or mercy, mercy, mercy; or wrath, wrath, wrath; or justice, justice, justice.