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Christian Origins #68 - Philippians
I have given this a lot of thought, and I have finally figured out what’s wrong with Christianity. It’s people. There is not a thing wrong with the Christian faith. After all, what could be …
Christian Origins #67 - Philippians
All of us have special people in our lives. These are people who give us great happiness—people who we love to be with. People we can talk to anytime and into the small hours of …
Christian Origins #66 - Ephesians
What does it mean to follow God? Paul called on the Ephesian Christians to: Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children. This is a high calling. As a child will imitate the mother …
Christian Origins #65 - Ephesians
Funny things happen to us whenever we try to organize ourselves. I guess it is just in the way we are made. Even cows do it. When they start back from the field at milking …
No Man Is an Island
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There seems to be a difference between a secret and a mystery. At the very least, the Bible seems to use the word mystery in more than once sense. For example, there might be something …
Palestine #1
Allow us to extend apologies in advance, for today we are enlisting all of you as active participants in a real estate case. You are being empaneled as a jury to deliberate a significant matter …
About Heaven
What did the First Christians believe about heaven? When they spoke of heaven, when they thought of it, what did they visualize? Was their concept of heaven the same as our own? I don’t think …
Christian Holidays #18
Many years ago, before I learned better about arguing religion, I was engaged in a discussion focused on people who never even heard the name of Jesus anytime in their lives. How could it be …
Christian Holidays #17
I hesitate to tell you this, because when you find out what I want to talk about, you are liable to punch the button on your radio, click a button in your browser, and head …
Camp Crisis
A crisis is an unstable time or state of affairs in which a decisive change is impending. It’s that moment when something will happen which will change everything that comes after it in a crucial …
Zechariah: Visions and Prophecies
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It seems to me that we of the Christian faith have lost touch with our roots in some very important ways. We are so comfortable in the modern world, so at home in it, so …
Christian Origins #63 - Ephesians & Galatians
40 years ago, there were over 400 different Christian denominations and sects. They could actually be cataloged and described. By now there are probably over 4,000 and I am not sure anyone cares enough to …
Christian Origins #62 - Ephesians
Unity is an abnormal state in the world at large. In fact, the only time there has ever been even a semblance of unity has been under force of arms. It is odd in a …
Christian Origins #61 - Acts
Sometimes when you’re reading through the New Testament, you can forget that the characters you are reading about are real people. It’s easy to forget that Paul was a real man—flesh and blood. At the …
An End to Sin
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Email of the day (in response to Sept. 9) If nothing else, I find that the absence of the realization, in less than a year, God (Nature) has shown us 2 things. Whether there is …
Mark Steyn on Durbin’s Remarks on the Senate Floor
This isn’t a Republican vs Democrat thing; it’s about senior Democrats who are so over-invested in their hatred of a passing administration that they’ve signed on to the nuttiest slurs of the lunatic fringe. It …
The 40th President
Like so very many people over the past weeks we have mourned the death of Ronald Reagan, the 40th President of the United States. For some reason, I kept noticing how often commentators noted that …
Picking Up the Thread
Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee into the land of Moriah; and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will …
The Passover, Old and New
When I see the blood, I will pass over you. Exodus 12:13 How is it possible that a Christian church, about 25 years after the ascension of Christ, was observing the oldest known Jewish holyday? …
Judging Egypt
But Pharaoh shall not hearken unto you, That I may lay my hand upon Egypt, and bring forth mine armies, and my people the children of Israel, out of the land of Egypt by great …
From Passover to Easter
But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept. 1 Corinthians 15:20 Occasionally, when I have said that “Easter” is nowhere mentioned in Bible, someone reminds me of …
The Passover By Any Other Name
And when the hour was come, he sat down, and the twelve apostles with him. And he said unto them, With desire I have desired to eat this Passover with you before I suffer: For …
The Feast of Tabernacles
On Jordan’s stormy banks I stand and cast a wistful eye, To Canaan’s fair and happy land where my possessions lie. I am bound for the promised land, yes I am I am bound for …
Reconciled to God
For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life. Romans 5:10 If you have read much …
The Dilemma
Brethren, my heart’s desire and prayer to God for Israel is that they may be saved. Romans 10:1 Many years ago, before I learned better than to argue religion, I was engaged in a discussion …
Only Here a Little While
Then I saw an angel coming down from heaven, having the key to the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand. He laid hold of the dragon, that serpent of old, who is …
The Last Great Day
Thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, O My people, I will open your graves and cause you to come up from your graves, and bring you into the land of Israel. Ezekiel 37:12 I had …
The Sabbath and the Gentiles
So when the Jews went out of the synagogue, the Gentiles begged that these words might be preached to them the next Sabbath. Acts 13:42 By the time Paul ends up in Antioch, everything has …
The Thread: Epilogue
LORD, You have been our dwelling place in all generations. Before the mountains were brought forth, Or ever You had formed the earth and the world, Even from everlasting to everlasting, You are God. Psalm …
In Defense of the Holydays
To those of us who have been keeping the holydays for years – in some cases, for all of our lives – the practice seems so natural, so right. The Scriptures supporting the practice seem …
The Hebrew Calendar
And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years. Genesis …
The New Testament Sabbath Day
Would it surprise you to learn that during the time the New Testament was being written, the entire Christian church throughout the known world observed the Sabbath day? No, I don’t mean Sunday. I mean …
Capital Punishment: A Christian Dilemma
He is twenty years old, but he looks more like sixteen. In blue jeans and sweater, his hair neatly cut, he looks like he should have books under his arm and be headed for class. …
Christian Origins #69 - Colossians
How does a strange new religious idea get started? Does someone wake up in the morning and say to himself, I think I’ll start a heresy today? Do little boys say, When I grow up, …
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Christian Origins #68 - Philippians
I have given this a lot of thought, and I have finally figured out what’s wrong with Christianity. It’s people. There is not a thing wrong with the Christian faith. After all, what could be …
Christian Origins #67 - Philippians
All of us have special people in our lives. These are people who give us great happiness—people who we love to be with. People we can talk to anytime and into the small hours of …
Christian Origins #66 - Ephesians
What does it mean to follow God? Paul called on the Ephesian Christians to: Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children. This is a high calling. As a child will imitate the mother …
Christian Origins #65 - Ephesians
Funny things happen to us whenever we try to organize ourselves. I guess it is just in the way we are made. Even cows do it. When they start back from the field at milking …
No Man Is an Island
View PostChristian Origins #64 - Ephesians
There seems to be a difference between a secret and a mystery. At the very least, the Bible seems to use the word mystery in more than once sense. For example, there might be something …
Palestine #1
Allow us to extend apologies in advance, for today we are enlisting all of you as active participants in a real estate case. You are being empaneled as a jury to deliberate a significant matter …
About Heaven
What did the First Christians believe about heaven? When they spoke of heaven, when they thought of it, what did they visualize? Was their concept of heaven the same as our own? I don’t think …
Christian Holidays #18
Many years ago, before I learned better about arguing religion, I was engaged in a discussion focused on people who never even heard the name of Jesus anytime in their lives. How could it be …
Christian Holidays #17
I hesitate to tell you this, because when you find out what I want to talk about, you are liable to punch the button on your radio, click a button in your browser, and head …
Camp Crisis
A crisis is an unstable time or state of affairs in which a decisive change is impending. It’s that moment when something will happen which will change everything that comes after it in a crucial …
Zechariah: Visions and Prophecies
View PostA Great King to Come
View PostChristian Holidays #16
It seems to me that we of the Christian faith have lost touch with our roots in some very important ways. We are so comfortable in the modern world, so at home in it, so …
Christian Origins #63 - Ephesians & Galatians
40 years ago, there were over 400 different Christian denominations and sects. They could actually be cataloged and described. By now there are probably over 4,000 and I am not sure anyone cares enough to …
Christian Origins #62 - Ephesians
Unity is an abnormal state in the world at large. In fact, the only time there has ever been even a semblance of unity has been under force of arms. It is odd in a …
Christian Origins #61 - Acts
Sometimes when you’re reading through the New Testament, you can forget that the characters you are reading about are real people. It’s easy to forget that Paul was a real man—flesh and blood. At the …