I am going to be continuing the sermon series that I began last Sabbath. The purpose of that previous sermon was to firmly establish our responsibility before God in this stewardship matter of maintaining good health, but I did not quite …
Sometimes, watching world events can be a little like a street-corner shell game. We carefully watch where the bean is placed under one of the shells, and we try to follow it as the dealer, or "operator" as he is known, rapidly slides …
At one time or another, we have probably heard a preacher quoting scriptures that guarantee prosperity through God's largesse. One huckster I saw some time ago said he needed three hundred people to send him $1,000 each, as seed money to …
(11) And the Angel of the LORD said to her:
“ Behold, you are with child,
And you shall bear a son.
You shall call his name Ishmael,
Because the LORD has heard your affliction. (12) He shall be a wild man;
His hand shall be against every man,
And every man’s hand against him.
And he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.”
The world has certainly seen a great deal of "his hand shall be against every man," which has been institutionalized in Ishmael's belief system, Islam. Winston Churchill once said of it, "That religion, which above all others was …
Strategies for Interfacing with Babylon Without Becoming Assimilated (Part Two)
Sometime back, a little blurb from an email newsletter caught my attention. It was just a small section of the overall email, but it illustrates a predominant sentiment of our time. The blurb was about the 400th anniversary of the publication of the King James Bible and some of the religious and political controversies involving it and other Bible versions. But after writing about the religious confusion of the past, the author wrote this: If there's a god, I don't think he/she/it would care what [holy] book or which version (or any book) you read, or what name you addressed him/her/it with,
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