Coincidences are God’s way of being anonymous, the saying goes. I believe there is some truth to that. I’m not a big believer in coincidences, although I’ll grant that it certainly appears that God allows certain things to happen without an immediate direct interference. Otherwise, we would all be puppets…
Someone asked on the radio today, "Where were you on 9/11?" It has become one of those watershed moments that grip a civilization and becomes entrenched in its memory. It’s impossible to have an event like this and not change as a result. However, just because a change occurs in…
Today, of course, is 9/11, the 8th anniversary of the day that 2 planes crashed into the Twin Towers in New York, 1 plan crashed into the Pentagon and a 3rd was retaken over by passengers and crashed near Shanksville, PA. All in all, 2,993 people died, including the hijackers…
Fine question, actually. Dr Robert Thiel seems to make a big deal out of this, as everything else in the article, in “Some of the Differences between the Living Church of God and the United Church of God, ia”. Yet, from what I see, it is another exaggerated difference based…
We have established that the Law in some form has always existed. Even in the Creation Story, we see the Sabbath, marriage and a strong hint at the Holy Days. We various laws in action throughout Genesis, and Abraham is praised by God because he “obeyed my voice, and kept…
Dispensationalism, the idea that there are different ages in which God works differently with people through time, sounds good on the surface. However, it does begin to break down when analyzed closely. The Law is only one area where changes are claimed to have been made, but it is usually…
Some Jehovah’s Witnesses left a little while ago. I do believe that this is the first time ever they offered to come back after mentioning the 7th day Sabbath. I don’t expect they will change their minds, nor that they will change mine, but it should keep me on my…
As a review, the purposes of tithing break down as: 1st tithe goes to God’s work here on earth, 2nd tithe is for attending God’s commanded festivals and 3rd tithe is to take care of the disadvantaged. We already saw in Part 1 that these tithes were not done away…
I thought about creating a new category for this one. Truth really is stranger than fiction. The Telegraph posted “Crowds worship eight-limbed baby as Hindu god” on 11 August 2009. You may be aware that Vishnu is often symbolized with many arms, depicting his power. Krishna, who is really an…
Labor Day in the US was created to set aside time to reflect upon the sacrifice of men and women to force recognition that laborers have rights just as anyone else does. Labor fought hard to win the right to be treated fairly in the marketplace. For whatever labor unions…