It appears that there is an alternative to reading Robert Thiel’s Church of God News blog by another LCG member, Wallace Smith. It’s called Thoughts En Route. I’ve only briefly toured it, but it appears pretty insightful. He doesn’t just report on events, but he offers commentary, often digging into…
Or, perhaps the title should be “The Hypocrisy of the Catholic Church”. According to the Telegraph, the “Vatican condemns Hallowe’en as anti-Christian”. The irony drips off of several sentences in the piece, but perhaps none more than the statement: The Bishop of Siguenza-Guadalajara, Jose Sanchez, said there was a risk…
My wife and I are currently reading through Exodus together. While we look at the symbolism once a year anyhow, it seems that the full impact doesn’t hit you unless you actually read the story. The metaphor for Pharaoh being a type for Satan goes deeper than some would treat…
I’m such a geek, as if you didn’t know. The nice thing about wiping out your hard drive and staring over is that you can set it back up the way you want it (after you’ve learned the hard way all the ways you don’t want it, that is) from…
Recently, David Ben-Ariel posted the article “Truth About Makeup”. I really mean he “posted” it and not “wrote” it, as it is a recycling job of one of Herbert W Armstrong’s (HWA) articles. Well, here is an interesting quote from that article: The English word "lipstick" is not used anywhere…
I appreciate the prayers and emails. I’m feeling better. It wasn’t serious, but it did develop into bronchitis. It’s just sort of odd that I don’t even get back into the routine of everything after the Feast, and then I get thrown off course again. Like I said, nothing serious,…
Well, I didn’t quite make it, it would seem. Working with technology is always a challenge, even if you have some idea what you are doing. Perhaps, even more so because you are more likely to try things that are supposed to work. It was time to wipe the hard…
Many of us probably witnessed or took part in the Blessing of the Little Children yesterday. Some groups do it at the Feast, as WCG did in its earlier days. As WCG grew, though, it became prohibitive to do all the children at one site, and by that time, many…
I have posted before about a series of David Asscherick, a Seventh Day Adventist, in order to compare and contrast. I have not yet seen the entire series, but they are educational. There is a YouTube video of part of his video on the Rapture. It is interesting, as I…
OK, this is more of a personal lesson from the Feast, as I was talking to someone who was very nice but announced suddenly, “I am a calendar.” OK, given his accent, I thought maybe I misunderstood him, so I asked him about it. “Oh? You haven’t heard that some…