18Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD… (Isaiah 1:18a, King James Version) It seems that every year there are people who want to bicker over the date of Pentecost, aka Feast of Weeks. Some count inclusively, some count exclusively. Strange as it may seem, though, some don’t…
Some things that haven’t completely slipped under the radar of current events include news on the Euro, Thailand, a UK preacher arrested for “abusive or insulting language” and, of course, Texas textbooks. Oh! I almost forgot about the Gospel According to Glenn Beck. The Euro Greece is just a symptom…
Tomorrow is Pentecost, also called “Festival of Firstfruits” and “Feast of Weeks”. During the Days of Unleavened Bread, a sheaf of grain is waved before God as an offering. That grain is kept and used to make flour, which is in turn used to make bread that will also be…
You have probably heard the arguments by secularists against tax exemptions for religious groups. However, Australian Senator Nick Xenophon is arguing that cults should have their tax exempt status pulled, as reported in ReligionNewsBlog article “Cults thrive on tax-free status, senator says”. Would pulling their tax-free status really work, though? …
6And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do. (Genesis 11:6, King James Version) The NIV renders the last part of that verse as…
Unfortunately, ReligionNewsBlog seems to been having issues yesterday (articles are throwing some type of XML error that wasn’t showing up yesterday), so the link below might not work. Recently, you might recall that the Pope made an offer that Anglicans who were disturbed by trends in their church would be…
It seems that someone, who incidentally doesn’t give a lot of information about themselves just yet, has started up a new blog Views from the East Mountain – Revisiting the works of Dr. Herbert W. Armstrong. There is only one post up on it so far, and it is a…
In looking at the example of ancient Israel, one cannot dutifully discuss the wars they fought without considering the mindset of the Israelites themselves. As we have already seen in this series, God brought them out of Egypt without them having to lift a finger to fight. Most likely, He…
“Don’t sweat the small stuff”, goes the saying. Yet, I wonder. Usually, when someone says that, it means to get beyond small problems and look at the bigger picture. Yet, it could be taken as “ignore the small stuff” as well, and that can lead to bigger problems. Small problems,…
An oldie but a goody. Every once in a while, you hear the claim that the NT wasn’t written until decades after the Apostles all died. Sometimes, you even hear claims that it was centuries. The Good News in the November/December 1997 edition has the article “When Was the New…