20To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them. (Isaiah 8:20, King James Version) 18For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add…
Terrorism. Middle East unrest. Earthquakes. Corruption in high places. The world news is filled with stories like these, and they seem to be escalating. What will it take to stop them? Herbert W Armstrong used to use the phrase “a strong arm from somewhere” to describe what was needed to…
Let’s see, which is more important: Kate Middleton having lunch or a news story of international economics that changes the landscape of the stock market? Which would you choose? Well, if you judge by the time spent on each story, you’d certainly think it was Kate Middleton. It’s bad enough…
A lot of media focus has been upon Egypt lately with the civil unrest and the eventual stepping down of President Hosni Mubarak. There is good reason for concern. However, what the US news media seems to gloss over, if they mention it at all, is that the unrest didn’t…
I kicked off the Book of Judges study series discussing the dual themes of lack of centralized control and lack of internal constraints. While the former was much of the impetus behind actually putting some of my own studies down on paper, there also is a Passover and Days of…
A couple of years back (almost), I wrote a book review on The Discipline of Spiritual Discernment by Tim Challies, and I thought it would be a good time to dust it off. As we head into Passover season, this is a topic that should come up in people’s minds….
United Church of God (UCG) has posted their US Feast of Tabernacles sites on their Feast of Tabernacles web page. They plan to add some “satellite sites” it appears “as needs exist.” I assume this means smaller quasi-official sites for places that have been hit hard by the economy in…
33But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you. (Matthew 6:33, King James Version) What is a “kingdom”? I once heard GTA explain that a kingdom is a nation that has grown large, a nation is a tribe that…
Idolatry in the Church of God? How can that be? Well, it exists, my friends. It isn’t all that hard to find, either. Sooner or later, you trip up on someone’s sacred cow, and that is when it all goes downhill. It’s actually not that hard to tell when it…
"Then the man who had received the one talent came. ‘Master,’ he said, ‘I knew that you are a hard man, harvesting where you have not sown and gathering where you have not scattered seed. So I was afraid and went out and hid your talent in the ground. See,…