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Why not Celebrate New Year's Day?

John D 31 December 2017 31 December 2017Holy Days or Holidays, Pagan Holidays

Why do people put so much effort into celebrating the turn of a calendar page? Could there be more to why they celebrate New Year’s Day? I came across the article “Making Sense of the “12 Days of Christmas’” that emphasizes that New Year’s Day is simply a part of…

Commonalities in Pagan Holidays

John D 23 December 2017 23 December 2017Pagan Holidays, Reflections

It has not always been that way. Christmas as a holiday on Dec. 25 is not even mentioned until the year 336 AD. One church father said that the day of Jesus’ birth was either May 20 or April 20. Some of the early church fathers said that only pagans…

Rewriting History

John D 7 November 2017 7 November 2017Politics, Society, Truth & Deception

The United States seems determined to rewrite its history, and not for the better. OK, I am going to finally reveal one of the main reasons I really like about Babylon 5, and what started me down the road of blogging about it here in the first place. Art is…

Reflections: What Do You Want?

John D 29 October 2017 29 October 2017Attitude, Loyalty

What is your answer to “What do you want?” This is another revealing question. Is it wrong to ask it? Last time, I covered the question, “Who are you?”, making a Babylon 5 reference as to how the army of light, led by the Vorlons, considered this the prime question….

Reflections: Who Are You?

John D 17 October 2017 17 October 2017Attitude, Loyalty, Reflections

What is your answer to the question “Who are you?” Your answer tells a lot about your identity. I am a calendar. ~ person I once spoke to

Satan Shall Be Loosed

John D 11 October 2017 11 October 2017Feast of Tabernacles, Holy Days or Holidays, Satan

7 And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison, 8 And shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog, and Magog, to gather them together to battle: the number of whom is as the…

Death and Disappointment in the Millennium

John D 9 October 2017 9 October 2017Millennium, Prophecy

Will there truly be no death and disappointment in the Millennium? This Feast of Tabernacles, I heard someone say something truly profound. Perhaps you won’t think it so. After all, it is in a very real sense pretty obvious. As a youth in WCG in the seventies, I heard a…

Atonement and Division

John D 30 September 2017 30 September 2017Day of Atonment, Holy Days or Holidays, Hypocrisy

Some Broncos players claimed they were kneeling “in unity”, but pictures show otherwise. The major questions are: Can you cause unity by division, and can you demand respect by being disrespectful? Many NFL players reacted negatively to President Donald Trump’s declaration that they should be fired for kneeling during the…

Feast of Tabernacles Video by 7th Day Baptists

John D 24 September 2017 24 September 2017COG News, Feast of Tabernacles, Holy Days or Holidays

I got wind of a Seventh-Day Baptist group in Canberra, Australia who have decided to begin keeping the holy days. They put up this YouTube video recently: The YouTube video gives a link to a website where more information and another video can be found. I think the videos are…

Why the Increase in Natural Disasters?

John D 24 September 2017 24 September 2017Suffering & Trials

Hurricanes Harvey and Irma are just a couple of the recent natural disasters in the news. It seems nature has “gone mad”. Why the increase in natural disasters? 17 And then the Lord‘s wrath be kindled against you, and he shut up the heaven, that there be no rain, and…

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