Many know the Book of Job as a book about suffering. Many sermons about how a Christian should endure suffering have been written, based in part upon this book. The story didn’t start out that way, of course. In fact, there is something very telling in the beginning of the…
They’ve found water on the moon. If you are in the camp, now out of fashion, that believes the moon broke off from the earth during the earth’s formation, then that actually shouldn’t be a big surprise. If you are not in that camp, then it would be a bigger…
I want to tidy up some loose ends on this pursuit of happiness bit. Without a doubt, the notion that we are here on earth to pursue our desires, our fulfillment, our … anything, actually… is centered on “I” and “me”. Christians are called instead to be Christ-centered. Christ had…
Don’t mistake pleasure for happiness. They are a different breed of dogs. ~ Josh Billings This week’s sermon contained the above quote, and I think it is appropriate even more today than when it was spoken. Many people in our Western culture are busy pursuing happiness. However, when you really…
The Gnostics eschewed the physical. They believed that the “real” God was far above and untouched by His physical creation. In some ways, this attitude is perpetuated in modern mainstream Christianity. The trinity, for example, ensures that God is so different that we cannot relate to Him. Well, I actually…
I have written about people who have been hurt by the Church. I have written somewhat about what lessons the Church should learn from these incidents. However, that is just one side of the coin. As they say, “It takes two to tango.” I was thinking about some of these…
Someone asked me the other day about blessings. I suppose the person still had on their mind the Blessing of the Little Children. God is greater than all of us, and He abundantly blesses us with life and the good things of the earth. It is easy to see how…
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…
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…
There are some very specific items I could take from the Feast, but I recently noticed that there are also some general items that all can learn from, no matter what Feast site they were with this year. There is a long dry spell between the Last Great Day and…