Depiction of Isaac running to meet Rebekah for the first time when Abraham’s servant returns to Canaan From the Bible Pictures and What They Teach Us: Containing 400 Illustrations from the Old and New Testaments: With brief descriptions by Charles Foster, 1897 22 For it is written, that Abraham…
Daniel openly defies the king’s decree and prays to God Illustration by Jim Padgett, Distant Shores/Sweet Publishing, under CCA-SA license This is part 1 of the series “How to Interpret the Bible“, so if you have not yet read the introduction, you should do so. When studying the Bible, why…
“Duck Face Season” I’ve heard people in and around the Church say some disturbing things from time to time. I remember one Facebook exchange a couple of years back that took me by surprise. I realize that there are animal lovers everywhere. I grew up on a farm, so I…
Do spiritual gifts come in a box? Scott Ashley presented the first keynote of the 2013 General Conference of Elders titled “Edifying the Body Through Spiritual Gifts.” Mr. Ashley stated that Dennis and LeeAnn Luker are partly responsible for this topic being discussed…. Mr. Ashley wrote a detailed study paper…
Political cartoon showing MP James Mackenzie being unjustly slandered. He’s rescued by PM Robert Gascoyne-Cecil Illustration by cartoonist JM Staniforth, 1899, Evening Express, Wales 20 And he said, “What comes out of a person is what defiles him. 21 For from within, out of the heart of man, come…
Woocut from Luther’s Bible for Revelation 17 depicting the Beast and Babylon the Great 1. True Gospel The world had lost the Gospel. They didn’t know what the Gospel was: I came among the True Church of God of the Sardis Era, They didn’t know what the Gospel was,…
[Updated 18:17: I forgot the link for The Father’s Call.] Feast or famine, drought or flood. Such is the case of a writer, it seems. I have a friend going through a really tough time right now, and that has consumed a bit of my time as well trying…
New Jersey Governor Christ Christie, 2011 Photo by Bob Jagendorf 6 Brothers, if anyone is caught in any transgression, you who are spiritual should restore him in a spirit of gentleness. Keep watch on yourself, lest you too be tempted. 2 Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law…
Edward Snowden, 2013 Photo by Laura Poitras, Praxis Films Finally, someone is talking about the fallout of the Snowden case in practical terms. On TechRepublic, Patrick Gray writes in “Will the NSA’s activities handicap IT in the United States?” (bolding mine):
Old King Cole was a merry old soul… There was once a king who lived in a marvelous palace. He did not always have such a fine palace, but it took years of work and God’s blessings to build up. It was surrounded by a vast wasteland that the…