In the Soviet Union, there were newspapers named Pravda and Izvestia. Pravda is Russian for ‘truth’, and Izvestia is Russian for ‘news’. There was an old Russian joke that in Truth there was no news, and in News there was no truth. Until recently, that joke rarely was applied to…
We live in interesting times. I remember the shock that some had in 2016 when they realized that there is such a thing as an Electoral College. It really shows me how postmodern education has let down society. We are in an age of ignorance and decay, and heading towards…
3 Now the serpent was more crafty than any other beast of the field that the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God actually say, ‘You[a] shall not eat of any tree in the garden’?” ~Ge 3:1 (ESV) The story of how the serpent deceived Eve can seem pretty straight-forward, can’t…
This is a scary time of the year. People say and do the strangest things. Things that are creepy, and sometimes downright disgusting. The monsters, ghost, ghouls and goblins parade around so that people can pick which one they will vote for on election day. Watching the news, it is…
A watchful press is supposed to be the ultimate fallback that keeps the three branches of government honest, but is the press actually watchful and faithful to their role? A free press is the unsleeping guardian of every other right that free men prize; it is the most dangerous foe…
Politicians promise to fix all of society’s problems, but are they able to? Why do things never seem to get better? What is humanity’s core problem? 8 And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one in the earth. 9 He was a mighty hunter before the Lord:…
It’s been an amazing election season for many (of the wrong) reasons, and Trump’s win definitely runs counter to everything we knew before, so here’s bit of a lighter look at things post-election, and in particular some of the reactions. It’s been a long and mostly puzzling haul, but the…
It’s been an amazing election season for many (of the wrong) reasons, and Trump’s win definitely runs counter to everything we knew before, so here’s bit of a lighter look at things post-election, and in particular some of the reactions. It’s been a long and mostly puzzling haul, but the…
I can’t say I’ve heard any bad sermons during the Feast of Tabernacles this year. In most years, in fact, that is true. Unfortunately, the one leading up to the UCG – COGWA split is one year that stands out in which I cannot say that every message was a…
Pentecost — it should bring many things to mind. However, among the things that one should think about are the fruits of the Spirit. One of these is faithfulness. This is a mashup of some things I have been thinking about and notes from a recent sermon I heard. I…