I am celebrating 2 anniversaries back to back this year. Tonight is Rosh Hashanah on the Jewish calendar, since Biblical days are observed sundown to sundown. Literally, it means “head of the year”, or what we would call “New Year’s Day”. However, it is so much more than that. In…
Well, give credit where credit is due. The folks over at Ambassador Watch blog have posted that “Doctor Bob does a Dankenbring”. I stumbled onto the article just yesterday, as AW is not one my regular blogs (and, I’m behind in even my regular ones). Dr Robert Thiel just published…
Newsweek ran an article about a month ago arguing that “We Are All Hindus Now”. In it, Lisa Miller argued that “recent poll data show that conceptually, at least, we are slowly becoming more like Hindus and less like traditional Christians in the ways we think about God, our selves,…
The September Legacy Letter just came out. For those who are not aware, Legacy Institute is a school in Chiang Mai, Thailand that teaches its students English, computer skills, agriculture and the Bible. Leon Sexton was a minister in WCG under Herbert W Armstrong, and he continues to teach in…
I still believe that the Internet is the most cost effective means of spreading the Gospel. Not only that, but it is the most effective. You don’t have to have a radio or TV station to carry a particular program. You don’t have to smuggle in copies of magazines or…
Coincidences are God’s way of being anonymous, the saying goes. I believe there is some truth to that. I’m not a big believer in coincidences, although I’ll grant that it certainly appears that God allows certain things to happen without an immediate direct interference. Otherwise, we would all be puppets…
Someone asked on the radio today, "Where were you on 9/11?" It has become one of those watershed moments that grip a civilization and becomes entrenched in its memory. It’s impossible to have an event like this and not change as a result. However, just because a change occurs in…
Today, of course, is 9/11, the 8th anniversary of the day that 2 planes crashed into the Twin Towers in New York, 1 plan crashed into the Pentagon and a 3rd was retaken over by passengers and crashed near Shanksville, PA. All in all, 2,993 people died, including the hijackers…
Fine question, actually. Dr Robert Thiel seems to make a big deal out of this, as everything else in the article, in “Some of the Differences between the Living Church of God and the United Church of God, ia”. Yet, from what I see, it is another exaggerated difference based…
We have established that the Law in some form has always existed. Even in the Creation Story, we see the Sabbath, marriage and a strong hint at the Holy Days. We various laws in action throughout Genesis, and Abraham is praised by God because he “obeyed my voice, and kept…