John H Ogwyn of LCG wrote “Study Topic: Seven lessons from the book of Job”. While not as comprehensive as some of the other articles I have posted about this week, it still has some excellent points. The ending of Job is sort of a mystery in many respects. A…
Today, the AP reported “US man returns after release from Myanmar jail”. However, Aung San Suu Kyi and her 2 aides remain in detention. The military junta in charge of Myanmar has used the incident as an excuse to keep them detained through the next elections. Of course, the debate…
The British newspaper The Sunday Times will become the guinea pig for testing paid access to the newspaper, reported the Bangkok Post in “Sunday Times to test charge for content”. News Corp owns The Sunday Times, The Times and The Wall Street Journal and already charges for access to the…
It seems that items of interest come in waves of sorts. Last week, I posted the first article in a series on Tithing. Meanwhile, wouldn’t you know it but that I came across a couple of related blog articles. First, David Ben-Ariel posted the below video “Religious Truth (Herbert W….
Must be a “Book of Job Week”. I guess I cannot help it. It is one of the most enigmatic books of the Bible. It is a reminder that sometimes “good people” suffer for reasons we don’t always understand. It is also a reminder that God is in control. However,…
Yesterday, I cleaned up an old article on the Book of Job that I thought I had republished already from the old blog site. In it, I make the case that Job was not “full of pride” or “self-righteous” and so he was being punished for those sins. Unfortunately, there…
[This is a reprint from the old blog site.] There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and eschewed evil. ~Job 1:1 Sometimes events happen in such a way that I just feel…
The Forward to the Kingdom! blog had a couple of blog posts a couple of months ago I wanted to be sure to highlight. One was “The Lesson of the Little Brown Paper Bag” highlights what one person’s mother made them do when they found $20 in a brown paper…
When I saw the latest report that UCG has decided it needs a “brand”, their words, I thought the web would be more abuzz than it is. Even Robert Thiel decided to do no more than throw his Laodicean dart in “UCG Wants to Be a Brand”. He didn’t even…
Why do the COG numbers seem to be dwindling yet there are megachurches that seem to be doing just fine? What are the types of things that turn people off? “Customer Service” I must be about the last person to get the Journal. COG Writer Robert Thiel had a report…