I just finished reading an excellent sermon by a Quaker minister, Pastor Tim Henry, on Associated Content. In “And He Lived Among Us: A Sermon Based on John 1:1-18”, Pastor Henry starts out giving us evidence that there is a God. Not just any God, but a logical God. In…
Since some of you have your own blogs and, presumably, you are all interested in blogs if you are reading this, you might be interested in knowing that on 1 December 2009, new FTC guidelines will come into effect to close certain loopholes in product endorsements in all sorts of…
The CNN Daily yesterday mentioned that President Barak Obama is meeting with China, and one of the items on the agenda is the artificial deflation of Chinese currency. This is currency, of course, that is helping to boost up all of the spending going on of late. The reporter made…
Well, I don’t know if anything else will trip the wacky meter this week, but this is an odd one. Magali Jaskiewicz and Jonathan George had originally planned to wed last November. However, he was killed in a traffic accident just 2 days prior to the ceremony. According to the…
[The dog ate my homework, but it wouldn’t stay down. :)] I love spaghetti. I love my wife. I love my child. I love my country. You know, the Greeks had different words for “love”, while English has one word with a vast number of synonyms. Love is often elevated…
I was impressed this morning by UCG’s Mike Bennett’s article, “By This All Will Know…” on the Forward to the Kingdom! blog. I honestly had a lot more to say on the subject, but my computer decided to lose the article I had written. I know that sounds like “the…
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…
It’s nice to be able to round out the week with some good news. Leon Sexton, head of Legacy Institute in Chiang Mai, Thailand, sent out a video message that arrived this morning. This is the first that I recall them sending a video, as it is usually a PDF…
Gunther Link, 45, was a devout Austrian Catholic. Described as “a very religious man”, he became stuck in an elevator. So, naturally he prayed to be released, and a short while later he was rescued. Well, he was naturally very thankful for his rescue, so he went directly to the…
Probably the most disappointing document to come out of UCG is its paper on Born Again, dtd December 2002. You may have noticed Robert Thiel’s recent article on “CGG’s Born Again Doctrinal Change”. Indeed, John W Ritenbaugh states in his sermon Born Again (Part 2): Nicodemus’ error was sincere, and…