The headlines are oddly mixed. The Bangkok Post writes, “Iran welcomes Obama’s olive branch”, yet even within it we read: “We welcome the wish of the president of the United States to put away past differences,” President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s press adviser Ali Akbar Javanfekr said in reaction to Obama’s message…
The AP reports that a record number of babies were born in the US in 2007. Furthermore, “births to unwed mothers reached an all-time high of about 40 percent, continuing a trend begun years ago.” According to a leading fertility researcher at Duke, S. Philip Morgan, it has become more…
Daniel 11 gives an account of 2 political powers that struggle with each other down through history. It starts with the Empire of Alexander the Great, whose empire was split into 4 powers after his death (vv3-4). Eventually, 2 of these powers dominate. One was called the “King of the…
The COG has long taught that God’s protecting hand has been upon the English speaking peoples of the world because of the amazing promises contained in His word. Even though they have forgotten who their ancestors are, God has not. He remains faithful and true. However, there are also promises…
As a man, I find it hard to imagine what labor is like. I can only tell you what I observed my wife go through when my daughter was “born”. Actually, she was a C-section, so even what I witnessed probably isn’t representative of what women go through during the…
Let them bring them forth, and shew us what shall happen: let them shew the former things, what they be, that we may consider them, and know the latter end of them; or declare us things for to come. Shew the things that are to come hereafter, that we may…
Some of you may be aware that I am a fan of the book Intellectual Morons: How Ideology Makes Smart People Fall for Stupid Ideas by Daniel J. Flynn. Although mostly conservative, Flynn doesn’t hold back when it comes to some of the ideas that led to the invasion of…
Yesteray, Yahoo! UK Finance ran an article “TOPWRAP 4-Bank woes forces Germany into nationalisation law“, and DW ran an article “German Government Considers Bank Takeover“. This is a reversal of a policy about seizing private property that has been in effect since the end of WWII “becoming the latest government…
There are some in the COG circles that are teaching that 3 of the churches John wrote about in Rev 2 – 3 will still be in existence when Christ returns. I think it is a compelling argument. However, by using the same criteria, I actually come up with 4!…