All the Way Back to the Beginning
Start with Cain. He murdered his brother. He was envious and contrary and wasn’t going to follow the plain instructions. It was all about him. I’m sure Adam and Eve had trouble getting him to do some of the simplest …
Make it plain
These preparations having thus been made, the priests go regularly into the first section, performing their ritual duties, but into the second only the high priest goes, and he but once a year, and not without taking blood, which he …
Religious Questions (4) re-post
[This earlier post was requested to have resubmitted. It had not been included during the database updating. RV]
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It has been identified that the Western Catholic Church incorporated wholesale departures from the scriptures. What resulted out of that whether …
Roots of Catholicism
Following the rule of Constantine the empire was given over to his sons and heirs (Constantine II, Constans and Constantius). Constantine II was killed by his brother Constans who was soon removed by another rival. This left the empire to …
Joel Osteen and Being Ready To Give An Answer 2
This is a continuation from the last post concerning Joel Osteen’s interview with Piers Morgan on CNN. If you have not read the first post, please read it first to gain context for the rest of this post. You can …
Joel Osteen and Being Ready To Give An Answer
Joel and Victoria Osteen were on Piers Morgan’s show on CNN this week. I want to begin with the positive portion of the interview. If you have not seen parts of the interview, you can find it on YouTube. Here …
Not the Donor, but the Donation
When the prophet Joel stated And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my Spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall …
The Mercy Seat
Brent’s lesson Sunday night last brought to mind one of the least understood words in our English Bibles. In his lesson on 1 John 2: 2 we read of propitiation. It appears twice in that letter and a single …
Words Still Mean Something
There is more to the word most often translated as obey. It is a compound word. The first portion is transliterated into English as hupo and the second part is that word akouo, from which we get acoustic …
Obey the Gospel
As people today become interested in Christianity often they are told to “pray to Jesus and accept him as their personal savior” or simply to come and “join the church.” Unfortunately, you will not find these phrases or anything like …