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Comment on Those Confusing Kings by Pastor Ken

Pastor Ken — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 00:37:26 +0000

When the word “true” is applied to persons it usually means truthful or honest. So we could emulate Jesus by speaking and acting according to the truth.

Comment on Those Confusing Kings by Carol

Carol — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 17:42:54 +0000

Hi PK, I looked up “true” and it was the greek word alethes, meaning loving the truth, speaking the truth, truthful. it’s used many times in john referring to 1) statements or testimonies that are true and 2) God or Jesus being true. What does it mean for a person to be “true”? How can we emulate Jesus based on John 7:18?

Comment on Those Confusing Kings by Pastor Ken

Pastor Ken — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 05:31:20 +0000

God’s judgment reveals part of His character, namely that He is a holy God. It’s important to realize that He loves us, but apart from the death and resurrection of Christ He would be obligated by His justice to send us all to hell for eternity. Some of the judgment in the prophets is directed at Israel as a call for repentance. Most of the time the pronouncement of judgment is followed the the promise of restoration. But the judgment on the surrounding nations is sometimes without remedy, reminding us of the immense privilege of experiencing God’s grace.

Comment on Those Confusing Kings by Carol

Carol — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 18:45:59 +0000

A question: Why do you think God included all the parts of the bible (specifically in the prophets) about Him judging other nations in the inspired Word? What is the application to us?

Comment on Those Confusing Kings by Pastor Ken

Pastor Ken — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 18:24:40 +0000

The Bible does not say what happened to the ark of the covenant or its contents. There has been lots of speculation, even an Indiana Jones movie, but no one really knows.

Thanks for the tip about the disposable communion cups. I will look into it when they become available next year.

Comment on Those Confusing Kings by Stacy

Stacy — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 09:42:40 +0000

Hi Pastor Ken,

Another question regarding a recent passage in the reading schedule - out of curiosity, when Jerusalem falls in the end of Jeremiah and the temple is burned, did that mean the ark of the covenant, tablets, budding staff get destroyed as well?

And this is off topic, but I once brought up the idea of compostable communion cups with Kiki after one service…could that be considered by the elders of the church? I found a website with some information and the church is actually based in Berkeley: http://www.agreenchurch.com/products/index.html

Comment on Those Confusing Kings by Pastor Ken

Pastor Ken — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 00:58:26 +0000

In Gen. 10 it looks like the descendants of Japheth went north, those of Ham went south, and those of Shem went east. That’s not much to go on, but that is probably why some say that Chinese people are descended from Shem. I haven’t studied this in detail, so I don’t know if there is any other evidence.

Comment on Those Confusing Kings by Carol

Carol — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 00:00:00 +0000

I have a question. Did Chinese people come from the line of Shem? Any resources as to which son of Noah we can trace our lineage to?

Comment on Those Confusing Kings by Pastor Ken

Pastor Ken — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 21:53:10 +0000

Thanks for sharing this with us. I took a look at the resources available in this software and discovered that they are mostly very old Bible translations and commentaries. That is not surprising, because books with an active copyright are usually not available for free.

Take a look at biblestudytools.com, where you will find a good collection of resources, including some more up to date Bible transltations and Greek/Hebrew tools. But you need to have an internet connection to use it.

Comment on Those Confusing Kings by John Shen

John Shen — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 12:45:55 +0000

http://www.crosswire.org/bibledesktop/

This free software helps me to keep up, because I am always with a computer. It is available in all platforms. Hope someone else finds it useful too. You need internet connection to download bible text and other books such as commentaries, but can use the software offline.

The only requirement is that you have JRE (java runtime environment).

God bless and happy bible reading!