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--A Practical Understanding, Part 3:

2006-11-06T11:09:00.000-08:00

Hope Matthew 517"Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them.What is the Bible “for”? What is it “about”? The key word in the Greek text of Matthew’s Gospel is πληρῶσαι: to complete, to perfect, to fulfillAll of God’s requirements in the Law and His Promises through the Prophecies are completed and fulfilled in the Person

---Still The Scariest Story Ever Told

2006-10-18T11:37:00.000-07:00

Mark 59Then Jesus asked him, "What is your name?"My name is Legion," he replied, "for we are many."I guess my October Festival scary-story repertoire is limited to one---from last year. It still scares me:The Scariest Story Ever Told

--A Practical Understanding, Part 2:

2006-10-17T08:09:00.000-07:00

InstructionJohn 1426But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in myname, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have said toyou.It is unlikely that anyone would trust his life to a surgeon who admitted that he hadn’tattended medical school or served an internship, but protested that he had read all thebooks. The practice of medicine requires not only

---The Others

2006-10-16T12:45:00.000-07:00

[Writing in Ubuntu Linux & Open Office today. Several problems are making the switch-over kind of difficult Hyperlinks are hard to use, etc. Still, it's not XP or Vista]Revelation 2218 I warn everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book: If anyone adds anything to them, God will add to him the plagues described in this book. 19And if anyone takes words away from this book of prophecy

These guys again....

2006-09-16T11:02:00.000-07:00

Technorati is getting me in a lot of trouble lately. I stumbled across this while innocently looking for something else, and of course didn’t have enough sense to leave it alone:JIMMY AKIN.ORG: Adding Wine To The Precious Blood JIMMY AKIN.ORG: More On Adding Wine To The Precious BloodI responded: This is certainly revealing---what is its actual Scriptural basis? One begins to suspect that you

---A Practical Understanding, Part 1:

2006-09-14T09:35:00.000-07:00

Discernment Until recently, I have always avoided television Bible teachers and evangelists. The reputation of the people who do televised preaching has always been poor, and for pretty good reasons. I am finding lately, however, that several of the current generation of televised ministers---men and women---are actually capable of genuine Spiritually-inspired edification. Then there are

---The Plan

2006-07-10T18:02:00.000-07:00

Matthew 2237Jesus replied: " 'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.' 38This is the first and greatest commandment. 39And the second is like it: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.' 40All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments." New Scientist SPACE -

---Love also is....

2006-06-20T21:58:00.000-07:00

....Telling the Truth, even when it hurts like hell, and makes people very angry. Jesus also said:Matthew 23:15"Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You travel over land and sea to win a single convert, and when he becomes one, you make him twice as much a son of hell as you are.Matthew 23:33"You snakes! You brood of vipers! How will you escape being condemned to hell?

---Just one more thing....

2006-05-05T13:45:00.000-07:00

...about Catholicism:Exodus 195 Now if you obey me fully and keep my covenant, then out of all nations you will be my treasured possession. Although the whole earth is mine, 6 you [a] will be for me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.' These are the words you are to speak to the Israelites." Jeremiah 3131 "The time is coming," declares the LORD, "when I

---Even "More News" of Judas?

2006-04-25T11:30:00.000-07:00

Continuing our commentary on the “Judas” document:In the comments from National Geographic: Gospel of Judas Pages Endured Long, Strange Journey, we find: "We can consider it a real miracle [my emphasis] that [such an ancient literary work]—especially one threatened by the hatred of the great majority of its contemporary readers, who saw it as a

---"More News" of Judas

2006-04-16T16:17:00.000-07:00

Our Easter sermon included a strong rebuttal of the latest fads in pseudo-Biblical sensationalism, including the “Gospel of Judas”. I dismissed the whole "Judas" document last week as “just another heresy”, but the additional information makes it clear just how far the TV documentaries and the rash of news stories went to avoid legitimate academic thought and virtually all other relevant facts

---The "Other News" of Judas?

2006-04-11T13:24:00.000-07:00

Ephesians 4:14-1514Then we will no longer be infants, tossed back and forth by the waves, and blown here and there by every wind of teaching and by the cunning and craftiness of men in their deceitful scheming. 15Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will in all things grow up into him who is the Head, that is, Christ.[I was hoping to hit the intellecual snooze button on this, but it just isn’t

---The Way of the World

2006-03-15T08:56:00.000-08:00

2 Corinthians 103For though we live in the world, we do not wage war as the world does. 4The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds. 5We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ. Well, we provoked a

---European Vacation II: a Year Later

2006-02-20T07:13:00.000-08:00

Isaiah 2913 The Lord says: "These people come near to me with their mouth and honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me. Their worship of me is made up only of rules taught by men. I'm finally processing the digital stills and movie clips from last year's trip to France and Italy. These seemed relevant to the point I've been trying to make in recent posts:Notre Dame,

----Roman Catholicism: the Other Christianity?

2006-02-19T16:44:00.000-08:00

Matthew 721"Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. 22Many will say to me on that day, 'Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and in your name drive out demons and perform many miracles?' 23Then I will tell them plainly, 'I never knew you. Away from me, you evildoers!' [See

---The Death Penalty

2005-12-18T16:34:00.000-08:00

California Executes Tookie Williams [FOXNews.com/AP]When Williams was declared dead, supporters chanted, "The state of California just killed an innocent man". Surely this assertion must have seemed preposterous even to the various celebrities and diginitaries who protested his execution. Williams was the founder of one of the most notorious, murderous criminal organizations in recent U.S.

---Wisdom?

2005-12-10T11:59:00.000-08:00

James 15If any of you lacks wisdom, he should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to him. The news lately has been almost all bad, and it’s getting worse. There’s some new shock somewhere in the world almost every day. War, pandemic, corruption, vice, poor judgment by political, social, business, and

---The Scariest Story Ever Told

2005-10-10T22:19:00.000-07:00

Mark 59Then Jesus asked him, "What is your name?"My name is Legion," he replied, "for we are many." Jesus was probably very tired. He had been teaching from town to town, and finally had to get in a fishing boat to avoid the press of the crowds that came to hear Him. In spite of many successes, His inner circle still seemed to

---Relief is on the Way

2005-09-10T10:20:00.000-07:00

Ecclesiastes 911 I have seen something else under the sun:The race is not to the swift or the battle to the strong,nor does food come to the wise or wealth to the brilliantor favor to the learned; but time and chance happen to them all. Solomon was undoubtedly one of the wisest, most capable, and wealthiest men who ever

---A Practical Matter, Part II:

2005-08-16T10:30:00.000-07:00

What would Jesus do? John 68Another of his disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter's brother, spoke up, 9"Here is a boy with five small barley loaves and two small fish, but how far will they go among so many?" 10Jesus said, "Have the people sit down." There was plenty of grass in that place, and the men sat down, about five thousand of them. 11Jesus then took the loaves, gave thanks, and distributed to

---A Practical Matter, Part I:

2005-08-11T06:14:00.000-07:00

The Price of Invisibility---Poverty, Malnutrition, and Disease Proverbs 1431 He who oppresses the poor shows contempt for their Maker,but whoever is kind to the needy honors God. This is an extremely difficult subject, provoked by a local sermon and concerns alluded to in earlier installments. It is particularly important that this topic be approached

---The Other Gift

2005-06-17T14:01:00.000-07:00

John 7:14-16 (NIV)14Not until halfway through the Feast did Jesus go up to the temple courts and begin to teach. 15The Jews were amazed and asked, "How did this man get such learning without having studied?"16Jesus answered, "My teaching is not my own. It comes from him who sent me. Many commentators (this one, for example) have addressed the significance of this exchange

---The Spectacle

2005-04-15T07:46:00.000-07:00

Numbers 214 They traveled from Mount Hor along the route to the Red Sea, to go around Edom. But the people grew impatient on the way; 5 they spoke against God and against Moses, and said, "Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the desert? There is no bread! There is no water! And we detest this miserable food!"6 Then the LORD sent venomous snakes among them; they bit the people and

---"Head of Church - How the Papacy Works"

2005-04-09T23:00:00.000-07:00

From those wacky guys at HowStuffWorks. I just had a feeling that there was some kind of major misconception at work here. Matthew 16 indeed says:15“But what about you?” he asked. “Who do you say I am?”16Simon Peter answered, “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.”17Jesus replied, “Blessed are you, Simon son of Jonah, for this was not revealed to you by man, but by my Father in heaven.

---Civilization Takes Another Leap

2005-04-06T05:13:00.000-07:00

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,152273,00.htmlhttp://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,152176,00.htmlhttp://www.anncoulter.org/ (this week’s commentary: “The Emperor's New Robes”)Is it significant that the English language uses the same word for both judicial and sexual misconduct? We say “sexual perversion” and “perversion of justice”. Why? A reflection of the similarly severe consequences of