Archive for November, 2008
It’s Sunday…again
Seems like this day comes at least once a week, you know what I mean? I had a pretty good week…relaxed a great deal, read some, thought some, prayed some. I took the whole week off of work, and I only went to my office once. Well, back to the old grindstone, eh? This week, […]
In: Devotional · Tagged with: christmas, God, religion, sunday
Sirach 4. 20-31 – Indifferent Humility
Continuing our Commentary on Sirach 4:20-31 (20) Observe the right time, and beware of evil; and do not bring shame on yourself. Like other passage in Sirach, we find echoes in Paul, Redeeming the time, because the days are evil. (Ephesians 5:16 NKJV) This passage is about individual wisdom, that which should guide us. It […]
In: Sirach · Tagged with: bible, God, humility, James, kjvo, religion, tongue, truth, Wisdom
Update on Todd Bentley – It’s God’s fault that he left his wife.
Remember Todd? Now that he has left his wife, he doesn’t want to go back. It seems that the other woman was the child’s nanny, and had been so for over a year. Note that the very first reason for Todd’s failure is…God. That’s right…the anointing was too addictive. In the Garden, when Adam fell, […]
In: Joel’s Army, Religious News, Todd Bentley · Tagged with: adultery, Bill Johnson, divorce, florida outpouring, florida revival, fresh fire ministries, ignited church, John Arnott, lakeland outpouring, lakeland revival, Rick Joyner, shonnah bentley, word of faith
Pastor who helped get ‘God’ in pledge dies
I wonder if people realize that the Pledge lacked ‘under God’ until 1954, was written by a socialist, and required a Nazi-like salute (granted, it was not Nazi then) that hearkened back to the Roman Empire. ALEXANDRIA, Pa. – The clergyman credited with helping to push Congress to insert the phrase “under God” into the […]
In: Religious News · Tagged with: american history, Christian Nation, George M. Docherty, God, pledge, pledge of allegiance, religion
Tony Jones, a New ‘Christian’, says homosexuality is okay.
I marvel that you are turning away so soon from Him who called you in the grace of Christ, to a different gospel, which is not another; but there are some who trouble you and want to pervert the gospel of Christ. But even if we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel […]
In: Abortion, Other Posts · Tagged with: AIDS, berkeley, bill pannell, blogalogue, civil rights, fuller theological seminary, gay, gay rights, GLBTQ, Homosexuality, rod dreher, same-sex marriage, streaking, tony jones
New Life Version
Byron has returned to blogging and brings us this fine post. I have this version on E-Sword, but never went into the history of it. via New Life Version « BRYON’S WEBLOG I’ve come across a rather obscure version of the Bible called the New Life Version or NLV (a.k.a. New Life Bible). It is […]
In: Bible Translation, KJV · Tagged with: Christian Literature International, kjvo, new life version, nlv
Entrepreneurial ‘spirit’ more so than the Holy Spirit
In the below article, you will note that the first pastor is a business man first, and then the ‘Church’. This is not uncommon – the more so lately as ‘pastors’ become CEO’s. PORTLAND, Ore. — Eric Bahme no longer apologizes for being a preacher who keeps his eye on the bottom line. He is […]
In: Joel Osteen, Religious News · Tagged with: Eric Bahme, God, religion, Rex Humbard, t.d. jakes, word of faith
