She endured much: shame for her pregnancy, a long, uncomfortable journey to Bethlehem, and crude circumstances for the birth of her Son. Mary wasyoung—perhaps between thirteen and fifteen years of age. That was the typical age for a girl to be married in Bible times. Yet, young as Mary...
the Sun), Eve(Venus, the Moon), The Last Adam(Adonis, Mars) and also Satan(Kronos, Saturn) just with different names in different languages, and how elements of that same Babylonian mystery
“The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,” Ephesians 1:18 “But blessed are your eyes, for they see: and your ears, for they hear. For verily I say unto...
Statement of Beliefs of the Continuing Church of God“Contend earnestly for the faith once for all delivered to the saints” (Jude 3, NKJV), “Let brotherly love (Philadelphia) continue” (Hebrews 13:1) ” & continuing stedfastly in the teaching of the apostles” (Acts 2:42 YLT). So...
And yet the leader continued to support Jackie and even released from the gang those boys who became Christians [3]. One day while walking through the Walled City, Jackie spotted Christopher, a boy from her youth group. She asked him to carry her accordion. As they walked, they talked. ...
Martini for her healing – he wouldn’t answer. So I called out to other Saints, saying anyone out there who loves cats? Surely she has done nothing to be ill. Please don’t hold my faults & sins against healing her {I repeated this again & again as it could be an obstacle} – ...
We can’t be bullies and saints at the same time. We while we desire to see more godliness in our world, it will not come about through attempting to legislate morality or by being a political baseball bat. I work in public policy so I know. If we as so-called Christians want to ...
For we are God’s handiwork The word handiwork is interesting to me. We sometimes use it negatively, “That mess is the handiwork of the boys.” but usually, handiwork is a good thing. It is a project that was done by hand. It doesn’t happen automatically. It’s not machine-made....
When Wendy was pregnant with our first child, before we knew it was a girl, we began to pick out baby names for boys and girls, and do you know what? We never even considered the name Judas for a boy. You want to know what else? Wendy and I are really into the meaning of names...
Matthew tells us that he sent to murder all the baby boys in Bethlehem in an attempt to eliminate this threat to the throne. Mary said in her famous praise, “He has brought down rulers from their thrones, but lifted up the humble.” That is not good news of great joy for the ...