when we try to interpret God’s word from a distance of about 2000 years, sometimes the cultural context can be obscured. After 2000 years it becomes difficult to understand everything as easily as they did. What Jesus said to those in the first century made perfect sense...
24 Then came the Jews round about him, and said unto him, How long dost thou make us to doubt? If thou be the Christ, tell us plainly. 25 Jesus answered them, I told you, and ye believed not: the works that I do in my Father's name, they bear witness of me. 26 But ye bel...
According to the EPA, exposure to the particulate matter present in incense smoke has been linked toasthma, lung inflammation and even cancer. In fact, long-term exposure to incense smoke was found to be related to an increased risk for upper respiratory cancers as well as squamous cell lung ...
Since I live about the same distance from theHollywood Burbank Airportas I do from LAX, flying out of the former instead of the latter whenever feasible — because it’s always far less congested and much more manageable — has long been an arrow in my life-hack quiver. But I was r...
Whenever the cloud would lift up off the tabernacle, the Israelites would follow it to wherever it would settle. As long as the cloud stayed on the tabernacle, the Israelites would stay right where they were camped. Once the cloud would lift off the tabernacle, they would then once again ...
Not long ago I met an old friend, and as I took him by the hand and asked after his family, the tears came trickling down his cheeks as he said: "I haven't any now." "What," I said, "is your wife dead?" "Yes, sir." "And all your children, too?" "Yes, all gone," ...
6And he hath violently taken away his tabernacle, as if it were of a garden: he hath destroyed his places of the assembly: theLordhath caused the solemn feasts and sabbaths to be forgotten in Zion, and hath despised in the indignation of his anger the king and the priest. ...
POLICY IX: LONG NAMES POLICY X: NAMES OF NATIVE AMERICAN ORIGIN I suspect POLICY VIII addresses secret names, such as Area 51, and therefore had to be redacted. To make up for it, however, there are two POLICY VII’s, one of which is titled… wait for it… NAME DUPLICATION?!
and said, `Mr Spurgeon, the Spirit tells me that I am to preach here, in this Tabernacle, next Thursday night.’ `Well, it is a very curious thing,’ said Spurgeon, `that the Spirit has not told me that.’ So of course the man did not preach on the Thursday in the Tabernacle!
Who’s counting? This is back tax owed to Ireland from Apple as a result of a little bit of jiggery-pokery about 20 or 15 years ago, it’s a long time ago now, where the Apple revenue was routed through a head office that didn’t really exist in Ireland. ...