2023-03-24T22:41:36-04:00

      Moses’ snake on a pole, on Mt. Nebo, check the Johannine text at the podium of the statue. It may seem strange, as many people as the Romans crucified in the first century A.D., including a good number of Christians, but the death of Christ on the cross has caused more problems for non-Christians, for instance many Muslims, and Jehovah Witnesses, than the resurrection of Jesus.  Good Friday is the appropriate day to reflect on these things... Read more

2023-03-20T17:30:31-04:00

The Jacksonville Zoo is a bird sanctuary among other things. And there are many colorful fowl to inspect. I wanted to try out my new Samsung Galaxy 23+ Ultra with its ultra good camera.  Well you can judge the results for yourself.  Amazing telephoto lens, because you can’t get anywhere near some of these flighty creatures.  It was a nice day in March when we went there, and we walked through Africa, Asia, Australia etc.  Afterwards, I wished I had... Read more

2023-03-24T09:14:03-04:00

Yes, we confess to being nature lovers, including both flora and fauna, both flowers and beasts, so naturally we visited the Bird Park near where we were staying.  The occasion for Ann and I to go South was that my sister and my wife have birthdays close together, March 8th and 13th, so we rendezvoused in Jacksonville and went to the beach, and the Players golf tourney. We also took a bunch of side trips.  One was too the Bird... Read more

2023-03-15T06:30:05-04:00

One of the odder aspects of the history of Christianity is some aspects of monasticism, for example, the complete withdrawal from the world coupled with the vow of silence. I was once sitting in the gift shop at Gethsemane abbey (my mother was inspecting their delicious bourbon fudge) near Bardstown Ky. and I was sitting next to one of the older Trappist monks who lived at the abbey. Suddenly he started speaking to me, which startled me because I had... Read more

2023-03-14T13:56:07-04:00

The Asbury Revival continues,  with some sage advice from Lalah Hathaway in this video. Read more

2023-02-21T11:00:12-05:00

  http://www.allanbevere.com/2023/02/the-wesleyan-way-revival-real-or.html   This was a good discussion about the nature of revival vis a vis evangelistic services and related matters. Read more

2023-03-24T09:40:39-04:00

How in the world did April’ Fools day get its start? According to Encyclopedia Britannica it may have originated in France… “Some have proposed that the modern custom originated in France, officially with the Edict of Roussillon (promulgated in August 1564), in which Charles IX decreed that the new year would no longer begin on Easter, as had been common throughout Christendom, but rather on January 1. Because Easter was a lunar and therefore moveable date, those who clung to the old ways were... Read more

2023-02-13T16:44:05-05:00

I am sometimes asked, why prefer one translation of the Bible over another?  My answer is that not all translations are created equal, and anyway, every translation is already an interpretation.  And some older translations have all kinds of mistakes in rendering the Hebrew or the Greek.   Here’s a classic example from the Latin Vulgate. Perhaps you’ve gone to Rome and visited the church known as St. Peter in Chains, which has a famous marble statue of Michelangelo of Moses,... Read more

2023-02-13T13:49:47-05:00

Here is a good discussion and interview about NT Rhetoric….. http://www.christianhumanist.org/2023/02/christian-humanist-profiles-245-new-testament-rhetoric/ Read more

2023-02-13T09:21:52-05:00

Q. The question becomes since the image of God is both male and female (and patriarchy is a result of the Fall, including the curse ‘your desire will be for your husband and he will lord it over you’, and Gal. 3.28 says in Christ there is ‘no male and female’), what does that really mean? Notice Paul in Gal. 3.28 breaks up the triad and does not say there is neither male nor female (unlike neither Gentile nor Jew... Read more

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