1 I was small among my brethren, and youngest in my father’s house: I tended my father’s sheep. 2 My hands formed a musical instrument, and my fingers tuned a psaltery. 3 And who shall tell my Lord? the Lord himself, he himself hears. 4 He sent forth his angel, and took me from my…
The Occult Versus the Mystical
The occult deals with the keeping and passing down of secret information. These secrets are reserved for the few, the chosen. The mystical deals with thea experience of the Divine. It is not information, it is the consciousness of God. And it is reserved for the few as well, for those who follow the mystic…
Ordination of Women
“There is no longer Jew or Greek; there is no longer slave or free; there is no longer male and female, for all of you are one in Christ Jesus” (Gal. 3:28). If there are neither male nor female in Christ Jesus, then why do we segregate women from the ministry? Apostle to the Apostles…
The Caricature by Alisa Childers
Alisa Childers in her book Another Gospel?: A Lifelong Christian Seeks Truth in Response to Progressive Christianity, makes a fundamental error about Progressive Christianity. It is that Progressive Christianity is one thing. As I say in “A Progressive Christian Declaration”: “Progressive Christianity is not a unified group, but a movement that seeks to be honest…
Recommended Bible Translations
Every so often somebody will ask me about which translation of the Bible do I recommend. Although there are exceptions to this, I usually recommend one of two translations. It depends on what they are going to be using the Bible for. Read or Study? There are two basic uses of the Bible. The first…