Brett Kavanaugh: Alcohol and the Party Culture
Last Thursday, Brett Kavanaugh, Supreme Court justice nominee, said about his relationship to alcohol: Yes we drank beer, my friends and I, boys and girls. Yes, we drank beer, I like beer, I still like beer, we drank beer. The drinking age, as I noted, was 18, so the seniors were legal, senior year in […]
The Trip to Europe Continued (Eighteenth Post In Total)
One Two Three Four Five Six Seven Eight Nine Ten Eleven Twelve Thirteen Fourteen Fifteen Sixteen Seventeen On June 13, 2018, my wife, two youngest daughters, and I arose and walked the 7 or 8 minutes to the Mestre, Italy train station to catch ours to Rome. We left around 9am for about a 1pm […]
The Septuagint (LXX) Chronology in Genesis 5 and 11: Corrupt and Indefensible
Recently a friend of mine asked me to evaluate the following paper: Smith, H.B., Jr. 2018. The case for the Septuagint’s chronology in Genesis 5 and 11. In Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Creationism, ed. J.H. Whitmore, pp. 117–132. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: Creation Science Fellowship. The author is Associates for Biblical Research’s lead researcher for […]
The Oracle of Delphi, Preaching, Power, and Sensing God
Part One Part Two In upper central Greece along the slope of Mount Parnassus resided the ancient city of Delphi. The ancient Greeks considered Delphi to be the center of the world, the world personified by the mother earth goddess, Gaia, and Delphi her navel. Delphi comes from a Greek root, which means “womb.” […]
Concocted Christianity
When I was young in a small Indiana farming community, off and on we owned various black and white televisions and sometimes watched Wide World of Sports on Saturday with host Jim McKay. Then I first saw the Harlem Globetrotters play, Meadowlark Lemon and Curly Neal. They always played the New Jersey Generals, and won […]
The Trip to Europe Continued (Seventeenth Post In Total)
One Two Three Four Five Six Seven Eight Nine Ten Eleven Twelve Thirteen Fourteen Fifteen Sixteen Venice has a permanent population of 55,000 and 20 million visitors a year. At most moments, far more tourists dwell there than permanent inhabitants. It’s not really built for the number of people who are normally there. I’m glad […]
Evan Roberts: Deceived by Satan, Part 15 of 22
The content of this post is now available in the study of: 1.) Evan Roberts 2.) The Welsh Revival of 1904-1905 3.) Jessie Penn-Lewis on the faithsaves.net website. Please click on the people above to view the study. On the FaithSaves website the PDF files may be easiest to read. You are also encouraged […]
A Critique: Worship Wars by Robert Bakss, pt. 2
Intro Part One Before I start, I encourage you to read a second post by Dave Mallinak along the same lines as the first he had written on his blog, the first was “Gone Contemporary” and the second, “Gothpel Style.” Like any counterfeit, Bakss book, Worship Wars, has truth in it. As a subtitle for […]
Actual Sensing of the Holy Spirit or God and then the More Prominent Fake Kind, Which Is a Lie
Part One My first part in this series was due to many varied circumstances, primarily spurred by a letter I had read, but this is something that I’ve basically been putting up with for years. If you don’t put up with it, much like with Charismatics, you are in trouble. You’ve got to accept these […]
The Trip to Europe Continued (Sixteenth Post In Total)
One Two Three Four Five Six Seven Eight Nine Ten Eleven Twelve Thirteen Fourteen Fifteen Monday, June 11, 2018 was a very busy and stressful, yet exciting day. We got very little sleep, arose very early, and then we had all the running due to our customs error at the Edinburgh airport, not getting checked […]