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The Easter Gift: Resurrection … and The Hope of Rapture

admin | April 4, 2010

Ten, fifteen years ago I was a much younger Christian (and much older sinner) than I am now. Like so many new believers, I was greatly attracted to the subject of the “end times”. I pored through innumerable books and spent countless hours in the equivalent of today’s chatrooms, the slowmotion but tough and dangerous [...]

The First Communion?

admin | February 10, 2010

I’ve taken the communion bread and wine (or more commonly, cracker and grape juice) hundreds of times at a dozen or more churches in several denominations. Invariably the communion ceremony is introduced by the Pastor, or some other leader, with a brief explanation of its meaning and the symbolism of the elements – the bread [...]

Lot’s Wife and a Pillar of Salt: Another Read?

admin | May 30, 2009

  The Bible tells a tale of two wicked cities, Sodom and Gomorrah. They’d become so rank and evil God decided to destroy them. But before He did – and this is one of the most remarkable aspects of the whole story – God elected to tell Abraham about His decision, and then allows Abraham [...]

Why Science AND Scripture?

admin | April 27, 2009

  My first book was little more than analysis and some small amount of original interpretation of scripture. My second, a major work of interpretation and reinterpretation, made much use of science. Not surprisingly so, since it’s purpose was to understand, evaluate, and reconcile if possible, the multitude of apparent contradictions between the Biblical and [...]