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As discussed before, biblical prophecy is focused on the First and Second Coming (or "Advent") of Jesus the Christ, who is the King of History. He first demonstrated his authority over life and death by his resurrection from the dead. Prophecy then describes how the King of History will assert...

World events have never before have lined up with biblical prophecy on such a massively global scale. This agreement between the Bible and current events involves the complex world of geopolitics, which includes Israel and the increasing Mideast conflicts surrounding it, and China as the global giant, and Russia as...

Valentine's Day on February 14th is the hot, romantic day celebrated by restaurants and Hallmark Cards to drive up corporate profits, also known as a "Hallmark Holiday". But not everyone can celebrate Valentine's Day with a romantic fling. Fortunately, February 15th is a new day proclaimed "Singles Awareness Day" which...

Billy Graham established the popular magazine Christianity Today as a resource to support biblical Christian ministry and his crusades during the social revolution that swept Western civilization late last century. CT was called "evangelicalism's flagship magazine" by the Washington Post and the NY Times called CT the "mainstream evangelical magazine."...

Those calling to "dismantle" and "disband" police departments like the Minneapolis City Council are not going far enough. The nationwide calls to "defund" police departments are even more lame. Both the "dismantle" and "defund" causes have vague ideas of diverting money from police towards better community education and training programs...

I hope serious Christians are not getting  entangled in this ugly nationwide brawl over the strangulation death of George Floyd at the hands of a white cop in Minneapolis. It’s difficult to resist since passions are running so feverishly insane. Everyone is growing more angry every day. But Christians should...

God’s Movement “The summing up of all things” is the target of God’s work. It commands central attention across the universe and “in the heavenlies,” Paul wrote. Eph. 1:10 describes the “New Promise” (also called the New Covenant or New Testament in archaic terms), which is a contract—God’s Promise. It...

Imagine your life was nearly over. You lived long and learned so much with so much difficulty. All that knowledge should never vanish. Could you summarize everything in 10 or 20 words? For a generation whose attention span is limited by a Tweet? What words would work? Something like, “Be...

My question is simple—does anyone known anyone in real life with this COVD-19 virus? Everyone knows Tom Hanks has it, but has anyone seen the real and living Tom Hanks? When they release a statement from his self-quarantined, unknown location in Australia, it’s always a voice recording, not a video....

The stories of JRR Tolkien captured the imagination of generations and spawned a stunning trilogy of movies under the direction of Peter Jackson. Even his Hobbit sequels beginning in 2012 were captivating and meaningful. Critics of the 2012 Hobbit trilogy unfairly compared those movies against the incomparable Lord of the...

So many questions, so few answers! Every answer raises more questions. The great secret for old people is how certainty decays with old age but be careful! Ravenous, young sharks skulk in the shadows nearby! Be dogmatic no matter how pretentious it is! Such is the tug-of-war between old and...

Jesus Christ! How amazing and wonderful and kind and loving and kind and wonderful and amazing He is! Did I mention He was loving? Not nearly enough! Ridley Scott's depiction of Elysium, the Afterlife in Greek mythology. It looks OK at first since his long-lost wife is running toward him...

“Let no one keep defrauding you of your prize by delighting in self-abasement and the worship of the angels, taking his stand on visions he has seen, inflated without cause by his fleshly mind, and not holding fast to the head, from whom the entire body, being supplied and held...

After a flurry of medical activity leaving my insides chopped up like hamburger, at last I can return to the original, vexing problem I ran across earlier: “It’s a terrifying thing to fall into the hands of the living God,” as Hebrews 10:31 says. Along the same lines, “Our God...

Having consulted briefly with the oncology and surgery teams at the Cleveland Clinic, it is now apparent my pancreatic cancer cannot be surgically removed right now. Stage 3 development is underway, and even chemotherapy is not promising—even the most aggressive, 3-way toxic chemo. The big question is whether the toxic...

Ok, back from a failed Whipple Procedure surgery, which was an amazing failure at so many levels. It began with finding myself on the way back to the Geriatric Ward from whence I wandered earlier, racked with severe pain and deposited there without instructions for pain treatment to anyone. Even...

After the CAT scan showed I had a mass in my Pancreas, after I learned Pancreatic Cancer had a survival rate of 10% or less, after a second scan and more blood tests confirmed it, after learning how complicated the surgical remedy was; then after I told my wife and...

We typically don't think about the atmosphere we breathe unless it suddenly, noticeably changes. It seems incredible today to watch older movies where everyone smokes in newsrooms, hospitals, court rooms and everywhere else, but smoke-filled rooms were so commonplace before the '90s, nobody noticed or cared or dared to say...

New Age Rises The problem with yoga is not really yoga. The problem is the widespread adoption of Eastern Mysticism in the West, and especially in the USA, as detailed previously in "Compromising with Yoga, Part 1". The Millennial Generation is the first in American history raised under the non-rational...

Star Lord (Chris Pratt) whipped it out in Guardians of the Galaxy: If you like Pina Coladas, and getting caught in the rainIf you´re not into yoga, if you have half a brainIf you like making love at midnight, in the dunes of the capeI´m the love that you´ve looked...