Before I publish the last part of my series on the rapture, I must confess something. No, nothing like that! Get your mind out of…
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Before I publish the last part of my series on the rapture, I must confess something. No, nothing like that! Get your mind out of…
Leave a CommentBack in the early 1980’s I and my family began attending a small, independent evangelical church. One of those churches that seemed to spring up…
Leave a CommentO thief! Come to take my own! Stealth’ly by darkness come, Enriched, by silence gone. One of the lasting metaphors that has been used by…
Leave a CommentHey! Sorry it’’s been awhile since I visited here. I got sidetracked by some light reading, ”God’s Ecstasy: The Creation of a Self-Creating World” by…
2 CommentsThat song by Larry Norman had a lot in it about wars and people disappearing. Back in the 70’s when we were singing it the…
2 CommentsAre you all still with me? I know that this is a lot of religious stuff. But, this particular topic has caused untold anxiety and…
Leave a CommentSo, let’s move along to the text from Paul’s first letter to the church at Thessalonica that folks of the dispensationalist disposition use to “prove”…
Leave a CommentWe now have an idea about where the idea of dividing history into Ages or Dispensations came from. Theologians, trying to make sense of how…
Leave a CommentOk, class. It’s time for a vocabulary quiz. What was that word I used in the last post? “Dispossessed?” “Antidisestablishmentarianism?” “Dipsy-doodle?” Nope, none of the…
Leave a CommentJohn Nelson Darby – The Father of Modern Dispensationalism When I was a member of the Evangelical church I was taught that we, and we…
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