Should Christians use birth control? My story.

  Today I was going to post about a raw carrot cake recipe, and nothing went right. And then somehow I ended up writing about our birth control story today. Yeah. I know that birth control, contraception, and artificial reproductive technologies can be big dividing issues for many Christians today. But I really believe they are issues […]

Should Christians Use Contraceptive Methods and Reproductive Technologies?

Feb 07, 2013 Behold, children are a heritage from the LORD, the fruit of the womb a reward. Psalm 127:3 In the beginning, God reached down into the dust of the earth, formed man and breathed life into him. Man was given the task of ruling and subduing creation as God’s representative, but he was not […]

Doctrines Must Become Part of Your Spirit

September 12, 1884 My Dear Friends: — 29 If you are to become efficient teachers in our churches and schools, it is a matter of indispensable necessity that you have a most minute knowledge of all doctrines of the Christian revelation. However, having achieved such knowledge, you have not yet attained all that is needed. […]

First Gentile Convert – By Louis Rushmore

Was Cornelius the first Gentile convert as it is indicated in Acts 11:18? That verse says, “When they heard these things they became silent; and they glorified God, saying, then God has also granted to the Gentiles repentance to life.” I heard a lesson at an encampment a few years ago, and we were told […]

Are we the churches of God or of Tradition?

Christ and Interactive method of teaching. In the gospels it refers to Jesus preaching on 16 occasions, however never to his followers or disciples and not once in John’s gospel. But references to Jesus teaching occur on at least 43 occasions! The main component of our services is traditionally the sermon and obviously to a much lesser extent the short sermon.  Is the sermon ‘teaching’?  What sort of teaching was […]

Bible Translation – Aramaic basis

Through the process of translation, I gathered that the original Greek translations and to some extent the original Latin translations from the Ancient Aramaic were better than the ones attempted after the Middle Ages. The early Greek translators spoke the Ancient Aramaic language well, so the “Greek Original” was a good translation as translations go. […]

Lamsa Translation of Bible – Language Peshitta

The favorable reception accorded the Lamsa translation of the Gospels, later of the New Testament and of the Psalms, has prompted us to publish a complete translation of The Holy Bible from the Peshitta, the authorized Bible of the Church of the East. This translation of the Old and New Testaments into English is based on Peshitta manuscripts which have comprised the accepted Bible of all of those Christians […]

Karaite Fact Sheet

What is Karaism? Karaism is Judaism according to the Hebrew Bible. The word Karaite (Hebrew: Bnei Mikra) means “Followers of the Bible” (“Mikra” is the Hebrew word for Bible). Karaites believe only in the authority of the Hebrew Bible and reject all later innovations such as the Rabbinic “Oral Law”. Biblical Interpretation Karaites do not […]

Doctrine

Why a Doctrine (Beliefs) Section? What about the Doctrine? What about God? What about Jesus? What about the Holy Spirit? What about the Bible? Are You Conservative or Liberal?   There are no short answers. There are pithy and catchy phrases describing concepts. Then there are explanations of those concepts. Answers explain the concepts. Pithy […]

Is Your Miracle You By? Passing

Chapter 1 ‘THY FAITH HATH MADE THEE WHOLE And they came to Jericho; and as he went out of Jericho with his disciples and a great number of people, blind Bartimaeus, the son of Timaeus, sat by the highway side begging. And when he heard that it was Jesus of Nazareth, he began to cry […]