Iyov has been following the recent Vatican directive reminding episcopal conferences “to remove all vocalizations of the Tetragrammaton” out of respect to Jews and Jewish tradition. He quotes from a recent letter by Bishop Serratelli (chair of the US Bishop’s Committee on Divine Worship:
“the name of almighty God expressed by the Hebrew Tetragrammaton and rendered [...]
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Well… as long as we’re on this topic, here’s more eschatological fun:
HT: Greg Willson (click for more photos and video)
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In the video from yesterday’s “blood moon” post, Steve Hadley mentions that he originally saw this material presented by Mark Biltz, a messianic Jew with a church in Washington state. After digging around the original GodTube.com posting, I discovered the name of Biltz’s ministry… are you ready for this?
El Shaddai Ministries
At least that’s more on [...]
We all know that Jesus claimed to be the Bread of Life and that all who eat will be filled. One of the ways that we spiritually eat is by reading the Bible, which is available to the English-speaking part of the world in a confounding number of translations. But have you ever stopped to [...]
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HT: Mikey’s Funnies
A ship was wrecked during a storm at sea and only two of the men on it were able to swim to a small, desert-like island.
The two survivors, not knowing what else to do, agreed that they had no other recourse but to pray to God. However, to find out whose prayer was [...]
HT: trumpetmikey
The minister was preoccupied with thoughts of how he was going to, after the worship service, ask the congregation to come up with more money than they were expecting for repairs to the church building. Therefore, he was annoyed to find that the regular organist was sick and a substitute had been brought in [...]
A minister was completing a Temperance sermon.
With great emphasis he said,
“If I had all the beer in the world, I’d take it and pour it into the river.”
With even greater emphasis he said,
“And if I had all the wine in the world, I’d take it and pour it into the river.”
And then finally, shaking his [...]
Bryan Lilly has commented on a CNN article in which some Christians are convinced that Interstate 35, which runs from Texas to Minnesota, is the fulfillment of a prophecy in Isaiah 35:8:
A road will be there and a way;
it will be called the Holy Way.
The unclean will not travel on it,
but it will be for [...]
An atheist was walking through the woods. He said to himself,
“What majestic trees!”
“What powerful rivers!”
“What beautiful animals!”
As he was walking alongside the river, he heard a rustling in the bushes behind him. He turned to look. He saw a 9-foot grizzly bear charge towards him.
He ran as fast as he could up the path. He [...]
You might be an Alaskan … if you don’t understand what’s so exciting about seeing a moose wandering through the middle of town.
The Anchorage Daily News reported last month about a local moose who tangled his antlers in strands of Christmas lights and got buzzed on fermented crab apples after wandering through downtown Anchorage…
