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Search Results for: sabbatarianism
Chesed Shel Emet; Easter and Sabbatarianism; New Life from Bitterness
I have three items for my write-up on church this morning. Since today is Easter Sunday, the sermon was about Jesus’ resurrection. The pastor focused on the story in Luke 24. A. The pastor referred to the Jewish concept of … Continue reading
Transubstantiation and Sabbatarianism in “The Conflict of Adam and Eve with Satan”
I am still reading “The Conflict of Adam and Eve with Satan.” This is a Christian work that dates anywhere from the fifth century C.E. to the ninth century C.E. It was written originally in Arabic and was translated into … Continue reading
More Reflections on Sabbatarianism
I talked in my last post about what I thought about Christians who were not Sabbatarians, back when I was a Sabbatarian (an observer of Saturday as the Sabbath). What I said yesterday is that many of us Sabbatarians saw … Continue reading
Humility; Miracles; New Heart; Ancient Libraries; Early Christian Sabbatarianism; Textus Receptus; Women Priests
1. Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends and Influence People, page 111: I believe now hardly anything that I believed twenty years ago—except the multiplication table; and I begin to doubt even that when I read about Einstein. In another … Continue reading
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Doubting Sabbatarianism on This Sabbath
I grew up in a Sabbatarian church, which observed the Sabbath on Saturday, the seventh day of the week. As far as I’m concerned, that’s a practice that I’ll keep on doing for the rest of my life. It’s good … Continue reading
Posted in Acts, Bible, Church, Daily Quiet Time, Religion
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Three Days and Three Nights
“For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale’s belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth” (Matthew 12:40). I was talking with a man on … Continue reading
Posted in Bible, Church, Religion, Resurrection
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The Seventh-Day Adventist Candidate
I’ve been wanting to blog about Presidential candidate Ben Carson being a Seventh-Day Adventist. Now that it is in the news quite a bit, I figure that now is a good time to write this post. Here are some ramblings. … Continue reading
Posted in Church, Life, Politics, Religion
Tagged Ben Carson, Dr. Ben Carson, Ellen G. White, Ellen White, Seventh-Day Adventism, The Great Controversy
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R.A. Torrey on the Sabbath and the Holy Spirit
I finished Fred Sanders’ How God Used R.A. Torrey, and I will be writing my review of it tomorrow. (Moody Publishers sent me a review copy in exchange for an honest review, just to get that out into the open.) … Continue reading
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Tagged Armstrong, Holy Spirit, R.A. Torrey, Sabbath, Trinity
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The Law As a Mirror
My church for its Bible Study is going through Romans: The Letter That Changed the World, with Mart De Haan and Jimmy DeYoung. I got to attend last night, but I won’t be able to attend next week because I’ll … Continue reading
Happy Birthday, Dickens!
Today is Charles Dickens’ birthday! The only Dickens book that I have ever read is A Christmas Carol (see my write-ups on that here and here). I watched movies for David Copperfield, Great Expectations, Tale of Two Cities, and Oliver … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Movies
Tagged charles dickens, christmas carol, david copperfield, oliver twist, spinster, uriah heap
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