What Can Harold Camping Teach Us?
A major lesson concerns the way Camping interpreted the Bible. He used two methods of calculating the day he believed the true saints would be caught up to heaven. The one involved a weird and convoluted number manipulation but the other was based on his reading of the Genesis account of the Great Flood.
Different Witchcraft Symbols and Their MeaningsDifferent witchcraft symbols are rich in meaning. Even the most simplistic symbols used by practitioners of the Craft can have complex, highly suggestive meanings. Simple and intricate witchcraft symbols can be used to decorate personal items, magickal objects, or they are used in spell workings; the symbols ultimately contain intense meanings that come to represent ideas, conventions, ideologies, operations, emotions, thoughts, or they serve as an emblem that simplifies abstract ideas or concepts.
Spanking children has been a major news item of late in America with the death of Hana Williams and the video of a Texas judge beating his daughter with a belt. The debate over spanking continues to rage with no end in sight. One pastor from Tennessee has appeared on major news outlets saying he and many others who follow the Bible are just following what the Good Lord commanded Christians to do in the Holy Scripture. Most Christian people follow his view and see spanking as a plain Bible teaching. But is it? Many Christians who are questioning this whole teaching now are surprised to see the opinions of Christian academics, theologians and Bible scholars whose views concerning spanking differ dramatically from those of many pastors who demand spanking today.
The Christocentric PrincipleI believe that perhaps we would all be a lot clearer in our thinking about the ways of God if we adopted the Christocentric Principle. I also believe that it would help us agree more and divide less over our interpretations of the scriptures. What we acknowledge is in the center makes all the difference. It’s in the middle Cyril – Jesus is the center.
The Shroud of Turin – The Sign of Jonah?Some scientists are still not satisfied with the chemical interaction theory of how the image was formed. They claim that a catalytic event must have caused such a reaction. They theorise that some form of energy must have passed through the fabric to trigger a chemical reaction. One hypothesis is that the units of matter called nuceons must have decoupled causing a dematerialisation of the body. Simply put, the body passed through the fabric of the shroud.
Building a Better Relationship With GodA relationship with God is not about being perfect, not about religion, going to church or fitting into some kind of stereotypical preconception. Knowing God is way more than memorizing Bible verses or singing church hymns. It’s a mindset, a lifestyle, a passion… kind of like falling in love.
It’s a Jewish coming-of-age story familiar to most, if not all, parents of college-age children: your college-aged child comes home after a semester away at school or after a traumatic event such as a break-up and announces that he is no longer Jewish. Even if he doesn’t say so in as many words, your child makes it clear he no longer has any interest in the religion. He doesn’t want to attend services, doesn’t fast on Yom Kippor or makes plans with friends instead of coming to a Passover or Rosh Hashanah meal.
9 Reasons To Begin And Continue MeditationMeditation is way to balance your life. Many of the trials and challenges that you face on a daily basis can be overcome by meditation. A simple thing like deep breathing when you become anxious is a part of meditation.
What’s the Next Religious/Spiritual ‘Step’ For Mankind?At this point in time all the world’s religions are aware of each other in a totally new way. And all the world’s inhabitants are (in essence) aware of all the religious institutions on the surface of the Earth. Only now, is it really obvious that each religion is Provincial? Each religion has its assumptions about right and wrong, do’s and dont’s, based on local and often historically ancient rules that had relevance at the time? This article is only a discussion, not a veiled attempt to convince anyone about any religion at all. Quite the reverse. It’s time for the childishness of Religious Provincialism to be exposed, and completely stopped in its tracks now. Otherwise, we know what’s going to happen?
A Supernatural Partnership Part II: God’s Solution to Your Problems in PrayerIn our last article, A Supernatural Partnership, we considered this question: If God desires that you have a mutual relationship of pleasure and joy with Him in prayer, why is prayer so difficult? Romans 8:26-27 identifies these problems as a lack of strength and a lack of knowledge. In this article Dr. John Harbison looks at God’s solution to your problems in prayer.
This Christmas Open Your Heart FirstAs we enter the Christmas Holiday Season this December, everyone is scrambling to buy the one item that is on everyone’s must have list this Christmas; even in a very bad economy, people are shopping till they are dropping, trying to get those highly coveted electronic gadgets, or cars for their buying needs. And as Christian believer in the Lord God Himself, there is nothing wrong with buying gifts for the Christmas season, however my concern is that the vast majority of people out their shopping and buying this Christmas season, are doing so just adding to their…
Surrender: The Act of LoveI want to look at surrender from the perspective of a process that takes place within ourselves. At any given point in time, I see myself as functioning out of a state of Love and wholeness or fear and lack. I consider the first to be my higher authentic(spiritual) nature and the second to be the base (carnal/natural) ego nature.


