"Why, Soitenly!"

So far we’ve looked at Sabbath, the foundation of resting in all that God has done … Passover, the grand feast of the Jews … and First Fruits, the conclusion to Passover. Today and tomorrow we consider Pentecost. This feast is also known as the feast of weeks … feast of the harvest … and [...]

e-Cecil raised a point in response to part one of this feast about the raising of hands and how that seems to be a stumbling block in some fellowships. I started to address this yesterday and then deleted it thinking I need not go that direction. But since he brought it up …. I’ve been [...]

Re: Yesterday’s blog … I tipped the guy my regular tip, which is to double the tax (amounting to almost 17%). When service is really good, I don’t mind giving 20% tip. Who knows what kind of day that waiter had. And, the service toward the end was exemplary. Now, back to the feasts of [...]

Fast forward one more time. It’s the night before the sacrifice. Jesus is eating Passover with his closest disciples. The routine is centuries old but we’ll skip the details, fascinating as they are, for the sake of space and time. From my understanding of the feast, the father would tell the story of the Exodus [...]

[NOTE: Yesterday's "ratings" comment was intended purely as sarcasm. I write for therapy and for posterity and because I have no life, thus lots of time on my hands! BTW, that comment, too, was sarcastic. So let's abandon the sarcasm and get back to Egypt . . .] The light of Egypt had been extinguished. [...]

[Note: The tragic massacre of 32 students at Virginia Tech, as well as the suicide of the murderer, is beyond words. Many have written about it, but the one that resonates most with my world-view is that of Patrick Mead. Agree with him or not, he stated much of what was going through my mind, [...]

John (19:30) tells us just as Jesus breathed his last breath on the cross, he uttered the words, "It is finished." Tetelestai. The very same word God used in Creation when he completed creation. Nothing more could be done to satisfy the Father’s demand for salvation. Jesus finished His perfect work and sat down at [...]

God’s promise of entering his rest still stands, so we ought to tremble with fear that some of you might fail to experience it. For this good news—that God has prepared this rest—has been announced to us just as it was to them. But it did them no good because they didn’t share the faith [...]

About 25 years ago my aunt gave me a set of cassette tapes from the preaching ministry of a British Pentecostal missionary by the name of Malcolm Smith. The tapes were of his lectures on the “Feasts of the Lord.” Not only was I captivated by his cool accent, the entire almost 11 hours of [...]