This blog has mostly been on break during the November/December holiday season. I’ve been working on other projects. This is a bookcase that I just finished making. It is made from rustic cherry. Here are a few more photos that I took during the construction: Have a good holiday season!

Recently I was sent a link to this video by Luis Narciso, the author of “The Messiah Codes: Unsealed.” He believes that the next (third) Jewish temple will be rededicated in 2030. As I was listening to the video, Bruce Charlton’s most recent article popped up in my RSS feed: “What’s …

One of the interesting things about some of Jesus’ parables is that he sometimes explained what the parable meant. In September, I wrote a two-part series on the Parable of the Sower (here and here), where I discussed how Jesus explicitly stated the meaning of the parable. Coincidentally, Jack @ Sigma …

This is part of a series on Roman Catholicism and the eucharist. See this index. In “The Eucharist, Redux #4,” we discussed Craig Truglia’s claim that Jesus did not use unleavened bread at the Last Supper. As I pointed out, Truglia’s strongest argument was primarily one of grammar, not one …

Looks like there is a new policy. Would have been nice if that had been the policy when I was there, eh? In other news, I’ve run out of posts (for now) and will be posting less frequently until I catch up.

So, Dear Reader, can you explain what is wrong with this claim regarding the Assyrian Captivity (from 732BC) and the Second Temple Period (586BC to 70AD)? The answer is found in the prophesies contained in the Hebrew scriptures. The story of the fall of the Hebrews can be summarized with …

The most important passage in the entire Bible is the Shema Yisrael—the essence of Judaism. The portion of the Shema that we are concerned with is called the “V’ahavta.” It contains the command “You shall love…” Jesus and the teachers of the law agreed that the V’ahavta was the greatest commandment. The V’ahavta is recorded …

A couple weeks ago I wrote “The Parable of the Four Soils” where I discussed the four types of soils—hearts of man—in which the seeds—the Word of God—were spread. One of the great things about the Parable of the Sower is that Jesus explained what it meant. Unlike many other …

One commenter makes an actual Haiku that says something similar: This echoes Paul, who said: God created reason for a purpose. To reject reason is to reject the tool that God has given us for a specific purpose. If we reject the tool, this implies a rejection of that purpose …