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TWO COMMON PROBLEMS IN USING COMMENTARIES:1. Leaning on them too much.
The Bible student should first go to the Bible and dig out as much meaning as possible for himself. For this, he must get a good understanding of how to interpret the Bible. The equivalent of a Bible Institute education is the starting point to be able to use commentaries effectually and test them properly so as not to be led astray by any error that might be present. We deal with this in the course The Effectual Bible Student, which is available.. Read More
Friday Church News Notes
GROWTH HACKERS TRYING TO STEAL YOUR TIME AND CONTROL YOUR LIFE (Friday Church News Notes, October 12, 2018, www.wayoflife.org fbns@wayoflife.org, 866-295-4143) - Tristan Harris is “an expert on how technology hijacks our psychological vulnerabilities.” He spent three years with Google before founding Time Well Spent, a non-profit initiative that, among other things, aims to catalyze a change among technology companies through “policy recommendations to protect minds from nefarious manipulation.” In “Distracted in 2016? Reboot Your Phone with Mindfulness,” Jan. 27, 2016, Harris suggested seven tips by which individuals can take control of their smartphones. These tips are meant to “minimize compulsive checking and phantom buzzes, minimize fear of missing something important, minimize unconscious.. Read More
Respect and Love Toward Godly Pastors
The following is from the July 2018 edition of The Pastor’s Authority and the Church Member’s Responsibility, available as a free eBook for viewing and downloading from www.wayoflife.org.In giving miscellaneous suggestion to church members, we would say, first, that they should that respect and love the pastors.
“And we beseech you, brethren, to know them which labour among you, and are over you in the Lord, and admonish you; And to esteem them very highly in love for their work's sake. And be at peace among yourselves” (1 Th. 5:12-13).
This is the church member’s responsibility to pastors in a nutshell.
In this context, Paul mentions a pastor’s work, because it is for “their works’ sake” that the church members are to esteem them.
They labor. They are.. Read More
A Beautiful Little Messianic Prophecy
The following is from a new commentary on Ezekiel. It is part of the Way of Life Commentary Series, which currently has volumes on Isaiah, Jeremiah, and the Minor Prophets.“Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will also take of the highest branch of the high cedar, and will set it; I will crop off from the top of his young twigs a tender one, and will plant it upon an high mountain and eminent: In the mountain of the height of Israel will I plant it: and it shall bring forth boughs, and bear fruit, and be a goodly cedar: and under it shall dwell all fowl of every wing; in the shadow of the branches thereof shall they dwell. And all the trees of the field shall know that I the LORD have brought down the high tree, have exalted the low tree, have dried up the green tree, and have made the dry tree to flourish: I the LORD have spoken and have done it” (Ezekiel 17:22-24).
At the hands of Nebuchadnezzar, the mighty cedar of Israel’s ancient kingdom became a lowly vine, and eventually.. Read More
Linus Pauling: Father of the Megavitamin Craze
Linus Pauling (1901-1994) was both a great scientist and a great quack, which is a loud warning that anyone can fall to the siren call of quackery.Pauling taught at the California Institute of Technology for more than 40 years and was the first person to be the recipient of two unshared Nobel prizes. He also won the National Medal of Science, the Medal for Merit, awarded by the U.S. president, and received honorary degrees from Cambridge, the University of London, and the University of Paris. He appeared on the cover of Time magazine and was “hailed as one of the.. Read More
Friday Church News Notes
CHINA’S AIM TO “SINICIZE” CHRISTIANITY AND REWRITE THE BIBLE (Friday Church News Notes, October 5, 2018, www.wayoflife.org, fbns@wayoflife.org, 866-295-4143) - The following is excerpted from “China Trying to Rewrite,” Christian Post, Sep. 28 2018: “The Rev. Bob Fu, a former Chinese house church leader who immigrated to the United States in 1997 and founded the persecution watchdog organization China Aid, provided great detail during a United States House of Representatives hearing Thursday about a plan enacted by leading state-sanctioned denominations in China to ‘Sinicize’ Christianity. As China’s crackdown on religion has seen many house churches demolished and thousands of crosses removed from churches nationwide.. Read More
Great Archaeological Discoveries in Israel
The following is excerpted from Jews in Fighter Jets: Israel Past, Present, Future, available from www.wayoflife.org.The return of the Jews to the land of Israel and the establishment of the modern state has been a huge boost to apologetics.
Since the twentieth century, archaeologists have discovered site after site and artifact after artifact pertaining to and confirming biblical history.
Following are some prominent examples:
Dead Sea Scrolls - discovered in the 1940s, the biblical scrolls, such as the Great Isaiah Scroll, are the oldest Hebrew Scriptures extant and prove that the Hebrew Bible.. Read More
Donald Gary Young
Young Living Essential Oils
Young Living Essential Oils (YLEO) is a multi-level marketing company founded in 1992 or 1993 in Utah by Donald Gary Young and his third wife, Mary Billeter Young. They are charismatic and successful marketers of their products.Eva Briggs, M.D., exposed many problems with Young Living Essential Oils in her report “The Real Story of Gary Young and Young Living Essential Oils,” May 31, 2013, which is available HERE
Young claims to have a earned doctorate in naturopathy, but his “degree” was purchased from a diploma mill called Bernadean University, and he has never been licensed to practice naturopathy. A degree from Bernadean.. Read More
The Discipling Church. How to take a church to a higher spiritual level so that it can stand and bear fruit until Jesus comes
A Plea to Southern Gospel Music Fans - A plea for Southern Gospel fans to tear down the bridges that are being built from conservative Southern Gospel-loving homes and churches. .
