http://www.biblicalresearchjournal.org/rss/brj_rss_feed.xml Study to shew thyself approved unto God... Tue, 03 Nov 2009 15:30:00 CST en-us http://www.biblicalresearchjournal.org/index.html http://www.biblicalresearchjournal.org/index.html Mon, 08 Mar 2010 19:42:00 pm CST Over the course of history, things change. Cultures change, technologies change, the accepted rules of legitimacy in governance change, relative levels of prosperity change, a lot of things change. But in the field of mathematics, nothing ever changes. Whether we are talking about pre-history, ancient times, medieval times or modern times, two times two has always and will always equal four. Yet at the beginning of this Depression, which we are living through in the United States of America and around the world, with the evidence of history staring us in the face -- from the Great Depression of the 1930s all the way back to Joseph in Egypt -- we continue to believe and act as if, somehow or other, we are "special." As if the vagaries of the past somehow don't apply to us. As if "this time is different" . . . http://biblicalresearchjournal.org/brj-pages_html/001bp_2010-02-21.html http://biblicalresearchjournal.org/brj-pages_html/001bp_2010-02-21.html Sun, 21 Feb 2010 13:10:00 pm CST Back in 1990 I saw a a lecture on the subject of mixed-use city planning by the noted architect Andres Duany. He delivered it to a civic group here in San Antonio, and video of it was broadcast several times on San Antonio's cable TV's "Government Access" channel. The first time I saw Duany's talk it grabbed my attention. I not only watched several repeats, I also recorded it on my VCR. Unfortunately the two copies I made were misplaced over the years. And by now even if they were found, I no longer own a videotape player. What struck me were the principles that Duany adheres to . . . http://biblicalresearchjournal.org/brj-pages_html/001bp_2010-02-18.html http://biblicalresearchjournal.org/brj-pages_html/001bp_2010-02-18.html Thu, 18 Feb 2010 17:30:00 CST Some people may think that I was exagerating, when I wrote in Part One that, "Kingdom Theology, in practical terms, is nothing less than an attempt by the Adversary to erect a fundamentalist so-called 'Christian' establishment of religion, in violation of the First Amendment of the United States Constitution. Akin to what the fundamentalist Muslims are after in the Muslim world." I have honestly conidered it, but no I do not think am guilty of exageration. . . . http://biblicalresearchjournal.org/brj-pages_html/001bp_2009-11-08.html http://biblicalresearchjournal.org/brj-pages_html/001bp_2009-11-08.html Sun, 08 Nov 2009 16:15:00 CST It was eye opening some years ago to discover in Dr. Martin E. P. Seligman's book, Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life that the Biblical principles of the renewed mind -- which I was introduced to in Dr. Victor Paul Wierwille's "Power for Abundant Living" class and learned more in-depth in Rev. Walter Cummins' "Renewed Mind" class -- have been proven in controlled studies using double-blind experiments involving people suffering from or at risk of psychological depression . . . http://biblicalresearchjournal.org/brj-pages_html/001bp_2009-11-03.html http://biblicalresearchjournal.org/brj-pages_html/001bp_2009-11-03.html Tue, 03 Nov 2009 15:30:00 CST Sorry, but just because you publish a picture of George Washington praying next to the quote "Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord," like the one that was published in The Way Magazine years ago, that does not make the United States of America God's nation . . . http://biblicalresearchjournal.org/brj-pages_html/001bp_2009-10-27.html http://biblicalresearchjournal.org/brj-pages_html/001bp_2009-10-27.html Tue, 27 Oct 2009 06:30:00 CDT In the English language there is a vast difference in meaning between the definite and indefinite article. For instance if I say, "This picture is the illustration (definite article) of the gizmo," I may well mean that that the picture I am referring to represents the one-and-only illustration of it that exists. But if I say, "This picture is an illustration (indefinite article) of the gizmo," I am implying that this may be only one illustration among some number of others . . . http://www.3dentourage.com/word/641b.mp3 http://www.3dentourage.com/word/641b.mp3 Sat, 04 Apr 2009 15:37:00 CDT Dr. Wierwille explains what's behind the "love of money," a most timely subject from the Word of God, given the events that are unfolding in our world today. Formatted in mp3 . . . http://biblicalresearchjournal.org/brj-pages_html/001bp_2009-02-17.html http://biblicalresearchjournal.org/brj-pages_html/001bp_2009-02-17.html Tue, 17 Feb 2009 18:30:00 GMT It is impossible to rightly-divide the twenty-fifth chapter of Leviticus -- or any of the rest of Bible from Genesis 1:1 to Revelation 22:21 -- without keeping straight "to whom" it is addressed. God is not addressing the Christian church, much less present-day governments or central banks, in Leviticus 25. Rather, via Moses, God gave these commands to Israel as it existed 3,500 years ago as an agrarian and pastoral society . . . http://biblicalresearchjournal.org/brj-pages_html/001bp_2008-11-02.html http://biblicalresearchjournal.org/brj-pages_html/001bp_2008-11-02.html Tue, 11 Nov 2008 10:30:00 CST Hey now, hold on one doggon minute there, Professor. I thought Jesus Christ declared in John 10:10 that he came so we might 'have life' and 'have it more abundantly'. So what is this in Part One about 'scarcity' as a 'basic premise'? Sounds off the Word to me. ON GUARD!" Oh, definitely. Time to be on guard. Scarcity may be the basic premise of economics, but economics is a senses-based social science. In fact, all of science is senses-based, which makes for a wide margin of error to say the least. Furthermore, because human nature is an inescapable factor in the science of economics -- unlike in the hard science of physics, for instance -- the margin for error increases so much the more . . . http://biblicalresearchjournal.org/brj-pages_html/001bp_2008-10-24.html http://biblicalresearchjournal.org/brj-pages_html/001bp_2008-10-24.html Fri, 24 Oct 2008 17:30:00 GMT By now, it's no secret that the American and world economies have, all of a sudden, begun to experience widespread turmoil. Talk of a global recession, and even the possibility of a depression -- as bad or worse than the Great Depression of the 1930s -- is being heard from the highest governmental authorities in the country. God declares in II Peter 1:3 that He, "...hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue." And in Psalm 119:130 that, "The entrance of thy [God's] words giveth light; it giveth understanding unto the simple." Clearly, God and His Son Jesus Christ do not want us left in the dark -- without an understanding of the situations that we face in this life. It is the Word of God alone -- on this subject as all others -- which stands as a beacon of light that can pierce through the darkness of this world, and deliver us from all our fears. So does the Bible actually have something to say about recessions and depressions? . . .