http://www.biblicalresearchjournal.org/rss/brj_rss_feed.xml Study to shew thyself approved unto God... Sun, 20 Mar 2011 11:13:00 CDT en-us http://www.biblicalresearchjournal.org/index.html#top_blogpost http://www.biblicalresearchjournal.org/index.html#top_blogpost Sun, 20 Mar 2011 11:13:00 CDT Listen to Dr. Wierwille's world-famous teaching, during which he whanged the lecturn so hard that the Way Ministry's presidential seal, that always hung from the front of it when he taught, fell off and clattered onto the floor. . . . http://www.biblicalresearchjournal.org/index.html#top_blogpost http://www.biblicalresearchjournal.org/index.html#top_blogpost Mon, 28 Feb 2011 22:54:00 CST In the course of researching and gathering sources for my upcoming weblog post on The Debunking of Victor Paul Wierwille, I ran across a book in which I stumbled onto a tidbit that I thought might be interesting to graduates of Wierwille's "Power for Abundant Living" class series. The book is sociologist Eileen Barker's 'The Making of a Moonie, Choice or Brainwashing?'(1984), which she wrote after doing a years-long academic field study of the Unification Church of Sun Myung Moon. Although in it Prof. Barker canvases far more than I -- for one -- care to know about the group, her conclusions are as interesting as they have been controversial. Especially considering all the hoopla over "cults" in our society over the last forty years. . . . http://www.biblicalresearchjournal.org/index.html#top_blogpost http://www.biblicalresearchjournal.org/index.html#top_blogpost Wed, 02 Feb 2011 19:08:00 CST "There seems to be a question." People who were part of the Way Corps program may remember this statement emanating from the dining hall "head table" at the Way College of Emporia and elsewhere on occasion. Used as a preface to a discussion about whatever the question happened to be. Of course, I won't be dealing here with rumors about a Lightbearers outreach, a L.E.A.D. expedition, or a "Happy Household Holiday Relocation." But this observation "from days of yore" does fit with the post. . . . http://www.biblicalresearchjournal.org/index.html#top_blogpost http://www.biblicalresearchjournal.org/index.html#top_blogpost Sun, 23 Jan 2011 11:31:00 CST "There seems to be a question." People who were part of the Way Corps program may remember this statement emanating from the dining hall "head table" at the Way College of Emporia and elsewhere on occasion. Used as a preface to a discussion about whatever the question happened to be. Of course, I won't be dealing here with rumors about a Lightbearers outreach, a L.E.A.D. expedition, or a "Happy Household Holiday Relocation." But this observation "from days of yore" does fit with the post. . . . http://www.biblicalresearchjournal.org/index.html#top_blogpost http://www.biblicalresearchjournal.org/index.html#top_blogpost Sun, 16 Jan 2011 16:04:00 CST In my last "What's New at the BRJ," I mentioned the backpacking expedition, in the Maroon Bells Wilderness near Redstone, Colorado, that Marco Aguilar and I were planning to embark on. Well it turns out that during the month of August, we went, we hiked, and we conquered the top of the pass above East Creek. Yee haw! And we've got the pictures to prove it. How lucky can you get?. . . http://www.biblicalresearchjournal.org/brj-pages_html/001bp_2010-07-17.html http://www.biblicalresearchjournal.org/brj-pages_html/001bp_2010-07-17.html Sat, 17 Jul 2010 12:47:00 CDT Gilt edged securities issued by the most financially sound corporation in the whole world are not as sound as the promises of God. Wall Street fluctuates the value of your money in the bank but the promises of God has suffered no fluctuations in any way whatsoever. . . http://www.biblicalresearchjournal.org/brj-pages_html/001bp_2010-07-14.html http://www.biblicalresearchjournal.org/brj-pages_html/001bp_2010-07-14.html Wed, 14 Jul 2010 14:35:00 CDT Bullinger's Companion Bible is the Bible that I read every day. His Critical Lexicon and Concordance to the Greek and English New Testament is a resource that I always consult when I'm doing an in-depth study of a Greek word. His book on how to rightly-divide the Scriptures, How to Enjoy the Bible, sits at-the-ready on my bookshelf for whenever I need consult it, or just want to read through the studies in it. And it is safe to say that his reference work Figures of Speech Used in the Bible is a landmark work in that field of study. This last book, I am pleased to announce thanks to the hard work of an individual who wishes to remain anonymous, we are now able to make available to BRJ readers in PDF format. . . http://www.biblicalresearchjournal.org/brj-pages_html/001bp_2010-07-13.html http://www.biblicalresearchjournal.org/brj-pages_html/001bp_2010-07-13.html Tue, 13 Jul 2010 07:5:00 CST I thought that it might be profitable for readers of this journal to look at a couple or three excerpts from I letter that I have written to someone close to me. The traffic accident that I mention in the letter is the same one I talked about on Part Seven of my series of podcast teachings on Philippians 2:13. . . http://www.biblicalresearchjournal.org/brj-pages_html/001bp_2010-03-08.html http://www.biblicalresearchjournal.org/brj-pages_html/001bp_2010-03-08.html Mon, 08 Mar 2010 19:42:00 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 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 . . .