Spirit of Truth/The Bible on Trial

Comeback~ Making a comeback is hard to do. There you are, going along swimingly, family is wonderful, work is good, and you are feeling good and looking sharp. Then out of the blue you are blindsided by an event or a personal situation that simply derails everything. Suddenly you don't know which way is up. The pain of loss, the uncertainty of disease, the burden of an unlooked for financial catas...

Graduation~ Yesterday my son, Zach, defended his Ph. D. dissertaion, was passed by his committee, and has now been graduated into his Ph. D. in music composition at UCLA. He is now able to use the title Dr. Zachery Neufeld in his professional life. This is truly a watershed moment in his life, and will inform everything he does from here on in his career in both writing and performing music.  This...

Missing in Action~ Why would God take the time to prepare an army of 'the Faithful' only to take them off the battlefield just before battle is engaged? This situation sounds unlikely, if not impossible, but this is what many Christians believe will happen at the end of time via the 'Secret Rapture' that will supposedly take the 'Faithful' out of harms way into the heavens before they go through t...

Pay Attention~ One of my dad's favorite expressions was, "Don't keep your head in the sand."  When I was a boy I didin't really understand what he was saying; I mean, how do you stick your head in sand when you aren't at the beach? Why would you want to stick your head in the sand anyway? We had gone to the beach at Santa Barbara many times, and each of us four siblings had been buried up to our n...

Rockroller~ Yesterday Spirit of Truth Ministry provided a Past Program on Blog Talk Radio. This was a program from Nov. 26, 2012, and the highlight for me was hearing our good friend Dr. Rich (Humpal) interact with Dr. Don and myself (Dennis) as we fleshed out a topic concerning tempering boundaries.  I highly recommend that you go to our 'Episodes' page on our BTR web site (blogtalkradio.com/sot)...

Today is what the mercantile world has termed 'Black Friday'. This is a day where people of a certain 'religion' flock to their places of worship to honor thier 'god', by sacrificing printed paper to the priests of these places of worship, for the purpose of finding happiness of a certain type. This is a convoluted way of saying the people with more money than sense crowd into stores that have thr...

Thanksgiving~ We are coming to my favorite holiday of the year, Thanksgiving. Family, good food, wonderful conversations and interactions with loved ones, and remembering good times and Thanksgivings past. When I think about it, there is a kind of emotional sappiness about Thanksgiving which I love. But the most important thing about the Thanksgiving holiday here in America for me is that there ar...

Truth hurts~ This past Monday we had to put our old dog to sleep.  Previous to this sad event Charlie, our 12 year old German Shepherd/Malamute/Wolf had for a week basically stopped eating his normal amount, and was progressively less each day. So a week ago this Friday I took him to the vet, where after an abdominal exam the vet said that we needed to do x-rays and an ultra sound to confirm a tum...

Completely Innocent~ Yesterday my wife and I got some very bad news from our vet. Our big Charlie, a ten year old galomphy GSD (German Shepherd Dog) has a large tumor on or near his spleen. We don't know  whether the tumor is benign or malignant without doing a major abdominal surgery, and sending the tumor to the pathologist for assessment. If the tumor is malignant it means that there is a good...

"See to it that no one deceives you!" In observing the circus act and theatrics taking place in Washington the last few days in the 'impeachment' hearings reminds me that this same kind of thing has been going on throughout history. It is not new, nor has it changed in application, all-be-it intensity, as used by those that have no scruples as to how they get their way in the world.  Subterfuge (d...

Mystery~ There are all sorts of stories in book, on TV, and in the movies that are based in the concept that  the main character(s), and thus the audience, don't know something at the beginning of the show that they find out just before the show ends. The best plots delay the 'payoff' until the very end, and it is almost always in a place or person that you would not have guessed at the beginning....

Remodel~ One of the most intimidating things that wife recently said to me was, "I want to REMODEL the bathroom".  Mind you, it wasn't that her bathroom didn't need remodeling, because after 20 years in this house it did. It was that, given my background in construction, I assumed that much of the remodel would fall on my shoulders. My first thought when she broached the subject was, "I'm too old...

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Nov. 1, 2019 part 2 Fire Fighters~ Wild fires are consuming California at an alarming rate, stretching the fire fighting resources to the limit, and causing massive destruction and misery for people that are not only directly affected by these fires, but are being told that in order to combat the root causes fo these fires we must suffer the loss of electricty durning high wind events that will he...

Fire Fighters~ Wild fires are consuming California at an alarming rate, stretching the fire fighting resources to the limit, and causing massive destruction and misery for people that are not only directly affected by these fires, but are being told that in order to combat the root causes fo these fires we must suffer the loss of electricty durning high wind events that will help prevent more fire...

Illegal vs. Unlawful! Misconception and misrepresentation are two identities that are so prevalent in the world today as to be ubiquitous! We see both of these everyday in the world of politics, in the battle between the Left and the Right for the 'soul' of the electorate, not only in the USA but throughout the world. One side may misrepresent the truth, while the other side accuses the other of t...

Earth, Wind, and Fire~ No, this post is not about the Band that topped the charts beginning in 1969 and lasted through the 1070's and on, although it could be. (Great sound!) What prompted todays post is the brush fires currently raging in Southern California, and the devastation  that is happening in the 'burn area' (as it is called). I have good friends that live in Santa Clarita and Acton, and...

Fake News~ Recently, we have heard a lot about Fake News, and the closest I can come to a cogent definition for that phrase is this: un-tested and un-confirmed information published as truth! The News Services that do this are certainly publishing Fake News. This not only hurts the person about which this false information is stated, it also hurts the credibility of the news organization that publ...

POD~ Have you ever paid a bill? If you are an adult, and actually live (mostly) in reality then you have certainly paid a bill. In the past bills came in the mail. You would open the bill from you utility, credit card, mortgage, or gasoline company and at the top of the bill is a notice that says 'Due By Date'. If you don't pay the bill by that date your are in 'arrears', and your bill is subject...

Headache~ All of us get them, from time to time. You know what I am talking about-THAT headache; the one that makes your head feel like it is going to explode. All sorts of things can cause THAT headache; food, a bad conversation, a blow to the head, even low blood sugar. There is one thing, though, that can change the dynamic of a headache from the occasional 'two Excedrin' kind, to the 'I better...

Fire Insurance~ We had a scare yesterday, where I live in Southern California. It was been quite windy yesterday (more wind for today, also). A trash truck was collecting across fhr freeway from our little town, near a mobile home park and a bruchy area that extends for miles to the East and South. The operator of the truck noticed that the fire alarm for his truck whet off, and he decided to dump...

Oh, My Heart~ My wife and I just came home from the Rehearsal for my son's wedding. After the rehearsal we took the wedding party to the Rehearsal Dinner at a wonderful Thai restaurant. My son's tomorrow wife, Erica, is 1/2 Thai (her mother is full Thai, and her father was Irish Catholic) and they specifically requested to go to this restaurant; we were delighted to oblige. Seeing how Zach and Eri...

Wedding day~ Tomorrow afternoon my son and his bride will be married. It is an auspicious day, and one that we will enjoy to the full, and remember for eternity. The metaphor of the 'marriage' is all through the Bible, and especially in the parable/prophecies of Jesus in Matthew, John, and Revelation. The description therein touch my heart because as a father that has already prepared my daughter...

The Best Laid Plans~ Sometimes no matter how hard you work, how well you plan, or how much is your desire to serve your friends, family, and the Kingdom of the Heavens, the situation dictates the result, and you end up not being able to complete the task. This is what happened to us yesterday, when just before the program The Bible on Trial was about to start Blog Talk Radio informed us that our a...

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