Spirit of Truth/The Bible on Trial

Unless a person is a sociopath, and has a mental disorder that manifests itself in extreme antisocial behavior toward people, and is totally without a conscience, everyone wants to know the truth, one way or the other. We have all heard stories in books, movies, or personal experience about people that go on quests to find a truth, and eventually find it, but only after a long arduous journey, ove...

I am old enough to remember the days when cameras used film cassettes, film rolls, or sheet film (for view cameras), and you actually had to manually adjust the parameters of the exposure onto the camera in order to get the correct exposure. For 28 years I was a professional photographer, and I used not only a Nikon-F with a variety of lenses, but I also had a Mamyia RB-67 mediium format (6x7 cent...

Join us today in learning a practical and unique method of study that allows a person of independent intellect to find the truth of salvation for themselves, without being given instuction by an overarching authority. The words of Jesus as given by His eyewitness disciples in the New Testament, and the words of God in the Law and the Prophets in the Old Testament, are sufficient for this purpose....

Playing by the Rules! Imagine trying to just show up at the Augusta National golf course for the Masters golf tournament (being played this now through the weekend) and going to the Competition Committee and demanding to be allowed to enter the tournament. The Committee would ask you if you have qualified for the tournament in one of the regional golf tournaments, and you answer that you don't eve...

Sealing, the goal of knowing and understanding truth! All things in life have a beginning and ending point, even life itself. Conception then birth begins the process, and ultimately death ends it; unless, of course, the King of the Heavens returns before that fact. Beginnings and endings happen daily in every aspect of life, from waking to sleeping, moving physically from one place to another, fr...

If you learn, practice and teach the truth you will risk losing friends and family.  I think we have all experience this in various forms as we have grown from childhood into an adult. We do outgrow our friends. I have many friends from highschool days that I don't ever see, and never speak too, even on FB, because we no longer have the commonality we had fifty odd years ago (not countong the good...

"I don't think that . . . " Have you ever wondered why people disagree with the results of a logical process? You might lay out a progression of thought that makes complete sense to you, but in response a friend or co-worker will say that they disagree with your conclusion. They might begin their rebuttal with, "I don't think that", and continue with a variation of the following . . . "'this will...

"Truth of Dare" ~ Have you ever played the game Truth or Dare? It is actually an ancient game first played in Greece, and then morphed into a Christmas game, and finally to a game played mosty by children and adolescents. It existed for centuries as a game called Questions and Commands, and a more modern version became a TV show named Truth or Consequences. I made and appearance on the original TV...

"You have to train your brain to understand reality, not your perception of reality." (Joey Demat) I LOVE golf. I don't play anymore due to a vision problem, but in the 'old' days my son Zach and I would go out and play together on a regular basis. Even now I am an watching the Arnold Palmer Invitational Golf tournament at Bay Hill, Florida. And every time I played, and every time I watch one thin...

"Do you swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help you God?" This sentence has been heard innumerable times in movies, and TV courtroom dramas, and in real life, for as long as any of us remember . It is interesting that they still use the phrase "so help you God" when the swearing in takes place in the courts in my area of the country. Now admittedly the term 'Go...

~In the Line of Duty~ I awakened this morning to a live video on the news that a Pomona California police officer was killed in the line of duty. Police officers from all over California have come together to escort the dead officer from the hospital to the Coroners office, as a tribute to the Police Department and the officer's family. There will be a heart rending funeral and grave side service...

BANNING WORDS! America is going through a tough time right now because there is lots of back lash from many quarters about the need for 'common sense' gun control. Don't worry, this is NOT the subject of this piece. It does, however, bring up this issue, and that is that one solution that has been proferred as to how to solve the gun violence issue is to ban guns. This is not new. But what is new,...

"Your future hasn't been written yet, so make it a good one!" Doc Brown, from Back To The Future. The most important element that shrouds the past in mystery, that complicates the present with seemingly impossible decisions, and has the immense power to alter the future for good or evil, is the TRUTH. The expression "You can't change the past" is itself a lie. Of course you can change the past, as...

Spirit of Truth Ministry presents a unique method for discovering and understanding the truth. It is our desire that our listeners and readers know that we are not claiming infallibility in our understanding of the Truth; it is just that we understand from the words of Jesus that we WILL know the Truth. Join us as we search for the Truth of Jesus, that He brought to His disciples from the Father.

The Olympics are all but over, and the essence of the games are sportsmanship and winning. Note: this sentence does not end with the word 'whining'. Placing second instead of first in an Olympic event can be a matter of 0.01 seconds-one onethousands of a second. This was the difference between Gold and Silver in the Men's Snowboard Parallel Slalom. The person that placed second just could not beli...

  "With Malice Toward None." On of the greatest Presidents of the United States was Abraham Lincoln. He lived at a time that 'tried men's souls' in a way that had not ever happened in the History of our nation. The rancor and vitriol over States Rights and slavery was so harsh and overbearing that is caused the Southern States to secede from the union, and was a primary cause of the great Civil Wa...

Big Screen~ My lovely and gracious wife and I have a few favorite television shows, that we watch together; drama, comedy, British, and American (no specific names). For the past 7 years we have been using a flat screen TV for this purpose. Seven years ago LCD flat screen TV's were very expensive, and all we could afford at that time was one that was 27 inch diagonal. Yes, that is a TINY screen, b...

"The truth doesn’t matter, what I think matters." I just read a wonderful article that describes the way many people manipulate a conversation by assuming they know and understand the perspective of the other person simply because of a statement they said that disagrees with their own perspective. (https://brenebrown.com/blog/2017/11/08/gun-reform-speaking-truth-bullshit-practicing-civility-affect...

The Anthem of the Kingdom of God! What do you suppose it will sound like when the "saved of the ages" sing together the Anthem of the Kingdom of the Heavens. I really think that it will be the most Awe inspiring events that anyone will have ever hear, including the angels and the other Heavenly Host. It is difficult to comprehend millions upon millions of people all gathered together around the Ne...

Scarcity: the shortness of supply, or and insufficiency.  The scarcity of anything drives up the cost of whatever is scarce. Rare metals such as gold, silver, platinum are costly because they are rare. The shortage of a commodity drives up the cost of that commodity. This is why the Chicago Mercantile Exchange exists, to buy and sell futures on commodites. The people that guess which commodites (c...

Join us for our program today, where we test Truth against the words of Jesus that He gave to His own eyewitness disciples. This provides a unique and perilous understanding of Scripture that will challenge your paradigms about salvatiion and eternal life.

One of my mothers famous statements to me was, "God hates the sin, not the sinner". And this is true, from her understanding of 'sin'. To her, sin was doing anything that separated you from God. And this idea came directly from the pastor of the church we attended as a family. Again, it is true, as far as it goes. But my concept of sin has changed a bit since I was a child. Then, sin was doing a '...

'FACTS'~ We hear a lot about facts in the news today. The two sides of the same political coin argue incessently about which facts are correct and which arn't. "Fake News" is the order of the day. The huge number of religious denominations all claim to have the 'truth' from God; especially those religions that claim to have 'Divine' guidance via prophets. So how do we KNOW for sure what is real an...

"Settlers"~ Do you remember old cowboy movies where people in Conestoga waggons would leave their homes in the East, get together with other like minded families, and drive accross the plains to begin a new life in the West? The movie would track their trip through hostile territory where either renegade indians, or robbers would set upon the 'Wagon Train', and try to stop these people from gettin...

Imagine Heaven!  What do you see in your minds eye when you think about what Heaven will be like? Are you living inside the City of God, the New Jerusalem, or do you have a place out in the country with a nice log home nestled amidst rolling hills, surrounded by beautiful trees, near a bubbling stream that feeds a crystal clear lake? (My idea of heaven.) What about the people? Do you envision larg...