Spirit of Truth/The Bible on Trial

Prayers for Barcelona! I spoke with a good friend of mine this morning, and he was upset with a number of his friends because, as he put it, "They have gone off the deep end". He is a liberal minded person, in that he likes to look at all sides of an issue before he makes a determination as to how to proceed. He said that many of his friends are responding with a 'knee jerk' reaction to world even...

"Lighten up!" We have all heard this phrase directed at us from time to time, because there are times when we feel that life becomes slightily more intense than our ability to cope. In these situations sometimes our friends can see solutions that we can not because they are not 'inside' that situation. That being said, I cannot imagine any of the disciples of Jesus saying that to Jesus, except for...

Fraud is such an ugly word. I think all of us, at one time or another, have experienced some form of fraud; Bait-and-switch in buying a used car, credit card fraud, charities fraud, check fraud, pyramid schemes, and now online fraud, to name a few. Genesis 29 speaks of a fraud Laban perpetrated upon Jacob in giving him Leah instead of Rachel to wife, after seven years of labor in payment. Yet as h...

My son's very best childhood and high school friend got married to an Austrailian girls and moved to New Castle in Austrailia about 5 years ago. Zach and Shane don't see each other very often in person, but they do Skype regularly to keep in touch. Whenever Shane comes to the USA with Krysta, Zach will go to extraordinary lengths to be able to visit them. This involves considerable time and distan...

People worry about a lot of things. The top of the list for most would have to be money, or the lack of it. But this is by no means the only worries to whihc people have become accustomed; health, relationships, children, pets, cars, vacations, TAXES, ad infinitum. And if that were not enough, when we have run out of those we will invent worries if we don't feel as if we have enough to keep us bus...

How do you wake up in the morning from a very deep sleep? What is the process that allows you to come to the realization that you are awake, and not still dreaming? This process is essentially the same as when you wake up to truth. And waking up to truth uses the same kind of process as using a metaphor to explain a spiritual truth. In waking up to truth we all use the same process, we just use di...

 "If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you." John 15:7. If you are a Christian, or even a bondservant of Jesus, there that times when you pray and ask God for things. Things like protection for you kids, or a career change, or healing for a friend, or even money. In the words of Jesus seen above there is a condition to receiving those things...

Most people take a casual and even cavalier approach to the searching for and finding truth because of the things they have been taught about truth from their earliest childhood; things such as, there is no such thing a a perfect truth, that no one can actually know truth, that 'my truth is just as good a your truth', that we are all going to the same place, we are just taking different paths. The...

"Here be Dragons" is a phrase that in ancient times and on ancient maps means 'dangerous or unexplored territories, in imitation of a midieval practice of putting illustrations of dragons, sea monsters and other mythological creatures on uncharted areas of maps' (Wikipedia). In Bible prophecy a 'red dragon' is used as a metaphor for the Devil, or Satan, who is not a metaphor, but a real being who...

Have you ever been shooting with a pistol? It can be loads of fun when done using range safety standards that protect everyone from accidental discharge and errant targeting. You must know the safety rules AND PRACTICE THEM in order to avoid potentially deadly problems. The reason for practicing with your firearm is to be able at a moments notice to tranfer your mental image of a 'target' to a 'th...

Many years ago the founder of the Bible On Trial, Rich Humpal, named himself 'Rock Roller' on several internet forums. Rich would take great glee in pointing out fallacious and sloppy thinking in people of 'faith'. He was an investigating lawyer that said of himself that he would look under every rock to find the truth. We would have discussions from time to time on his front porch over coffee, th...

If God exists then Truth is singular and absolute! If it isn't then God cannot exist, because Elohim would not be "The Way, the Truth, and the Life." God is therefore ALL truth, and TRUTH is therefore God. Jesus said that He came to earth to "testify to the truth", and that "everyone that is OF the truth hears HIS voice". If you listen to ANY other voice other that the voice of the Father and the...

We will continue our study into the prophecies conncerning the Faithful and Wise Bondservant and his fellow servants, and how this impact upcoming events in the Kingdom of the Heavens, and in the world.

Do you know of anyone that has told you that their only desire in this life is to believe lies as though they were truth? No? Me either! So why is it that in practice believing lies as though they were truth is an endemic condition of humanity across all walks of life, in all cultures and throughout all civilizations? Do you know of ANYONE that has NOT believed a lie and called it the truth? Have...

What do you believe that is 'immoderate"? I consistently hear people speak of 'moderation' in a particular religion or philosophy, and I wonder how this idea of 'moderation in all things' affects their concept of TRUTH. Is their such a thing as a 'moderate' religion, and if so, how does it manifest itself in the practitioner? Does moderation cross cultural and spiritual lines, or is moderation "in...

What is your 'standard for spiritual Truth'? Most poeple will say that spiritual 'truth' is as individual as DNA, no two 'truths' are the same. Some will say that this 'truth' is as individual and intimate as underware, and that once you put it on you forget about it, until it bunches up and needs adjusting. But if spiritual truth is as described here then there is simply NO POSSIBILITY for anyone...

Fake News! This is the most iconic phrase in America today. EVERYONE uses it to 'prove' what the 'other guy' is saying is a lie, or at least misleading. This phrase also informs on the sourse of the 'news', from major news sourses such as the New York Times and Washington Post, to second tier outlets such as Brietbart and The Guardian. They are all accused of diseminating 'fake news', and they all...

Today on our program we will take a few minutes to celebrate the birthday of our friend and the founder of Spirit of Truth Ministry, Rick Sterling. Rick has a unique perspective on truth that has been instrumental in bringing about this now world wide ministry, that demonstrates that the words of Jesus that He gave to his own eyewitness discipels is what confirms the Truth that God the Father need...

One of my wifes favorite meme's is, "Dear Lord, give me patience; and I want it RIGHT NOW!" Now while this is funny on the surface, there is a great deal of truth in it, because many people in todays hectic, electronic filled, 'must have right now' and fast paced world want what ever it is they want right at the moment they want it. They feel that they might miss a 'golden opportunity' to post som...

Many Christians believe that the Spiritual power of the Holy Spirit is manifest by physical means, and this was the purpose of the day of Pentecost, that has just been celebrated within the liturgical church. Yet Jesus in John 3 told Nicodemus, ""That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit" (John 3:6). In saying this Jesus separates the effects of the s...

To whom is the Bible On Trial program directed, and for whom will it have the most meaning? It is NOT for people that already feel that they know everything that they need to know about salvation and eternal life. These people are like the Leodiceans in that they say, "I am rich, and have become wealthy, and have need of nothing," and you do not know that you are wretched and miserable and poor an...

It is said that no one knows the future. That is true from a human perspective. Yet there is prophecy from any number of sources that does tell us the future. Satan does know somewhat of the future, and that which he does not know he often makes up to 'seem' as if he knows the future. There ARE being in the spiritual world that DO know the future, and those beings are Elohim (Three as ONE). And Th...

A wedding is being prepared, and everything is ready, including the Groom. Everything is ready except for one minor thing, the bride is not ready; and those that were assigned to get the bride ready are themselves (right now) sound asleep. The bridesmaids need to be awakened, so they can dress the bride in 'fine linen clean and bright', yet this won't happen until the Best Man and the groomsmen wa...

Joy is not something that is promised by God for those that obey His Commandments. In fact, when you decide to 'do right', AKA, be holy, Satan will come down on you like a ton of bricks, trying to get you to go back on your 'process of Sanctification'. But for bondservants, this is the expected result of the commitment to righteousness. It is by sticking with it, and deciding day by day to 'do rig...

In the movie The Kingdom of Heaven the a young blacksmith is recruited by his liege lord to join a crusade in the Holy Land to Jerusalem. Through many twists and turns this young man (Orlando Bloom) is knighted and adopted by this dying Lord as his son; and he tells the young man to tell the royalty in Jerusalem that he is a natural born son. In Jerusalem, one of the first people that takes an int...