I wrote this essay, “The Biblical New Year,” for the CGG Weekly of January 1, 2016. “This month shall be your beginning of months; it shall be the first month of the year to you.” —Exodus 12:2 When studying a biblical topic, it is always helpful to begin with a …
This essay, “Rehearsing God’s Plan,” appeared in CGG Weekly on March 23, 2012. “This month shall be your beginning of months; it shall be the first month of the year to you.” —Exodus 12:2 The biblical sacred year begins in early spring on the Hebrew calendar, as God tells Moses …
I wrote this essay, “Pre-Passover Traditions,” for the March 18, 2022, CGG Weekly. “But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of the bread and drink of the cup.” —I Corinthians 11:28 The life of a Christian revolves around the annual holy days that God instructs His people to observe in …
This essay, originally titled “I Will Come Again,” appeared in the CGG Weekly on September 26, 2003. “And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself; that where I am, there you may be also.” —John 14:3 Too few understand …
The following essay was originally published in CGG Weekly on December 18, 2020. The world around us is celebrating what many call Advent, the month-long buildup to Christmas that the more devout among them treat as a period of more intense prayer and fasting. Most nominal Christians do little more during this liturgical …
This Random Bible Verse comment was originally published as “Why Passover and Not Easter?” in the April 15, 2011, issue of the CGG Weekly. In the same manner, He also took the cup after supper, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in My blood. This do, as often as …
As much as we talk, we should all be experts on language, at least the one we grew up speaking. When we were just infants, we began absorbing the broad strokes of our native tongue, and within a few years, without any real instruction, we were speaking in full sentences …
