Hermeneutics: Interpretation and Sounds of Silence

It seems that I just cannot keep silent about silence. John the Baptist abstained from wine and excused himself from an ordinary social life for eating locusts and wild honey in the wilderness. Jesus turned the water into the best wine, ate and drank with sinners and tax collectors; but nevertheless, did make [...]

Reviving the Restoration Movement, X

LOOK AT THE STARS
Have you ever been far enough away from the lights of modern civilization, to see a magnificent star lit night? I’ve experienced this in the Florida Keys, Aroostook County Maine, and at Hilltop on the Havasupai Reservation in Arizona. [...]

Reviving the Restoration Movement, IX

THE ANCIENT PATHS
The great revival call of the restoration movement is the words of the Lord in Jeremiah 6:16 [ESV]: “Stand by the roads, and look, and ask for the ancient paths, where the good way is; and walk in it.” [...]

Reviving the Restoration Movement, VIII

STARTING AFRESH
When I was a student at HUGSR (1982), I thought I had a good idea that would help restoration churches get past most of their sectarian troubles and start afresh as a positive ambassador for Christ. So I took my idea [...]

Reviving the Restoration Movement, VII

URGENCY OF REVIVAL
It is 9/11, six years later. The day of 9/10/2001 I woke up with the refrain of “Across the Universe”, a Beatles’ song in my mind. The refrain was, “Nothing’s gonna change my world”. The tune stuck in [...]