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What’s in a Name?

What's in a Name? By Wendy Wippel Ever noticed how often God changed people's names? Abraham and Sarai (both of whom acquired a "Heh", when God changed their names, "Heh" being the Hebrew letter that represented the Holy Spirit.). Jacob, who became Israel, meaning "Prince of God" . Peter, who…

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Uninvited Guests

Uninvited Guests By Wendy Wippel For even the strongest Christian, there are some passages that are just baffling. Although we really do believe these passages, some still seems wildly improbable in the world we know. Sir Francis Bacon, the man that devised the scientific method, had an answer to that,…

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Bogus Burials

Bogus Burials By Wendy Wippel You probably remember the interchange recorded in Matthew in which Jesus tells a gathered crowd to, follow Me, and I will make you fishers of men.You probably remember the outcome, too. Large clouds gathered around Him and He gave the order to go to the…

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A God Big Enough to Believe In?

A God Big Enough to Believe In? By Wendy Wippel The interaction between Moses and God in the wilderness is a seminal moment in human relationship to their Creator. It’s the first time since the Eden apocalypse that God has personally introduced Himself to any members of the human race.…

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Blinded with Science

Blinded with Science By Wendy Wippel If you’ve noticed a few more empty seats on Sunday mornings don’t chalk them up to college football or fall vacations, or your imagination. They are there. And thanks to courtesy of people that track these kinds of things for a living, we have…

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Creationists and Conspiracy Theories

Creationists and Conspiracy Theories By Wendy Wippel The website live Science this morning featured a column called “Why Creationists are more likely to believe in conspiracy theories”. Their answer, in case you’re interested, is “teleological thinking”, meaning, (explained in their own words like this), “When something occurs that's hard to…

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Divine Deliveries

Divine Deliveries By Wendy Wippel Jews have a long history in Ethiopia. The Kebra Negast, an ancient account of Ethiopian history, claims Ethiopian royalty descended from Solomon's relationship with the queen of Sheba through a son Menelik. Haile Selassie, the last Ethiopian King (deposed in 1974), claimed this ancestry as…

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DNA and the Aaronic Priesthood

DNA and the Aaronic Priesthood By Wendy Wippel "Anoint them just as you anointed their father, so they may serve me as priests. Their anointing will be to a priesthood that will continue for all generations to come." Exodus 40:15 According to the book of Exodus, God himself established the…

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Let There Be Light!

Let There Be Light! By Wendy Wippel God saw that the light was good, and He separated the light from the darkness. Genesis 1:4. The Bible clearly states that it is divinely inspired. II Timothy 3:16 says that all scripture is God-breathed, II Peter 1:21 gives us a little more…

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Tower Power

Tower Power By Wendy Wippel The scriptures tell us that, at the beginning, “ the whole earth had one language  and one speech”.  But we know what happened next: they decided to build a tower. Which resulted in God forcibly relocating  the people He had created, throughout the earth, and…

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