by Tony Arcus | Feb 8, 2024 | 31 Days, Raising Partners, Serving Gods People, Webmasters
Not splitting words. It’s not money that is the root of all evil. It is the love of it.Nor is this splitting words over semantics; this is understanding that words mean things, and words in the scriptures need to be accurately defined and used,...
by Tony Arcus | Dec 1, 2023 | 31 Days, Faith and Reason
Wrath Inconceivably, I don’t think this word, wrath, means what you think it means. I have come to consider, more often than not, God’s wrath is about him removing himself from a situation rather than God opening the ground to swallow the rebellious, Him...
by Tony Arcus | Nov 22, 2023 | 31 Days, Faith and Reason
We have a murder mystery…. Someone brutally murdered Jesus, but who? RomansThere is an obviousness to this murder in the three or four or five Roman soldiers at the summit of Golgotha, throwing dice for the clothes of a naked man up on a cross. This man, Jesus,...
by Tony Arcus | Sep 1, 2023 | 31 Days, Uncategorized
Sacred Places Can a place, absent of people, be sacred? Or could a place be cursed? The Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem Churches are peoples ἐκκλησία ekklēsia;an assembly, a (religious) congregation. A church was never a place, it was always a...
by Tony Arcus | Aug 25, 2023 | 31 Days, Faith and Reason
A Tale of Three Cities, Part One My Grandfather was a Mason, meeting in a small nondescript hall (Waihenga St John’s Masonic Lodge) in the town of Martinborough. Supposedly he had a high rank.My dad got invited by my grandfather to become a Freemason but turned...
by Tony Arcus | Apr 30, 2023 | 31 Days, Faith and Reason
Our God is too small I see many people “losing their faith” because the god of their childhood is eclipsed but their growing knowledge and understanding and their faith crumbles like a sandcastle before the incoming tide. There is of course a big problem if...