Can My Infant Child Be Saved? - Comments (19)

Category: Articles,Doctrine
Author: John Malone
Date: 15th February, 2007 @ 09:29:59 AM

Some friends of mine have a tiny baby in critical condition. The thoughts of loved ones around them have gone to the eternal status of the child.

It’s interesting to me that many people wonder about the state of the child, but often overlook their own state!

But I though perhaps the consideration arises in the minds of many Christians, “Can this child be saved?”
(more…)

Rebuilding Babylon. - Comments (12)

Category: Articles,Doctrine
Author: John Malone
Date: 20th November, 2006 @ 12:54:29 PM

The Great 70 7’s Prophecy outlined in {Daniel Chapter 9|Dan 9:24-27} is perhaps one of the most sweeping and marvelous statements of God concerning the fabric of time which he has {woven|Heb 1:2} around the person of our Lord Jesus Christ.

It offers such a remarkably precise chronology leading to the first coming of the Lord Jesus that mockers and scoffers say the book must have been written much later, because no prophecy can be so accurate!

Those of us who have a reading knowledge of our English Bibles, and have known the Great Prophecy may yet underestimate its controversy and power in the minds of men. Nevertheless, the precision of the prophecies of the Lord’s First Coming pale (to us) in comparison to those remaining.

At the forefront of those prophecies these days may be the condition of the cities of Babylon and Jerusalem.
(more…)

Poor Warren Buffett - Comments (57)

Category: Applied,Articles
Author: John Malone
Date: 13th July, 2006 @ 02:27:58 PM

Warren Buffett and I both live in Omaha, Nebraska.

I live in his city, he doesn’t live in mine.

Buffett is said to have more wealth than any single person in the world, except his friend Bill Gates, III.

Except by reputation, I scarcely know Warren Buffett. I’m quite sure he knows me not at all, neither by reputation or recollection.
(more…)

The “Immigration” Problem - Comments (1)

Category: Applied,Articles
Author: John Malone
Date: 16th June, 2006 @ 03:31:02 PM

I was in Washington, D.C. to visit my US Senator – Chuck Hagel – when the buzz about “Illegal Immigrants” was peaking.

Set aside for the moment the fact that, although I had an APPOINTMENT AT HER REQUEST with Senator Hagel’s Chief of Staff, she tried to have me arrested by the Capitol Police.
(more…)

The Lord’s “deposit” to you. - Comments (3)

Category: Articles,Doctrine
Author: John Malone
Date: 26th May, 2006 @ 03:20:30 PM

The Lord committed both a {dispensation|Eph 3:2-5;Col 1:25-28} and a {deposit|2Ti 1:12} to the apostle Paul.

Today we would call Paul a “driven man.” This is certainly not a pejorative, as we learn that immediatly after the Lord’s baptism, an Irresistable Force drew a willing Subject – Our Savior – {into the wilderness to be tested.|Mark 1:12}

Paul issues forth his {modus operandi|Phi 3:7-14} in a late epistle, and then claims that he is the {prototype follower|1Ti 1:15-16} of our Lord Jesus Christ, cutting a pattern (as tentmakers must do) for the rest of us to follow.

In his discourses, the apostle imparts an institutional form which churches should follow. There is not much to this form: a few ordinances {(traditions)+Traditions+the Lord’s supper, baptism, and the head covering of the woman}, {four symbols+Four Symbols+1. The head covering, 2. the cup, 3. the loaf, and 4. immersion in water}, and a lightweight {ruling structure+elders and deacons+Elders and deacons (ministers) were found both in Jewish synagogues, and Gentile city structures.} sanctified and borrowed from a commonality between Jewish synagogues and Gentile cities.
(more…)

An Addendum About Oil & Wine - Comments (3)

Category: Articles,Doctrine
Author: John Malone
Date: 1st May, 2006 @ 02:31:26 AM

Revelation 6:6 “And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beats say, ‘A measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley for a penny, and see that thou hurt not the oil and the wine.'”

The previous article addresses these conditions more fully, but a few more thoughts may be helpful.
(more…)

Oil Shortage? No Way! - Comments (2)

Category: Applied,Articles
Author: John Malone
Date: 20th January, 2006 @ 04:25:50 AM

If we are paying attention, we can hardly miss the 30 years of daily hand-wringing concerning the “energy crisis” and “fossil-fuel shortage” complaints and alarms that are in our ears (and wallets) every day.

Some of the impressive attributes of these alarms we hear are the contradictions and ironies – and the ignorance – that are implicit in them.
(more…)