"Media" used to mean "print media" like books and newspapers, but the world has grown. Today media can also mean radio, television and movies delivered to personal computers, tablets and cell phones. As the world's best selling book of all time the Bible continues to make headlines, both good and bad, across all forms of media. A California city tries to tax a local church in violation of state and federal laws and the Church of Latter-Day Saints is dropping the use of the word "Mormon" in hopes of gaining more religious credibility.
When we started this series on the names of God, I started with our previous three-day series, expanding on those paragraphs and turning them into full page studies. We're close to finishing the previous list, and as I've been researching I've found that my organization has something to be desired. For instance, I've learned that there are three primary names of God, 43 compound names using YHWH and 24 others based on El/Elohim. It's too late to correct the site, but we will do a better job when we publish the names in a PDF book we'll make available to our dedicated readers.
"Media" used to mean "print media" like books and newspapers, but the world has grown. Today media can also mean radio, television and movies delivered to personal computers, tablets and cell phones. As the world's best selling book of all time the Bible continues to make headlines, both good and bad, across all forms of media. This week in the Bible and Media: Crosses across Henan province in China, and in Louisiana and Florida are being torn down, and the birth of the first red heifer in 2,000 years may signal the rebuilding of the Jewish Temple in Jerusalem.
"Media" used to mean "print media" like books and newspapers, but the world has grown. Today media can also mean radio, television and movies delivered to personal computers, tablets and cell phones. As the world's best selling book of all time the Bible continues to make headlines, both good and bad, across all forms of media. This week in the Bible and Media: The Bible is still welcome in Marriott brand hotels, even if it and it's teachings might become outlawed in the state of California by the "Must Stay Gay" bill that has already passed the California state senate.
"Media" used to mean "print media" like books and newspapers, but the world has grown. Today media can also mean radio, television and movies delivered to personal computers, tablets and cell phones. As the world's best selling book of all time the Bible continues to make headlines, both good and bad, across all forms of media. Britain wants to add atheism to their religions class, an atheist in Australia turns to Jesus and the rumors may be true after all that China wants to edit the Bible to make it conform to their Communist ideology.
"Media" used to mean "print media" like books and newspapers, but the world has grown. Today media can also mean radio, television and movies delivered to personal computers, tablets and cell phones. As the world's best selling book of all time the Bible continues to make headlines, both good and bad, across all forms of media. This week in the Bible and Media: While the Emmy Awards show continues to belittle Christians, an entire host of prestigious people continue to openly discuss their faith in public forums, including Chris Pratt, Mark Wahlberg, Odell Beckham, Jr. and more.
Christianity has a long and rich history to draw upon concerning theology and biblical studies. The apostles started the trend of interpreting some Old Testament passages (to them known simply as the Scriptures) in light of the revelation of the Messiah Jesus Christ. Over the nearly two-thousand years since then — from the apostles and early church fathers to the development of Christianity as Catholicism and the period of the Reformation bringing a much needed course correction to the church, through to the modern age — mankind has invented many forms and approaches to studying holy writ. The question is, how useful is it?
YHWH Shalom means “the Lord of peace” and is pronounced Sha-loam. Gideon, one of the judges of Israel, was visited by someone he considered a messenger of God but who was really the Angel of the Lord (the preincarnate Jesus). Gideon set about making an appropriate meal for them and when he was finished the Angel of the Lord commanded him to pour out the broth on a stone altar, and to place the bread on it. When he had done so the Angel touched the altar with his staff and the meal was consumed by fire.
"Media" used to mean "print media" like books and newspapers, but the world has grown. Today media can also mean radio, television and movies delivered to personal computers, tablets and cell phones. As the world's best selling book of all time the Bible continues to make headlines, both good and bad, across all forms of media. This week in the Bible and Media: Chinese Christians strike back against persecution, The Wall Street Journal calls for humanity to move past cruel and oppressive concepts like hell as taught in the Bible, and a teenager survives 7 weeks at sea by reading his Bible and praying.
Ezra is a recounting of history surrounding God's sovereign rule over the world, while focusing on the restoration of his people, his law and his temple. If one reads the Kings, for example, one can't help but see the differences that took place over 72 years. When Nebbuchadnezar conqured Jerusalem in 586 BC he took all the gold implements from the temple and immediately displaced the Israelites. The Jews would never have been permitted to return to Jerusalem and restore their temple under Babylonian rule. So God had the Persians conquer Babylon 45 years later.
"Media" used to mean "print media" like books and newspapers, but the world has grown. Today media can also mean radio, television and movies delivered to personal computers, tablets and cell phones. As the world's best selling book of all time the Bible continues to make headlines, both good and bad, across all forms of media. This week in the Bible and Media: Cheerleaders snatch victory from the Freedom from Religion Foundation, Brown University suppresses a report suggesting kids become transgender due to social pressure and an Ohio public school teacher reinvents the "Life Boat" curriculum for the modern left.
"Media" used to mean "print media" like books and newspapers, but the world has grown. Today media can also mean radio, television and movies delivered to personal computers, tablets and cell phones. As the world's best selling book of all time the Bible continues to make headlines, both good and bad, across all forms of media. This week in the Bible and Media: A new archaeological find proves Bible critics assumptions wrong — again, Satanists strive to get a statue of Baphomet raised outside the Arkansas state capitol building, and an ancient lie resurfaces in Turkey in an ornate, gold-lettered tome worth $18 million.
