Really goofy episode of NCIS on CBS tonight. She rejected Tony 9yrs earlier 'cause he was the one, but now she wants "the one." Hope he's not stupid enough to consider it 'cause of unresolved feelings these years later, 'cause they're not only entirely different people now, but their lives weren't shaped by the same shared experiences to where they're not even on each other's radar, realistically, with the lives they've lived since then. "Once the one, always the one" AIN'T NECESSARILY SO if the two have developed yrs of experiences independent of one another, as well as relational pains and responses to those pains since then that have reshaped their insides from anything ...

Some have said that Purim's not mentioned by name in the New Testament because the LORD wasn't mentioned in the book of Esther.  But as His Names are hidden 5 times in the book of Esther in Hebrew acronyms, so we have veiled references to Purim in the New Testament with multiple documents in the New Testament that could more strictly be called Purim documents for the simple reasoning that though they mention Passover and other seasons of the Jewish year, they include reversals of proclamations of death via resurrection and other means & they're testimonials to all the LORD had done in their midst at the close of the Jewish religious year. A lot of Jesus' choices of phraseology can be said to be Purim-related, ...

Stricter translations seem reluctant to even imply it's the meaning of the Greek, but after seeing it in the NIV, I found others that would corroborate being able to "take it that way" such as the NASB, plus a few others: Acts 28 implies St. Paul died around what we'd call [centuries later] Valentine's Day or STRICTLY ON Purim, and though it says he had 2yrs of unhindered ministry, comparing Luke's intent with the Gospel baring his name, the particular context of the prophecy cited from Isaiah that says to "say this" 'til the Temple in Jerusalem is destroyed, & Luke's style in talking about St. Paul, Luke's making Jesus and Paul the Alpha and Omega of the Gospel with Jesus having died ...

We forget sometimes in recounting the story of the Exodus with such vengeful glee against Pharoah that each man & woman we ENJOY villifying in our preaching who did some pretty bad things in the Bible's accounts are each men and women who've had a repentant heart for thousands of years, whether our theologies allow for their ultimate restoration or not. Even among Christian Universalists, I've detected the fundamentalist tone about people & nations in the Bible who's specific members that were being cited when the Bible was being written are EACH people who've had humility before God for longer than we've been in the earth -- whether or not they've been restored, OR EVER COULD BE, or whether their ...

God made me a promise on January 17, 2012 about my eyes being fully opened within 3wks [to certain matters] & I'm sitting here stunned at what happened a little while ago. I'm writing this on February 6, 2012. Was listening to a CD from a few yrs ago by Jerry Savelle from the 2005 Great Lakes Prosperity Overflow Convention that the Copelands hosted where Jerry taught on "the Hand of the Lord." Was feeling as though we were supposed to invoke the Hand of the Lord upon all of Creation, on Purim, in the behalf of the Universal Restoration, when suddenly all 10 chapters of Esther revealed the Universal Restoration to me all at once!

The abolishment of death is a fulfillment of Purim! What's had a ...

Just heard a few minutes shy of 2hrs of Kenneth Copeland teaching Universal Reconciliation from 20yrs ago & fully realized that absolutely all Word of Faith preachers have always taught Universal Reconciliation, that it's central to the Word of Faith message & is NEVER contradicted by Word of Faith preachers. Got a fresh stirring about the fact that Universal Reconciliation is ENTIRELY DIFFERENT from Universal Restoration. Have insisted upon that for nearly a decade & have always deeply despised the term "Universal Reconciliation" wondering what nitwit came up with that term, because Universal Reconciliation has been taught even by perhaps 50% of the Charismatics from day #1.

The problem ISN'T with ...

Exercised my faith on my specific marriage covenant with my wife & got caught up into heaven & saw a warehouse bigger than I'd ever seen, totally stuffed with marriage provisions from our wonderful heavenly Father! You've got supernatural provisions for your marriages like you've never ever seen -- all waiting on you and yours to tap into them together with your faith on the foundation your spouse and you have before our Lord for being with each other! Grab your marriage license together and over the communion table exercise your faith that came from Him THE MOMENT you said "I do" and EXPECT an ABSOLUTE AVALANCHE of God's best for your marriages, in the Name of Jesus! Your marriage license IS your ...

Being in the will of God is as easy as doing the Scriptures. Those are our General Orders that apply to every single believer. You act on THAT 'til you get a Commissioned position. Some people never do anything, not so much as a single verse of the Bible, claiming they don't want to do anything but what God tells them, and God assigns their portion with the guy that buried his talent.  It took Lord Jesus 30yrs to get into the Commissioned Will of God for Himself.  'Til that time, He obeyed the Scriptures.  If it took Lord Jesus 30yrs to get into a specific Will of God for Himself, then most people may never have more that's required of them beyond what's Written.  We fill our time on Biblical ...

I was praying on the phone with someone, during the overnight hours, one summer night in 2009 & we were both kind of nodding in & out a little, though I was going on strongly in other tongues for the most part.  Caught myself saying something aloud about regenerating, which I later found out was from a scene of a Doctor Who episode that I hadn't gotten to see YET 'cause they hadn't shown it on my local PBS station, and I didn't have access to cable at the time.  I'd bumped into a few Doctor Who clips on YouTube at the time, but not that particular one.  I'd gotten to see the full episode of The Doctor's Daughter, the full episode of when The Doctor met Martha while they were on the moon,...

The drunkenness actually encouraged by some Rabbis at Purim is more akin to wedding celebration. I "get" the layer of the story about deliverance, but too many elements to the celebrations seem like a Jewish Valentine's Day(s). As much as it's about deliverance, seems as though it's the celebration of when a King won the heart of his bride. After so much meditation in Esther, I want to see Matt Crouch's movie again, "One Night With The King." As much as it's the celebration of deliverance, vindication, and restoration of respect, story DOES SEEM as though it marks the time when she was with him because she wanted to be. I'd previously thought TBN might of gone a little far with the story book ...