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are there any conservative Mennonite news publications available to the public? i understand (?) there are conservative publications for Mennonites only (?) and, there are liberal Mennonite publications available to the public (?) I have a friend who reports for Mennonite World Review. Available in...

Wayne in Maine wrote:Speaking in tongues.

Quite a long-lived fad, as Paul spent a lot of time dealing with it in 1 Corinthians.

I usually used the "view new posts" function. I miss it.

I attended Carter's Sunday School class a couple times after he left office. Struck me as a sincere, thoughtful, moderately conservative Baptist. Intelligent, but no Biblical scholar. When I was with a group that hosted a Habitat for Humanity board meeting, he attended. Maybe our pacifist group comp...

Yes the final outcome is up to God. "THE EARTH SHALL LAST FOREVER" image sure isn't conclusive about the earth lasting forever, is it? The Hebrews 1 passage and Isaiah 51 says it shall perish. Ephesians 3.21 (KJV) uses the idiom "world without end", which is not a literal transla...

gcdonner wrote:But perhaps this should all be discussed in another thread, since eschatology itself is not a fad, though some forms of it are.

OK, I started a new thread, Preterism, under Theology. I'd like to hear more.

GCDonner suggested another thread. I'd like to hear more of his ideas, so here's a place. Being a Preterist, I see the new age/coming age as already present and that the general resurrection began at the cross initially (remember those that rose and went about Jerusalem after the crucifixion?), but ...

I set up the account and went to the designated page which gives Matthew 5.1-48. Bootstrap, how does one see your questions and annotations? Or add such?

I see that as the difference between covenants, one of law and one of grace/truth, as John says, "The law came by Moses, but grace and truth through the Lord Jesus Christ." I think the language of covenants is more biblical, but a dispensation to me is mostly synonymous. What age to come?...

ken_sylvania wrote: Christmas = X-mas or The Holidays or Yuletide

The "X" in X-mas (still pronounced "Christmas") is a taking into our alphabet the Greek "Chi" which looks like "X", the first letter of "Christ". To me it emphasizes Christ.