Incense in the Bible
The Biblical use of incense is normative.
The "sweet savour" of incense was used in Old Testament liturgy as far back as the time of Moses as an offering to God in Exodus 30:34-37"And the Lord said to Moses: Take unto thee spices, stacte, and onycha,...
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Beginning with St. Matthew 28:16, we read that Jesus and the eleven travel up the mountain to receive the Great Commission.
But why a mountain? To remind the eleven of both Moses and Adam. One with the Mountain from where they received the Ten Commandments and...
In this video, Father Steve Macias introduces the second chapter of Bishop Ray Sutton's unpublished book "Captains and Courts."
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Download the PDF here: https://www.stevemacias.com/captains-courts-biblical-defense-episcopal-government/
Beginning with a section of scripture from Exodus 18, Bishop Sutton builds the foundation for Episcopal (Bishop) Church government...
The Synagogue was primarily a teaching ministry - worshipping God by the rituals of reading, repeating, and teaching his Word.
The Temple was primarily a sacrificial ministry - worshipping God by the rituals of songs, offerings, and eating.
The Church in Acts embraced both (Acts 2:42) with the "Breaking of Bread"...
Today for the Feast Day of my namesake:
ST STEPHENDEACON AND PROTOMARTYR
"Stephen was an eloquent and fiery speaker, and a provocative one. (Some readers have speculated that some of his fellow Christians wanted to put him in charge of alms in the hope that he would administer more and talk...
“Those who say that infancy has nothing in it for Jesus to save, are denying that Christ is Jesus for all believing infants. Those, I repeat, who say that infancy has nothing in it for Jesus to save, are saying nothing else than that for believing infants, infants that is who have been baptized in Christ, Christ...
Today during Chapel, I took a page out of Pastor Denna’s preaching playbook. (Pastor Andrew Sandlin attributes this to Pastor Steve Schlissel. )
I ripped the New Testament title page out of a Bible as part of an explanation of the continuity that exists between the Old and the New Testaments.
I...
A conversation with Pastor Uriesou Brito in which we discuss the legacy of Dr. Rousas John Rushdoony and his foundational influence on Christian education, American Evangelicalism, and the religious right.
Who was R.J. Rushdoony? Rush influenced the homeschooling movement, the Moral Majority and remarkably established much of the groundwork for a Kuyperian revolution applying...
At the cross her station keeping,Stood the mournful Mother weeping,Where he hung, the dying Lord.
For her soul, of joy bereaved,Bowed with anguish, deeply grieved,Felt the sharp and piercing sword.
O how sad and sore distressedNow was she, that Mother blessedOf the sole begotten one.
Deep the woe...
R.J. Rushdoony's book, Messianic Character of American Education, is discussed in this February 2019 book club meeting.
Buy the Book: here.
Rushdoony's study tells us an important part of American history: exactly what has public education been trying to accomplish? Before the 1830s and Horace Mann, no...
