DOUBT (of John the Baptist)

If faith is commitment before knowledge, then doubt is inevitable.  The most famous of doubters is Thomas the twin, one of Jesus’s disciples, but John the Baptist also came to doubt Jesus as the Christ.  How given his own anointing could he doubt?  In this post, I examine, doubt, where it arises and how it is part of faith.

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HARVEST

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For those of you following my blog, I began with a look at the Jewish Feasts (Leviticus 23).  You many have noted that the seven feasts are set in a pattern, three together (Passover, Leavened Bread and Firstfruits), one by itself (Pentecost) and, again, a cluster of three (Trumpets, Day of Atonement and Booths); this timing aligns with the three periods of harvest in Israel.  (With God, there are no coincidences!)  So, in this post we consider the word ‘harvest’ in a Biblical context. Read more