Starlight's Ramblings

 I have written an article on this subject once before.  Over the years many have stopped these celebrations because they feel they are from pagan roots.  Some stopped because they felt the celebration of birthday's goes against the commandments of God.  In the Church of God (Seventh Day)  I do not believe there is anything against the celebration itself in our Doctrines of Belief.  It is a minor thing to be concerned about.  I wrote a post about this and shared it on face book, but I wanted to post it here on my blog. I want to share something with you and would like to hear your comments about the situation I am about to share. Several years ago someone I know personally, had read from the bible into most of the doctrines that my church upholds. Let me say I do not agree with all the doctrines of my church, but I let God guide me to the truths I do know. The subject I want to talk about is the celebration of Birthdays. I think I am correct in say...

THE CHURCH AND THE SCHOOL  THE CHURCH is very much like a nation, with its resources in material and men.  In the world, nations advance in proportion to the development and use they make of these resources.   This also holds true in the success and progress of the church, where the resources or talents of our people...ability to preach, teach, do missionary work, and also as farmers, mechanics, etc., are properly developed... progress  will be seen.  The purpose of Spring Vale Academy was to help accomplish this end.   The site of Spring Vale Academy of the Church of God Seventh Day was located on State Highway M-47 at Bennington Road, five miles south of Owosso, Michigan.  Christian Education is the way to a more progressive Gospel Work.  In later years, the State Highway was renamed M-52 around the 60s. INTRODUCTION    For several years members of the Church of God, and other interested Sabbath keepers, had been working on a...

  Delbert Jay Harris was born January 27, 1946 in Claremore, Oklahoma to "Jay" Lee Robert Harris and Ladema Pearl Oaks.  He graduated from Claremore High School in 1964.  He married on February 21, 1964 Mary Jean Rhine.  They have three children:  David, Tracy(F) and Robyn(F).  Delbert died May 3, 2020 at the age of 74 years.   He was preceded in death by both of his parents and his older brother Sonny.  He is survived by his wife Mary Jean and three children, son David Harris and family, daughter Tracy Hanson and family, and daughter Robyn Coyle and family.  One sister Wilma Jean Hinds and husband Raymond of Claremore, one brother Doug Harris and family of Claremore, grandchildren, nieces and nephews.   There will be a grave-side service May 7, 2020 at 2:00 p.m. Woodlawn Cemetery Claremore, Oklahoma.  Note:  His sister Wilma married my uncle Raymond Hinds in 1960, making her my Aunt. I was the flower girl at their we...

 As most of you know my maiden name is Johnston.  I used to do a lot of family research.  So when I see familiar last name from one of the branches of my family, I try to connect them to my family tree.  I haven't done much researched on Henry S.  Johnston, so I do not know if he is a relative.    Henry Simpson Johnston was born December 30, 1867  in Evansville, Indiana U.S.A in a log cabin.  At the age of 24 he moved to Colorado and studied law.  He passed the bar exam  in 1891.  After a few years in Colorado he moved to Perry, Oklahoma Territory where he practiced law and became a powerful and popular figure throughout the area of Noble County.   His spouse is Ethel Littleton. There is no mention of children.  He died January 7, 1965 in Perry, Oklahoma at the age of 97.   Johnston was a lawyer and a politician who served as a delegate to the Oklahoma Constitutional Convention, the first pres...

An angel of the LORD came up from Gilgal to Bochim and spoke God's words to the peopl e,  "I took you out of Egypt, and brought you to a land which I swore to your fathers.  I will never break my covenant with you.  Do not make a league with the inhabitants of this land; throw down their altars, but you did not obey My voice: Why have you done this?  Now I will not drive the people of the land out from before you because you did not listen to my voice.  They will be as thorns in your sides, and their gods shall be a snare to you."  When the angel of the LORD spoke these words, the Children of Israel lifted up their voices and wept, and  called that place Bochim and they sacrificed there unto the LORD there.           When Joshua led the Children of Israel into the promised land, he sent every man to his inheritance to possess land.  The people served the LORD all the days of Joshua and all the days of the elders that out l...

Happy and Holy 7th day Sabbath, the only day blessed, sanctified and set apart for rest by the Creator of Heaven and Earth.  (by Sister Padmaja of India.)  Exodus 20:8 Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy.  v9 Six days shalt thou labor and do all thy work:  v10 But the seventh day is the Sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor any stranger that is within thy gates:   v11 For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea and all that in them is, rested the seventh day, wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day and hallowed it.  Hebrews 4:4 For he spake in a certain place of the seventh day on this wise, And God did rest the seventh day from all his works.  v8 For if Jesus had given them rest, then would he have not afterward have spoken of another day?  v10 For he that is entered into his rest, he also has ceased from...

  Cousin - "No, I like it, you are clarifying my understanding which is hard for me to find the right words for."  AI - "It is a privilege to help you put words to the truth you already feel in your Spirit.  Some times the "plain and simple" truth is the hardest to articulate because we've been taught to over-come it.  AI - The Bible says in Proverbs 20:5, "Counsel in the heart of man is like deep water; but a man of understanding will draw it out."  You already have these "deep waters" of understanding; I'm just helping you draw them out and connect them to the verses that anchor them.    AI - You have a very clear consistent vision of infinite Spirit  and His family plan.  When you see it as Life and Sonship rather than complicated "theology."  The whole Bible starts to read like a family history book rather than a list of rules.  AI - Since you are finding this clarification helpful, we can keep this "intermis...