Starlight's Ramblings

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...

            Did you know there are at least eight Seventh-day Sabbath keeping Christian denominations who are truly faithful to the Ten Commandments?  Here is a list of those eight denominations as mentioned on YouTube and the year they were established:  1) Seventh-day Adventist, 1863; 2) Church of God (Seventh Day), 1858 in Michigan, 1863 in Iowa, joined as one in 1884, Incorporated 1899; 3) United Church of God 1995, formerly WorldWide Church of God, formerly Radio Church of God 1934; 4) Seventh-day Baptist, oldest denomination; first founded in England in the 1600s, 1672 first Seventh Day Baptist founded in America; 5) Assemblies of Yahweh 1969; 6) Twelve Tribes 1972; 7) True Jesus Church first in China 1917; 8) The Church of God Jerusalem Acres 1957.  Did you know that millions of Christians today still observe the Sabbath on Saturday?  From the 7th Day Adventist Churches to various branches of the Church of God (Seventh Day) these ...

          It seemed good to me, since I have a perfect understanding of all things from the very first, to write to you  most excellent Theophilus, that you might know about the things you were instructed.  In the days of Herod King of Judea, a certain priest named Zacharias and his wife of the daughters of Aaron named Elisabeth, who were righteous before God and walked in all the commandments and ordinances of the LORD, blameless.  They had no children because Elisabeth was barren and they were now both up in years.             While Zacharias executed his office before God in the temple, there appeared to him an Angel of the LORD, standing on the right side of the altar of incense.  When Zacharias saw him, he was troubled and very fearful.  The angel said to him,  "Zacharias, have no fear for your prayer has been heard, your wife Elisabeth will bare a son and you will call his name John.  He...

          Hello, my name is Connie James, my husband is Ricky (Rick) James of Coweta, Oklahoma. Rick is the second child born to David "Gene" James and "Judi" Jewel Alice  Thomasson. His youngest brother and the youngest child of seven, is Darrin Adam James. He was born March 13, 1971 in Tulsa, Oklahoma .  He grew up and attended the Coweta Public Schools, graduating May of 1989. In 1977 when Rick and I got married, Darrin was 6 years old. I n 2004, he was living in Tulsa, and had been diagnosed with stomach cancer. His doctor was a Doctor Taylor. I could never find a doctor Taylor  in the Tulsa area.                In about 2010 I found him on Face Book. I sent him a friends request and we became friends. He was now living in Texas.  He had first visited Austin, Texas and like it, later he moved to San Antonio. He was living with and working for an Outreach Ministry and was attending an Orthodox...

          The biblical Garden of Eden location is described in the book of Genesis.  It is said to be located where four tributaries of water come together.  The four rivers that run through the Garden are:  Pishon, Gihon, Tigris and the Euphrates.  In Genesis it also mentions the Land of Cush, translated Ethiopia. The Greeks called the Pishon the Ganges and the Gihon as the Nile.             In Genesis 2:10-14 describes the location:  and a river went out of "Eden" to water the garden.  To me this says the garden was outside the city of Eden, and from there the river parted into four heads.  The name of the first is Pishon, that compasses the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold; and the gold of that land is good; there is bdelluim and onyx stone.  In the Tables of Nations there are two individuals named Havilah and they are decedents of Noah.  The name also appears in Genesis...

OUR BEGINNING :   The Church of God (Seventh Day) grew from the efforts of dedicated followers of Christian living in western Michigan in 1858 called the Church of Christ, joined by a church in Iowa, established in 1863 called the Church of Jesus Christ.  The influence of the Church of God (Seventh Day) began to expand into eastern and central United States, due in part because of the publication of a magazine, "The Hope Of Israel".  This publication created an interest in the Church's "distinct" doctrines such as the seventh-day Sabbath as the day of worship.     Unified around these unique doctrines, the General Conference of the Church was officially organized in 1884 and incorporated in Missouri in 1899.  The offices of the General Conference were located in Stanberry, Missouri, until 1950, when they were moved to Denver, Colorado, where they remain today.  Over the years, the "Hope of Israel" was moved from Michigan to Iowa, then to Miss...