THE 42nd GENERATION

JESUS DIED AT THE RIGHT TIME - FOR EVERYONE - FOR ALL TIME A TRUE STORY Good Friday, A Day To Remember, A Day To Reflect    By James Eugene Barbush       April 6, 2015    Every year during Holy Week, I reflect on what happened to Jesus during His Holy Week. This year, 2015, was no different . . . except for one very significant event that happened on this particula Good Friday, April 3, 2015. Our Holy Week in April of 2015 was occurring with the knowledge that after Holy Week, members of my family and myself were scheduled to attend and testify at the trial of a man who had committed atrocities over a period of time. In 2013, in the middle of a night in June, the man murdered a grandmother in her bed in Hershey, PA. After committing that horrific act, the man came to our home in Linglestown, PA and started a fire in our garage. These 2 horrific acts were the culmination of many other destructive acts that were commit...

THE 42nd GENERATION: How Do We Know Truth? : What is truth?  What is not true or what is deception? People say, "I know the truth."  How does one know that they know th...

What is truth?  What is not true or what is deception? People say, "I know the truth."  How does one know that they know the truth about anything?  If we are deceived, then we believe an untruth, yet we think we know truth.  So, how does one know that they know the truth? In all my years of talking to people about the bible and Christian teaching s, the message of the Gospel, the Good News, the topic of TRUTH always arises.  A Christian says that "Jesus is truth" .   "The Bible is true."  "The word of God is true".  You know the usual responses to those statements to truth.   "That's your interpretation."  "The Bible contradicts itself."  "There are many ways to God." Pontius Pilate, said to Jesus, "What is truth?"  But Pilate was not really asking because he did not give Jesus time to answer, even if He would have.  But I suspect, that is a question that Jesus would have answered if P...

Does God Do E-Mail? Does God Have An E-Mail List? E-Mail. What did some of us do before E-Mail?  Paper, envelope, and stamps - now called snail mail because it took days.  E-Mail is "instant", consistent with the way we live today. E-Mail: "Electronic mail, most commonly referred to as email or e-mail since approximately 1993, is a method of exchanging digital messages from an author to one or more recipients. Modern email operates across the Internet or other computer networks". [Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email] E-Mail has been around since approximately 1993 , 20 years ago.  So, now is an anniversary.  About that time, I remember someone talking about how they could instantly communicate with a daughter who went off to college.  That was before I even had a home computer.  I never forgot that story by that father.  I wanted to be able to E-Mail. What's the one thing that we expect to receive from sending our an...

Lately, I cannot help but wonder where we are headed as individuals, in our relationships, as a nation, and in the world.  I look around and see and hear things like I have never seen and heard before.  I say, "Who would have thought, when I was a kid, 50 years ago, that things would be as they are today?"   I was a kid then, so what did I know to be able to answer that question?   Not much at the age of 12.  But I am guessing that my parents would be shocked at what I see and hear today. Certain beliefs and opinions of people are very troubling.  The obvious deceptions that occur by many politicians is scary.  Wrong is now right, and right is now wrong.  Laws are misguided and persecutionary (is that a word?), some petty, some outrageously wrong, and there are laws on top of laws on top of laws, outdated and even conflicting.  How can we continue to live this way?  How much worse can it get?  Not 'can' it get, but 'will' it get...

Andrew Murray was a South African writer, teacher, and Christian pastor who lived from 1828 to 1917.   He wrote many excellent books.  I just finished one of his books titled, "The Two Covenants".   In the last chapter, he says some things that make me wonder about our condition as Christians, about my condition as a Christian. I wonder if we are wholeheartedly following Christ , or do we have one foot fully  in the world and one foot fully of the world . I wonder if things are getting so bad in the world, even in the USA, that we, as Christians, will stay in our duality of being in and of the world, rather than fully, wholeheartedly embracing a dead to self life in Christ .  Even to the point of living fully in the supernatural realm and relying not on the physical world.  Even to the point of finding a gold coin in the mouth of a fish to pay our taxes. After reading the following excerpt from Andrew Murray's book, "The Two Covenants", ...