Fall feasts of the Lord

I have most of my posts about the fall feast days to the Lord - Trumpets, Atonement, and Tabernacles, which season we are in right now - posted under feasts of the Lord at christine's bible study, http://christinesbiblestudy.blogspot.com/. It is my goal to get all my studies on the Lord's holy days (holidays) and their relevance to the believer in Jesus Christ, Yeshua Messiah, eventually transferred to christine's bible study. That blog is searchable and the archives by topic are a lot easier to use. :)

Christine's Bible study

Vacation reading

We are heading out to see our family in Colorado. Posting may be scant until we get back home. But on the other hand, since I will have more free time, maybe it will pick up, LOL. At any rate, I am going to be working on the holidays series, and Has the New Testament abolished the Torah series, to get everything linked together which still needs it. As well as the Revelation series. So be looking for that!

I am available by email ... really

I quit checking my e-mail address associated with this blog some time ago. It seems for the longest time I never got any e-mail, except spam. I just realized today that I couldn't remember the last time I checked it, and I thought, "Well, maybe there will be an e-mail or two in there by now." Well, it had been over a year since the last time I checked. I just want to apologize to everyone. There were dozens (and dozens) of e-mails waiting. So I want you all to know, if you have e-mailed me about this blog or any of my blog posts, I did get your e-mail, and I will be working over the next few weeks to answer you. Please don't give up on me! If you want, you can e-mail me again. My e-mail address is at the bottom of this page. Now when I am all caught up, I am making it my goal to check my e-mail every week from now on. So hopefully nothing like this long hiatus will ever happen again. (If it does, you can always leave a comment. Those get forwarded to my personal e-mail inbox, which I see every day).

Computer trouble

Since the weekend -- we are working on getting everything running right and smooth again, so the posting will resume as soon as possible ...

Working on the Revelation series

I am working on the next post in the Revelation series, and have been since late last week. I want to be accurate so I am taking extra care. So be looking for that - it is coming. But that is why it is not up yet. I will post it as soon as I can finish it. In the meantime, since I cannot get that post up today, I have decided to continue posting on other topics - but Revelation is coming.

I so hate that when that happens!

I had a great post all written about the financial crisis and the biblical financial principles which, if followed, would have avoided it (and avoid it in the future). Hint: the bailout does not solve anything according to God's principles. But as I was finishing the links in it, I hit the tab (in Firefox) which was my open Homeschool Blogger post, and closed it by accident. Without saving it! Aaargggh and double aaargggh! I so hate that when that happens! I need to learn to write posts in Wordpad and then just copy them into the Homeschool Blogger editor.

Oh well. I can't reconstruct it now, because I have work to do to prepare for Sabbath. I will work on reconstructing it on Sunday, and maybe I can have a facsimile ready for Monday's post. Have a blessed Sabbath rest.

What's next

I have been going through the Torah and the rest of the Bible with my family, and what I am learning is blowing my socks off. So I have loads of Bible study material already written, just sitting on my computer doing no one any good at all, except for myself and my family, of course. And I have had so many days where I could not work on one of my series posts, just because we have been so busy this summer. So I started thinking, "On those days when I don't have 2 hours to work on a theology post, I should at least post some of the cool things we have been learning in Bible study." I didn't want to go off on a new tangent when I have so much left undone, but this way at least there will be a post every day.

I quit checking the news everyday, because it was the same old same old, every day - men are sinning against one another, the world hates God and His people, and we are careening toward the end times, LOL. I couldn't take any more. So that is why no news posts lately. I still try to check Israel news regularly, and there has been a lot happening on that front, and maybe in a few weeks things will slow down enough so that I can write about it, LOL.

I have a lot of sewing projects I am working on, and am still learning so much about nutritional health and healing, and I want to start posting on those topics again -- on my other blog, This side of heaven. See you here and there!

Where did the summer go already?!!!

So sorry for that hiatus! We just finished the busiest few weeks I think we have had in the history of Nothing New Press! Thank you! While we are still busy, I have been slowing digging my way out of a hole left by the absence of my admin, who is no longer with us. She was on leave for a while, and is not returning. Boo hoo! But I am finally caught up, and Lord willing, will be able to resume blogging now. I have intended to do so every day for the past few weeks, but the end of the day, and fatigue, LOL, have hit before I got to the "BLOG" item on my to do list. :)

In a related side note, has this been the fastest flying summer in the history of time or what? Wasn't it just June a few days ago, LOL. My husband's birthday is in a few weeks, and that celebration has always marked the end of the summer for us. Yesterday I planned the get together, just marveling at how soon already it has come upon us.

Now back to our regularly scheduled programming ...

We finished shipping all the preorders for the new All Through the Ages, and since we were behind on getting everyone their e-mail shipping confirmations, we have been working double duty on those this week. By the end of today, Lord willing, we hope to have all of those out too. So I can tentatively plan on getting back to regular blogging by tomorrow ... barring anything else happening, LOL!

Loving and supporting others is sometimes the best use of time

I am going with beloved family to follow- up doctor's appointments all day today; I have more holiday /theology posts waiting in the wings and will try to get them posted, but if not today, hopefully tomorrow!

Goals ... a good thing

I am working on the next post in the Revelation series. As soon as I get past chapter 13, and am able to tie up the marked on the hand and forehead series also, which Revelation 13 concludes, while I WANT to continue the Revelation series, I am also in the middle of the Torah and Ten Commandments series which I want to just get to a stopping place on. The problem with doing these biblical and theology posts every day, however, is that they are so time consuming to write, because even if I already have a general idea of what I am going to say, there is still so much Bible study that has to take place in order to say it well and without errors (as much as is humanly possible), LOL.

So finishing Revelation 13 is my next goal, then wrapping up the marked on the hand and forehead series, then Torah. And since Easter is coming up, which is not even in the same month as Passover this year, I would like to post about that, too. That is my plan for the next few weeks. I am unfortunately in a busy season in my life right now, and am fighting to get in just my daily Bible study, let alone extra for the blog. (My daily Bible study is on a fascinating topic also, but I promised myself NO NEW TOPICS on this blog until some of these others that are hanging in the middle get finished, LOL. My sewing room closet also has a shelf of unfinished quilts on it. I think I see a pattern developing ...)

So I apologize that the theology posts are not more frequent at the moment. If they are something you really enjoy, let me know, and I will try to get more of them in each week. Or if you prefer the real life posts or the commentary on the news posts, let me know that also. It would be nice to have a happy balance. Thank you and God's blessings be on you.

Milestone

This is my 1000th post since I started blogging! My first post, way back on May 30, 2005, is here. Thanks for visiting, everyone!

Waylaid

I apologize for the absence; I have been ill but am on the mend. I actually have several posts I was working on the past few days, but I always ran out of steam before I could finish them, LOL. Now that I am feeling better I hope to get them posted later.

Vacation reading

My husband is taking me on a second honeymoon in celebration of our 25th wedding anniversary, which was this year. He is so sweet! We are leaving this weekend. So I will be gone from blogging until January, around the 6th or 7th of January. I have several series running at once on the blog, some of them which have been going for over a year. Here are the links to the first posts in each series, I thought it might be a nice way to catch up if you want something to read in the meantime. There is a link at the bottom of each post to the next post in that series, up to the present (some of the  links were broken, but I went through and fixed them all this morning, so there should be no problem following each series from beginning to the present).

The first post in the Revelation series

The first post in the Babylon connection series
Readers of the Babylon series might also find this post interesting: On The Two Babylons by Alexander Hislop

The first post in the Holidays series (discussing Christmas, birthdays, and biblical feast days)
Somewhere in the middle of the Holidays series, I started posting about the Sabbath, but that began confusing the flow of the Holidays series, so I have removed the Sabbath posts from the Holidays series, and the Sabbath posts make their own series now.

The first post in the Sabbath series (it used to be a part of the Holidays series).

The first post in Has the New Covenant abolished the Torah series: The righteousness that is of faith

The first post in the Safeguard your investment in your children series.
The Safeguard series morphed into the Ten Commandments series, because we saw that obedience to God safeguards our children.

The first post in the Ten Commandments series (please do read the posts linked in the first paragraph of this post, explaining why obedience to the Commandments is key to safeguarding our children; that obedience to the Commandments has not passed away; and that the Commandments summarize the entire Law of Moses and define the Law of Love. Then, if all the theology becomes wearisome, please read one family's story of how parental obedience to the Commandments not only safeguarded their children, but the Lord miraculously returned and restored the one who had been lost to Himself and the family. We serve an awesome and amazing God who is true to His word in every particular!)

May God's blessings of grace be upon each and every one of you as this year concludes and the new year begins. See you in 2008, Lord willing!

Hunting the wild elk

I apologize for  my absence the past few days. My sweet dh is leaving for his annual elk hunting trip in the morning, and we had a lot extra to do to get ready. I just pray he comes home with two elk so our freezer can be full of hormone- and antibiotic- free lean beef (close to beef) all winter!

My dog did not eat my homework

Since this evening begins the Feast of Tabernacles, and it is my first time preparing for the 7- day long celebration, and having a feast every single night for 7 days (LOL), and decorating the house with leafy boughs, and cooking enough in advance so that we can celebrate two sabbaths in a row (from this evening at sundown until Saturday evening at sundown), I have been sooo busy trying to stay organized and get everything done. I realized at 10:00 pm last night as I was cleaning up the kitchen from the food preparation I had been doing, "Oh! I have completely forgotten my blog post today!" I thought about staying up and trying to get that done, but then discarded that idea.

You see, I am not a night person. I am a morning person. When I wake up in the morning, I am awake. And alert, LOL. I think best in the morning, I write best in the morning, I multitask best in the morning. But the opposite of that is also true. When 8 or 9 pm hits, I am tired. Keep me up too much later than that, and my sweet dh does not describe me as "tired" anymore. He would say, "cranky," LOL. My ability to cope drops exponentially for every minute past 9:30 or 10 that I must be up, LOL. So we decided it was best that I just bundle myself into bed and leave the blogging for this morning. 

Don't you just hate it when it does that?

I had a whole post almost ready to post when the screen closed and the post was lost. Arrrgh! I have been working on that for an hour! That has happened to me so many times in the last month. I am a little discouraged, so I am going to have dinner with my sweet dh, and possibly I can try to recreate that post later tonight. Or maybe tomorrow. I have got to learn to write these things in wordpad first. ::: sigh :::