Are the Sabbath and Holy Days a Burden?

(Copyright) by Bill Hillebrenner (Matthews, North Carolina)  The days mentioned in Galatians 4 have all the trappings of being the Sabbath, new moons, holy days and special years such as seventh year and jubilee. But then, indeed, when you did not know God, you served those which by nature are not gods. But now after you have known God, or rather are known by God, how is it that you turn again to the weak and beggarly elements, to which you desire again to be in bondage? You observe days and months and seasons and years. I am afraid for you, lest […]

How are we in the image of God?

(Copyright) by Bill Hillebrenner (Matthews, North Carolina) What does it mean that humans are made in the image of God? Romans 1 states that we should look at the things God made to understand the Godhead. The invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead . . . (Romans 1:20). God Made Kinds!Genesis 1 tells us that God made kinds. And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after […]