The Ancient Paths Blog

I continue on in my own series on personal faith in God. (I'm more interested in people having general faith in God to get through life rather than the usual "Faith for salvation" that is typically preached on). In this case, I talk about having a whole hearted commitment towards God, as a...

I take a brief look at the Gospel of Matthew and mention the running critique of Faith the Jesus seems to give in that Gospel. This is especially against the notion that Faith is just for salvation but folks don't have faith for healing etc. which is actually backwards when you look at the...

I do some commentary about how some people have had to do a more confrontive approach to evangelism. This has been especially true with dueling with Islam. I also intended to mention Wokism in American culture and society as another potential example. Besides this I mention some other...

I talk about the problems of equating Christian love, agape with the secular term "unconditional love". An associate I knew first made this point of using the Biblical term "unfailing love" instead because unconditional love often implies having no boundaries, and that is different than the...

(This is an edited version of an old Facebook Blog style post I did from 5 years back) Mark 10: 15 Truly I tell you, anyone who will not receive the kingdom of God like a little child will never enter it.” Deuteronomy 29:29 "The secret things belong to the LORD our God, but the things...

I give my personal self help advice from studying psychology since 1985, and of course dabbling in Stoic philosophy and was in spired to do it after some rumination on some disappointing areas of life, and listening to some self help sermons from Pastor Rick Warren, and some personal prayer and...

Jia is well known for his "Rejection Therapy experiment" where for a 100 days he made a unique request of strangers each day and documented the results. He did it overcome a childhood fear of rejection that was holding him back in life. But in the process of trying to desensitize himself towards...

More advice from best selling author, marketing expert and coach Seth Godin. An important path to success is to be ambitious and work on innovative projects you find that are interesting and let that kind of experience give you the clout you are looking for. Another point mentioned is...

This appeal is made in on behalf of the famous Polish pastor who kicked a team of 3 Canadian police and 3 health inspectors out of his church during his last Good Friday church service last year. He was arrested a few days ago, and is being treated inhumanely in some kind of jail or prison in...

I tried to make a better starting definition of this Social Psychology theory than I gave in my original video (posted here for a few hours yesterday, but deleted because I decided to re-tweak it after getting some feedback from a friend, because I'm also trying to improve my video making and...

An homage to a traditional Jewish article on the Passover Liturgy speaking about how "My Father was a wandering Aramean" that also fit the church I was in at the time, that descended from the Aramaic speaking Jews. The talk is about the need for history as far as identity and the ability to...

An Introduction to phronema A video made because of the problem of Christians not incarnating their theology (talking about agape but rarely showing it).

taken from my video Title card (which unfortunately I can't get to last more than 3 seconds). “The Greek word diakosuni ‘justice', is a translation of the Hebrew word tzedaka. The word means ‘the divine energy which accomplishes man's salvation.' It is parallel and almost synonymous with the...

I continue talking about energy (from Energy in the Bible and Christian life) and tell a personal story from the early 90s. I speak a bit on sacramentals and how they relate to holiness (objects et apart for God's worship). I also tell the story of a "friend" who was into occult theosophy and...

An impromptu video covering one of the big points that got lost, side tracked etc. on when talking about things like "reality", and "What the Bible says" etc. (An important concept when dealing with certain Biblical Fundamentalists and Charismatics).

A video blog where I was experimenting with the Windows 10 Video editor trying to edit an older video by adding titles cards. Sorta works but also sorta doesn't. lotsa problems haha. I think you are best constructing a video with this in mind from the get go so things are synced up better...

This is a short little video covering the topic of an old defunct, Eastern Orthodox web site, and I started a discussion of this on a thread by the same name on the Theology board a few days ago.

I reshot my earlier introduction video, (One Trick Pony), to improve on some of its deficits like bad lighting, and to make it a bit more concise and focused as far as talking about what my video ministry goals or philosophy is. Introduction

This is a video adaptation of an earlier Blog post which itself was based on a thread from 2019 on the Forum where the poster attempted to ask a rhetorical question "What does a Christian need a gun for?" While I acknowledge some of the pacifistic sounding verses in the Bible like "He who...

It's a short video on the Ben Franklin saying "Our Critics are our friends because they show us our faults." I mention my own take on the saying. Early in life, I knew I didn't have some of the strengths of other people in such fields as mathematics, language skills etc. but I realized I...