Tag Archives: Feast of Tabernacles

No Room At The Inn: The Economies Of Scale Of Travel Housing

Posted on September 12, 2015 by nathanalbright

Shortly before the Feast of Tabernacles, a man and his pregnant wife traveled from their hometown several days to the area where the two of them had ancestors to take an oath of allegiance to a proud ruler. When they … Continue reading →

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I’m Gonna Wait On The Lord

Posted on August 14, 2015 by nathanalbright

Although I have written about songs and Bible passages dealing with waiting before [1], it so happens that one of the songs I will be leading the children’s choir at my feast site this year [2] is called “I’m Gonna … Continue reading →

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Today In History: On July 27, 1990, Jamaat Al-Musilmeen Attempted To Overthrow The Government Of Trinidad And Tobago

Posted on July 28, 2015 by nathanalbright

By mid-1990, the popularity of the reformist National Alliance for Reconstruction government had faded a little bit as perhaps unrealistic hopes for improvement were dashed by the reality of politics as usual in the small Caribbean island nation [1]. Two … Continue reading →

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Have You Not Read In The Law That On The Sabbath The Priests Profane The Sabbath, And Are Blameless?

Posted on July 10, 2015 by nathanalbright

Yesterday, while chatting with a friend of mine, I heard some second hand objections to the universal keeping of the Sabbath, namely that such a society would need people working to keep up the electrical infrastructure of power plants, as … Continue reading →

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Such A Rollercoaster: A Review Of The 2014 Feast Of Tabernacles In Redmond-Bend

Posted on October 17, 2014 by nathanalbright

It is a difficult matter to judge a feast such as this one was. I will try not to give an overall grade or rating to this feast, because I am not sure how to weight the various components, because … Continue reading →

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Psalm 123: Until He Has Mercy On Us

Posted on October 13, 2014 by nathanalbright

While I have often paid mind to the Psalms of Ascents [1], there are some psalms that have rarely attracted my notice for one reason or another. Because of its relative obscurity, I have seldom stopped to think of Psalm … Continue reading →

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Caravan

Posted on October 9, 2014 by nathanalbright

Today I had the chance to drive an unfamiliar route from my residence to the Feast of Tabernacles in Redmond-Bend, Oregon. Although my car, heavily laden with luggage, is not exactly very fast at moving uphill, this was not such … Continue reading →

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He Who Overcomes

Posted on September 26, 2013 by nathanalbright

One of the more fascinating and thought provoking sermon messages from this year’s Feast of Tabernacles concerned the issue of overcoming and what it is exactly that we should be overcoming (the short answer, for the purposes of this blog … Continue reading →

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The Man With Too Many Hats

Posted on September 23, 2013 by nathanalbright

When I was a teenager and got to use my family’s first personal computer to use for school assignments, one of the earliest clip art pictures that I remember using and identifying with was the picture of a man with … Continue reading →

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I Hope You Look At Me Through Patient Eyes

Posted on September 21, 2013 by nathanalbright

When I was a preteen and teenager, I was fond of the music of PM Dawn, which I have written about before at some length [1]. My favorite song of PM Dawn was (and is) a song that is sufficiently … Continue reading →

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