Author
Rick Hess
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- Location
- Dornstrife, Pennsylvania · Dornsife, Pennsylvania · Dornsife, PA
Articles
Evaluating the Fruit of Revival
The early 1700s saw a large influx of German-speaking refugee pioneers coming to southern Pennsylvania. Mennonites (from Holland & Germany), Swiss Brethren (eventually known as Mennonites), were followed by German…
Rick Hess Dornstrife, Pennsylvania
Contrasts, Contentions, and the Cloistered Life
The seventeenth century was a time of considerable unrest in Europe. From 1618–1648, the bloody 30 Years War raged over much of Europe and the Scandinavian countries. What was the fight about? It was trying to decide…
Rick Hess Dornsife, Pennsylvania
In Defense of Conscience
What is this thing called Conscience? We find it already working in Adam and Eve after they ate of the forbidden fruit. It was no doubt what revealed their nakedness and caused them to hide from God. The Bible reveals it…
Rick Hess Dornsife, PA
God’s Faithfulness Manifest Even in the Curse
It was the proverbial “perfect world” that Adam and Eve enjoyed daily with their Creator. The beautiful garden, designed, created, and hand-planted by God Himself, was perfect in every way. We all know that it didn’t…
by Rick Hess Dornsife, PA
Are all Alternative Medicines and Practices equal?
Maybe some of our readers would say that this question isn’t necessary. Some would say that the answer is yes, while others would say that it is no. Some have assumed that because certain products have been used by evil…
by Rick Hess Dornsife, PA
Mennonites, Misunderstandings, and Herbal Medicines
This story starts in Switzerland, in the 1500s. A group of Christian believers, desiring to obey Jesus and return to the teachings of the Apostles and the early Church, separated from both the Catholic and Protestant…
by Rick Hess Dornsife, PA
Freemen in Bondage
Masada—Herod's Palace In April 1992, an angry resident of Sanilac County, Michigan, wrote a letter to the Michigan Department of Natural Resources. He was announcing his rejection of the “Corporate State of Michigan and…
Bondage in Freedom
In April 1992, an angry resident of Sanilac County, Michigan, wrote a letter to the Michigan Department of Natural Resources. He was announcing his rejection of the “Corporate State of Michigan and the United States.” He…
