2009 is a watershed year for me in one area. It is truly the first year in which I began to truly understand what “Laodicea” meant. Laodicea = “justice of the people”, “the people decide” or “the people judge”. 1Judge not, that ye be not judged. 2For with what judgment…
We watched Avatar yesterday. It has some neat special effects. It is a story about how “The Corporation” is greedily taking land away from a basically helpless people on a distant planet so they can mine some mineral of great worth. It is a story line that has been done…
Hello, it’s your tongue-in-cheek COG reporter here with another COG News item. Gerald Flurry must be livid. He’s been outfoxed by another false prophet. False prophet Ronald Weinland is at it again. First, he spewed out: God’s Church cannot be organized into many fragmented groups with differing ideas of government…
Christmas was not among the earliest festivals of the Church. Irenaeus and Tertullian omit it from their lists of feasts; Origen, glancing perhaps at the discreditable imperial Natalitia, asserts (in Lev. Hom. viii in Migne, P.G., XII, 495) that in the Scriptures sinners alone, not saints, celebrate their birthday; Arnobius…
26A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh. 27And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to…
I know that recently PCG has seemingly posted or had posted for them several odd articles giving some sort of history (from their perspective) on HWA and Gerald Flurry. However, “SUPPORT MAZON–THE JEWISH RESPONSE TO HUNGER …. FEED THE HUNGRY THIS YOM KIPPUR… The Philadelphia Church of God was incorporated…
9Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds; (Colossians 3:9, King James Version) I remember how Garner Ted Armstrong used to tell the story about the little boy who just found out that Santa Claus wasn’t real. He remarked to his…
I’m going to stick to mostly non-scholarly articles this week, except perhaps for the one on the 25th (still working on that one). People are out of school, on break from work, dealing with the weather, travelling to events around the country, etc. Speaking of travelling to events and weather,…
Many know the Book of Job as a book about suffering. Many sermons about how a Christian should endure suffering have been written, based in part upon this book. The story didn’t start out that way, of course. In fact, there is something very telling in the beginning of the…
I don’t normally write about celebrities, but this is too bizarre to pass up. It is also coincidental that the series on happiness and fulfillment was being written when the whole scandal began to break. In fact, the car crash occurred on Black Friday, and I began posting the series…