A couple of years back (almost), I wrote a book review on The Discipline of Spiritual Discernment by Tim Challies, and I thought it would be a good time to dust it off. As we head into Passover season, this is a topic that should come up in people’s minds….
United Church of God (UCG) has posted their US Feast of Tabernacles sites on their Feast of Tabernacles web page. They plan to add some “satellite sites” it appears “as needs exist.” I assume this means smaller quasi-official sites for places that have been hit hard by the economy in…
33But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you. (Matthew 6:33, King James Version) What is a “kingdom”? I once heard GTA explain that a kingdom is a nation that has grown large, a nation is a tribe that…
Idolatry in the Church of God? How can that be? Well, it exists, my friends. It isn’t all that hard to find, either. Sooner or later, you trip up on someone’s sacred cow, and that is when it all goes downhill. It’s actually not that hard to tell when it…
"Then the man who had received the one talent came. ‘Master,’ he said, ‘I knew that you are a hard man, harvesting where you have not sown and gathering where you have not scattered seed. So I was afraid and went out and hid your talent in the ground. See,…
Well, today is supposed to be a day about “love”, but is it really? Dr Bob Thiel (aka, COGWriter) recently wrote about the “Pagan Origins of Valentine’s Day” and today responds to a Christianity Today article on the topic in “CT: Worldly ‘Christianity’ and Valentine’s Day”. Not only should we…
James Malm keeps saying that the major COG groups teach “that the King of the South would be a more extreme Islamic Caliphate, or Mahdi based Islamic Extremist Confederation.” When I asked him about this on his blog The Shining Light Blog, he answered (in part): If you would prefer…
Rev 2:5: “…except thou repent.” v 16: “Repent…” v 21: "And I gave her space to repent of her fornication; and she repented not." v 22: "Behold, I will cast her into a bed, and them that commit adultery with her into great tribulation, except they repent of their deeds."…
I had to go look for this one, as I thought FB would alert me (I had a tip-off). Peter Hawkins of the UK United Church of God (UCG), an International Association resigned Monday from the ministry of UCG. He somewhat addresses the continued question of why the ministry did…
COGWriter, Dr Robert Thiel, wrote in “King of the South in Prophecy”: Today, I was asked a question about the King of the South in prophecy as James Malm improperly posted something about me that was not correct. So, here is what I sent James Malm about it: Dear James:…