In “Bonus furor may prompt limits on AIG bailout money”, AP Philip Elliot writes: President Barack Obama and his top aides expressed outrage at reports that American International Group Inc. went ahead with $165 million in bonuses even though the company received more than $170 billion in federal rescue money….
For the first time, Pope Benedict has directly addressed condom use. The AP reports, “Pope Benedict XVI said on his way to Africa Tuesday that condoms were not the answer in the continent’s fight against HIV, his first explicit statement on an issue that has divided even clergy working with…
And he spake to his disciples, that a small ship should wait on him because of the multitude, lest they should throng him. …And he goeth up into a mountain, and calleth unto him whom he would: and they came unto him. …And Judas Iscariot, which also betrayed him: and…
Two articles caught my eye this past week. Neither of them really portends good things, IMO. The 1st was reported by COG Writer on 11 March. Robert Thiel commented on a Christian Science Monitor article titled “The coming evangelical collapse” by Michael Spencer. Let’s face it: Most “evangelicals” couldn’t articulate…
The COG has long taught that God’s protecting hand has been upon the English speaking peoples of the world because of the amazing promises contained in His word. Even though they have forgotten who their ancestors are, God has not. He remains faithful and true. However, there are also promises…
Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain; for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain. ~ Ex 20:7 The 2nd and 3rd Commandments are unique in the respect that both of them have some type of punishment associated…
Why are you cast down so far, my heart?Why the pain deep in my soul?What have I done that you hide from me?Please heal me and make me whole! In sorrow, I have cried in the dark.I feel so very alone.Grant me forgiveness, for I am frail.Forgive my sin to…
Early one morning, in the spring of 1945, Ida Weisenbacher, a twenty-one-year-old Austrian farm girl, was woken from her sleep by a loud banging at the door. Through tired eyes she glimpsed a Nazi officer standing outside her house. ‘Get up immediately,’ he demanded. ‘Hitch up the horse and wagon;…
Dear President Obama, It is with great regret that I heard on the radio today that you have removed the ban on embryonic stem cell research. I initially thought I would not speak to the subject, but it is because of comments that you, Sir, made today that prompt me…
Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s house, unto a land that I will show thee: And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and…