Do spiritual gifts come in a box? Scott Ashley presented the first keynote of the 2013 General Conference of Elders titled “Edifying the Body Through Spiritual Gifts.” Mr. Ashley stated that Dennis and LeeAnn Luker are partly responsible for this topic being discussed…. Mr. Ashley wrote a detailed study paper…
Political cartoon showing MP James Mackenzie being unjustly slandered. He’s rescued by PM Robert Gascoyne-Cecil Illustration by cartoonist JM Staniforth, 1899, Evening Express, Wales 20 And he said, “What comes out of a person is what defiles him. 21 For from within, out of the heart of man, come…
Woocut from Luther’s Bible for Revelation 17 depicting the Beast and Babylon the Great 1. True Gospel The world had lost the Gospel. They didn’t know what the Gospel was: I came among the True Church of God of the Sardis Era, They didn’t know what the Gospel was,…
[Updated 18:17: I forgot the link for The Father’s Call.] Feast or famine, drought or flood. Such is the case of a writer, it seems. I have a friend going through a really tough time right now, and that has consumed a bit of my time as well trying…
New Jersey Governor Christ Christie, 2011 Photo by Bob Jagendorf 6 Brothers, if anyone is caught in any transgression, you who are spiritual should restore him in a spirit of gentleness. Keep watch on yourself, lest you too be tempted. 2 Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law…
Edward Snowden, 2013 Photo by Laura Poitras, Praxis Films Finally, someone is talking about the fallout of the Snowden case in practical terms. On TechRepublic, Patrick Gray writes in “Will the NSA’s activities handicap IT in the United States?” (bolding mine):
Old King Cole was a merry old soul… There was once a king who lived in a marvelous palace. He did not always have such a fine palace, but it took years of work and God’s blessings to build up. It was surrounded by a vast wasteland that the…
There are a couple of things that January is known for in the COG community. The first is 16 January 1986, the death of Herbert W Armstrong. He re-discovered many lost truths after his conversion, formed the Radio Church of God, which later became the Worldwide Church of God, and…
Photo of Pope Benedict XVI, 2007 by Valter Campanato 24 And there was also a strife among them, which of them should be accounted the greatest. 25 And he said unto them, The kings of the Gentiles exercise lordship over them; and they that exercise authority upon them are called…
A buckthorn in Iran Once again, the ugliness of the doctrine of church governance has reared its head in COG-land. When will people ever learn? Every time these ******* contests happen, I cannot help but think of a specific Bible verse in Judges: