I understand that a lot of employers are having trouble hiring these days. It is tough to get good help. However, even before the pandemic, it was difficult to get good people into the priesthood, I’ve been told. Every profession has its challenges, to be sure, but I can see…
[Originally published 12 March 2009] Leadership is one of the key components to a successful team, unit or army. The US Army has had over 200 years of experience creating leaders that must influence young people to go to war and possibly die.
1And certain men which came down from Judaea taught the brethren, and said, Except ye be circumcised after the manner of Moses, ye cannot be saved. 2When therefore Paul and Barnabas had no small dissension and disputation with them, they determined that Paul and Barnabas, and certain other of them,…
There is a story in the Bible that pretty much sums up most of the world’s largest religions, including mainstream Christianity: 4And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die: 5For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened,…
“You cannot keep the Law, so don’t even try.” Technorati Tags: cog,church of god,antinomian,law,grace
“Love or Law? Which is more important?” goes the question. Frankly, that is the wrong question. Love and keeping the commandments are intricately intertwined within Scripture. They are inseparable. If you love God, you will keep His commandments. If you keep His commandments, you will keep the most important one…
The simple fact of the matter is that it is human nature to believe that you are a good person. Misunderstood, perhaps, but certainly not evil. We are victims. We are products of our environments. We are products of genetics. Etc. The Bible, however, calls us all sinners. The Bible…
21Then said Jesus again unto them, I go my way, and ye shall seek me, and shall die in your sins: whither I go, ye cannot come. 22Then said the Jews, Will he kill himself? because he saith, Whither I go, ye cannot come. 23And he said unto them, Ye…
11And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon. 12And he exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him, and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first…
As far as the comment, "any relationship having rules" is concerned, I agree on a human plane that is true. On the God plane, I do not agree with that and you probably believe the same thing. As far as I can tell from the Bible, God the Father needs…