On January 6, 2008, PCG broke ground on what it calls Armstrong Auditorium (the above rendering is from Rees Associates) COGwriter Yesterday at the News of Those Once Affiliated with the Global Church of God page, I posted some of what RCG’s David Pack teaches in his nearly three hour sermon titled RCG 2008: The […]
Month: January 2008
PCG Reports “Stock Markets Plunge Around the World”
Yesterday, PCG reported the following: Investors’ fears of a U.S. recession is causing stock markets to plunge around the world, according to the International Herald Tribune: Global stock markets plunged Monday as fears spread that the contagion in U.S. mortgage markets was spreading. Indexes in Europe fell as much as 7 percent after a […]
Martin Luther King, Jr. and Martin Luther
Protestant Reformer Martin Luther COGwriter Today, various ones will attempt to honor the memory of Martin Luther King, Jr. Dr. King advocated civil disobedience to those laws and statutes that he felt conflicted with the human rights supposedly guaranteed in the Constitution of the USA (I use the term “supposedly” because with recent and proposed federal […]
New Zealand Promiscuity
COGwriter LCG reported the following in its announcements yesterday: New Zealand’s Promiscuity: Growing in Worldwide Fame.According to a recent global sex survey of 26 nations, New Zealand women have, on average, just over 20 sex partners in their lifetime. This is much higher than the world average of just over seven. New Zealand is the […]
Bobby Fischer Died
COGwriter The Washington Post ran the following story: WASHINGTON — Bobby Fischer, an eccentric genius many considered the greatest chess player in the history of the game and who remains the only American of the modern era to win a world championship, died Thursday at a hospital in Reykjavik, Iceland. He was 64. A friend, […]
CGG Post on Valentine’s Day
COGwriter In a few weeks, on February 14th, much of the world will celebrate “Valentine’s Day”. CGG posted part of a news article from an Oklahoma newspaper on the subject that stated: Well, we’ve come through Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year’s in reasonably good shape. The next mid-winter holiday on the calendar is St. Valentine’s […]
WCG’s J. Tkach and “Just As You Are”
Does the Bible Teach Repentance and Following the Ten Commandments or Just to “Come as You Are? The Jan-Feb 2008 edition of Together: Worldwide Church of God News lists that it has: Worldwide total 34,500 {members and} 911 {congregations} In his latest update titled Just As You Are, WCG’s J. Tkach wrote the following: Billy Graham has often […]
Islam Claims Judas, Not Jesus Was Crucified
جامعة الدول العربية Jāmaʻat ad-Duwwal al-ʻArabiyya Arab League Flag COGwriter One of the more unusual teachings of some associated with Islam is the idea that Jesus was not crucified but that Judas was. Notice the following related to an Iranian movie Jesus, the Spirit of God: Nader Talebzadeh sees his movie, “Jesus, the Spirit of God,” as […]
Herbert W. Armstrong Died 22 Years Ago
COGwriter Hebert W. Armstrong died on January 16, 1986, at age 93 1/2. Here is some of what he wrote on how he felt when he first found the Church of God: The only Church I had so far found which “kept the commandments of God, and the testimony of Jesus Christ,” and at the […]
Ron Weinland claims “Thunders” for February 2008 and “by April this world will begin to be shaken to its foundations”
Pantheon of Rome: A Symbol of Religious Confusion COGwriter This morning, I noticed that Ronald Weinland had written the following: We are about to enter the period when God begins to bring a full end to man’s self-rule. The fulfillment to end-time prophetic events is about to be thrust upon the whole world, and man’s […]