My Wife Has Co-Hosted Our Videogroup for Over 12 Years The Connections section of The Journal announced: BIG SANDY, Texas—The leaders of the East Texas Women’s Conference announced plans to hold their next Women’s Conference in Big Sandy March 14-16, 2008. The event will take place at the Church of God Big Sandy’s facilities… […]
Month: January 2008
Do Catholic Prophecies Warn Against Jesus or Antichrist?
Drawing from the Liber Scivias showing Catholic Saint Hildegard receiving a “vision” and dictating to her scribe and secretary COGwriter Are you aware that Roman Catholic writers have made a variety of statements warning against one that they call the Antichrist that we in the Churches of God tend to teach is Jesus? Specifically, certain […]
Nov-Dec 2007 Issue of “The Journal: News of the Churches of God” is Now Out
COGwriter Early this afternoon, the latest edition of The Journal: News of the Churches of God came out. It contains reports on the Norman Edward’s legal matter (some of which was covered at this page earlier, please see Norman Edwards Case Settled), a general religious conference attended by Dixon Cartwright and Ken Westby, letters from […]
Russian Orthodox and LCG on Homosexuality
This month, leaders from both the Russian Orthodox Church and the Living Church of God spoke out concerning homosexuality. The following is from an interview by Spiegel with Metropolitan Kyrill (a metropolitan is type of high ranking bishop) who is also the foreign minister of the Russian Orthodox Church: SPIEGEL: … but not everyone […]
Philadelphia Church of God Announces “Armstrong Auditorium”
Rendering of Armstrong Auditorium (Rees Associates) The Philadelphia Church of God (PCG) announced: Trumpet – Jan 10, 2008 With a golden shovel, Armstrong International Cultural Foundation Chairman Gerald Flurry officially broke ground on the foundation’s new performing arts center in an outdoor ceremony Sunday, January 6, in north Edmond, Oklahoma. The 800-seat concert hall, […]
United Church of God: Salvation to Be Offered to All
Salvation Will Be Offered to All Who Ever Lived In its update yesterday, UCG taught: How those who suffer will finally find peace God’s plan includes a way to redeem all who have suffered and died in the past without understanding why they suffered. Billions of men, women and children have lived and died throughout […]
Legacy on the Work and the Lukewarm
Herbert W. Armstrong with then Prince Mikasa of Japan Legacy Institute’s latest newsletter arrived last night. In it, Leon Sexton stated: I remember well my WCG church experience…The Church of God 7th Day organization…we called the “Sardis Church” or the “Dead Church”… Herbert W. Armstrong himself spent most of his later years traveling to the […]
Might Hillary Clinton Partially Fulfill Bible Prophecy?
Hillary Rodham Clinton COGwriter Last night, Hillary Clinton won the New Hampshire primary in her bid to become the Democratic Party candidate for president of the United States. She is the first woman to have ever done that. Ever since Margaret Thatcher was prime minister of the United Kingdom, I have felt that it […]
Orthodoxy or Heresy: Did the Early Church Resemble Mainstream Christianity?
The island called Patmos is where the last book of the Bible was written in the late first century (see Revelation 1:9). What did the early church teach and practice in the second century? COGwriter This morning, Christianity Today was promoting an article from its Fall 2007 edition that stated: We are now in a period […]
Marcus: The Eucharistic Heretic?
COGwriter Do you know anything about the heretic Marcus? Marcus was a second century Gnostic heretic, who was apparently affiliated with the heretic Valentinus. The one book states: Of Marcus himself we know nothing beyond the fact that he was one of the earlier pupils of Valentinus, or at any rate belonged to the […]