Is That In the Bible?
Have you read your Bible lately? I mean, really read it? Are you sure you’ve read the words that are actually there – or not there? If so, good for you! … Continue reading
Is Our Foundation Spiritual or Physical?
In the wake of COVID-19, there are many things that have come to the surface within the church of God corporate organizations, the people they’ve placed in leadership positions, and … Continue reading
Privilege and the Churches of God
If you ever hear II Timothy 3:1-5 read during a sermon on the Sabbath, you will hear it followed by the assertion that it refers to “the world,” to “others,” … Continue reading
Prison or Freedom: Which Way Will We Go?
As we come out of Passover, the Night of Vigil, and the Days of Unleavened Bread, we are, spiritually, once again, at a crossroad that is similar to the … Continue reading
Could Jesus Christ Have Sinned?
The first time I heard this question, I was sitting in the back row of a congregation of about 50 or so people. Of the people who answered, I was … Continue reading
Who is This That Darkens Counsel By Words Without Knowledge?
I have recently completed another study of the book of Job and, in its totality, what happens here resonated with me in a completely different way than any time I’ve … Continue reading
An Important Aspect of How We Could Be Taking the Passover in an Unworthy Manner
As Passover and the Days of Unleavened Bread rapidly approach, it is fitting to consider the deeper aspect of how we take the Passover and go into the Days of Unleavened … Continue reading
The Supreme Importance of Following God’s Word Instead of the Words of Humans – Even Fellow Members of the Ekklesia
I will continue to remind us all that the Bible – all of it – is an internal document given to the people God is working with at any given … Continue reading
Rejecting the Food That God Provides
Studying the word of God and critically and deeply thinking about its application to you and me is a vital part of how we grow in spiritual maturity. No matter … Continue reading
Do We Choose or Decide When We Die?
It has been disconcerting to me to hear members of the body of Christ, who presumably are abiding in the word of God, make statements about death (suicides excluded, which … Continue reading
Churches of God Lexicon
There is, within the churches of God, a unique lexicon that is so familiar to the ekklesia that most of us have never really thought about whether the lexicon and … Continue reading
Who Has Bewitched You?
Unlike many of the sermons we now hear in the organizational churches of God, where the words and/or writing of mere mortals like ourselves predominate the messages (instead of the … Continue reading
The Sin of Idolatry: Israel in the Old Testament, the Ekklesia in the New Testament, and You and Me as Members of the Body of Christ
The sin of idolatry is a sin and a snare that has permeated human history from the Garden of Eden forward. It is the sin that led to Adam and … Continue reading
Are God and Jesus Christ Limited In What They Can Do?
I would hope that we would all immediately say, “No!” But I’m asking a deeper question that goes beyond the surface knowledge answer we have and into how and what … Continue reading
We All Have a Wide Gap Between What We Purpose to Do and What We Actually End Up Doing
I’m a to-do list person. I often make a master to-do list at the beginning of the week for each day of what I want or need to accomplish. Then, … Continue reading
Christians Are Routinely Guilty of Breaking the Third Commandment in Ways They May Not Realize
Let’s get this out of the way up front. I am a follower of God and Jesus Christ, but I, like you, am an imperfect follower. I strive to obey … Continue reading
The Totality of Jesus Christ’s Sacrifice
The sacrifice of Jesus Christ to remove, upon repentance, the death penalty that all humans who have lived, who do live, and who will live incur each time they sin is … Continue reading
“Follow Me:” The Order in Which Christ Observed His Last Passover
In less than two weeks, the ekklesia will be observing the Passover. This annual memorial, commanded according to scripture by God in both the Old Testament and the New Testament, is … Continue reading
What Is God’s Work?
I suspect this post will be quite unsettling to read. We in the ekklesia have been conditioned through repetition to unquestioningly believe ideas and concepts that we have accepted as … Continue reading
Lessons From God’s Word: Why Following Humans – Or Any Other Physical Creation – Is Not The Same Thing As Following God
There is a faulty belief that has been perpetuated throughout the history of the ekklesia that following this person or that person or this religious organization or that religious organization … Continue reading
Concretized Christianity 
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