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
Prove ALL Things: The Beginning and End is the Word of God In Everything
Should we as Christians just go with the flow, trusting and following people in appointed leadership positions (this does not necessarily mean they have been chosen by God, although … Continue reading
Discernment
The ability to discern between what is true, what is almost true (breaks the 9th commandment) and what is completely untrue (also breaks the 9th commandment) seems to be disappearing … Continue reading
All We Like Sheep Have Gone Astray
As I have studiously and carefully observed the walk among those of us who say we’re Christians and we’re following God and Jesus Christ over the past several years, it … Continue reading
You Shall Not Worship The Lord Your God in That Way
I often am puzzled and frustrated at how much disconnect there is, at times, among us as Christians between what we say we believe and what we actually do. We’re all … 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 Tenor of Passover
When someone we love and cherish dies, we grieve and mourn their deaths. Part of the process of mourning (at least in a collective sense, because our private mourning, in … 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
Revisionist History and Christians – A Spiritual Warning
Former United States First Lady Nancy Reagan died at the age of 94 on Sunday, March 6, 2015. As soon as news of her death emerged, I was dismayed at … Continue reading
Passover, the Night of Vigil, and the Days of Unleavened Bread: The Spiritual Effect Within the Ekklesia
The beatitudes that Christ describes in Matthew 5:3-12 outline for the ekklesia now (and all humanity in the time that God choose to work with each of them) what the spiritual path … Continue reading
But We’re Worshiping God…Or Are We?
God gives us explicit instruction about how we are and are not to worship Him in His word. Too often, however, we, as Christians, fall prey to picking and choosing … Continue reading
How to Spin a Sermon
I recently heard a sermon that frustrated me beyond words and that broke my heart because it demonstrated how corrupted and polluted, in general, we whom God has chosen at … Continue reading
An Important Lesson from I Kings 13 for You and Me as Christians Today
We are told in Hebrews 4:12 that “For the word of God is living and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and … Continue reading
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