IT is difficult to ignore major events swirling around us on a daily basis. Their magnitude seeks our attention, particularly when they fit the general description of prophetic events. I find myself checking world news sources each morning with the anticipation of what else happened overnight. Since we are powerless to change the course of…

GOD has a plan for mankind. He has a plan for each and every one of us. He has called us into His Church…. to be part of His family, to be able to enjoy the blessings of His way of life. God wants us to be successful. But there is another spiritual being that…

“A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success.” The author of that statement is unknown, but what can be known is that there is a lot of wisdom in it. The author did not say that offering praise after a success is bad – it’s not,…

WELL, the brothers are at it again! The two sons of Abraham were half-brothers, as they had different mothers. The way they were raised produced an animosity between them that exists to this day and may have a bearing on events shortly ahead of us. Abram, as he then was called, was told by God…

In the coming year, the members of God’s Church will face increasing pressure against maintaining a firm position on God’s truth. It will be a year of challenge and change. The change will be all around us and the challenge will be “holding fast.” We will have reason to be very mindful of the Apostle…

In just a few days, the world will celebrate the beginning of another year.  Billions of people will participate either by watching through mass media or physically joining in the festivities.  To the masses, this practice is secular, enjoyable, and serves as a time to bring the world together.  On the surface this may appear…

Nothing motivates people better than emotions. When we allow our natural instinctive feelings to create a state of mind, we are being emotionally driven. We all have emotions as a part of God’s wonderful design of the mind. God has emotions and we have the capability via the spirit in man to share those emotions.…

The Ministerial Conference held on the weekend of December 7th and 8th in El Paso, Texas was productive on several levels. It was undoubtedly due to God’s benevolent intercession through His Spirit and as a result of your faithful prayers. As James said, “…The effective, fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much” (James 5:16).…

A Greek philosopher by the name of Epictetus once said, “People are disturbed not by a thing, but by their perception of a thing.” He wrote that in the first century AD and it is no doubt just as easily applicable in our present dispensation. Today, however, we might use the word stressed in place…

The handing down of information in an oral or written manner helps the cohesiveness of families and communities. Cultural continuity helps by providing a steady course over more than one generation. Families who have family traditions generally benefit from closer bonding. A tradition, of itself, is not wrong. After all, God requires the handing down…

As we approach the American holiday of Thanksgiving, we have the privilege of knowing why we should be thankful. Scripture does not decree the setting aside of one day in a year to be thankful for the bountiful blessings of the land. But scripture does decree that God’s people be a thankful people. God has…

Have you ever wondered, “Just how bad is it… really, in terms of human stability at this very present time?” Those of us who have grown up in God’s Church or who have been a part of it for any length of time, have heard, read and contemplated end time, prophesied events fairly extensively. We…

The American Civil War, like all wars, was a brutal one. More Americans died in it than in all the wars our country has been involved in from that time forward, up through the Korean War. That is hard to believe, isn’t it? All we have to do to confirm it is to consult the…