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Dismantling the EU and NATO?

COGwriter Europeans are concerned about Donald Trump: 4 February 2017 Trump’s uncompromising actions since taking power have made Germany and much of Europe very jittery. Germans are particularly concerned about Trump tearing up trade deals and his latest crack down on immigration from seven mainly Muslim countries. Doubts over his engagement with the EU follow [...]

Sermon: CCOG Q&A: Jubilee, Revelation, Origin of the Cross, & more!

COGwriter The Continuing Church of God is pleased to announce this sermon from its ContinuingCOG channel: 1:17:58 CCOG Q&A: Jubilee, Revelation, Origin of the Cross Dr. Thiel continues the series of going through answering questions that were commonly posed to the old Worldwide Church of God. Using a binder that many speakers were given by [...]

Should Philadelphian Christians watch the Superbowl?

COGwriter This coming Sunday is known as “Super Bowl Sunday” in the USA. Most years, the American football (which is not the same as the sport called soccer in the USA) contest known as the Superbowl is the most watched television program in the USA. Between 100,000,000-150,000,000 are expected to intentionally (as opposed to perhaps [...]

Violence escalates in Eastern Ukraine: a test for the USA?

Aleksandr Zakharchenko (newsanna) COGwriter Violence has escalated in eastern Ukraine: 3 February 2017 MOSCOW (Reuters) – The Russian Foreign Ministry on Friday accused Ukrainian armed forces of violating the Geneva Convention by shelling civilian areas in eastern Ukraine and of using weapons systems banned under the terms of the Minsk peace deal. Maria Zakharova, a [...]

Rain miracle in area of drought

COGwriter The latest Letter to the Brethren for the Continuing Church of God came out several hours ago (see Letter to the Brethren: February 2, 2017). Peter Cross (who is not part of the Continuing Church of God), reported part of the letter and add some comments related to that part on his own: Continuing [...]

Iran defiant against USA and announces dropping dollar

Iranian Emad missile (Mohammad Agah) COGwriteri Iran tested a ballistic missile and US President Donald Trump is not pleased: February 2, 2017 WHITE HOUSE —U.S. President Donald Trump says Iran has been “formally put on notice” for its ballistic missile launch. His message came during a series of tweets in which he also continued his [...]

Berkeley protests against speech; Record year for anti-Semitism in UK

UC Berkeley Campus (Daniel Koenig) COGwriter There were violent protests at the Berkeley campus of the University of California: February 2, 2017 Berkeley, California (CNN) Violence erupted Wednesday night at UC Berkeley — the same campus where the Free Speech Movement began — to protest a scheduled talk by right-wing commentator Milo Yiannopoulos. The university [...]

From Antichrist to Brother in Christ?

Ecumenical Church Service COGwriter Former Roman Catholic Mike Gendron has the following in his February 2017 newsletter: The Nature of Deception Tragically, there are many who go to their graves having been deceived about life’s most critical issue. They either embraced the lie that good people go to heaven, or a similar lie that heaven [...]

Trump vs. Europe; Brexit moving closer

COGwriter While the mainstream media in the USA is focused on executive orders, cabinet appointees, and the latest nominee for the US Supreme Court, most Americans are close to oblivious as to what is happening between the USA and Europe since the election of Donald Trump. The photograph at the beginning of this post is [...]

First they came for the Jews, then will they come for the true Christians?

Anti-Semitic graffiti COGwriter Antisemitism is in the news again: February 1, 2017 CLEVELAND, Ohio — Jewish Community Centers in the U.S. and Canada again were targeted by bomb threats Tuesday, including one in a suburb of Toledo, reports say. … “We are concerned about the anti-Semitism behind these threats,” David Posner, a director at the [...]