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BibleNewsProphecy: Half human, half pig: What’s the difference?

COGwriter The Continuing Church of God is pleased to announce the following video on our Bible News Prophecy YouTube channel: 13:51 Half human, half pig: What’s the difference? BBC reported about what it called an animal that would be half-human and half-pig. Is such a thing possible? Are chimeras for real? What about a “humanzee”? [...]

BibleNewsProphecy:

COGwriter The Continuing Church of God is pleased to announce the following video on our Bible News Prophecy YouTube channel: 13:51 Half human, half pig: What’s the difference? BBC reported about what it called an animal that would be half-human and half-pig. Is such a thing possible? Are chimeras for real? What about a “humanzee”? [...]

Do you take seriously the warnings God had the prophet Habakkuk record?

Statue Intended to be Habakkuk by Donatello (15th century) COGwriter Habakkuk was a Hebrew prophet. Some observe a memorial to him on January 15th. He had messages for the 21st century. The Jewish Encyclopedia of 1906 reports this about him: HABAKKUK (; LXX. Ἀμβακούμ; Vulgate, “Habacuc”): Prophet; author of the eighth in the collection of [...]

Russia, Trump, Farage, and the EU threat

Donald Trump and Nigel Farage COGwriter Donald Trump is considering dropping economic sanctions against Russia if it cooperates on terrorism: 14 January 2017 The latest US sanctions against Moscow, imposed by Barack Obama in December, would stay in place ”at least for a period of time” under the new administration, Donald Trump told The Wall Street [...]

Sermon: Strong Meat: James 1-2

  First portion of the Epistle of James in Greek from a 12th century document COGwriter The Continuing Church of God is pleased to announce this sermon from its ContinuingCOG channel:   1:13:40 Strong Meat: James 1-2 What does the Bible teach about idols and icons? Is covetousness connected to idolatry? Is the command against [...]

Global increase for persecution of those professing Christ

ICC persecution map COGwriter We continue to see increases in persecution towards those claiming some version of Christianity as their faith: January 13, 2017 Religious differences run deep in our pluralistic world. It may come as no surprise that such disagreements sometimes end up in violence. Yet that rarely is the case in what might [...]

Germany’s Merkel warns Europe on security in the age of Donald Trump

Angela Merkel and Donald Trump COGwriter A reader sent me a link to the following from the EU Observer: Merkel urges EU to take care of own security 13 January 2017 The EU must take better care of its own security in the Trump era and must establish control of immigration, German chancellor Angela Merkel [...]

Church of God News in Spanish

COGwriter The Continuing Church of God continues to get additional materials translated into the Spanish language. Here are links to the latest items we received: Trump Doubles Down On Nukes: “Let It Be An Arms Race, We’ll Outlast Them All”Trump repica sobre armas nucleares: “Que haya una carrera armamentista, nosotros sobreviviremos a todas ellas”http://www.cdlidd.es/trump-repica-sob... NPR: [...]

Catholic and Islamic authors on Valentine’s Day

COGwriter February 14th is often celebrated as Valentine’s Day. Should you celebrate it? Christians who may be tempted to compromise need to ask themselves about the origins of Valentine’s Day. Notice what the Roman Catholics teach: The roots of St. Valentine’s Day lie in the ancient Roman festival of Lupercalia, which was celebrated on Feb. [...]

More resistance to Pope Francis

Raymond Leo Burke ( Geerlingguy) COGwriter A reader tipped me off to the following: Conservative Catholic group at odds with Pope Francis January 12, 2017 Strains between Pope Francis and the Roman Catholic Church’s traditional wing have erupted into the open with leaders of a millennium-old lay Catholic order publicly telling the pope, in effect, that [...]