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BibleNewsProphecy: Gambling: Is it a covetous sin?

COGwriter The Continuing Church of God is pleased to announce the following on our Bible New Prophecy YouTube channel: 14:04 Gambling: A Covetous Sin? Is gambling a sin? What is sin? The gambling industry calls itself the gaming industry. Basically, they like to indicate that they are in the entertainment industry. And while that is [...]

Hillary Clinton too conservative for liberals and too liberal for conservatives?

COGwriter Hillary Clinton keeps speaking and giving hints that she intends to run for the presidency of the USA.  While she has not been the preference for most conservatives (for many reasons including her support for abortion, government regulations, and the LGBT agenda), some liberals are concerned she is too corporate and/or too conservative. Some [...]

Russia’s Putin slams West for hypocrisy related to Crimea and states a bear does not give up what it has

Russian Brown Bear COGwriter Russia’s President Vladimir Putin had some words for the West: Putin Slams West for Refusing to Accept Legitimacy of Crimea’s Reunification With Russia Russian President Vladimir Putin has commented on the West’s position on Crimea’s reunification by likening it to the Latin proverb, “What is permissible for Jove is not permissible [...]

Sermon: Christians and the Ten Commandments

COGwriter The Continuing Church of God is pleased to announce its latest sermon which is at its ContinuingCOG channel: 1:17:47 Christians and the Ten Commandments Are Christians supposed to keep the Ten Commandments? Were they ‘nailed to the cross’? What did Jesus teach about the Ten Commandments? What did the Apostle Paul teach about the [...]

China and 21 other Asian nations take another step to break USA dollar dominance

Chinese Renminbi Yuan COGwriter Many in Asia have agreed to form a development bank: China Launches New Asia Development Bank October 24, 2014 BEIJING—China and 21 other countries have agreed to start an international development bank to fund infrastructure projects throughout all of Asia.  However, the proposal has drawn criticism from the United States, and [...]

UK’s Cameron claims he will not pay EU ‘surcharge;’ Nigel Farage disagrees

COGwriter The European Union has asked the UK to give over USD$2,000,000,000 in a ‘surcharge December 1, 2014 and the UK’s Prime Minister says he will not pay it: October 24, 2014 David Cameron has angrily insisted the UK will not pay a £1.7bn bill demanded by the European Union by 1 December. “If people [...]

Roman and Eastern Orthodox Catholic leaders did not all hold to current teachings about the Holy Spirit

Liberius, Bishop of Rome from 352-366 A.D. COGwriter While the Catholics, Orthodox, and Protestants like to act like every “Christian” long believed in the trinity, (even though that doctrine was not finalized for them until a council in 381 A.D.), the truth is that even the primary leaders of the Romans and Greeks denied the [...]

Republicans expected to gain seats in Midterms, so what?

COGwriter Miderm elections in the USA are scheduled to take place on November 4, 2014 and Republicans are expected to make some gains: October 23, 2014 The president is a drag on his party in the upcoming midterms. Candidates are distancing themselves from the Oval Office occupant. And the president has lost the magic that [...]

Canadian Pariliament Attacked and White House Walls Scaled

Canadian Parliament Building, Ottawa COGwriter Canada got hit with a terrorist incident, its second attack by Islamic converts this week: October 23, 2014 The man who stormed Canada’s government complex Wednesday, killing a soldier and sending Ottawa into an all-out panic, was a small-time criminal who recently converted to Islam and desperately wanted to move [...]

GCI’s John Halford died

The old Worldwide Church of God used to own the above buildings, which since have been demolished. COGwriter I received two reports that John Halford, a minister in Grace Communion International (GCI), as well as formerly of the old Worldwide Church of God (WCG), died. Here is one report someone sent me this morning: Victor [...]