I wrote this essay, “Repentance: The Genuine Article (Part Six),” for CGG Weekly on April 8, 2011. “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand!” —Matthew 3:2 John the Baptist is the first of God’s messengers to address repentance in the New Testament: In those days John the Baptist came preaching …
This piece was originally published on April 6, 2012, as a CGG Weekly essay titled, “Christ, the Way.” “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.” —John 14:6 During the Passover service, Church of God ministers always read John 14 in …
“And he brought him to Jesus. Now when Jesus looked at him, He said, ‘You are Simon the son of Jonah. You shall be called Cephas’ (which is translated, A Stone).” —John 1:42 Of all the disciples of Jesus Christ, the one that we usually consider to have the most …
