This essay, “Comfort-Zone Christianity?” appeared in CGG Weekly on November 13, 2009. “In the world you will have tribulation; but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world.” John 16:33 Over the past several days, I have been very uncomfortable. Since my adrenal fatigue set in during the summer …
This CGG Weekly essay, “Purify Your Hearts,” was published on July 9, 2021. “You shall not commit adultery.” —Exodus 20:14 To talk about adultery these days is to risk ridicule. Back in 1976, then-presidential candidate Jimmy Carter faced public scorn when—in a Playboy magazine interview no less—he agreed with Jesus’ teaching in Matthew 5:28, …
This CGG Weekly essay, “Behavior Matters,” was first published on February 1, 2002. “So He said to him, ‘. . . But if you want to enter into life, keep the commandments.” —Matthew 19:17 I listen to the radio in the mornings as I prepare for and drive to work. …
This essay, “We Are NOT Alone!” was published in CGG Weekly on September 28, 2001. “Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil; for You are with me . . ..” —Psalm 23:4 Fans of The X-Files know that the 1990s television …
This Random Bible Verse was first published as a CGG Weekly essay, “Addiction and Self-Control,” on June 14, 2019. “All things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any.” —I Corinthians 6:12 People the world over are plagued by addiction. Countless individuals struggle with their …
This CGG Weekly essay first appeared on October 19, 2012. Before the political left hijacked the term choice, its philosophical meaning was “an individual’s freedom to determine the moral course of his own life.” This is, of course, what theologians and philosophers call “free moral agency” or “free will.” God …
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 …
I published this Random Bible Verse on March 31, 2014. It is the last of the “old” RBVs. From here on out, they will have to be new. And they brought the sacred pillars out of the temple of Baal and burned them. —II Kings 10:26 The burning of the sacred …
