This essay, “Rebellion as Witchcraft,” first appeared in the CGG Weekly on Friday, September 23, 2016. “For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry.” —I Samuel 15:23 About four centuries before the time of King Saul, the Amalekites had “ambushed [Israel] on the …
CGG Weekly published a version of this essay, “The False Morality of Compassion,” on September 7, 2012. “Then Jesus, moved with compassion, stretched out His hand and touched him, and said to him, ‘I am willing; be cleansed.’” —Mark 1:41 A crude dichotomy exists in people’s perceptions of America’s two …
This essay first appeared as “The Word of the Hour” in the CGG Weekly on January 18, 2008. “My son, fear the LORD and the king; do not associate with those given to change; for their calamity will rise suddenly, and who knows the ruin those two can bring?” —Proverbs …
I wrote this essay, “Hijacking Our Language,” for the January 12, 2007, issue of CGG Weekly. “For then I will restore to the peoples a pure language, that they all may call on the name of the LORD, to serve Him with one accord.” —Zephaniah 3:9 The English language is …
This essay, “Business as Usual,” first appeared in CGG Weekly on December 8, 2006. “Thus says the LORD: ‘For three transgressions of Israel, and for four, I will not turn away its punishment, because they sell the righteous for silver, and the poor for a pair of sandals.’” —Amos 2:6 …
I wrote a version this essay, “A Polluted National Landscape,” for the CGG Weekly on November 3, 2006. “The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faints.” —Isaiah 1:5 Church of the Great God is strictly apolitical. We do not endorse any party or any candidates, and we teach …
This essay appeared in CGG Weekly as “The Frustrations of Good Men” on June 2, 2006. “. . . and the Lord said to [the angel], “Go through the midst of Jerusalem, and put a mark on the foreheads of the men who sigh and cry over all the abominations …
I wrote this essay, “America’s Imminent Perfect Storm,” for CGG Weekly on May 19, 2006. After fifteen years, the same stormclouds, now darker, swirl about us. “[For behold, the Lord, the LORD of hosts, takes away from Jerusalem and from Judah] the mighty man and the man of war, the …
