“There I will provide for you, lest you and your household, and all that you have, come to poverty; for there are still five years of famine.”—Genesis 45:11 Joseph, vizier of Pharaoh, whose primary charge was maintaining Egypt during the seven-year famine that ravaged the Near East in his day, …
In his recent article, “Why do our Bibles contain these books and not others?” Tony Watkins provides an overview of how the Bible’s 66 books came to be included within its covers. We can be confident that these are the books God wanted to be preserved through the ages. The …
CGG Weekly published this essay, “In the Heart of the Earth,” on March 23, 2007. “. . . and the Scripture cannot be broken . . .” —John 10:35 As hard as it is to believe, it has been twelve years since Church of the Great God published “After Three Days,” a booklet I …
Originally published in the CGG Weekly as “How Can We Trust the Bible?” on November 2, 2018. “The Pharisees therefore said to Him, ‘You bear witness of Yourself; Your witness is not true.’” —John 8:13 One of the buzzwords of this generation is “authentic.” Young people, especially, want to live …
The Bible may be the world’s bestselling book that is never read. “Never” may be a bit hyperbolic, but people who study such things tell us that fewer people are reading it and not as often. Ninety percent of American homes contain a Bible—most contain at least three. Many free …
In an interview on Tuesday, July 7, 2015, former President Jimmy Carter waded into the current American cultural and political debate on homosexuality. For a devout Baptist and a self-proclaimed “born-again Christian,” the 90-year old Carter made an astounding statement when HuffPost Live host Mark Lamont Hill asked him whether …
