A Call to Redeem Our Bodies: Weeping in Sexual Brokenness and Walking in Sexual Holiness I didn’t want to say #metoo. I didn’t want to admit that the nightmares, physical shaking, and emotional explosions that manifested around every conversation about Donald Trump and the church had something to do with a secret I had kept for nearly twenty years. I had done a lot of work to push it away and to e... »
WOMEN in MINISTRY on the AGENDA AGAIN A Comprehensive Cumulative Collaboration of all agenda items (and their respective outcomes and/or responses) from 2010 through 2020 (pending) Church of God General Assembly 2022 Agenda: III. Women in Leadership RATIONALE: Under the current operation of Church of God states/regions/territories, women now are eligible to serve as members of Boards of Trustees... »
Introduction 1. The parameters of the paper a. I am committed to the doctrine of the pre-millennial return of Christ. b. By “return of Christ” I mean: 1) His visible body return 2) His return in glory 3) His return in the fulfillment of Zechariah 12:10 and Revelation 1:7 Every eye shall see him, even those who crucified him. c. The scriptures uses two terms to describe his coming 1) Epiphaneia: Hi... »
THE RAPTURE IN TWENTY CENTURIES OF BIBLICAL INTERPRETATION James F. Stitzinger Associate Professor of Historical Theology The coming of God’s Messiah deserves closer attention than it has often received. The future coming of the Messiah , called the “rapture,” is im minent, literal and visible, for all church saints, before the hour of testing, pre millennial, and, based on a literal hermeneutic, ... »