Good evening, and welcome to #ourCOG Daily Brief for February 4, 2026. Today in U.S. news, communities across the country are increasingly pushing back against the proliferation of massive data centers, citing concerns over electricity bills and local impacts, fueling bipartisan opposition. Meanwhile, Congress has ended its recent shutdown but remains deeply divided on the […]

February 5

517/519:
Alcimus Avitus, the Archbishop of Vienne in Gaul who in 576 on Easter
temporarily succeeded in calming a crowd angered when a recent convert to
Christianity was doused with oil. Four days later local Christians burned down
the syna…

Author’s note: Again, this series was first posted in 2007. The dated news, however, reminds that things of prophetic import are becoming ever more swiftly into view in 2026. The rebelliousness of the creature called man is, in my view, manifest blatantly for the student of God’s truth to discern in a particular news story […]

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The game of life is no game at all but a matter of eternal life or death.  From the moment we are born, we get a good ‘slap on the butt’ just like many athletes during competition.  Then we let out a cry of defiance just like many athletes do during a competition.  We are […]

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The apostle John warned the church that deception would not wait for the end of the age to appear. “Every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God; this is the spirit of the antichrist, of which you have heard that it is coming, and now it is already in the world” (1 John […]

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