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Internet Myths and New Years Thoughts

I'm not one for the forwarded "storied" emails that continually travel the web. Like you, my inbox is filled with them, and the funny part is most of the stories just simply aren't true. For instance the story of Billy Graham leading a parade on Bourbo... »

Pastor-Agents of the Secret Communist Police in Bulgaria Revealed

Pastor-Agents of the Secret Communist Police in Bulgaria Revealed

Silence in the face of evil is itself evil: God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act. Dietrich Bonhoeffer Pastors who served as agents of the secret police during the Communist Regime in Bulgaria are being revealed this week through special legal provision of the Bulgarian Constitution, which [...] »

James E. Shelton, Knoxville, Tenn.

Rev. James E. Shelton, a retired exhorter from Knoxville, Tenn., passed away on March 24, 2023. The post James E. Shelton, Knoxville, Tenn. appeared first on Church Of God. »

In succeeding years, the sentiment of this early statement continued…

David Roebuck interprets the history of the COG in a progressive sanctification lens. “As long as something is not contrary to the New Testament, Christians should give one another “equal rights and privileges to read, believe and practice for themselves in all matters of religion . . ..” “In the 1940s deep division arose between proponents of differing views of sanctification. Charles... »