By: Dr. James Ricks Are New Moons Celebrations Necessary Today? The common wisdom and understanding of God’s Church down through many centuries has been that New Moons were special days in ancient Israel, but were not raised to the level of Holy Days and Convocations which we are commanded to keep in Leviticus 23, Numbers…
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The New Testament Passover Service
THE N.T. PASSOVER SERVICE MUSIC is played before services begin. It allows people to file in, help set up the room as needed and then get themselves in the proper respectful LOVING APPRECIATIVE mood. We all thoughtfully wait for Sunset and darkness while listening to the music. Read Aloud I Cor. 11:26-33 John 6:44-58 7:15-8:…
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Difficult Scriptures
By: Dr. James Ricks Romans 14:1-6 No major teacher of Christianity was in Rome at the time when this epistle was written. Therefore Paul is explaining the very basics to the Roman brethren. The people he is teaching thru this letter are all Jews or Jewish Proselytes because no Apostle has as yet been in…
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Prepare for The Feast of Trumpets and The Day of Atonement
Prepare for The Feast of Trumpets and The Day of Atonement By: Dr. James Ricks What To Do To Prepare For the Feast of Trumpets to Day of Atonement Season 10 DAY COUNT DOWN Our Lord has given the extra opportunity every year to keep Him as the main focus in our…
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Does the Organization Matter?
(This article is a rather lengthy article, therefore we have posted just the introduction here and made the rest of the article available as a PDF download.) Does The Organization Matter PDF Download By: Jim Josephson Introduction As a baptized member of the Church of God, no doubt you recall learning, the "building" is not…
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Is Your Life A Mystery?
By: Tom Haltom We often hear people say, "I am just trying to find myself". They wonder why they are here and how does their life fits into the overall panorama of things taking place on earth? Through the ages, mankind has always wondered why we are here. Could there be some greater purpose for…
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The Old Testament Passover, the Lord's Supper, and the Time of Christ's Death!
(This article is a rather lengthy article, therefore we have posted just the introduction here and made the rest of the article available as a PDF download.) The Old Testament Passover, the Lord's Supper, and the Time of Christ's Death! By: Jim Josephson Introduction In his book, The Real Jesus, Garner Ted Armstrong painted a…
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A Christian Understanding Of Liberation Theology
By Dr. James Ricks Liberation Theology was vaulted to news prominence when presidential candidate, Barrack Obama's former Pastor, Dr. Jeremiah Wright, decried that it was the basis for his controversial theology. The concepts developed in the fifties and sixties were a combination of Christianity and Marxist Communism. It was developed by intellectual, humanist priests in…
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Theodore Roosevelt's ideas on Immigrants and being an AMERICAN in 1907
By: Theodore Roosevelt (1907) In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discrimin ate against any such man because of creed,…
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The Hidden History of Capitalism
By: Burton W. Folsom, Jr. In the ongoing war of ideas in American history, those who advocate government action as an engine of economic development have been encouraged by a general and all-too-human tendency to avoid thinking deeply. Because we have the assumption – both among those who design government programs and among the constituencies…
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