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The year the tree trimmer gave the commencement address at Yale
(Copyright 05-12-2025) by Curtis Dahlgren (Stephenson, Michigan) Y’ALL probably wonder what I’m doing up here, eh? Well, all the invited speakers got rejected by the cancel culture, and I said I could fill in today and Yale was really hard up for a speaker, so here we are. I want to open with a quotation by Al McGuire, coach of the Marquette Warriors (if I can say that): “I think everyone should go to college . . . and then spend six months as a bartender and six months as a cab driver. Then they would really be educated.” Ironically, many of […]
Moses’ Sin at Kadesh
(Copyright 03-12-2025) by Mike Ford (Oxford, Georgia) How often have you wanted God to speak directly to you and tell you His will? Most Christians have likely wished this at certain times. Would it not be great, we think, if God would just send us an e-mail, call us, or simply respond out loud to us as we pray? What if He did? What if God spoke to us and told us what to do? And what if, after telling us what to do, we failed to do it? This very thing happened to Moses. The story is recorded in Numbers 20, which we […]
The “AT LARGE” Christian
(Copyright) by Rich Traver (Clifton, Colorado) In the middle decades of the twentieth century, a movement within the Churches of God began to gain a momentum not seen previously in the modern era. What began as a radio-based ministry took root and grew exponentially, providing a nucleus for a potent organization that changed the landscape of the Church for the next several decades. From rather simple beginnings, that organization grew to become the most dynamic within the spectrum of organizations previously known. It created waves among its predecessors, but even more among the evangelical religious community. The organization went on […]
Sin is Crouching at the Door
by Alfio La Spina (Victoria British Columbia) 6 Then the Lord said to Cain, “Why are you angry? Why is your face downcast? 7 If you do what is right, will you not be accepted? But if you do not do what is right, sin is crouching at your door; it desires to have you, but you must rule over it.” (Genesis 4:6-7 NIV) We are faced with choices every day whether it be what we think about, say, or do. We get thoughts and many times these thoughts are not good ones, so we are faced with a decision whether to […]
Sharing Our Lives at the Feast
by Mark Schindler (Charlotte, North Carolina) One of the great blessings that God gives us every year is the command to keep His holy days. As with all of His laws, they do much more for us than they do for Him. As a loving Father, He provides for our every need, and the holy days are a need that we do not fully realize that we have. The holy days give us a chance to spend extra time together. With other members of God’s church, we sing hymns, pray, and hear His Word expounded in a setting suitable for drawing us closer to each […]