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Have you ever heard that nothing says “I love you” like candy and flowers and hearts on Valentine’s Day? Is this true? I mean, what’s with this February 14 romantic holiday where every year people spend millions of dollars trying to show love for each other? Continue reading
by Brandy Webb
A post from a good friend of mine this week on Facebook really challenged and inspired me. It was a great post. One of those posts where you know you were supposed to read that, and grateful that it didn’t get lost in the sea of non-essential posts. She compared God’s word as a home that we should intimately know and dwell. She stated that over the years she had started treating His word as a vacation spot, instead of home. This post really hit me because it made me realize I do the same thing. I am not dwelling in His word. We are to make sure that the “word of Christ” dwells inside us “richly, teaching and admonishing” us in “all wisdom” (Col 3:16).
Yet, I tend to study half-heartedly. I intensely study when I’m stressed or anxious, thus making it my vacation spot. A place to go when I need to break from my everyday life, but God wants to have an intimate relationship with me, not an occasional phone call. We are to dwell in Him and He in us. How are we to do that if we don’t know what He says. If we don’t know how He thinks. If we don’t have His living word in our thoughts all the time and if we are not living in His home spiritually.
Did you know that the word “word” is mentioned in Psalms 119, 42 times in the NASB, if I counted correctly. The Psalmist makes it very clear how special God’s word is to him. God’s word is what keeps us pure (vs 9), keeps us from sin (vs 11), revives us (vs 50), is a lamp to our feet and light to our path (vs 105), gives understanding to the simple-minded (vs 130), etc… I have to say I really need some understanding.
God’s word is absolute. It was here in the beginning of everything and it will be here forever. It is infinite. It is full of wisdom and truth. It gives us life (John 1:1-4). We are not to live on bread alone, but on “every word that comes from the mouth of the Lord” (Deut 8:3b). There is nothing physically we can do that can sustain us.
So, how well do you know your “home”? I know I need to return to my “home”, and really take the time to enjoy it. I don’t want to treat it like a vacation spot anymore or a place I go to only around His Sabbaths, kind of like visiting relatives on holidays. I don’t want to sacrifice my Spiritual home for the sake of trying to establish my physical home. I can’t take anything I establish here physically with me when I die, but if I establish and dwell in the Word of truth and life, my spiritual home will be eternal.
by Lenny Cacchio
She said she couldn’t be in our church because our church is full of sinners. Those weren’t her exact words, but it was the subtext of her complaint. One member once stole something, she said. Another gossips. Another has impure thoughts. People never listen when she tries to share her problems. Continue reading
by Brandy Webb
It seems when there are problems that come up, be it at work, at home, in the church, with the economy, etc., there is a lot of finger-pointing and blaming others for the issues that have occurred. We see it a lot in politics. We see it a lot on the news. Hardly ever do you see someone say, “Hey, it is my fault.” Continue reading
Many end-time Christian prophecy watchers are fascinated by this news and intrigued by what has recently been announced by the Temple Institute in Jerusalem, Israel. They have recently declared they have completed construction of a Temple altar suitable for conducting sacrifices according to Israel’s Sacrificial System and Temple procedures––many are stunned by this most ambitious project that allegedly defines another closer step toward the building of a third Temple.
Carl Gallups, a Baptist minister claims this is a huge step toward fulfillment of Bible prophecy. Mark Biltz, author of Blood Moons, heralds it as a significant prophetic announcement. Jonathon Cahn, author of the Harbinger, proclaims the altar is central to the abomination of desolation––but is it? Are these proclamations something to be concerned about? Are we entering into the time when the third Temple will be built, affirming the return of Jesus Christ the Messiah? Watch our most recent Biblical News Update as we attempt to answer these questions.
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Many have made the mistake of setting dates for the Second Coming of Christ, and the results have never been positive. Yet, failed predictions have not deterred the date-setters.
Greetings
This is just a reminder that we will not have Services in Springfield this coming Sabbath January 16th because we will be meeting with CGI in Springdale, Arkansas their Services start at 2:00 p.m. The address is 705 E. Meadow Ave., Springdale, AR.
We will see you the following Sabbath January 23rd.
Dave
by Lenny Cacchio
A few blocks from where I sit is a thoroughfare named after a certain Todd George, a respected citizen of Lee’s Summit, Missouri from generations past. Not only was he a civic leader, he was also, as legend has it, one of the big shots in the local chapter of the Ku Klux Klan. (See page 170 of Truman, by biographer David McCullough). Continue reading
by Lenny Cacchio
“Be careful what you pray for because you might just get it.” I have heard that assertion and it puzzles me. It’s akin to prayers answered for Uncle Harry’s cancer, only to see the man die in a car wreck two weeks later. Did God answer our prayer to heal him, and then pull a double cross because we didn’t ask God to protect him too? Continue reading
The Church of God International Springfield, Missouri 