Church of God Ministries
“1 Peter 2:5 – In His Hands, We Are Built”
Messages
The ancient world had seven “wonders” which were documented by Greek explorers in the 2nd century B.C. They noted some of the incredible architecture that had been erected by the civilizations of the day. There was a far greater wonder in the ancient world than these seven wonders noted by the Greek historians–the time when Jesus Christ gave his life for the world on the Passover.
In today’s hypocritical society, an empty appearance of virtue and righteousness is equated with actual virtue and righteousness. This empty appearance is referred to as “virtue signaling” which allows convenient vacuous words and slogans to reflect virtue and righteousness instead of the actual actions which are virtuous and righteous. Our Heavenly Father requires virtuous and righteous actions and not just convenient passive words in our daily lives. Are you virtue signaling in your spiritual life?
Scripture speaks of the Mind and the Heart. The Word that became Jesus Christ is the great Communicator. What can we learn from His example during His earthly ministry in our communication as God’s children?
Sometimes it can easy to overlook an offering that God commanded to be performed during the Days of Unleavened Bread that points to our savior, Jesus Christ.
The Book of Haggai talks about a blessing that is for the whole world. There is something within this book that can help us understand Christ’s sacrifice, His leadership, and blessing much deeper if we’ll just look closer.
Should we participate in the late winter early spring celebration of Mardi Gras? To answer this question, we examine the origin of its celebration in the United States and trace the roots of it back to early church history after the death of the original apostles to find that it has no basis in scripture or in what was taught by the first century church. We find that it is related to pagan festivals and practices that God condemns in scripture.
Embedded within God’s Word is a rather obscure person, with very little written about, that we can glean some profound spiritual lessons from.
Many Christians believe that they will go to heaven when they die. Sometimes they wonder about loved ones who are not Christians going to hell. What does the Bible teach on these ideas? Does mankind have an immortal soul that can be punished in hell fire or admitted to heavenly bliss?
God’s Word describes our prayers in the form of a sweet incense to His nostrils. David stated, “Let my prayer be to you as incense.” What exactly does that mean? We’ll carefully examine in detail and see how important it is which odor our prayer gives off to our Creator, and ask ourselves, “How do my prayers smell?”
T. S. Hoefker, Senior Pastor
Church of God Ministries
(Ministerios de la Iglesia de Dios)
tshoefker@cogministries.org
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