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The Empty Chair
It was empty. The chair Santa used to sit up to December 24, 2019 was lying there alone, no weight to bear down on it, no creaking as Santa shifted for different poses with the children. All gone. The line-ups disappeared, too. The elaborate and eye-catching...
A time for resolutions?
In this article, Elder Murray Palmatier, who co-pastors the CGI Burlington congregation, offers some deep insights for Christians as we enter a new calendar year and decade. This time of the year, many people get caught up in the ritual of making "New Year...
Will the Twenties make a difference in your life?
A new decade – beginning in 2020, looms for all of us on planet Earth. One can recall the beginning of a new millennium back in 2000. The expectations were many, the uncertainties equally numerous. 2000 came and the anxieties and anticipations disappeared when the...
Poor Santa!
I have been watching a tired Santa Claus each time I passed a mall, this week, as he tries to shorten the long line-up of parents and their children, wanting to pose for a picture with him. This Santa, certainly not an omnipresent being, as parents untruthfully tell...
“These things must come to pass…”
As Christians, we always seem appalled by a society fraught with, and overtaken by evil, yet often times we ignore why this is so. We accept this is a fallen world and we have all sinned and come short of God’s glory. We have thoughts that are inherently evil, and we...
Be resolved: Believers don’t have to use the personal Hebrew names for God and the Messiah and using their titles is acceptable.
This is a reprint of the presentation by Ray St. Michael Williams, which was the winner of the Herbert W. Armstrong speaking competition at the 2019 Feast of Tabernacles in Runaway Bay, Jamaica. The Sacred Name Movement is the belief there is an intrinsic...
Here comes the silly season!
The pagan celebration, Halloween, ended over a week ago, and here comes along the biggest one of all. It creeps upon all and sundry, without any apology or compromise, and it is like no other celebration in terms of international appeal, expenditure, and indulgence....
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