Church of God International

The realities of our day

“…war and rumours of wars…nations against nations…earthquakes…pestilences…”

The new decade of the twenties, new calendar year, and the new calendar month of January came in with a bang and left us with one, too, to say the […]

The Way

I attended a musical stage presentation entitled “The Way,” recently. It featured popular singers from the sixties, seventies, eighties and nineties. Notables such as Frank Sinatra, Elvis Presley, The Beatles, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

“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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Out of the doom and gloom comes the boom

Another Feast of Tabernacles (Lev. 23) has gone by. This year, it was celebrated from October 13 – 21. A very meaningful and significant festival commanded by YAHWEH to be […]

A sacrifice like no other

For people familiar with Judaism, the most sacred day for the religion, is the Day of Atonement. If there’s one day out of the year that they go to the synagogue is it is […]

The Sound of the Trumpet!

The people of God turn their attention to the triumphant return of Jesus Christ, or the Second Coming, around this time each year. Why? It’s the beginning of the fall […]

The choice is yours!

The journey we call life is all about choices. There’s hardly a day that goes by that does not involve making a choice. It could be a choice about what […]

Do you wish you could fly?

Many times, I have dreamt about flying. I wish I could fly. Who wouldn’t want to glide or slice through thin air like a bird or aeroplane? The day looms, […]

When you think there’s peace…

There has always been a desire for peace among nations and peoples. Yet this ideal seems to be an elusive dream. Over the centuries, peace has been made among warring […]

Who’s worthy to loose the Seven Seals?

The Book of Revelation points to catastrophic events soon to unfold in the universe, and especially on plant Earth, as human civilisation draws to a close with the triumphant return […]

God…on my own terms

The human civilization has gravitated to the level where the True and Living God is no longer relevant or does not exist at all. In fact, He could never exist, given […]

It is not about you going to heaven

The vast majority of humanity is oblivious about exactly what will happen when Jesus, the Messiah, and Saviour of the whole universe, returns for a second time to establish his […]

Are we in the last days?

Many people have been asking this question: Are we in the last days? There are others who don’t want to, for fear of coming to grips with the reality of […]