By CGI New York | July 7, 2016 | Category Holy Days, KNOWLEDGE OF GOD/FRUITS OF THE SPIRIT
Bearing Godly Fruit by Brian Bettes Having just celebrated the Day of Pentecost, there are a number of things I have been thinking about with regard to what God’s Holy Spirit does through us. One of the things Scripture tells us to do is bear fruit—in this case, spiritual fruit. John 15:1-8 is very […]
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By CGI New York | December 12, 2015 | Category Holy Days, The Sabbath
The temporal references in the Book of Acts and Paul’s epistles demonstrate that the early New Testament church kept time according to the traditional Jewish calendar. References to the seventh-day Sabbath and some of the festivals of the Lord are scattered throughout the aforementioned documents. Noticeably absent from the New Testament are any mention of […]
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By CGI New York | December 8, 2015 | Category Holy Days, The Sabbath
Letter to Polycrates Controversy was brewing again, not a bit unusual in the Second Century, since the departure of the highly respected and last living apostle ‘Saint’ John. It was near the close of the Second Century in Ephesus, Asia Minor, an area where great men of God such as the apostles Paul and John, […]
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By CGI New York | September 27, 2015 | Category Holy Days
“Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, In the seventh month, in the first day of the month, shall ye have a Sabbath, a memorial of blowing of trumpets, an holy convocation” (Leviticus 23:24). Why? What do the fall festivals mean to us—and to the rest of the world? As we look around at […]
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By CGI New York | September 27, 2015 | Category Holy Days
I don’t know how many times over the years I have been asked, when I had to take off from school or work for God’s Holy Days, if I was Jewish. It never offended me at all. I have family members that are Jewish, but I just found it interesting this misconception of God’s Holy […]
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