By Robert J. Hawkins, Jr. General World Mission Coordinator “For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh: (For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds)” (2 Cor. 10:3, 4). We must take the...

By Oscar Pimentel, General Overseer of The Church of God I want to encourage us all to love Christ and His Church. Something wonderful is about to happen as time winds down, and we inch closer to the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ in clouds of glory to rapture away...

By Sharon Greiffin, General WMB Coordinator of The Church of God “And the lord said unto the servant, Go out into the highways and hedges, and compel them to come in, that my house may be filled” (Luke 14:23). As the servants of the Lord, we are required to fill the...

(By A. J. Tomlinson, White Wing Messenger, February 1, 1941) The result is soon told. At about the time his case was first named to that praying circle, with no knowledge on his part that they were interested in him, he suddenly dropped the use of intoxicating drinks,...

By Bishop E. Roger Ammons, General Evangelism Coordinator As a teen-ager, I played in the High School Band. When I was 14 years old, the band went on an outing at a huge lake. I was not an expert swimmer. I was in a boat with skiers behind it. One of the skiers had...

“It rather appears to me that Jesus was willing for the others to go away because He knew they were not true Church of God material. And, to tell the truth, I say it kindly, I would rather all who may be in our ranks today who are not Church of God material and are...

By Robert J. Hawkins, Jr. General World Mission Coordinator of The Church of God While students at Chicago’s Moody Bible Institute in the early 1930s, Americans John Stam and Betty Scott individually sensed God’s call to serve as missionaries in China. The country was...

Oscar Pimentel, General Overseer of The Church of God. I felt it would be appropriate to place this portion of the 114th Annual Address in this edition of The Evening Light as a reminder to us of our necessity to love one another no matter what is going on in the...

E. Roger Ammons, General Evangelism Coordinator It is easy to have a world view in which we departmentalize various aspects of our society. In reality, all things are a part of a conglomerate which is converging toward a common consummation. A conglomerate is a number...

In his Annual Address of 1980, Brother M. A. Tomlinson gave a special admonition about the coming times. We find ourselves now forty years later in a place where we must rally and press forward in the midst of adversity in the world. I felt compelled to reprint some...