What do GTA, Urantia, Proctor and Gamble, Indians, Hearts, and Cremation have to do with ANYTHING a Christian needs to worry about?

Obviously shocked to see the ragged and bleached out 1980's curtains.

How can a week go by without snickering at our resident self-appointed false prophet?  God's most special man to ever exist in human history (after Dave Pack) has released his latest video for his faithful to listen to at their weekly "sabbath" service of the improperly named "continuing" Church of God.

Doubly blessed Bob Thiel exhibits, once again, why he does not bother to really research scripture for a sermon on one topic.  He claims his members have sent in questions to his church on a vast number of subjects and it is his duty to answer all of those questions.  It is all a load of Armstrongite doo-doo.  All Thiel has done is use old reprint articles of the Worldwide Church of God letter answering department.  

It is all painfully obvious when you see all of the topics he covers in one sermon:

In this sermon, Dr. Thiel answers questions that have been submitted to the Church of God on many topics, such as: Is cremation acceptable for Christians? 

Can you wear garments of mixed fabrics? 

Does Romans 14:5-6 eliminate Holy Days? 

How should Christians dress? 

Is it right to have pictures of Jesus? 

Does Matthew 27:5 contradict Acts 1:18-19? 

What happened to Garner Ted Armstrong? 

Can you use a heart symbol? 

Should you trust 'The Urantia Book'?

What about dinosaurs and the age of the world? 

What are the origins of Native Americans, often called Indians? 

Can you use Proctor and Gamble products? 

Does 1 Kings 8:9 contradict Hebrews 9:4? 

Who is the 'elect lady' of 2 John 1? 

Was Abraham a Jew? 

What is a Hebrew? 

What was Ambassador Foundation for? 

Is 'Amen' pagan? 

Dr. Thiel goes through scriptures, facts, COG documents, and historical information to provide answers.

Are we expected to believe that his African members care about the silly questions of first world Americans? Do the handful of his American followers even care?

Living Church of God Calls Fast to Appease Their God

The kind of God needed for the COG's to function.

This past weekend the Living Church of God was asked to fast soon after the Feast of Tabernacles.  Many LCG members found it rather odd that the church just celebrated symbolically the coming Kingdom of God and yet within a few days after celebrating the millennium, where no one will be required to fast again, LCG members were told to reexamine their lives in order to devote more attention to pleasing their god and refocusing themselves into supporting the church in order to give more income to the church for a final witness.

LCG members constantly seem to be found guilty of doing something so wrong that they need to keep God appeased with works.  Instead of following Jesus, instead of the law, they fail to understand the rest they could have in the Jesus they claim to follow. All of this constant "doing" would be unnecessary if they understood the work has already been done.

Why Self-Examination? God told Abraham that one of the conditions of the covenant was to “walk before Me and be blameless [perfect]” (Genesis 17:1). Jesus urged His audiences to “Repent, and believe in the gospel” (Mark 1:14–15) and to become “perfect” (Matthew 5:48). The Greek word for “repent” is metanoeo which means “to change your life, to think differently, to turn with contrition and sorrow from a former course of action.” This involves learning to live “by every word of God” (Matthew 4:4; Luke 4:4) and learning to recognize and eliminate behaviors that are contrary to God’s instructions. This requires “self-examination”—prayerfully studying God’s word and prayerfully examining our thoughts, attitudes, and actions in order to follow the example of Jesus Christ. This is what the Apostle Paul advised Christians to do if they want to become more like their Savior (1 Corinthians 11:27–32). One way to do this is to review the Ten Commandments (Exodus 20) and to consider both the letter of the law and the spirit of the law as outlined in Mathew 5–7 and Galatians 5:18–24. Taking time to work through this self-examination process will help us walk more perfectly in the footsteps of Jesus and develop the very mind of Christ (Philippians 2:5–11).

Have a profitable Sabbath,

Douglas S. Winnail

HWA: No one is CUT OFF from going above my head to Christ; or above HIS HEAD to the Father

Pastor General Report 12/05/80

But the Whole World is cut off from God except for Herbert and his cult. 

There just isn't enough Herbert for everybody. 

The door is open. To ministers. Not lowly members of course. 

Just don't challenge Herbert Armstrong. 

"''Nuff said". 

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Missing Member? Stalk Them Down, and if you can't find them, CONTACT ME OR ELSE!!!!!

PGR 08/20/82

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I am going to ignite a spiritual revival across the entire Spiritual Ekklesia and prepare a people for the advent of God’s two servants and the coming of the Bridegroom!

After suffering a public humiliation of mockery about his new YouTube channel, God's most important end time Chief Pharisee and bastardizer of the law, James Malm has decided that he will now move his kick off broadcast to next year.

The Chief Pharisee is quite adamant that he has no intention of being compared to our other resident foolish YouTuber, Bob Thiel of the improperly named "continuing" Church of God with his crooked bookcases, 1980's curtains, and door knobs.  Even Chief Pharisees see the bumbling mistakes of lesser church leaders. Though, we most likely will see the Chief Pharisees sitting at his kitchen table in his apartment pontificating away.

Pharisee Malm claims he is not going to impress anyone, but yet will IGNITE A PROFOUND REVIVAL OF PASSIONATE ZEAL.  There we go again, there is that word "zeal" that the Pharisee likes to throw out as a dagger to humiliate anyone who doesn't agree with him.  Don't agree, you have no zeal.  You are a Laodicean piece of trash.

Also, the Chief Pharisee says he is not going to waste an hour and a half preaching about innumerable topics or just taking too damn long to get a point across. He will get his point across in 10 minutes.

Ultimately though, the Chief Pharisee is going to start a worldwide explosion in the Church of God as he sets about preparing members to stand behind the two witnesses.

When pigs fly will be the day this ever happens!

Please note that I am not a polished speaker and I cannot come close to the nearly one million dollar studios, sets and recording equipment staffed by expert technicians; operated by the major COG entities.  They produce polished programs designed to impress people with a business model non offensive content sadly lacking in sound doctrine.  

I have absolutely no interest in producing such programs; my programs will NOT be designed to impress anyone, they will be designed to COMMUNICATE the truth and sound doctrine of the Word of God as plainly and understandably as possible.  

They will not be sermons designed to impress with polished oratory and rhetoric; they will be plain speaking designed to clearly and unambiguously COMMUNICATE the way of salvation and the sound doctrine of every Word of God, and to ignite a profound revival of passionate zeal to learn and live by every Word of God!  

These will be different from what many are used to, there will be no taking of an hour to say what could be easily explained in ten minutes.  Listeners who have not been grounded in sound doctrine over the years will have to stay awake and pay attention and they will have the Bible Studies site to go to for further study.  

The coming programs and the Bible Study site are intended to compliment one another, not to be copies of each other.  

The plan is to have the Bible Studies fully updated and to begin programs with a few talks on current events and prophecy as world events unfold and trends in the corporate COG’s become clearer.  I will not set any dates but I am working to prepare the brethren for the potential set up of the abomination and the start of the tribulation in late 2020.  

I will not hide my purpose:  My intention is to do all I can with the help of God, to ignite a spiritual revival across the entire Spiritual Ekklesia and prepare a people for the advent of God’s two servants and the coming of the Bridegroom!  

Do not despise small beginnings TheShiningLight will begin to make an impact;  as world events unfold interest will increase and as trends in the corporate COG groups become clearer, this work will champion a profound spiritual revival through both print and programs. 

I Didn't Say it, The Members Heard Me Wrong.

Pastor General Report 01/23/81

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How many times have we heard various COG leaders and members deliberately LIE that Herbert Armstrong never set dates?

HWA: 5 - 20% MORE Money For Ministers - Members - Tighten up and sacrifice.

Pastor General Report 03/06/81

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The 1980's was a time of extreme excess in the church.  Money was being spent on extravagant concerts, receptions with cases and cases of Dom Perignon and Rothschild wines, travelling international exhibits, courting royalty from Queen Sirikit to Mrs. Sadat, helping restore the Globe Theatre in London, putting money down on Hollywood films (The Wild Geese), helping restore the Wanamaker Organ in Philadelphia, helping fund the Ronald Reagan Library in Simi Valley, and much much more.  Include in this Herbert Armstrong buying more silver, gold and fine art.  

Add to this mess certain evangelists who remodelled their campus homes at church members expense, in some cases multiple times just because one evangelist's wife could not make up her mind. While all of this was going on, members were told to tighten their belts and send in more money so the work could accomplish its end time goals.  

Its fraudulent Plain Truth Newsstand program dropped millions of dollars over the decades claiming it was the largest circulated religious magazine in the world.  Hundreds of thousands of PT's were dumped in the trash every month by church members, PT distributors and Pasadena personnel, yet they all went towards that total that was spoon fed to the members as gospel truth.  

Why would anyone in Pasadena lie to the members?