Tag: December 2014

The Official Publication of the Church of God of Prophecy

The God Receiver

Are you holding onto a promise that has not yet been fulfilled? Are you still hopeful that God is going to do just what He said He was going to do? Reading the familiar Nativity story, there are a lot of surprised people. We first think of the shepherds who were minding their sheep and …

Life Grows Wherever the River Flows

“Then he brought me back to the door of the temple; and there was water, flowing from under the threshold of the temple toward the east, for the front of the temple faced east; the water was flowing from under the right side of the temple, south of the altar. . . And when the …

Woman, Lay Down Your Burden

Matthew 11:28: “Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.” A few years back I heard the story of a poor woman that was walking by the side of the road with a basket full of clothes on her head; it was midday and the heat …

Mental Illness and the Church

Counseling When someone asks me what I do for a living and I tell them I’m a therapist, it’s usually met with one of three responses; a nervous laugh, the “can you tell me about my dream?” question (for the record, no, dream analysis has been widely discredited and only God can interpret dreams), or, …