Subject: Revisiting the Timing of the Resurrection 

Summary: David Grabbe explores Satan's strategy at getting people distracted, choosing his own field of battle, forcing us to argue the wrong things, twisting scripture, making mountains out of molehills and molehills out of mountains. The debate used by Prot... 

Subject: Psalms 22-24 

Summary: In this sermon on the death, resurrection, and ascension of Christ, Richard Ritenbaugh, using three consecutive Psalms (22-24), affirms that Jesus Christ was the antitype, perfectly fulfilling the Old Testament types, slain as the Lamb of God on Pass... 

Subject: History of the True Church 

Summary: Martin Collins asserts that the large Christian-professing church ruling over the world was not God's church, but Satan's counterfeit. God's church has always been, and will continue to be, small, often fighting for its survival against treacherous w... 

Subject: History of the True Church 

Summary: In this sermon on church history, Martin Collins traces the Pergamos and the beginning of the Thyatira eras of God's church. The Pergamos era, lasting from 325-1104 AD occurred in exile, totally within the bounds of Satan's empire. During this time, ... 

Subject: History of the True Church 

Summary: In this third installment of the Church History series, Martin Collins picks up the thread of the Thyatira era, beginning with the work of Peter Waldo, the Waldensians, the Albigensians battling the oppressive Roman Catholic church with the Papal bul... 

Subject: The Sardis Era of the True Church 

Summary: Martin Collins characterizes the Sardis era (c. 1585-1934) as a time of forgetfulness and dying spirituality. Few of this era did not defile their garments. Many were labeled by their critics as Anabaptist or Seventh Day Baptists (larger Prote... 

Subject: Philadelphia and Laodicean Eras 

Summary: In this concluding sermon on church history, Martin Collins describes the Philadelphia era (1934-1972, two full 19-year time cycles), a time when a tiny church with little inherent strength, with God's help, blanketed the airwaves with the gospel, ob... 

Subject: Colossians 2 

Summary: Since God has authorized no day other than the Sabbath, John Ritenbaugh observes that Sunday worship is a pagan deviation, perpetuated by Hellenistic Gnosticism, a multi-faceted movement that despises Yahweh, the Sabbath, and God's laws. Though Const... 

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Summary: Clyde Finklea, exploring several different contexts in which worship occurs, indicates that some forms and modes of worship are not acceptable to Almighty God. The reason Cain's offering was rejected while Abel's was accepted stemmed from the conditi... 

Subject: The Policy Was Set By HWA -- Hold Fast 

Summary: John Ritenbaugh examines four areas in which hairsplitting or non-salvation issues (such as eating white sugar, observing the right calendar, or occasionally eating out on the Sabbath) have threatened the unity of fellowship. What has brought about t... 

Subject: Following In Christ's Footsteps 

Summary: David Grabbe, commenting upon the fierce culture war waged between evangelicals on the Christian right and ACLU types on the far left, with public displays of the Ten Commandments placed in jeopardy, points out the inconsistent stance of many mainstr... 

Subject: The Judgment of James in Acts 15 

Summary: Richard Ritenbaugh cautions that James did not expunge the Ten Commandments by offering special instructions to Gentile converts in Acts 15:24-29. These instructions addressed special problems inherent to these converts, practices that would be abhor... 

Subject: What is God's Rest? 

Summary: Using II Corinthians 5:14-17 as a foundation, John Ritenbaugh affirms that after the initiation of the conversion process, the hostility that formerly existed between God and us has been removed, leading to a state of peace and rest. Although we ofte... 

Subject: The Peace of God 

Summary: In this message, John Ritenbaugh identifies the two principal causes robbing us of Christ's promised legacy of peace (John 14:27) as (1) pride (the father of all sins) - first appearing in Satan (Ezekiel 28:14 and Isaiah 14:14) and (2) the subsequent... 

Subject: Lust Destroys Peace 

Summary: John Ritenbaugh explores the relationship between keeping God's commandments and attaining great peace (Psalm 119:165), and the relationship between lust, coveting, or inordinate desire(I John 2:16, James 1:14-15), and the malicious destruction of pe... 

Subject: Lust and Coveting 

Summary: Coveting is the fountainhead of all other sins. Jesus located the heart (or thoughts) as the source of defilement or behavior (Mark 7:21-23, Matthew 5:21-22, 27-30). The imagination which God has given us can be fed on pure thoughts (Phil. 4:8) or on... 

Subject: The Millennium Pictures a Cessation and a Beginning 

Summary: In this message on God's Millennial rest, Richard Ritenbaugh points out that both the Hebrew word shabbat and the Greek translation of the word katapausis denote cessation or stoppage rather than repose or sleep. It represents a cessati... 

Subject: Acknowledging God's Authority Over His Sabbath 

Summary: Ted Bowling, reflecting on a conversation he had with several business associates about which day they attended religious services, realizes that in most situations God is not recognized or acknowledged in the decision to keep a segment of time holy.... 

Subject: Coming Before God 

Summary: John Ritenbaugh admonishes that we must continually upgrade our decorum and formality in our approach to God, striving to emulate Him in all that we do. Our culture (paralleling the second law of thermo-dynamics) has seriously degenerated in decorum ... 

Subject: The Purpose Defines the Decorum 

Summary: John Ritenbaugh cautions that placing our hope in the wrong thing can jeopardize our relationship with God. We must remember that God alone is the source from whom all blessings flow, and that we need to reciprocate those gifts back to God,fearing an... 

Subject: Sabbath Law; Authority; Healing 

Summary: In this broadcast on Mark 1, Herbert W. Armstrong asserts that few have heard the real gospel that Christ taught or follow the example Christ set, including honoring and respecting the seventh-day Sabbath. The major churches of this world derive litt... 

Subject: Changing Times; Healing; Sin and Forgiveness 

Summary: In this broadcast on Mark 1, Herbert W. Armstrong begins by comparing God's way of marking time with man's way. The latter start the day in the middle of the night and the year in the midst of winter. He then goes on to speak of healing: how it is a ... 

Subject: Reaching the Age of Accountability 

Summary: Clyde Finklea, addressing the youth of the congregation, reflects upon the peer pressure experienced by young people, who continually defer to the “my parents won’t let me” or the “church won’t let me” excuse. One young man, who played baseball, was... 

Subject: Points to Remember 

Summary: John Plunkett, focusing on scriptures admonishing that things be done decently and in order ( I Corinthians 14:40, 33, Matthew 18:20), provides a set of common sense guidelines for proper decorum during Sabbath services, speculating that our current ... 

Subject: The Day's Importance 

Summary: In this introduction to the Sabbath Keeping series, John Ritenbaugh warns that keeping the right days on the calendar is no guarantee of attaining a right relationship with God. How and why a person keeps the Sabbath determines whether this test comm... 

Subject: Idolatry and Sabbath Breaking 

Summary: In this second installment of the Sabbath Keeping series, John Ritenbaugh reminds us that the Sabbath constitutes a recurring appointment with the Deity, a special time for developing and building our relationship with God. It is from the proper use ... 

Subject: The Sabbath, the Bible, the Israel of God 

Summary: In this third installment of the Sabbath Keeping series, John Ritenbaugh emphasizes that the biblical instructions (found in both the Old and new Testaments) pertaining to Sabbath keeping apply far more to the Israel of God (Galatians 6:16), the spir... 

Subject: Principles of Keeping the Day 

Summary: In this concluding installment of the Sabbath keeping series, John Ritenbaugh emphasizes that God's people must exercise correct judgment as to what is permitted on the Sabbath and what is not. God's law is not so inflexible that He will not allow al... 

Subject: The Sabbath, Part 1 

Summary: In this fifth installment of the Ten Commandments series, John Ritenbaugh reminds us that the Sabbath is a memorial to the awesome creative power of Almighty God, a period of time God purposefully sanctified and set apart for the benefit of mankind, ... 

Subject: The Sabbath, Part 2 

Summary: In this sixth installment of the Ten Commandments series, John Ritenbaugh reiterates that God gave the Sabbath (a sanctified, set- apart period of recurring time) to His people in order that they come to know Him intimately, learning to live as He li... 

Subject: The Sabbath, Part 3 

Summary: In this seventh installment of the Ten Commandments series, John Ritenbaugh again emphasizes the burden-relieving, liberating and redemptive aspect of the Sabbath, suggesting that the seemingly provocative healings that Jesus performed on the Sabbath... 

Subject: The Sabbath, Part 4 

Summary: In this eighth installment of the Ten Commandments series, John Ritenbaugh observes that in our modern fast-paced, hectic culture, we commit far too little time to God, depriving ourselves of the Holy Spirit and attenuating the faith required to draw... 

Subject: The Sabbath, Part 5 

Summary: In this ninth installment of the Ten Commandment series, John Ritenbaugh warns that benign neglect of the Sabbath covenant can incrementally lead us into idolatry, as it apparently led Solomon into idolatry. We are admonished to respect or treat this... 

Subject: The Spirit of the Law 

Summary: In this fifteenth installment of the Covenants, Grace and Law series, John Ritenbaugh asserts that things written in the Old Testament were written entirely for Christians. The operations of both the Old and New Covenants overlap. The differences foc... 

Subject: Does a Specific Verse Nullify a Law? (B) 

Summary: John Ritenbaugh reiterates that the entire Old Testament was written with the New Testament church in mind. Certain temporary ceremonial sacrifices, washings, and rituals were set aside when the spiritual reality—such as Christ's sacrifice repl... 

Subject: Christ's Example Verifies the Law 

Summary: In this nineteenth installment of the Covenant, Grace and Law series, John Ritenbaugh, countering the naive assumption that the spirit of the law does away with the letter, insists that without the letter, there is no spirit because no foundations ar... 

Subject: Colossians (B) 

Summary: In this twenty first installment of the Covenants, Grace and Law series, John Ritenbaugh affirms that the way to be undefiled (to become sanctified, developing character) is to walk in the Law of the Lord (Psalm 119:1). We must do God's Word or it wi... 

Subject: Colossians (C) 

Summary: In this twenty second installment of the Covenants Grace and Law series, John Ritenbaugh affirms that the Word of God is not ever improved by syncretizing or alloying it with human philosophy, a pattern of reasoning which often begins with a faulty o... 

Subject: Colossians (D) 

Summary: In this twenty-third installment of the Covenants, Law and Grace series, John Ritenbaugh focuses upon two sets of verses (Colossians 2:16-18 and Galatians 4:9-10) which certain Protestant theologians have blasphemously charged that Paul was referring... 

Subject: Galatians (A) 

Summary: In this twenty fourth installment in the Covenant, Grace and Law series, John Ritenbaugh reiterates that the days, months, and times referred to in Galatians 4:10 do not refer to Jewish Holy Days or the law of God, but to Pagan Gnostic rites connecte... 

Subject: Summary of Series 

Summary: John Ritenbaugh provides a summary of the Covenants, Grace and Law series: 1. Realize the position carnal man comes from: completely under Satan' sway, antagonistic to God's law (Romans 8:7). 2. Always work from clear, unambiguous scriptures (Matthew... 

Subject: Justification and Obligation 

Summary: In this fifth installment of the Covenants, Grace and Law series, John Ritenbaugh reminds us that under both the Old and New Covenants, refusal to keep to keep God's Law severs our relationship with Him. Like loving parents who give rules to their ch... 

Subject: Sanctification 

Summary: In this eighth installment of "The Covenants, Grace and Law" series, John Ritenbaugh explains that justification is not the end of the salvation process, but merely the doorway to a more involved process of sanctification, symbolized by the long jour... 

Subject: Saturday or Sunday? 

Summary: In this first installment of the Fourth Commandment series, John Ritenbaugh stresses that the Sabbath is the major means by which He protects His investment, the spiritual creation of His family. The Sabbath, far from being the least of the commandme... 

Subject: How To Keep The Sabbath 

Summary: In this second installment of the Fourth Commandment series, John Ritenbaugh asserts that the two major purposes for the Sabbath are to (1) remind us that God is Creator and (2) to remind us that we were once in abject bondage and slavery to sin. Chr... 

Subject: Why Did the World Change the Sabbath? 

Summary: In this third installment of the Fourth Commandment series, John Ritenbaugh reiterates that the dual purpose for the Sabbath consists of (1) a memorial of God's physical creation and (2) a memorial of our redemption from bondage. Bondage is the conse... 

Subject: A Work Day vs. A Rest Day 

Summary: In this fourth installment of the Fourth Commandment series, John Ritenbaugh warns us that because of our close proximity to a materialistic world filled with man's works, our faith cannot take root. The Sabbath is the day consecrated by God for buil... 

Subject: Conclusion of Series 

Summary: In concluding the Fourth Commandment series, John Ritenbaugh emphasizes that the reason for refraining from work or pleasure on the Sabbath is not labor or muscular energy, but the overall motivation for expending this energy. Proper preparation for ... 

Subject: Sabbath and Idolatry 

Summary: John Ritenbaugh reflects on a Catholic Priest's answer to a question about why the Sabbath was allegedly changed from Saturday to Sunday. The priest, in his reasoning was 99% wrong. God has determined what and how we worship. The world's religions, i... 

Subject: The Church, the Pillar and Ground of Truth 

Summary: In this sobering sermon, John Ritenbaugh warns of the consequences of assimilating or fellowshipping outside of God's called out church. People who vainly or naively suppose they are supplementing their spiritual diet with a poisonous blend of heresy... 

Subject: Receiving the Gift of the Sabbath 

Summary: David Grabbe affirms that God, as a part of His Providence, gave us the preparation day to prepare for the Sabbath. The preparation day is intended to allow people to make sure that mundane activities do not interfere with the holy time set apart for... 

Subject: Our Rest Is Yet Unfulfilled 

Summary: John Ritenbaugh, focusing upon the promise of rest alluded to in Hebrews 4;9, emphasizes the need to endure, persevere, overcoming doubts and unbelief- something many of our forebears (described in Hebrews 3 and 4) did not successfully attain. When w... 

Subject: Sabbath is an Exquisite Delight 

Summary: Focusing upon Isaiah 58: 13-14, Ted Bowling analyzes how we are to go about making the Sabbath a delight. The Sabbath pictures a freedom from bondage and prefigures the joy of living in God's Kingdom. The Sabbath infuses us with hope. God wants us to... 

Subject: The Way We Worship 

Summary: John Ritenbaugh, reiterating the apostle Paul's warning in Romans 1:28, affirms that when mankind turns its back on God Almighty, God allows man to degenerate into carnality, acquiring a reprobate mind. A reprobate mind is totally devoid of proper ju... 

Subject: Understanding 'the first day of the week' 

Summary: David Grabbe shows that the phrase "first day of the week" in the various gospel accounts of Jesus Christ's appearance should be translated "first of the weeks" (mia sabbaton). This is the wavesheaf day -- the day after the Sabbath within the ... 

Subject: Should Christians Keep Sunday or Saturday? 

Summary: In this telecast, Herbert W. Armstrong recounts the experience in which his wife Loma, through her "religious fanaticism" goaded him into an in-depth search of biblical and historical sources, clearly substantiating the seventh day Sabbath. Neither t... 

Subject: We Are Here to Follow Christ 

Summary: John Ritenbaugh, affirming that the Sabbath was made for mankind and that Christ is the Lord of the Sabbath, does not conclude, as some Protestant theologians have erroneously inferred, that the manner of Sabbath observance is no longer important, no... 

Subject: New Testament Instructions 

Summary: Richard Ritenbaugh, acknowledging the deleterious effects of modern culture upon worship, examines New Testament examples of worship to glean some principles. Throughout Acts, we learn that: 1) people assembled together, 2) men and women worshipped t...