Today, in a 5 to 4 split decision, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, the so-called “equal protection” amendment should be interpreted to mean that marriage cannot be restricted to only heterosexual couples since homosexual couples must also have equal rights to access marriage licenses. This same amendment, which was enacted during the U.S. Civil War period some 150 years ago, also was used by the court in 1973 to create via judicial reasoning a right to abortion. An explicit reading of the 14th amendment says absolutely nothing about either abortion or homosexual marriage. Read more… View a sermon: God is Just-Right Side of the Future
July 5th, 2015
Is All Love Equal
Comments Off on Is All Love Equal, Authors, Blog, Jeff Patton, by CGP.July 5th, 2015
Flashing Signs of Danger
Comments Off on Flashing Signs of Danger, Authors, Blog, Jeff Patton, by CGP.Flashing Signs of Danger! Anyone traveling on the roads needs to be constantly alert to signs of danger. For the last few months the morning commute to work in Victoria, B.C. has been an increasing hassle due to the on-going construction on one of the main traffic arteries leading into the downtown core. A bicyclist who usually took this route to commute to work downtown observed on one particular morning a few weeks ago that all traffic was being squeezed into just one lane by a small group of flaggers who had placed numerous warning signs, barriers, and orange plastic cones to block off the inside fast lane. But, while most people feel obliged to take notice of the warning signs and make the appropriate inconvenient travel correction,a commuting cyclist, a 30s-something woman, decided to ignore the warning signs… Read more… View a sermon: God is Great – Lovers of God in a Dangerous Time or In the World but not of the World
July 5th, 2015
World Tomorrow: Jeff Patton
Comments Off on World Tomorrow: Jeff Patton, Articles, Jeff Patton, by CGP.The World Tomorrow Blog with Jeff Patton You can see all of the blog posts at theworldtomorrow.ca Healthy Living Origin of Aids Suffering Coming Soon: Epidemics The Dumbest Generation Words Spoken in Fun Result in Suicide Faithful Living
July 5th, 2015
Christian Character: Jean Jantzen
Comments Off on Christian Character: Jean Jantzen, Authors, Jean Jantzen, by CGP.Jean Jantzen – Writer and contributor Jean Jantzen has been a follower of Christ and a member of the Church of God since 1970. Jean and her husband raised 7 children, and have seen their family grow to include 28 grandchildren, and 2 great grandchildren. Jean was a wife, mother, and homemaker before she began a ten-year adventure at University…Read More about Jean Fear of God (The story of Samson) J.Jantzen Humility (Learning the need to stoop low) J. Jantzen Holiness (Knowing the difference between clean and unclean) J. Jantzen Original sin (Who was guilty, Adam or Eve?) J. Jantzen Lesson from Trials (What are we really seeing?) J. Jantzen Power of the Tongue ( The price of reckless words) J. Jantzen Integrity (Our moment of truth) J. Jantzen
July 5th, 2015
Assisted Suicide: A Duty to Kill?
Comments Off on Assisted Suicide: A Duty to Kill?, Blog, Jeff Patton, by CGP.Back in early February 2015, the Canadian Supreme Court decriminalized physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia. The court insisted that to do otherwise would mean that citizens would have a duty to live. This current Supreme Court reversed its previous 1993 decision on this same subject, and instead launched a “right-to-die” revolution in Canada’s legal policy that involves: 1) abandoning the idea that every human life is always a good to be protected, 2) while substituting the concept suicide and euthanasia can be accepted as a social good and as a personal autonomy right, and 3) removing the law’s obligation to protect the weak and vulnerable. Read more… Watch the sermon: Assisted Suicide: Who Decides?
July 2nd, 2015
The Greatest Issue of our Time? Inequality Slavery?
Comments Off on The Greatest Issue of our Time? Inequality Slavery?, Blog, Jeff Patton, by CGP.The Greatest Issue of Our Time? Inequality Slavery? Is the world’s growing inequality the new de facto slavery of our time? Target, the American mega-chain retailer, failed in its expansion plans in Canada and recently announced that they are closing all of its 133 Canadian stores and laying off about 17,600 employees. But Target’s Canadian liquidation is not the news I want to write about, rather it’s something more shocking than a mere business flop. It seems the fallen CEO of Target’s Canadian subsidiary will get a total severance and benefits exit package from the home office worth about the same as the total amount being offered to all 17,600 of the chain’s Canadians employees. Now that’s a golden parachute! Read More…
July 2nd, 2015
The Foolish Mistake of the West: Peaceful Islam?
Comments Off on The Foolish Mistake of the West: Peaceful Islam?, Blog, Jeff Patton, by CGP.The Foolish Mistake of the West: Peaceful Islam? In the aftermath of the recent Islamic jihadis attacks in France, many Western liberals still don’t get it. They don’t get the implication or meaning of what’s behind the on-going, widespread conflicts between Islamic jihadis and anyone who doesn’t buy into their fundamentalist version of Sunni Islam–which, by the way, is widely taught and vigorously sponsored especially by Saudi Arabia throughout the world.Yet, I hear practically endless pontificating by liberal media about how Islam is a peaceful religion that is all about brotherly love just like the other major religions. Read more…
July 2nd, 2015
Where have All the Good Leaders Gone?
Comments Off on Where have All the Good Leaders Gone?, Blog, Jeff Patton, by CGP.Where Have All the Good Leaders Gone? “Of all the predictions to be made about 2015, none seems safer than the idea that across the great democracies people will feel deeply let down by those who lead them…. The levels of unpopularity and disengagement in the West have now risen to staggering levels… with the numbers of those fed-up [Americans]… climbing above 80%” [higher than during the notorious Watergate incident of the early 1970s in which the U.S. president was revealed for what he was: a crook, a liar, and an all-around small-minded vulgar bully], (Economist, “The World in 2015,” Nov. 21, 2014). I was struck by the Economist magazine’s end-of-the-year lead editorial. In many ways it is prophetic. Read more…
July 2nd, 2015
The West’s Legacy in Afghanistan
Comments Off on The West’s Legacy in Afghanistan, Blog, Jeff Patton, by CGP.The West’s Legacy in Afghanistan: a Corrupt Narco State As 2014 and the Afghanistan War ends, the longest overseas military intervention in U.S. history, winds down, we should reflect on what has been accomplished at what cost. Over $1 TRILLION has been spent fighting this war, including more than $100 BILLION spent on so-called Afghani “re-construction” projects— an amount, when adjusted for inflation, that is greater than all the money spent on the Marshall Plan that successfully re-built Western Europe’s economy following WWII—according to Joe Sopko, the U.S. government’s special inspector-general for Afghanistan. The cost in blood through 2014 to the Western military coalition has been 3,485 killed in action. So, after all this expenditure in blood and treasure what are the results? Read more…
April 12th, 2015
Celebrating the New Covenant Passover: When Do We Observe It?
Comments Off on Celebrating the New Covenant Passover: When Do We Observe It?, Articles, Carolanne Patton, by CGP.Celebrating the New Covenant Passover? Based on the Hebrew scriptures, the gospels, and historical record we are confident in stating that during the time of Jesus’ death the Jews were correct in celebrating the Passover at the end of the 14th of Nisan/ Abib Some Churches of God in the past century have called this time the, “Night to Be Much Observed.” Now the trickier part is in the gospel accounts, concerning the timing of the foot washing, bread and wine ceremonies that we call the New Covenant Passover. This is due to the one divergent reading that seems to say that the disciples ate a “Passover” meal with the disciples at the beginning of the 14th. In the scholarly literature this was considered to be the “thorniest” question in all of the New Testament. There were according to the writers 4 main possible explanations. Here they are in a nutshell: