For a complete listing of the summer campmeetings, click on the tab “News & Events” at the top of the page. There you will find a calendar listing the events of the summer. You can navigate from one month to the next by clicking on the arrows to the right or left of the current month heading where the month prior (left) and the month following (right) are listed.
The general camp of the Churches of God (Holiness) began last night with a powerful message on prayer from Rev. Paul Pierpoint. Our other evangelist is Rev. Bob Thompson, Jr. The Cassadays are song evangelists. Jason Dodson is youth evangelist; Carol Avery is the children’s worker. Please check our calendar for a more detailed camp schedule, but the main services typically are at 10:30 a.m. and 7:30 p.m. daily.
You can also watch General Camp live!
A Book Review
By Dr. Gayle Woods
I have great admiration for Josh McDowell, the author of “The Last Christian Generation.” I have read a number of his books. I have heard him speak. He is a tremendous scholar and a great apologist. The many books that he has authored such as, “Evidence that Demands a Verdict,” “More Evidence that Demands a Verdict,” “Beyond Belief to Conviction,” “The New Tolerance,” “The Da Vinci Code: A Quest for Answers,” “More than a Carpenter,” etc. are consistently among the top titles of books on the subject of Apologetics. For over 25 years he has provoked the world to think about incidents surrounding the events of the life of Christ that can’t be explained by mere coincidence.
Heavenly Father,
We exalt you as the one true God - there is no other. We proclaim your majesty, for you have created the heavens and the earth and all that is. We proclaim your holiness, your set-apart-ness, for there truly is none like you. We proclaim your justice, for everything you do is right and good.
We proclaim your love, for you created us to have fellowship with you even though you knew that we would turn and sin against you. With your great foreknowledge you also created a plan - a mystery revealed through the ages - in which your only begotten Son Jesus, the Second Person of the Trinity - would become flesh, live among us, die on the cross paying the penalty for our sin, and then rise on the third day victorious over sin and death. We praise you for your great love and grace.
We proclaim your power as evidenced so often through the working of Holy Spirit, convictingof sin and convincing of righteousness. We praise you for the power you give us followers of Christ so that we can live victorious over sin and death.
Father, we come to you today asking that your perfect will be done on earth as it is done in Heaven. You see the turmoil and chaos throughout our world. We ask that in everything that happens that your great plan would go forward. In our nation, we ask that the machinations of politicians and people would fall as your desires come to fruition. We ask that in your Church your will always reign supreme. In our lives, we also desire the assurance of living in the center of your will as we submit to your Word and your will.
Heavenly Father, we are a needy people and we ask for your abundant grace to supply our meager resources. We pray for the many people who have been hurt by the downturn in our economy: supply their needs, bless them richly. We pray for those who are hurting today, whether physically, spiritually, or emotionally. Great Physician, come and heal our land.
But Father, we also confess that our nation has sinned. We have become immoral and corrupt. We oppressed many, we have become haughty. Please forgive us. Forgive your Church in America that in so many ways has followed the currents of society rather than standing up for right. Forgive us, cleanse us, make us pure.
Help us also to forgive our enemies. Help us to bless those who despise us. Help us patiently endure ridicule and abuse of those who hate you or simply ignore you. Help us to love them as Christ loved those who persecuted him.
Heavenly Father, help your Church to live holy in this sinful world. Help us to be an example in every way. Let our light shine brightly in this sin-darkened world.
In everything, we ask that you gain glory and praise. Let our lives be sweet perfume to your smell.
We honor you, we glorify you, we commit ourselves to you - God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Spirit - the Three in One, the only true God. In the name of Jesus Christ, we pray. Amen.
Note: We invite you to add your prayers in the comments section of this post.
This Thursday, May 7, 2009, will be the National Day of Prayer. We encourage you to join fellow Christians across the United States of America in prayer that
On Thursday we will post a “Prayer” thread in which we encourage you to write a prayer and post it in the comments section. Note: in order to post comments to threads, you will first need to sign up as a user of COGH.net.
To learn more about the National Day of Prayer, visit http://www.ndptf.org/
A Book Review
By Dr. Gayle Woods
Those who have prodigal sons or daughters understand the feeling I had when I was given “Praying Your Prodigal Home” as a Christmas gift. Hope surged. Maybe there was some secret hidden in the book that I had missed. Maybe my prayers for my own son would be more effective after I read the book.
I also opened the book with some sense of skepticism. What did this person know about my heartache? Was the author really involved? You have to face this situation from a stance of experience. Mere research is not enough.
As I began to read my heart soon melded with the Richard Burr. He and his wife had suffered my heartache. They sat where I sat. read more »
by Jack Smith
1 Thess 4:16-18
2. The Suddenness of the Rapture vs. 16-17
3. The Significance of the Raputre vs. 17
Gregory Hills COGH Revival 04-12-2009
by Jack Smith
Thesis Statement: God is for us.
1. Proven by the death of Christ. vs. 32
2. Proven in the degree of His forgiveness vs. 33
Lk 23:34; 1 Cor 6:9-11; Rom 8:1
3. Proven in His daily provision vs. 34
Rom 8:32, 37 (more than conquerers - excessively victorious!)
Gregory Hills COGH Revival 04-12-2009 a.m.
by Jack Smith
Matt 28:18-20
Thesis Statement: The Great Commission can be accomplished through resurrection power.
1. The Church must have a prayer emphasis
Lk 18:1; Matt 17:21; Lk 11:1; 2 Chron. 20:3, 12
2. The Church must have a pentecostal emphasis
Acts 1:8
3. The Church must have a purpose emphasis
Gregory Hills COGH Revival 04-11-2009
by Jack Smith
2. The Purpose of Calvary
3. The Provision of Calvary
Gregory Hills COGH Revival 04-10-2009