David C. Pack – The Painful Truth Blog

November 29, 2019November 29, 2019

Sycophants

“Where there is a dead body, there the vultures will gather.”
-Luke 17:37

November 27, 2019

Thanksgiving 2019

Its another year about to get wrapped up as we step into the Thanksgiving holiday weekend. What do we have that’s new this year? Nothing! What we do have is a repeat from another year…

Happy Thanksgiving

November 10, 2019November 9, 2019

Lesson for Bitter Armstrongite Ministers and Members Who Never Learn

Editorial for 2019: The following opinion is from the webmaster of the Painful Truth…

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July 12, 2019July 12, 2019

The Illusory Superiority of ACOG Leadership Roles

Have you ever asked your self why some people are successful and others a complete failure?
Have you ever wonder why the ACOG’s are such failures?
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April 5, 2019April 5, 2019

Is Your Church Dying?

All churches will eventually die. That’s a given. Most think they must and will survive. A church might be hanging on physically, but is dead spiritually. The following questions give a good indication of your church’s health, if it is growing or dying out.

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Interviews

Larry shares what it was like growing up as the grandson of cult leader Herbert W. Armstrong, including what his grandfather compelled his parents to do when he became ill at the age of 3, which was to force him to go without food for 12 days.

Deborah is the niece of Herbert W. Armstrong, the founder of the fundamentalist Christian church, the Worldwide Church of God; and her father, Dwight, was the composer of the church’s hymnal. The church had over 140,000 members in hundreds of congregations around the world, an annual income of over $200 million, and one of the most-viewed religious telecasts in the 1980′s and 1990′s (larger than the other leading religious programs combined) called "The World Tomorrow"