Lord, let me never take for granted the blessings of a warm bed, a cozy quilt, a roof over my head. For I know that for some people, these things would be unspeakable riches.
Jean Pike
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A Friend Like You
In a time when many have to seek refuge, crawl unexpectedly under the table or seek refuge at the alarm signals, friendship is one of the most special necessities to keep each other straight.
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The one who knows who you are and where you have been
One of the tasks of true friendship
. . . he who plants kindness gathers love.
What are friends and friendship
A true friend is like the air…
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Additional reading
- Offering words of hope
- Gandhi’s Prayer for Peace
- The Golden rule not always as easy as its sounds
- Alternative four letter words
- Friendship and Offer for the cause of democracy
- Subcutaneous power for humanity 3 Facing changing attitudes
- Subcutaneous power for humanity 4 Not crossing borders of friendship
- Subcutaneous power for humanity 5 Loneliness, Virtual and real friends
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- Companion
- Broken bonds
- So let’s talk about anxiety…
- Of Love: Space
- Sidelined
- Friendship Breakups Don’t Get Any Easier in Our 50s
- My Most Treasured Things / Mis Cosas Más Preciadas
- The man who had a pair of pliers in his back pocket
- The Little Things
- Summary of the essay of friendship by Francis Bacon
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A Friend Like You
There’s lots of things
With which I’m blessed,
Tho’ my life’s been both Sunny and Blue,
But of all my blessings,
This one’s the best:
To have a friend like you.
In times of trouble
Friends will say,
“Just ask… I’ll help you through it.”
But you don’t wait for me to ask,
You just get up
And you do it!
And I can think
Of nothing in life
That I could more wisely do,
Than know a friend,
And be a friend,
And love a friend… like you.
By Anon.
Artist Inge Look.
Text and image source: Snowwolfs Woodland Nook https://www.facebook.com/531188960392510/posts/2082553225256068/
Dear 2021,
So many might be cross with 2021 and by taking on such a negative view on that Corona year miss out on all the blessings they had that year.
It is true many of us would have wished it would have gone differently, but no matter what came over this world, a naughty virus, limiting us in many ways, it also created many opportunities.
Let it be known, in a few years time everything of 2019, 2020 and 2021 might be forgotten as in a sealed book somewhere up high in the bookcase or in a bookshelf in a dark corner.
The good things of it we carry with us with pleasure and hope soon to be relieved from that virus, but in the meantime, we shall not let us bring down.
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Before I start I have to thank Deepthy from Random Specific Thoughts for coming up with this idea and then letting me borrow it for a post. You should definitely check out her post here.
So here goes…
Dear 2021,
The things we experience in life change us, they shape our understanding and the way we view the world. And so, for me 2021, a year that can only be described as a rollercoaster of a year, wasn’t all bad.
Of course at times I wished things were different, and, to be perfectly honest, I still do. However that isn’t your fault 2021, it’s not the actual events that cause these feelings, it’s my perception and the experience I have of them. This may seem like an odd thing to say, especially taking in to consideration the pandemic and all its effects, but…
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Improving the one who loves Him
We have seen that a Source of light and wisdom lights up for everyone, but it should be noted.
Each of us must grow up in this troubled world and become resilient.
Those whom Jehovah loves he disciplines.—Heb. 12:6.
As part of our training, our loving Father disciplines us when necessary. He does so in many ways. For instance, something we read in His Word or hear at our meetings may correct us. Or perhaps the help we need comes from the elders. Regardless of the form it takes, Jehovah’s discipline is always motivated by love.
11 “For I am with you,” declares Jehovah, “to save you.
Jehovah supports us through trials. Just as a caring human father supports his children during difficult times, our heavenly Father sustains us through trials. He uses his holy spirit to protect us from spiritual harm.
13 Therefore, if you, although being wicked, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more so will the Father in heaven give holy spirit to those asking him!”+ (Luke 11:13)
Jehovah also protects us emotionally. For example, he gives us a marvelous hope. That hope for the future helps us to endure difficulties. Consider this: No matter what bad things happen to us, our loving Father will undo any injury we suffer. Whatever trials we are facing, these are only temporary, but the blessings Jehovah gives are everlasting.
16 Therefore, we do not give up, but even if the man we are outside is wasting away, certainly the man we are inside+ is being renewed from day to day.+ 17 For though the tribulation is momentary and light, it works out for us a glory that is of more and more surpassing greatness* and is everlasting;+ 18 while we keep our eyes, not on the things seen, but on the things unseen.+ For the things seen are temporary, but the things unseen are everlasting. — 2 Cor. 4:16-18.
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Imperfect ones to learn from the One Who wants to be our Father
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Shades of Life
There are many different shades of life presented by the many experiences and influences brought into our surroundings.
We have one great expectation to grow in our life and to make it better all the time, looking forward to perhaps an unreachable dream. Those who believe in the Divine Creator know that life is fare-most the greatest gift and that life is sealed by the Grace of salvation making us able to live by a still greater expectation of a better world to come. With that hope by the Grace of Salvation we can nurture our personal choice to opt the option of living and enjoy every moment we receive from the Creator. For that life we should be thankful for each blessing in our present life and the other life still to come and hoped for.
In our life where may be the shadow of all those experiences and special moments of life? The memories which can build up our life and make our book of life a great story-book to accompany us on paths still unknown.
We may not be any more the one we were when we were a child. All those experience , which we liked and did not like, have moulded us in an other child. The innocence of our childhood is gone. But by the years we become softer and perhaps less experimenting, putting much more in perspective. When older the empty days can be filled with memories.Life may be going on for no reason, but we can give a lot of reason to our life, and that is what we should do.
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Find also to read:
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Additional reading
- Looking forward for what is to come
- Looking for a spiritual new life
- Matthew 20 It is never too late
- A Tool to shed light over the qualities in our life 1 Inner feelings
- Life and an assembly of books
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“Among infinite shades of life, you can’t claim any one shade as The best or The worst. Life is so unpredictable.”
Soulmate life
Walks with me like my shadow Amalgamated life
Time flies likeblink of eyes, though
Unswayed life
Lives in the hope of living and pray
Aspired life
Lost in the memories of yesterday
Ignorant life
Freely savour the present moment
Pithy life
Cherish the future’s golden element
Relentless life
Resonates the music of laughter
Melodious life
Takes the shower of tears
Morose life
Butstillhowbeautiful, yet
Accessiblelife
~Priyamvada
हमसफ़रजिंदगी
साये की तरह साथ चलती ये
रहगुज़र जिंदगी
मेरे हाथों से छूटता वक्त है फिर भी कितनी
बेअसर जिंदगी
जीने के आस में हरवक्त रहती ये
अग्रसर जिंदगी
कभी कल की याद में खोई हुई ये
बेख़बर जिंदगी
कभी आज को खुल के जीती हुई ये
मुख़्तसर जिंदगी
कल के सुनहरे सपने सजातीे रहती
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Are you doing Thanksgiving
Today in several countries believers have a special honouring day for God, being thankful for everything He did and still does.
In the United States of America it is a national holiday at which they think of the Pilgrims and the Native Americans, gathering with the family and friends over a meal.
In the Bible, Thanksgiving meant Thanksgiving. There were no turkeys, football, Squanto, or Pilgrims. {You Are Probably Doing Thanksgiving All Wrong}
We should think about the spiritual and physical bread God provides for mankind. He gave them manna and still provides that we have plenty of food from the fields and fruit-trees. Today we make time to thank God for all that we can find on our plate.
This day is the opposite of tomorrow, when in the materialist countries it shall be “Black Friday”, showing how greedy our society has become and how more interest there is in this world for things we can see and hold in our hands. The Unseen shall not find a place in many hearts which love more the money and material goods.
In Jesus’ day, people were thankful without all of the extra baggage we’ve attached to the idea of being thankful. Their idea of gratitude derived from an appreciation of being alive. We find it hard to appreciate being alive without first confronting the emotional depths of a cat meme or having a relative with a serious illness. Jesus’ followers were able to find gratitude for their daily bread despite their brother having leprosy or their sister’s calling to be a prostitute by the local well. Gratitude isn’t something picked up from comparing yourself to the misery of others; it is our response to God’s presence in the universe. {You Are Probably Doing Thanksgiving All Wrong}
Lots of people have forgotten why and for what they have to be grateful for. Believers should tell them why today we remind ourself of our blessings. For lots of people it is only this “One day a year we officially give thanks as a nation”. {You Are Probably Doing Thanksgiving All Wrong} In their country they have a holiday with puritanical religious overtones where no one goes to church. In other countries it shall be this coming Sunday that many, like us, shall take time to remember all the blessings coming over us thanks to the Most High.
In most parts of the commercial world it’s a secular (holi)day where societal convention dictates to overeat, watch football, and nap, people doing Thanksgiving once a year because the calendar says so.
In short, it’s a moral and ethical mess of our own design.
The reason Thanksgiving feels forced, blasé, and awkward is that it is forced, commercialized, manufactured, and has nothing to do with real honest to God gratitude or thankfulness. {You Are Probably Doing Thanksgiving All Wrong}
For those who call themselves Christian it should be a day to remember all that god has given to the world. The Unseen God always was with His people and gave the world His only begotten son so that Gentiles also could become partakers in a heavenly calling and of the Body of Christ made able to enter the Kingdom of God. Let us today show our thanks for what God has given to the world.
No matter where you live, no matter where life finds you, there is always something to be thankful for. {Happy Thanksgiving!}
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Time to be strengthened, thankful and to be prepared
Many opportunities given by God
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Additional reading
- Thanksgiving wisdom: Why gratitude is good for your health
- By counting our blessings we not only feel good, but we multiply our good
- Life in gratitude opens glory of God
- Thanking God by thinking of people
- Give thanks to the One Who gave much
- Being thankful
- Give Thanks To God
- Praise Jehovah, You people
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- Happy Thanksgiving 11/22/18
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- what is enough?
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- Happy Thanksgiving!! Pumpkin pie, turkey, stuffing, the stuff your mother makes but you don’t know what it is!! Today is the day to feast like you never have and enjoy time with family and friends.
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Focusing on being a blessing
When you focus
on being a blessing,
God makes sure
that you are always blessed in abundance.
Joel Osteen
Dutch version / Nederlandse versie > Concentreren op een zegen
High recognitions . . . Diseases can be blessings, leading to the true recognition of God.
Often the worst moments in our life are able to bring in the purest ‘Light of life’.
“The timely inner transformation of a person is invariably what determines how
karmic diseases – or actually any ailment – will emerge. Diseases can be
blessings, leading to the true recognition of God. Time and again it is only
suffering that leads people to think about life and death, thus recognizing
their own insignificance! A warning and a call for action vibrate in every
disease and suffering. They are messengers of Love looking to save and cure!”
– Roselis von Sass
The writer draws inspiration from “The Grail Message” (In The Light of Truth) by Abd-ru-shin
Text & image source: Garden of Illumination https://web.facebook.com/Garden-of-Illumination-1433140463620723/
After darkness a moment of life renewal
A spiritual advisor, Cherokee Billie, calls herself a clairvoyant, who has been advising thousands of clients about relationships, business affairs and the future. Though the Bible, God’s Word warns us to stay away from such persons, we would like to quote her.
She wrote
“The Christ, He who was in the ancient of days, is the flame of God that dwells in the spirit of man. He is the breath of life that visits us, and takes unto Himself a body like our bodies.
He is the will of the Lord. {Be Blessed at this Holy Time}
She is right in calling Christ the Will of the Lord, by whom she (we think) means God. The God of gods, the Divine Creator, gave in the early days, in the Garden of Eden, a solution for the fall of man. God provided that a Messiah would come who would be able to put his own will aside in favour of the Will of God. That man, born in Bethlehem and brought up in Nazareth, was a very active person seen by many. Though God cannot be seen by man, Jesus made it possible to have a clear picture of his heavenly Father.
She further writes
And the word of the Lord our God builded a house of flesh and bones, and was man like unto you and myself. {Be Blessed at this Holy Time}
But according to the Bible Jesus was a man of flesh and bones whilst God is an eternal Spirit to Whom man can do nothing. Man could do a lot to Jesus. He was not only tempted many times, whilst God can not be tempted, he had enough reason to fear man, because man could really hurt him and did really kill him. God cannot be killed, but Jesus really was.
Too many Christians do forget the attributes and specific character of God and mix those two Biblical characters. Not only have they made Jesus into their god, but often they also made graven images of him or use the sign of the god of evil and the god of light (or sun), Tammuz, as the symbol of their god Jesus (namely the cross).
The writer also thinks like Kahlil Gibran
Many times the Christ has come to the world, and He has walked many lands. And always he has been deemed a stranger and a madman.” ~Kahlil Gibran in Jesus The Son of Man {Be Blessed at this Holy Time}
She further adds
Too much political correctness has made it unfashionable to have faith and talk about it openly. I will choose to continue to have faith because without it I would have nothing. {Be Blessed at this Holy Time}
Now when Winter has passed and the Spring Season opened with the remembrance day of Christ (14 Nisan) and the exodus of Egypt (14-15 Nisan) we can rejoice in the fact that this man who did not do his own will, which he would have done in case he is God, was taken out of the dead by his heavenly Father the Only One True God. Jesus did not come out of his grave by his own power, but by the Mighty Power of God.
It was that time Jesus was back alive on earth, where he showed his wounds to his followers to give proof that he is not a ghost, whilst God is a Ghost, and not some one of flesh and blood. No other time was Jesus ever back onto the earth, after he was taken up high by his heavenly Father to sit next to that Only One true God.
It is from there in the heavenly regions that Jesus is allowed by God to be a mediator between man and God and to be a high-priest for God and man.
As long as we are living in this system of things, we should take time to come to know Jesus his heavenly Father well and to prepare ourselves for the harsh times coming.
We always should remember that if God spared not his own only begotten son, how much less will he spare us!
British Particular Baptist preacher Charles Haddon (CH) Spurgeon
What whips of burning wire will be yours when conscience shall smite you with all its terrors. Ye richest, ye merriest, ye most self-righteous sinners-who would stand in your place when God shall say,
“Awake, O sword, against the man that rejected me; smite him, and let him feel the smart for ever?”
Jesus was spit upon: sinner, what shame will be yours! We cannot sum up in one word all the mass of sorrows which met upon the head of Jesus who died for us, therefore it is impossible for us to tell you what streams, what oceans of grief must roll over your spirit if you die as you now are. You may die so, you may die now. By the agonies of Christ, by his wounds and by his blood, do not bring upon yourselves the wrath to come! Trust in the Son of God, and you shall never die. {Charles Haddon Spurgeon}
Without the light we shall stay in the dark, but in our heart it has not to stay dark.
Behold, how independent of outward circumstances the Holy Ghost can make the Christian! What a bright light may shine within us when it is all dark without! How firm, how happy, how calm, how peaceful we may be, when the world shakes to and fro, and the pillars of the earth are removed! {Charles Haddon Spurgeon}
It is now that we shall have to
Take time out of your busy lives and reflect on the spiritual blessings that are being poured out at this time. No matter what you may be going through the blessings are still coming and it is up to us to recognize the miracle of each day. {Be Blessed at this Holy Time}
The Christian concept of apocatastasis includes a restoration of the world to its original state, as in the Garden of Eden (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
With Spring announcing new life we should also look for ways to receive a new life and to prepare ourselves for a never ending abundant life of peace. We should come to the right correctness, putting away all human dogma’s and keeping only to the Biblical Truth and the purity of the Word of God.
Please reflect on the words written in the old Book of books, the Bible, and take time now to put everything on order and to clean up all mess and start a new.
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Please do reflect on following Bible sayings:
Luke 3:21-38 (TS98)
21 And it came to be, when all the people were immersed, יהושע {Jehshua} also being immersed, and praying, the heaven was opened, 22 and the Set-apart Spirit descended in bodily form like a dove upon Him, and a voice came from heaven saying, “You are My Son, the Beloved, in You I did delight.” 23 And when יהושע Himself began, He was about thirty years of age, being, as reckoned by law, son of Yosĕph, of Ěli, 24 of Mattithyahu, of Lĕwi, of Meleḵi, of Yanah, of Yosĕph, 25 of Mattithyahu, of Amots, of Naḥum, of Ḥesli, of Noḡah, 26 of Ma῾ath, of Mattithyahu, of Shim῾i, of Yosĕph, of Yehuḏah, 27 of Yoḥanan, of Rephayah, of Zerubbaḇel, of She’alti’ĕl, of Neri, 28 of Meleḵi, of Addi, of Qosam, of Elmoḏam, of Ěr, 29 of Yehoshua, of Eli῾ezer, of Yorim, of Mattithyahu, of Lĕwi, 30 of Shim῾on, of Yehuḏah, of Yosĕph, of Yonam, of Elyaqim, 31 of Melea, of Menna, of Mattattah, of Nathan, of Dawiḏ, 32 of Yishai, of Oḇĕḏ, of Bo῾az, of Salmon, of Naḥshon, 33 of Amminaḏaḇ, of Ram, of Ḥetsron, of Perets, of Yehuḏah, 34 of Ya῾aqoḇ, of Yitsḥaq, of Aḇraham, of Teraḥ, of Naḥor, 35 of Seruḡ, of Re῾u, of Peleḡ, of Ěḇer, of Shĕlaḥ, 36 of Qĕynan, of Arpaḵshaḏ, of Shĕm, of Noaḥ, of Lemeḵ, 37 of Methushelaḥ, of Ḥanoḵ, of Yereḏ, of Mahalalĕl, of Qĕynan, 38 of Enosh, of Shĕth, of Aḏam, of Elohim.Exodus 33:20 (TS98)
20 But He said, “You are unable to see My face, for no man does see Me and live.”Hebrews 2:9 (TS98)
But we do see Him who was made for a little while lower than the messengers, {Jehshua} יהושע, because of the suffering of death crowned with esteem and respect, that by the favour of Elohim He should taste death for everyone.Hebrews 2:14 (TS98)
Therefore, since the children share in flesh and blood, He Himself similarly shared in the same, so that by means of His death He might destroy him having the power of death, that is, the devil,Hebrews 2:17-18 (TS98)
17 So in every way He had to be made like His brothers, in order to become a compassionate and trustworthy High Priest in matters related to Elohim, to make atonement for the sins of the people. 18 For in what He had suffered, Himself being tried, He is able to help those who are tried.John 4:23-26 (TS98)
23 “But the hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father also does seek such to worship Him. 24 “Elohim is Spirit, and those who worship Him need to worship in spirit and truth.” 25 The woman said to Him, “I know that Messiah is coming, the One who is called Anointed. When that One comes, He shall announce to us all.” 26 יהושע {Jehshua} said to her, “I who am speaking to you am He.”John 20:2-17 (TS98)
2 So she ran and came to Shim῾on Kĕpha, and to the other taught one whom יהושע {Jehshua} loved, and said to them, “They have taken the Master out of the tomb, and we do not know where they laid Him.” 3 Then Kĕpha and the other taught one went out, and they were going to the tomb, 4 and the two were running together, but the other taught one outran Kĕpha and came to the tomb first. 5 And stooping down he saw the linen wrappings lying, but he did not go in. 6 Then Shim῾on Kĕpha came, following him, and went into the tomb. And he saw the linen wrappings lying, 7 and the cloth which had been on His head, not lying with the linen wrappings, but folded up in a place by itself. 8 So, then, the other taught one, who came to the tomb first, also went in. And he saw and believed. 9 For they did not yet know the Scripture, that He has to rise again from the dead. 10 Therefore the taught ones went away again, by themselves. 11 But Miryam was standing outside by the tomb weeping. Then as she wept, she stooped down to the tomb, 12 and saw two messengers in white sitting, one at the head and the other at the feet, where the body of יהושע had been laid. 13 And they said to her, “Woman, why do you weep?” She said to them, “Because they took away my Master, and I do not know where they laid Him.” 14 And having said this, she turned around and saw יהושע standing, but she did not know that it was יהושע. 15 יהושע said to her, “Woman, why do you weep? Whom do you seek?” Thinking He was the gardener, she said to Him, “Master, if You have carried Him away, say to me where You put Him, and I shall take Him away.” 16 יהושע said to her, “Miryam!” She turned and said to Him, “Rabboni!” (which means Teacher). 17 יהושע said to her, “Do not hold on to Me, for I have not yet ascended to My Father. But go to My brothers and say to them, ‘I am ascending to My Father and your Father, and to My Elohim and your Elohim.’ ”Hebrews 6:20 (TS98)
where יהושע {Jehshua} has entered as a forerunner for us, having become High Priest forever according to the order of Malkitseḏeq.1 Timothy 2:1-8 (TS98)
1 Timothy 2
1 First of all, then, I urge that petitions, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgiving be made for all men, 2 for sovereigns and all those who are in authority, in order that we lead a calm and peaceable life in all reverence and seriousness. 3 For this is good and acceptable before Elohim our Saviour, 4 who desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth. 5 For there is one Elohim, and one Mediator between Elohim and men, the Man Messiah יהושע, 6 who gave Himself a ransom for all, to be witnessed in its own seasons, 7 for which I was appointed a proclaimer and an emissary – I am speaking the truth in Messiah and not lying – a teacher of the gentiles in belief and truth. 8 So I resolve that the men pray everywhere, lifting up hands that are set-apart, without wrath and disputing.
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Winter and Spring wonders of nature showing the Master’s hand
Getting fate in your change to positiveness
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Find also to read:
- From Winterdarkness into light of Spring
- Wishing to do the will of God
- Flowing out from a genuine spiritual “heart”
- What shall I render unto the Lord for all His benefits
- Cleanliness and worrying or not about purity
- Trusting, Faith, Calling and Ascribing to Jehovah #4 Transitoriness #2 Purity
- How we think shows through in how we act
- Be holy
- Love and cultivate that which is pure
- The day Jesus died
- Why think that (3) … Jesus rose from the dead
- Jesus is risen
- Risen With Him
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The Mountain: Radical Love
In our second reposting from the paraphrased chronological harmony of the four gospels, by Frank Boulet we look once more at the central message of Jesus which is simply this:
Love God by loving people, even your enemies.
with From Guestwriters we do want to spread this message of love and want to get enough people to see how we do have to control ourselves first before we can try to get a better world.
Our aim is also that those who come along our site, shall make the effort to read the appropriate Bible text and shall take time to meditate on the material.
Insofar as they convey that message, these meditations may be helpful as an introduction to the complete texts of the New Testament, or for daily devotional reading.
Those who call themselves Christian always should remember that they have to be followers of Christ longing for God’s Spirit to feed them. They cannot be called Christian when they do not keep to the laws and teachings Christ adhered to.
The spirit that God wants reflected to the world by your life is revealed in the law of Moses and the teachings of the prophets. {The Mountain: God’s Word}
As believers in Christ we do have to be believers in the One True God and become children of Him.
In order to live as God’s child, you must be faithful to the essential spirit of God’s word. {The Mountain: God’s Word}
It was on a mountain that Jesus began giving examples of the spirit of God’s Word. From that sermon on the mountain we should get to know that our faith needs those works Jesus spoke about.
As a Christians we should not only have a good relationship with Christ Jesus, but also with God and God His creatures.
If you’re about to worship God in any way, and you remember an unsettled dispute with another person, first go & make peace with that person, and then return to worship God. {The Mountain: Anger}
As a Christian we should follow Christ’s teachings and God’s commandments.
God’s law says, do not engage in sexual cheating (meaning sexual relations are to be enjoyed only with your husband or wife). {The Mountain: Sexual Cheating}
This means we have to be faithful to the partner we have chosen to share our life with. That faithfulness demands control and requires acts of love. The keeping our minds focused on the right persons is one of the works we do have to do. Because we should know that we may not even look with lust at a woman, because for God that is considered the same as sexual cheating in your heart!
We also should be careful which words we use and what sort of promises we make.
It has also been said, ‘Do not break your promise to God.’
But I say, do not even make promises to God.
Yes we are told not to promise by heaven, by the earth, by Jerusalem, not even by your own head, because it’s sinful to try to add emphasis to your promises in that way.
We should not do the wrong things but the right things and as such
Instead of promising to do what God says, just do what God says. {The Mountain: Promises to God}
We also may not seek revenge against any other person, which again shall demand control of ourselves and not getting into anger which would bring us to do wrong.
Jesus gives an indication how in our relation to others we should care for them and even be willing to go with them.
If a soldier demands that you carry his pack one mile, carry it two miles.
Whenever another person asks you for something, give it to him.
Whenever another person wants to borrow something, lend it to him.
Matthew 5:38-42
Also to love your enemies we shall need to be stronger than the first reaction most people get against their enemies or to those they hate.
Jesus concluded:
Instead of being like everybody else, God wants you to love perfectly — just as God himself loves perfectly. (Matthew 5:43-48) {The Mountain: Loving Enemies}
Living for God in this life means you need to have different goals than most people.
For instance, you must love your enemies. {The Mountain: Radical Love}
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We should remember
- things essential to gain all of God’s blessings:
• Admitting + Mourning self-inflicted spiritual poverty.
• Regretting your self-inflicted separation from God.
• Desiring to live God’s way
• Expecting & accepting trouble living God’s way will bring in this life.
- Living for yourself in this life will never lead to God’s blessings in the next life:
Then the author says:
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• goal in this life to be rich => poor in the next life.
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• goal in this life to be full => hungry in the next life.
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• goal in this life to be happy => sad in the next life.
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• goal in this life for other people to speak well of you => no one will speak well of you in the next life.
But with death we have paid for our sins and then there comes an end to our life. When we die it shall be too late to do anything. there shall be no “next life”, except the life we shall continue to live on this earth in this system of things when we have done wrong and do not repent, or after Armageddon and the judgement when we shall be rejected or receive the entrance to God’s Kingdom, being able to live in the restored ‘Garden of Eden‘, the paradise, God’s Kingdom.
It is here, now or never that we shall have to do and make it. Several parables of Christ show us how for many it will be too late for them to change anything for their entrance in the Kingdom of God … they just shall miss it … because they have not done the required works to be saved.
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Preceding articles
First man’s task still counting today
He who knows himself, is kind to others
January 27, 417, Pope Innocent I condemning Pelagius about Faith and Works
Letter to the Romans, chapter 3
Letter to the Romans, chapter 4
Additional comments to the 3rd Letter to the Romans
Additional comments to the Letter to the Romans 4
Comments to James remarks, about Faith and works
The Mountain: Radical Obedience
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Also of interest
- יהוה , YHWH and Love: Four-letter words
- Creator and Blogger God 3 Lesson and solution
- Christ’s ethical teaching
- The business of this life
- The first on the list of the concerns of the saint
- Running away from the past
- Be holy
- Love for each other attracting others
- The Greatest of These is Love
- Unconditional love
- Love is like playing the piano
- Agape, a love to share with others from the Fruit of the Spirit
- Relying on the Love of God
- No person has greater love than this one who surrendered his soul in behalf of his friends
- Work with joy and pray with love
- The Spirit of God imparts love,inspires hope, and gives liberty
- We love because he first loved us
- Malefactors becoming your master
- 112314 – A Peculiar People
- Be ye angry and sin not
- She who sows thistles will reap prickles
- He who smiles rather than rages is always the stronger
- Singing gift from God
- God does not change
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Further related articles
- “Week One Reflection” by Dr.J. 2016 Fast Post 19
- The Difference Between Healthy And Unhealthy Shame
- God Can Set You Free From Your Shame
- The Surprising Key to Increasing Your Willpower
- How to gain self-control & self-discipline
- Control When It Counts
- Bible study: Blessed are the meek: For they shall inherit the earth (Mt 5:5)
- Frank Sinatra quotes from Sermon on the Mount
- You are the Way Jesus!
- Who gets your attention?
- Building on the Rock
- The Jesus Revolution
- Class #1: Introduction to the Sermon on the Mount
- sermon on the mount – an introduction
- The King’s Sermon (Matt. 4:23, 25, 5:1-2)
- Blessed are Those Who Hunger and Thirst for Righteousness
- Sermon on the Mount: Ask, Seek, Knock
- Sermon On The Mount – Blessed are the meek
- Blessed are the Meek
- Sermon on the Mount: In the Eye
- January 17 Matthew 7:1-14
- Misreading the Bible: “Judge Not”
- The Sermon on the Mount (18)
- The Poor in Spirit
- Blessed Are the Poor in Spirit
- Blessed Are They That Mourn
- Sermon on the Mount: Wisdom
- The Sermon on the Mount is not a Guide to Christian Salvation
- God give us grace to face the Sermon on the Mount
- Sermon on the Mount: Blindness
- Salt and Light
- Sermon on the Mount by Vance Stinson
- The Lord’s Prayer
- The Third Way: Nonviolent Resistance
- Loving the Unlovables – Part One
- Be Different in Your Purity
- The Poor in Spirit (Matt. 5:3)
- Like A Bull In A China Shop
- God is Jehovah Jireh – The LORD Will Provide
- Thesis of Jesus
- Be Different in Your Anger
- Class #3: Three you are statements. Matthew 5:11-16
- January 12 Matthew 5:21-32
- January 13 Matthew 5:33-48
- Borrowed Trouble — Being Perfect, Part 4
- When Grief is Good
- Lay Down Your Blessings
- Teacher
- Master, teach us how to pray – The Lord’s Prayer
- James 1
- Be Your Attitudes
- beatitude
- The Beatitudes: Growing into the Kingdom of Heaven. Already.
- In Search of Eternity
- Be Different in Your Righteousness
- Daily Riches: Can One Obey Without Actually Obeying? (James Hannay and William James)
- A Greater Righteousness
- Out with the old, in with almost nothing
- Be Different in Your Influence
- Rain or Shine — Being Perfect, Part 1
- Virtue Signaling — Being Perfect, Part 2
- The Business of Blessing Others
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Helping each other with prayer to start the new academic year
It is a tragedy, as we will read tomorrow, that
“the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, to keep them from seeing the light of the gospel …” (2 Corinthians 4:4).
We have no other choice than to live in this world where so many are blinded. We also do have to do with the many pains we may have to endure. Though we should know many pains and discomforts could be helped to be lessened or being softened by others.
Each of us is here in this world to help the other. Though not many are interested in doing that.
2014 – 2015 school year opening ceremony at Hanoi – Amsterdam High School
Once again a new academic year has started and we are off again on the roads, having the children back to school, having the parents back to work after their Summer holiday.
How many of them can see which wondrous blessings we have that
“God, who said, ‘Let light shine out of darkness’,
has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ? (verse 6).
2 Corinthians 4:5-10 UKJV (5) For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord; and ourselves your servants for Jesus’ sake. (6) For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, has shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. (7) But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us. (8) We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; (9) Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed; (10) Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body.
Our world was created out of the void when there was only darkness, but God called for light. That ‘light’ shone physically as creation began so long ago, but the wondrous fact for us is, as we will read in chapter 5,
“if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation” (verse 17).
The apostle Paul in his 2nd letter to the Corinthians makes so many points which also requires our attention in this 21st century. He shows the interaction of events and the great value of prayers in all the difficulties they and he are experiencing.
All the kids who went back, or for the first time to a ‘new’ school’ shall have to learn to face different situations which are not always pleasant. Even for those who became a Christian there is no escape, they too shall have to share abundantly in Christ’s suffering. But we can give our kids some hope because we also do know that through Christ, we share abundantly in comfort too.
2 Corinthians 1:2-5 UKJV (2) Grace be to you and peace from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ. (3) Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort; (4) Who comforts us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God. (5) For as the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so our consolation also abounds by Christ.
It is, writes Paul,
“the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our affliction …” (verses 3,4).
This is a comfort we have a responsibility to pass on to others.
This passing on to others is too much and too often forgotten. Many do want to have the blessings, but do not want to do anything in return. They want the grace but do not ask them to tell others about it.
To find people who are willing to preach is very difficult. To find people who are willing to share their knowledge about certain things of this world, like geography, history, ways of constructing a house, or how to keep a healthy family seems to be very difficult. For some time we have been looking for some extra writers on this website, though nobody seems to be interested to join us and to share his or her knowledge for free.
Let us meditate and reflect on the interaction of events we have personally experienced. It seems when we start talking about God and about his son and show others our love for them, we seem to get a negative response and to be kept aside. Suddenly co-operation or interest seems to stop at all sides.
The more we have been active in the service of Christ, the more clearly we will perceive this.
In Paul, the Corinthians saw the most outstanding example of service.
“The afflictions we experienced”,
writes Paul, was such that they were so utterly burdened beyond their strength that they despaired of life itself. We in our regions do not have to be worried so much about that, but several people in several countries, like Syria, Iran, Iraq, Pakistan and many African countries are facing prosecution. We may not be unaware of the affliction many experienced in Asia and Africa.
2 Corinthians 1:6-8 UKJV (6) And whether we be afflicted, it is for your consolation and salvation, which is effectual in the enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer: or whether we be comforted, it is for your consolation and salvation. (7) And our hope of you is steadfast, knowing, that as all of you are partakers of the sufferings, so shall all of you be also of the consolation. (8) For we would not, brethren, have you ignorant of our trouble which came to us in Asia, that we were pressed out of measure, above strength, insomuch that we despaired even of life:
We, in our safer regions also have to undergo problems, shunning and are not always facing a nice life. But we have set our hope that Jesus will return and that he and his God, Who is also our God (the God of Abraham), will deliver us again. Though we have to remember that like at the time of the apostles, they had to be helped by prayer, so that many will give thanks on their behalf for the blessing granted them through the prayers of many, we too need such help.
2 Corinthians 1:9-10 UKJV (9) But we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God which raises the dead: (10) Who delivered us from so great a death, and does deliver: in whom we trust that he will yet deliver us;
We cannot just rely on people. We like Paul have to realize that we must rely not on ourselves but on God (verse 9).
2 Corinthians 1:9-11 UKJV (9) But we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God which raises the dead: (10) Who delivered us from so great a death, and does deliver: in whom we trust that he will yet deliver us; (11) All of you also helping together by prayer for us, that for the gift bestowed upon us by the means of many persons thanks may be given by many on our behalf.
Having set our hope that he will deliver us again, (verse 10), does not mean that we do not need each other, and that we should not help each other. We still have to be loving for each other and helping each other.
Paul makes an appeal that we should specially take notice of. He tells the Corinthians,
2 Corinthians 1:11-12 UKJV (11) All of you also helping together by prayer for us, that for the gift bestowed upon us by the means of many persons thanks may be given by many on our behalf. (12) For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have had our conversation in the world, and more abundantly toward you.
Other apostles came with similar requests to their flock.
Romans 15:30-32 UKJV Now I plead to you, brethren, for the Lord Jesus Christ’s sake, and for the love (o. agape) of the Spirit, (o. pneuma) that all of you strive together with me in your prayers to God for me; (31) That I may be delivered from them that do not believe in Judaea; and that my service which I have for Jerusalem may be accepted of the saints; (32) That I may come unto you with joy by the will of God, and may with you be refreshed.
As in the early centuries of this common era there was a need of preaching, the apostles going around in the region to tell the Good News, we too today need some people full of hope who are willing to go into the ‘fields’ and to let others know about that Good News. We do want to tell others the Gospel of the Good News, but we too need help from others. We can use some backing.
Not only could we use some additional authors willing to share writings with people from all over the world. We, like the apostles need also your help with prayer.
As the apostles asked for help we also dare to say like the apostle Paul did:
“You also must help us by prayer so that many will give thanks on our behalf for the blessing granted us by the prayers of many” (verse 11).
Many are aware today through the almost instant communication the internet provides of the desperate situations some Iranian believers have experienced. There are also Pakistani believers who are experiencing persecution, and a few truth seekers who have felt it wise to return to Afghanistan. Let us help them by prayer.
Also, may we, as Paul writes in chapter 2, spread
“the fragrance of the knowledge of him everywhere. For we are the aroma of Christ to God among those who are being saved …” (verses 14,15).
We may be unto God a sweet savour of Christ, in them that are saved, and in them that perish, but should we also not show that we are willing to step in the footsteps of that masterful rabbi?
As of God, in the sight of God we should not hesitate to speak in Christ and to show others the Way to God.
It is not because we can see so much tragedy, having so many people living in a way God would turn His eyes away, that we can not live according to His ordinances and want to show others there is a different way than the way this world has chosen.
On this platform we do want to show others this different way. To do it just on our own is not so easy. We could do with some extra hands.
Everybody has some field in which he or she is good. So everybody should be able to find something to write about which could be enlightening and educating for the others.
Having a new academic year, would this not be a good start to provide your input?
From your professionalism is there nothing you can contribute to our community and to bring some more knowledge to others, believers and non-believers in God?
Is the time not ripe to take up the pen and to join those who believe we should share more with others? It is out of love that we should share more with others. And believe it, there is lots to share about, and it has not all to do with religion.
In case you are not good at writing, you too can help, by praying for us and by letting others know our site. Promotion is always something that can help as well and motivate to continue our work. (Be sure it does not harm to motivate others now and a while.)
We do hope we can go into a fruitful new academic year in which we shall find some interested souls to join us and to share with us the love for this globe where we may reside in peace.
Please do pray for all those in need and also pray for our work, that we also may reach people in need and help them.
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You may find about prayer:
Praying and thinking positively
Get into the habit of dealing with God about everything
God, my father, my closest friend
Laboring in the Vineyard or Sitting on the Hillside with Jonah?
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Additional readings:
- Walking alone?7000 to 20000 words spoken each day
- Natural inclinations and Praying and asking
- Praying and acts of meditation without ceasing
- Praying is surrendering in all circumstances
- Be sound in mind and be vigilant with a view to prayers
- Be vigilant with a view to prayers
- Looking for True Spirituality 6 Spirituality and Prayer
- Being Religious and Spiritual 8 Spiritual, Mystic and not or well religious
- Do You Expect God’s Answer
- Being sure of their deliverance
- Old Man of Prayer
- Biblical Prayer at Tabernacle Site Shilo
- Trusting, Faith, Calling and Ascribing to Jehovah #15 Exposition before the Creator
- Trusting, Faith, Calling and Ascribing to Jehovah #16 Benefits of praying
- Trusting, Faith, Calling and Ascribing to Jehovah #17 Sorts of prayers
- Trusting, Faith, Calling and Ascribing to Jehovah #18 Fulfilment
- Praise Jehovah
- Always rejoicing
- Praying constantly Giving thanks for everything
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Further reading of interest:
- School’s out for summer
- ::Summer’s Over & The “Routine” is Back::
- Twas the night before school starts…
- Keeping Things on Track: Organize for Success
- New leaf
- Keep Your Momentum
- Back to School
- Already, school year?
- School’s back…Here’s some tips for this year!
- Bring on the Bouquets of Sharpened Pencils!
- What is the most effective way of preparing young children for primary school and beyond?
- And So It Begins, Again
- Another Beginning
- On top of things …
- It’s Time for College: How to Make the Grade You Want
- Some Minnesota Students Head Back To School
- Should Wilmington Start School Before or After Labor Day?
- Opening academic year Wageningen University
- Upon Graduating: When the World Goes Back to School (and I Don’t)
- #Sameface-Much More Than Just a Game
- #10Highlights as a Deputy Headteacher by @TeacherToolkit
- How to improve your grade in your least favourite subject
- Keep the High Road and Say Good Bye!
- Charging Up in June? Say It’s Not So!
- The Road to 65, Miles 173 and 174: Preparations
- It’s that time of the year …
- Happiness in the Midst of Falling
- Love At First Site 27 – From blue to red
- Winter Break!
- Autumn days when the grass is jewelled…
- NWCCI 2014-2015: Highs, Lows, and New Beginnings
- Do You Know Which New Parents will become Great Prospects?
- Kindergarten Quips
- There Will Always Be Lions…
- Standards and Values
- Proclaim Jesus with Loving Hearts this School Year #CISVA
- A Bright Journey – on the First Day of School
- Best-Laid Plans for This School Year: Only Slightly Awry (So Far)
- What this is all about, or my journal and I
- Have A “Wand”erfully Magical Year!
- Our First “School Year” at Daycare!
- Back-to-School Tips for Parents!
- Driving in America
- Teaching: Year Two
- I Want More Time
- 15 Ways to Get and Keep Your Life Together
- Our Year-Round Homeschool Plan
- Small Groups to Kick-Off in September
- School districts get jump on school year
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Preaching by example
Too many Christians do forget that they are commanded to
“make disciples of people of all the nations.”
How they have to do that is never explicitly said. We should realize that there are different ways to make disciples or to bring people to come to know God.
For sure a bad way to get converts is to use pressure or force. Jesus’ commission was to
“tell good news to the meek ones,”
to
“bind up the brokenhearted,”
to
“comfort all the mourning ones.” (Matthew 28:19; Isaiah 61:1, 2; Luke 4:18, 19)
We may not forget the task Jesus has given his disciples
19 Go, therefore, and make disciples of people of all the nations,+ baptizing them+ in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the holy spirit, 20 teaching them to observe all the things I have commanded you.+ And look! I am with you all the days until the conclusion of the system of things.”*+ (Matthew 28:19-20)
Real Christians should have their heart, their ears and eyes open for Jehovah’s Word and be willing to share that Word with as many people as possible. They should go looking for different ways to declare the good news from the Bible. We all should be obeying Christ by going out into the world and letting others know about the Divine Creator and His wonderworks.
Like the prophet Ezekiel of old, today real students of the Bible and followers of Christ should try to find those who
“are sighing and groaning over all the detestable things that are being done.”—Ezekiel 9:4.
We should make a positive effort to reach the public, just as Jesus did when
“he went journeying from city to city and from village to village, preaching and declaring the good news of the kingdom of God.”
His early disciples did likewise. (Luke 8:1; 9:1-6; 10:1-9)
As such we can go out on the streets, going from one place to an other, telling those we pass, about the good news which had reached us. We can share that what made us so happy and full of hope and are sure of will be bringing blessings also to them as it does to us.
We can invite people to come to our meetings and there we can share our faith with many.
23 Let us hold firmly the public declaration of our hope without wavering,+ for the one who promised is faithful. 24 And let us consider* one another so as to incite* to love and fine works,+ 25 not forsaking our meeting together,+ as some have the custom, but encouraging one another,+ and all the more so as you see the day drawing near.+ (Hebrews 10:23-24-25)
Jesus giving the Farewell discourse to his eleven remaining disciples, from the Maesta by Duccio, 1308-1311. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Yes as lovers of Christ we should also consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works. The the assembling or gathering is one way of showing to the outside world our unity or our family as members of the Body of Christ. There, at the meeting places, we should exhort and encourage or stimulate one another.
Sincerity, fullness of faith, the sprinkling and washing that come from repentance and baptism give the conscience freedom of access.
‘Let us approach . . . let us hold fast . . . let us consider each other ‘
are the three exhortatives which urge the practice of the three divine virtues. Hope particularly is founded on the fidelity of God to his promises, and charity must be social. Our faith is not something which has to stay in our own closed closet.
Today too much we see people who are afraid to show their faith to others. Discouragement has made them avoid community at the very time they needed it most. Forsaking fellowship is a sure way to give place to discouragement. This discouragement festers where God’s people are not exhorting one another.
We may have the gathering together of the redeemed of the Lord at the day of judgement, but it is now we have to take care that as many can be saved. Our love should be full of the love of Christ who gave his life for all mankind. We do not have to give our life, but much of our life should be concerned about the others, those who not have found Christ.
We should make an effort to bring more people to Christ Jesus. It is up to us to let him be known by much more people.
Our life should be for Christ and like Christ being an example for others. When we tell others about our faith they should see it that we live according that faith.
A Christian’s being an example of right living says more than hours of sermonizing. This was pointed out to Christian wives who had unbelieving husbands:
“They may be won without a word through the conduct of their wives, because of having been eyewitnesses of your chaste conduct.” (1 Peter 3:1, 2.)
Therefore, let us try to recommend the good news to others in this way also:
by being exemplary in the Christian conduct that they recommend to others.
Let us remember that we should try to do unto others as we would have others do unto us.
12 “All things, therefore, that you want men to do to you, you also must do to them.+ This, in fact, is what the Law and the Prophets mean.+ (Matthew 7:12)
We do know we can not know everything, nor can we be perfect. Being imperfect, we do not always succeed 100 percent. But it is the desire of our hearts to do good unto all people not only in telling them the good news of the Kingdom but also in extending a helping hand whenever possible.
14 Of what benefit is it, my brothers, if someone says he has faith but he does not have works?+ That faith cannot save him, can it?+ 15 If a brother or a sister is lacking clothing* and enough food for the day, 16 yet one of you says to them, “Go in peace; keep warm and well fed,” but you do not give them what they need for their body, of what benefit is it?+ 17 So, too, faith by itself, without works, is dead.+ (James 2:14-17.)
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Preceding articles:
A Christian has to have eyes and ears and a tongue to use in good ways
Daring to speak in multicultural environment
How To Get Started In Sharing Your Faith As a Christian
Your position about materialistic desires having conquered the world
Looking for a shepherd for the sheep and goats
When believing in God’s existence and His son, possessing a divine legislation
Not making yourselves abominable
Perishable non theologians daring to go out to preach
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Additional reading:
- How long to wait before bringing religiousness and spirituality in practice
- Jehovah steep rock and fortress, source of insight
- Atonement And Fellowship 2/8
- Missional hermeneutics 4/5
- The Right One to follow and to worship
- Many forgot how Christ should be our anchor and our focus
- Counterfeit Gospels
- Hope by faith and free gift
- Showing by the scriptures that …
- Salvation, trust and action in Jesus #3 as a Christian
- Proclaiming shalom, bringing good news of good things, announcing salvation
- Establish your hearts blameless in holiness
- Looking for True Spirituality 7 Preaching of the Good News
- Looking for True Spirituality 8 Measuring Up
- Breathing to teach
- 2013 Lifestyle, religiously and spiritually
- Belgian Christadelphians 2013 & 2014 in review
- Stepping Toes 2014 in review
- Looking on what is going on and not being of it
- A prophet to restore
- Imitate prophets and Paul
- Oratory Style
- Counting sands and stars
- Which Christians Actually Evangelize
- Learn how to go out into the world and proclaim the Good News of the coming Kingdom
- Bringing Good News into the world
- Intentions of an Ecclesia
- Holland Week of billing
- Faith and trial
- Faith a commitment to the promises of Christ and to to the demands of Christ
- How should we preach?
- The Rapture Wars
- Not many coming out with their community name
- Writers needed to preach to non-believers
- Jehovah can make him stand
- Our openness to being approachable
- Different approach in organisation of services #3
- Glory of God appearing in our character
- A Society pleading poverty
- Good or bad preacher
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- Spiritual Growth #3 (fromthepreacherspc.org)
- True Believers Are Completely Associated With Christ (birdchirp.wordpress.com)
- The Gospel Truth (4110fearnot.wordpress.com)
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