The document discusses Christian faith as a way of life that involves both personal and social transformation. It argues that spiritual formation involves intentional practices that develop disciples who then act as apostles working to transform the world. The church's purpose is not just membership in an institution but to join God in bringing about the kingdom of God through healing the world on all levels of society.
Adapted from a Daniel Devilder sermon https://www.sermoncentral.com/sermons/1-the-jesus-touch-daniel-devilder-sermon-on-miracles-of-jesus-98963?ref=SermonSeriesDetails
EQUALLYOKED - RELIGIONS 101 - LIBERAL ARTS AND HUMANITIESKarl Birnaum
Equallyoked - Religions 101 - Liberal Arts and Humanities - is about Equallyoked Couples from the perspectives of religion. It about the Christian code-144,000.
Finding God in Everyday Situations (with Conscious Examen of Ignatian Spiritu...Karen Gutierrez
Do we seek God like how Zaccheus, the despised tax collector, did of Jesus by climbing up a sycamore tree just so he can have a look as Jesus passed by? Where do we find God? Do we need to be rendered immobile by an injury like St. Ignatius of Loyola just so we can have all the time in the world to seek God? Based on the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius, we can learn how to find God in everyday situations, anywhere, anytime. Find out how to do the Conscious Examen or Examination of Conscience every day (night).
Adapted from a Daniel Devilder sermon https://www.sermoncentral.com/sermons/1-the-jesus-touch-daniel-devilder-sermon-on-miracles-of-jesus-98963?ref=SermonSeriesDetails
EQUALLYOKED - RELIGIONS 101 - LIBERAL ARTS AND HUMANITIESKarl Birnaum
Equallyoked - Religions 101 - Liberal Arts and Humanities - is about Equallyoked Couples from the perspectives of religion. It about the Christian code-144,000.
Finding God in Everyday Situations (with Conscious Examen of Ignatian Spiritu...Karen Gutierrez
Do we seek God like how Zaccheus, the despised tax collector, did of Jesus by climbing up a sycamore tree just so he can have a look as Jesus passed by? Where do we find God? Do we need to be rendered immobile by an injury like St. Ignatius of Loyola just so we can have all the time in the world to seek God? Based on the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius, we can learn how to find God in everyday situations, anywhere, anytime. Find out how to do the Conscious Examen or Examination of Conscience every day (night).
Rite of Christian Initiation for Adults (RCIA) presentation on "Works of Mercy," presented by David Jensen at St. Patrick Catholic Church, 26 Jan 2010.
this powerpoint aim is, "To touch the hearts of people so that through this ppt we can help them to practise works of mercy in their own life according to their capabilities and help them make a difference in today’s world
Making disciples who make disciples is at the heart of the call to follow Christ. Here are some notes on the gap between our intentions and practice (adapted from Greg Ogden's book, Transforming Discipleship).
This slideshow introduces the cultural need and Church teaching on evangelization. It is the Evangelical Catholic\'s introductory presentation when training Catholic leaders.
An apostolic Community is one where the people are living in the benefit of the apostolic dimension.
It is important to understand the nature of apostolic communities for accurate positioning, planning and expectation.
Understanding apostolic community will inform our value systems and provide a new measuring rod by which to evaluate quality and direction.
Rite of Christian Initiation for Adults (RCIA) presentation on "Works of Mercy," presented by David Jensen at St. Patrick Catholic Church, 26 Jan 2010.
this powerpoint aim is, "To touch the hearts of people so that through this ppt we can help them to practise works of mercy in their own life according to their capabilities and help them make a difference in today’s world
Making disciples who make disciples is at the heart of the call to follow Christ. Here are some notes on the gap between our intentions and practice (adapted from Greg Ogden's book, Transforming Discipleship).
This slideshow introduces the cultural need and Church teaching on evangelization. It is the Evangelical Catholic\'s introductory presentation when training Catholic leaders.
An apostolic Community is one where the people are living in the benefit of the apostolic dimension.
It is important to understand the nature of apostolic communities for accurate positioning, planning and expectation.
Understanding apostolic community will inform our value systems and provide a new measuring rod by which to evaluate quality and direction.
This presentation was made to the Gathering of Leaders [GOL]. The GOL is a group of young leaders who get together to share study, pray, and share best practices about their ministry and vocation within the Episcopal Church.
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each chakra is studied in greater detail, several steps have been included to
strengthen your personal intention to open each chakra more fully. These are designed
to draw forth the highest benefit for your spiritual growth.
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Countless volumes have been written trying to explain the mystery of three persons in one true God, leaving us to resort to metaphors such as the three-leaf clover to try to comprehend the Divinity. Many of us grew up with the quintessential pyramidal Trinity structure of God at the top and Son and Spirit in opposite corners. But what if we looked at this ‘mystery’ from a different perspective? What if we shifted our language of God as a being towards the concept of God as love? What if we focused more on the relationship within the Trinity versus the persons of the Trinity? What if stopped looking at God as a noun…and instead considered God as a verb? Check it out…
The PBHP DYC ~ Reflections on The Dhamma (English).pptxOH TEIK BIN
A PowerPoint Presentation based on the Dhamma Reflections for the PBHP DYC for the years 1993 – 2012. To motivate and inspire DYC members to keep on practicing the Dhamma and to do the meritorious deed of Dhammaduta work.
The texts are in English.
For the Video with audio narration, comments and texts in English, please check out the Link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zF2g_43NEa0
The Book of Joshua is the sixth book in the Hebrew Bible and the Old Testament, and is the first book of the Deuteronomistic history, the story of Israel from the conquest of Canaan to the Babylonian exile.
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In Jude 17-23 Jude shifts from piling up examples of false teachers from the Old Testament to a series of practical exhortations that flow from apostolic instruction. He preserves for us what may well have been part of the apostolic catechism for the first generation of Christ-followers. In these instructions Jude exhorts the believer to deal with 3 different groups of people: scoffers who are "devoid of the Spirit", believers who have come under the influence of scoffers and believers who are so entrenched in false teaching that they need rescue and pose some real spiritual risk for the rescuer. In all of this Jude emphasizes Jesus' call to rescue straying sheep, leaving the 99 safely behind and pursuing the 1.
What Should be the Christian View of Anime?Joe Muraguri
We will learn what Anime is and see what a Christian should consider before watching anime movies? We will also learn a little bit of Shintoism religion and hentai (the craze of internet pornography today).
16. Two Denominations: Conventional churches of personal spirituality or institutional tradition. Intentional Churches dedicated to saving creation from human evil, beginning with us.
17. Two Denominations: We may have rightly lost confidence in the privatized/institutionalized gospel … We need to (re)gain confidence in Jesus’ gospel of the kingdom of God.
18. This approach has powerful implications for what it means to identify as followers of Jesus in today’s world.
21. Did Jesus come to create “Christians” or to form disciples who would join God in healing our world?
22. Clearly, for the early disciples, the church was an expanding circle of disciples. It was “the embodiment of Christ.” They saw themselves as learners in his way.
23. come, follow me Learn of me, take my yoke upon you I have given you an example Make disciples, teaching them to practice everything I have taught you
24. Be conformed to the image of Christ. Romans 8 Be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Romans 12 … that Christ may be formed in you. Galatians 4 Learn Christ… Be made new in the attitude of your minds Ephesians 4 Christ in you, the hope of glory … everyone fully formed in Christ Colossians 1 Let this attitude be in you which was also in Christ… Philippians 2
25. This kind of personal spiritual formation involves intentional spiritual practices (or disciplines):
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29. How are disciples formed? Through practice(s). ___public worship ___solitude ___sabbath ___meditation ___eucharist ___silence ___study ___spiritual direction ___ practicing God’s presence ___prayer journaling ___fixed-hour prayer ___contemplative prayer ___service ___submission ___simplicity ___feasting/fasting ___pilgrimage ___self-denial ___identifying with Jesus ___reconciliation ___giving ___confessing sin ___reciting creeds
30. How are disciples formed? Through practice. ___public worship ___solitude ___sabbath ___eucharist ___silence ___study ___spiritual direction ___ practicing God’s presence ___prayer journaling ___fixed-hour prayer ___contemplative prayer ___service ___submission ___simplicity ___feasting/fasting ___pilgrimage ___self-denial ___identifying with Jesus ___reconciliation ___giving ___confessing sin ___reciting creeds But this is only half the story …
33. Jesus calls disciples - men and women who will learn to live a new way of life and experience transformation. Then he sends them out as apostles … people who would bring transformation to the world.
34. the well-formed disciple/apostle Love God Love neighbor, enemy Via Contemplativa Via Activa Good heart Good works Trust Obey Transforming (1) Transforming (2) Disciple Apostle “ interior castle” kingdom of God godliness otherliness
35. the well-formed disciple patient kind not envious doesn’t boast not proud not rude not self-seeking not easily angered no record of wrongs doesn’t delight in evil rejoices with truth always protects always trusts always hopes always perseveres never fails
36. The purpose of personal formation is social transformation
37. And social transformation requires personal transformation.
38. There must be ongoing transformation at every level: Economic, political, social, familial, community, artistic, ecological, legal, business, military, scientific, educational, etc.
39. How are disciples formed? Through personal practices. ___public worship ___solitude ___sabbath ___eucharist ___silence ___study ___spiritual direction ___ practicing God’s presence ___prayer journaling ___fixed-hour prayer ___contemplative prayer ___service ___submission ___simplicity ___feasting/fasting ___pilgrimage ___self-denial ___identifying with Jesus ___reconciliation ___giving ___confessing sin ___reciting creeds
40. How are apostles formed? Through missional practices. ___forgiving ___hospitality ___praying for healing ___not judging ___confronting evil ___serving ___listening ___associating with the lowly ___ holy kiss ___speaking truth in love ___neighborliness ___loving enemies ___preferring poor ___speaking for justice ___proclaiming good news in word and deed ___giving to poor ___throwing parties for poor ___walking to other side of street to serve ___giving ___encouragement ___empathy
41. How is the world transformed? Through communities of people participating in transformation.
44. So … the church is the community that joins God for global transformation on every level … It is a community of transforming individuals who participate with God in the transformation of the world: the coming of the Kingdom of God.
46. Spiritual formation is the development of people who are agents of God’s healing … Agents of peace, reconciliation, creativity, courage, patience, urgency, generosity, solidarity with the poor and oppressed, truth-telling …
47. Working out the dynamic tension … Social movements: Confront social institutions, call for change Social institutions: Conserve gains made by previous social movements Oppose current social movements