The gifts from the wise men to the infant Jesus each held significant symbolic meaning. Gold was presented because Jesus was descended from King David and would be the future "King of kings". Frankincense represented Jesus' role as the great High Priest and his role in the atonement as the sacrificial lamb. Myrrh symbolized Jesus' role as a healer and his mission to die for humanity's sins.
Bible Study - Introduction to the Book of TitusUCG NWA
This presentation introduces a Bible Study series covering the book of Titus.
Presented by Tim Martens, February 1, 2020, at United Church of God in Northwest Arkansas.
Bible Study - Introduction to the Book of TitusUCG NWA
This presentation introduces a Bible Study series covering the book of Titus.
Presented by Tim Martens, February 1, 2020, at United Church of God in Northwest Arkansas.
Identity: We are Ambassadors for ChristStephen Palm
Several weeks ago, we looked at the heart lifting truth that in Christ, we are both justified and reconciled. In 2 Corinthians 5:18-21 Paul focusses on the fruit of that reconciliation. Not only are we reconciled, we are called to be reconcilers. Just as we have been brought near to God, we are commissioned to be Ambassadors for Christ, helping to connect lost people to the Savior who can heal their broken relationships with God.
In this second part of the introduction to Titus, we learn of the biblical history and influence of elders.
Presented by Tim Martens, June 6, 2020, at United Church of God in Northwest Arkansas.
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CHAPTER I PLEIADES AND ORION
CHAPTER II ICE-MORSELS
CHAPTER III. GRASS
CHAPTER IV. THE TREES OF THE LORD.
CHAPTER V. CORN
CHAPTER VI. BLASTING AND MILDEW
CHAPTER VIL THE LEAF
CHAPTER VIIL THE TEACHING OF THE EARTH
Talk on the topic "Our call: to be Holy", part of a series "Vocation and Mission of Lay people in the Church and the World Today." The Emmaus prayer meeting 7th March 2009.
Identity: We are Ambassadors for ChristStephen Palm
Several weeks ago, we looked at the heart lifting truth that in Christ, we are both justified and reconciled. In 2 Corinthians 5:18-21 Paul focusses on the fruit of that reconciliation. Not only are we reconciled, we are called to be reconcilers. Just as we have been brought near to God, we are commissioned to be Ambassadors for Christ, helping to connect lost people to the Savior who can heal their broken relationships with God.
In this second part of the introduction to Titus, we learn of the biblical history and influence of elders.
Presented by Tim Martens, June 6, 2020, at United Church of God in Northwest Arkansas.
Buy cheap books nyc at: http://www.namastebookshop.com/books/ we offers latest version of books: The book sections include Buddhism, Western Philosophy, Eastern Philosophy, Yoga/Ayurveda, Mantra/Tantra, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot Book, Meditation, Divination/Wicca, Bodywork/Reiki, and many more.
CHAPTER I PLEIADES AND ORION
CHAPTER II ICE-MORSELS
CHAPTER III. GRASS
CHAPTER IV. THE TREES OF THE LORD.
CHAPTER V. CORN
CHAPTER VI. BLASTING AND MILDEW
CHAPTER VIL THE LEAF
CHAPTER VIIL THE TEACHING OF THE EARTH
Talk on the topic "Our call: to be Holy", part of a series "Vocation and Mission of Lay people in the Church and the World Today." The Emmaus prayer meeting 7th March 2009.
This slide deck is one of a series designed to enable conscientious teachers who lead a Bible study or Sunday School class but are too busy to research and prepare well for the task to access a quality lesson that is engaging and challenging and do so even at the last moment, “to go”. This one is on the Epistle of Hebrews. Many more are in the works. Check back using the search term "lessonstogo"
CHRISTIANITYThe soil in which Christianity came to flower was .docxchristinemaritza
CHRISTIANITY
The soil in which Christianity came to flower was an amalgam of many local traditions. The Greco-Roman world was polytheistic, dominated by strongly secular values. Throughout the East Roman Empire, more mystical forms of worship—the mystery cults—honored a variety of gods and goddesses associated with fertility and regeneration. Finally, in the birthplace of Jesus himself, the Hebrews practiced an exclusive form of ethical monotheism. The faith that would come to be called Christianity had roots in these three major traditions: Greco-Roman, Near Eastern, and Jewish.
The Greco-Roman Background
Roman religion, like Roman culture itself, was a blend of native and borrowed traditions. Ancient pagan religious rituals marked seasonal change and celebrated seedtime and harvest. Augury, the interpretation of omens (a practice borrowed from the Etruscans), was important to Roman religious life as a means of predicting future events. As with the Greeks, Rome’s favorite deities were looked upon as protectors of the household, the marketplace, and the state. The Romans welcomed the gods of non-Roman peoples and honored them along with the greater and lesser Roman gods. This tolerance contributed to the lack of religious uniformity in the Empire, as well as to wide speculation concerning the possibility of life after death. Roman poets pictured a shadowy underworld in which the souls of the dead survived (similar to the Greek Hades and the Hebrew Sheol), but Roman religion promised neither retribution in the afterlife nor the reward of eternal life.
Mystery Cults
Throughout much of the Near East, agricultural societies celebrated seasonal change by way of symbolic performances of the birth, death, and rebirth of the gods. The cults of Isis in Egypt, Cybele in Phrygia, Dionysus in Greece, and Mithra in Persia are known collectively as “mystery cults,” because their initiation rituals were secret (mysterios). These cults embraced symbolic acts of spiritual death and rebirth, such as ritual baptism and a communal meal at which the flesh and blood of the god was consumed. Mithraism, the most widespread of the mystery cults, looked back to ancient Persia’s Zoroastrian belief in the rival forces of Light and Dark (Good and Evil) (see page 15). Devotees of Mithra, the god of light, anticipated spiritual deliverance and everlasting life. Mithraism required strict initiation rites, periods of fasting, ritual baptism, and a communal meal of bread and wine. Mithra’s followers celebrated his birth on December 25th, that is, at the winter solstice that marked the sun’s annual “rebirth.” The cult of Mithraism excluded women but was enormously popular among Roman soldiers, who identified with Mithra’s heroic prowess and self-discipline.
Judea Before Jesus
The young Jewish preacher and healer known as Joshua (Greek, Jesus ) was born in the city of Bethlehem during the reign of the Roman emperor Augustus. The territory in which he lived had become the Ro ...
Jesus was the source of grace, mercy and peaceGLENN PEASE
This is a study of Jesus being the source of grace, mercy and peace, along with HIs Father. He is the source of all of the human virtues and gifts of God.
Jesus was like blazing fire in his eyesGLENN PEASE
This is a study of Jesus having the blazing eyes of fire. Many have written about this which is mentioned at least three times in the book of Revelation.
This is a study of Jesus as the one to keep our eyes on. Make Him the focus of our minds and be thinking of Him often and not just rarely as in church.
This is a study of Jesus being the greatest wise man. He had the very wisdom of His father, and as you study His teaching you come to realize that no one ever spoke as He did, and no one was ever more clever in dealing with problems and issues. He had the greatest plan for the best life for time and eternity.
This is a study of the gospel Jesus preached, and you may be surprised when you discover what His message was, for it was before the cross and resurrection.
The Good News, newsletter for June 2024 is hereNoHo FUMC
Our monthly newsletter is available to read online. We hope you will join us each Sunday in person for our worship service. Make sure to subscribe and follow us on YouTube and social media.
The Chakra System in our body - A Portal to Interdimensional Consciousness.pptxBharat Technology
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.
Homily: The Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity Sunday 2024.docxJames Knipper
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…
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).
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
Lesson 9 - Resisting Temptation Along the Way.pptxCelso Napoleon
Lesson 9 - Resisting Temptation Along the Way
SBs – Sunday Bible School
Adult Bible Lessons 2nd quarter 2024 CPAD
MAGAZINE: THE CAREER THAT IS PROPOSED TO US: The Path of Salvation, Holiness and Perseverance to Reach Heaven
Commentator: Pastor Osiel Gomes
Presentation: Missionary Celso Napoleon
Renewed in Grace
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.
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.
1. the
great High Priest, the Sacrificial
Lamb — and exactly how His life’s
mission would culminate.
The precious, economically
valuable metal was a fitting gift
for the baby who would grow to
become“king of kings.”
It was also highly valuable,
making it especially useful for
Joseph and Mary who were
very poor. At the time, gold was
also symbolic of kingship and
royalty, fitting because of both
Jesus’ heavenly heritage as the Son
of God and his earthly parentage as
a descendent of King David.
Frankincense
Frankincense is an expensive oil
derived from a sweet tree resin,
used as perfume, sweet-smelling
incense and — most notably — in
priesthood ordinances. The gift of
2. frankincense to the boy Jesus is
rich in symbolism.
First, high priests used
frankincense in sacrificial
ordinances, indicating that the
wise man saw Jesus as a holder of
the high priesthood. In the
Savior’s time, the high priest was
also considered a mediator between
the people and God — an
obvious symbolic tie to Christ’s
role as Mediator.
The gift also alluded to the
offering of a sacrificial lamb,
which Christ would become as he
performed his atonement. And as
part of a sacrificial offering,
frankincense had been offered as
a gift to God for centuries. In
these ways, the gift of
frankincense symbolized Christ’s
role as the great High Priest, the
Sacrificial Lamb, the mediator and
the Son of God.
3. Myrrh, an aromatic resin, was
bitter-smelling and also very
expensive. Myrrh is known primarily
for its medicinal and preservative
qualities; in the Savior’s time, it
was often used in embalming.
During Christ’s life, he healed
many who were physically afflicted.
The gift of myrrh could be symbolic
of His role as healer, both during
His ministry and as a result of His
atonement.
Part of Christ’s earthly mission
was to die for the sins of the
world and to be resurrected,
breaking the bonds of death for all
mankind. Myrrh, used often in
embalming, was a fitting gift for
one who came to the Earth in order
to die.
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