This document discusses the balance between individualism and community from a Christian perspective. It argues that while salvation is individual, Christians also belong to the collective body of Christ. It critiques the modern overemphasis on individualism, noting that the Bible teaches we were created as both individuals and for community. True Christian community is different from political ideologies like Marxism in that it is based on faith in God, stewardship of gifts, and love rather than materialism or the subjugation of individuals. Christians are called to unity through elevating others above ourselves.
As I Have Served You - John Lusk 1-15-2017DenverCoC
This is the first in a three part series of lessons on the theme of, "As I Have Loved You." Each week we will examine a different dimension of how Jesus loved his disciples and how he has loved us. This first lesson will be a refreshing look at how Jesus came to serve his followers.
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As I Have Served You - John Lusk 1-15-2017DenverCoC
This is the first in a three part series of lessons on the theme of, "As I Have Loved You." Each week we will examine a different dimension of how Jesus loved his disciples and how he has loved us. This first lesson will be a refreshing look at how Jesus came to serve his followers.
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The church is the mother of believers--the God-ordained school of virtue in which Christian disciples learn how to desire the good and to reject what is false. Romans 12:9ff outlines covenant life in the congregation.
Homily: 14th Sunday in Ordinary Time 2017James Knipper
This weekend our Sunday readings may have provided some confusion. For Jesus tells us to carry his yoke in order to find rest and Paul talks about not loving our flesh and yet it really has nothing to do with our bodies. This is the challenge when we put 21st Century connotations on first century scripture.
So what is the real meaning behind these readings? And what impact does it have on the way you live your life? Check it out!
Hello,I have a total of 11 Discussion Boards I need completed by T.docxjeniihykdevara
Hello,
I have a total of 11 Discussion Boards I need completed by Thursday, February 25 (48 hours). Each Discussion Board should be between 2 or 2.5 paragraphs! I'm willing to pay up to $5 USD per paragraph for a total of $90- $110 total for all Discussion Boards! The assignments are really opinionated versus that of a research paper.
Here are the assignments:
Discussion Board #1:
Topic: Introduction, the Trinity, One God and Divine Revelation, World Religions
What is the Holy Trinity? Christian churchgoers hear the words of Christ proclaimed: "Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them all that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, to the close of the age." (Matthew 28:29-20) Scripture refers regularly to God as Father (Mt. 5:58)., as Son (Heb. 1:1-3), and Spirit (Rom. 5:50). Yet Scripture also tells us that God is One: (Deut. 6:4). In these passages, God is telling us about Who He is. We will learn over the semester what Catholic tradition, and other Christians, have believed about the mystery of the Trinity--and its implications for our life of faith and life in society.
One thing that tells us about the difference of the Christian God, is that He upholds a world that has a history. Time moves forward in a line, headed for a final consummation where He comes again, raises the dead, and ushers in an eternal kingdom. We'll look into key Christian themes such as original sin and our redemption in Christ, and the Biblical evidence for the Trinity, over the next few weeks. Here, I want to distinguish the Christian One God clearly from other religious portraits. This will help us in studying what it means for One God to also be Three.
Assignment:
What particularly interested you, or maybe seems in need of further explanation or clarification, in this week's material?
Discussion Board #2:
Topic: Monotheism; the Jewish Bible; Divine Fatherhood, Word, Wisdom, and Spirit
What strikes me most about Judaism is that it claims to be God acting in history. This religion is specifically not local, and it is very particular. The Lord God chooses a man, to leave his home and beget a nation, which will be the witness of the Lord's ways to the rest of humanity. The Lord God reveals Himself to humanity, and calls out a chosen people as His bride and witness. The idea is that all of humanity can know who He is. He is His Word that He reveals to Moses on Mount Sinai. This is a religion of Divine self-disclosure.
Also, the Scriptures show that the One God acts and is manifest in ways that seem like distinct persons. God watches Israel like a Father and is husband to Israel as a bride (but He does NOT have a 'consort goddess,' He is the One God). He makes Israel a family through a series of covenants by which the two bind themselves to each other irrevocably. In the words of my colleague Scott Hahn, the Lord gives Israel kinship by covenant.
Why the Trinity Is Important to Living the Spiritual Life.
* Humanity as created in God's image
* God's life in Trinity
* Contemplative prayer and participating in God's life
* Social action and participating in God's justice
A presentation and a reflection on the passage of Galatians where St. Paul describes the paradoxical relationship between Christian freedom and servitude for one another.
A Passionist reflection on the passage of Paul's letter to the Galatians where he expresses the Freedom from sin that we Christians have through Christ. This reflection also compares Christian Freedom from the American context of Freedom.
This presentation was given to the Clergy Retreat of the Romanian Orthodox Episcopate of America, November 08-11, 2011, in Scottsdale, AZ. An in depth discussion of many of the Retreat topics can be found in the articles I have written, which are posted on: Orthodoxy Today [www.orthodoxytoday.org/archive/morelli] and the Antiochian Archdiocese [http://www.antiochian.org/author/morelli] website. The high technology, secularist society we live in today poses many challenges to living Christ's teachings, being committed to His Church, and living a Christ-like life family life. Even greater challenges are faced by the successors of the Apostles, the bishops and priests who are called to shepherd Christ’s Church in the modern world. By the grace of the Holy Spirit, may this resource be of some assistance to all called to minister to our communities in Christ.
The Way to Build Fellowship
-Zac Poonen
INDEX
*. Prologue
1. One Body - the Basis of Fellowship
2. Growing in love
3. Equal members
4. Helping one another
5. Submission and leadership
6. Power through unity
CFC, Christian Fellowship Church, Christian Fellowship Center, Christian Fellowship Centre
What is a human soul? Assuming the soul exists, ‘when’ was it created and how does it interact with the body? Would a brain-damaged person be a soul-damaged person, too?
If a person’s brain were 100% replaced with electronical components, would s/he still be the same person? Can a machine be a person (as long as ‘on the outside’ it behaved like one)? Does a robot have ‘free-will’?
Slides for a TEDx talk delivered at University of Malaya on March, 23rd (2019).
It is a common but not unrealistic stereotype of Asian students that educational success is a matter of personal identity and status. As such, achieving distinctions in as many subjects as possible (the popular target of becoming a ‘straight A’ student) is usually a non-negotiable objective nurtured by both parents and educators. Such an obsessive pursuit of academic excellence produces both laudable outcomes (e.g. the tendency of Asian students to outperform their counterparts) as well as dangerous ones (e.g. worrying rates of mental health problems). This paper hopes to apply the concept of anti-fragility developed by Nassim Nicholas Taleb─in particular one of its methods known as the Barbell Strategy─towards student learning, in the hope of a) maintaining a trajectory of academic excellence whilst b) avoiding the psychological pressures which usually accompany Asian students.
Full paper available at https://www.researchgate.net/publication/328653770_NURTURING_THE_ANTI-FRAGILE_STUDENT_The_Barbell_Strategy_and_Academic_Excellence_sans_the_Strain
Understanding what constitutes an ARGUMENT: PREMISE + CONCLUSION
Understanding FALLACY i.e. when there exists a disconnect between premises and conclusions
Understanding fallacies of IRRELEVANCE and INSUFFICIENT EVIDENCE.
Hulk or Prof X? : An Introduction to Anti-FragilityAlwyn Lau
Introducing the concept of 'anti-fragile', developed by Nassim Nicholas Taleb. Sorry the slide presentation lacks text, for more info on the concept as applied to academia check out my articles below:
https://www.malaymail.com/s/1236155/child-sacrifices-are-we-letting-exams-kill-our-kids
https://www.malaymail.com/s/1009939/highway-or-hydra-can-our-children-handle-setbacks
https://www.yahoo.com/news/fragile-robust-and-anti-fragile-225945733.html
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 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.
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 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.
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.
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.
16. Marxism Christian Community That evil lies in class distinction. In other words, evil is in found a wrong sociological system. Evil lies in the sinful nature of man himself.
17. Marxism Christian Community A materialistic doctrine, that is, material is the only reality, there is no place for religion Faith in God is central. There is no dichotomy between material and spiritual.
18. Marxism Christian Community That the Community overrules the individual. The individual is unique but he is also created as a social being, he cannot be separated from Community for he is part of Community. The individual must be understood in the context of Community, and the Community be understood in the light that the individual is a distinct person who is given self-will. One cannot be separate from the other nor can they be evaluated apart from the other.
19. Marxism Christian Community That all material and immaterial wealth belongs to Community as a whole, all things be shared, there is no personal possession. Christian stewardship states that we are all stewards of God. God is the owner; we are but stewards of these gifts (be it material or immaterial). What is required of us is to be good stewards of God’s gifts according to two principles: love for God and love for the neighbour.