"Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will." ~ Romans 12:2 (NIV)
February is National Heart Awareness Month. It is meant to cause the nation to take note of the seriousness of heart disease and to be reminded about those things that promote heart health. It is wise in a spiritual sense to take time and do the same relative to our spiritual hearts. This is what this study is designed to do.
Paul has explained the wonders of God's grace to those that believe in his Jesus in Romans 1-11. Now, because of the wonderful mercies God has shown us, Paul encourages us our of an appreciation for God's mercy to present our bodies as instruments of righteousness for God. We should not be conformed to this world, but our minds should be transformed in conformity to God's will. Download this and other PowerPoints on Romans at bibleguy.org
February is National Heart Awareness Month. It is meant to cause the nation to take note of the seriousness of heart disease and to be reminded about those things that promote heart health. It is wise in a spiritual sense to take time and do the same relative to our spiritual hearts. This is what this study is designed to do.
Paul has explained the wonders of God's grace to those that believe in his Jesus in Romans 1-11. Now, because of the wonderful mercies God has shown us, Paul encourages us our of an appreciation for God's mercy to present our bodies as instruments of righteousness for God. We should not be conformed to this world, but our minds should be transformed in conformity to God's will. Download this and other PowerPoints on Romans at bibleguy.org
God had been fighting your Battles and He had been arranging things in your favor. He never stop giving and pouring you His blessings... It's a privilege to know how to get and keep His Favor?.
Pastor Elio Marrocco's "Developing Faithfulness" sermon at New Life Christian Church on June 2, 2013. You can learn more about New Life Christian Church here: http://www.newlifecc.ca
“What Will You Reap?" - [We Reap What We Sow] - (Luke 8:5-15; 2 Cor 9:6; Gal 6:7-9) - We Are All Sowing – but to what end? The principle of reaping according to what we have sown is as old as creation & applies in both the material & spiritual realm. This lesson examines three areas in which we are all sowing - (Sowing The Seed / Use of Material Things / Thoughts & Deeds) What will you reap in these three areas? – MP3 / PPT / KEYNOTE / PDF - 3/29/2015
Eschatology - The Study of the End Times.
Why every Christian should study End Times Bible Prophecy?
Major Events in the End Times.
Spiritual Implications.
Practical Application.
It is common to refer to the process of maturing as a disciple as spiritual formation. Here, based upon work by Greg Ogden, I give a four stage process for growing into maturity, and fruitfulness, as a follower of King Jesus.
This sermon explores how we can go about deepening our faith. It contains numerous quotes and insights from John Ortberg's book, "If you want to walk on water you've got to get out of the boat."
God had been fighting your Battles and He had been arranging things in your favor. He never stop giving and pouring you His blessings... It's a privilege to know how to get and keep His Favor?.
Pastor Elio Marrocco's "Developing Faithfulness" sermon at New Life Christian Church on June 2, 2013. You can learn more about New Life Christian Church here: http://www.newlifecc.ca
“What Will You Reap?" - [We Reap What We Sow] - (Luke 8:5-15; 2 Cor 9:6; Gal 6:7-9) - We Are All Sowing – but to what end? The principle of reaping according to what we have sown is as old as creation & applies in both the material & spiritual realm. This lesson examines three areas in which we are all sowing - (Sowing The Seed / Use of Material Things / Thoughts & Deeds) What will you reap in these three areas? – MP3 / PPT / KEYNOTE / PDF - 3/29/2015
Eschatology - The Study of the End Times.
Why every Christian should study End Times Bible Prophecy?
Major Events in the End Times.
Spiritual Implications.
Practical Application.
It is common to refer to the process of maturing as a disciple as spiritual formation. Here, based upon work by Greg Ogden, I give a four stage process for growing into maturity, and fruitfulness, as a follower of King Jesus.
This sermon explores how we can go about deepening our faith. It contains numerous quotes and insights from John Ortberg's book, "If you want to walk on water you've got to get out of the boat."
Pastor Elio Marrocco's "Restoring Your Passion For Life" sermon at New Life Christian Church on March 11, 2012. You can learn more about New Life Christian Church here: http://www.newlifecc.ca
The human brain has 100 billion neurons, each neuron connected to 10 thousand other neurons. Sitting on your shoulders is the most complicated object in the known universe.
The human brain has 100 billion neurons, each neuron connected to 10 thousand other neurons. Sitting on your shoulders is the most complicated object in the known universe.
The Encounter Story is filled with uplifting articles of what God is doing throughout the various areas of Encounter Revival Ministries. This is our quarterly publication meant to keep you updated with how your involvement with Encounter is helping us do great things for God and His people in the U.S. and around the world!
The Bible - The Life Instruction ManualDon McClain
"The Bible - The Life Instruction Manual" - The Bible contains necessary information & instructions that we MUST know if we are to get out of this world alive. Some ridicule the idea of the Bible being our instruction manual, but what does the Bible say?
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.
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
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.
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
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…
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.
3. 2 TIMOTHY 3:16-17
All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for:
• teaching,
• rebuking,
• correcting and
• training in righteousness
so that the servant of God may be thoroughly
equipped for every good work.
4. 2 TIMOTEO 3:16-17
Ang lahat ng Kasulatan ay kinasihan ng Diyos at
kapaki-pakinabang para sa:
• pagtuturo,
• pagsaway,
• pagwawasto at
• pagsasanay sa katuwiran
upang ang mga lingkod ng Diyos ay lubusang
maihanda para sa bawat mabuting gawa.
5. HOW TO STUDY THE SCRIPTURE
1. What is the context?
2. What is God telling me in this scripture?
3. How can I apply this to my life?
7. THE BOOK OF ROMANS
• Chapters 1-8 – about salvation & foundation of Christian
faith
Romans 6:23 “For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of
God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.”
• Chapters 9-11 – about how to have a right relationship with
God
Romans 10:9 – “If you declare with your mouth, "Jesus is
Lord," and believe in your heart that God raised him from
the dead, you will be saved.”
• Chapters 12-16 – about how to live a holy lifestyle
8. ROMANS 12:1-2
1 Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in
view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a
living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is
your true and proper worship.
2 Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but
be transformed by the renewing of your
mind. Then you will be able to test and approve
what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and
9. DON’T FOLLOW THE #TREND
BE #TRANSFORMED!
~ R O M A N S 1 2 : 1 - 2
10. ROMANS 12:1
1 Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in
view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a
living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is
your true and proper worship.
John
3:16
11. ROMANS 12:1
1 Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in
view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a
living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is
your true and proper worship.
12. WHAT DO YOU USE YOUR BODY FOR?
1. Grab a partner.
2. In 1 minute, ask each other: what do you use
your body for?
13.
14. WHAT DO YOU USE YOUR BODY FOR?
We use our
bodies
practically in
everything!
A.K.A living!
1. Speaking
2. Thinking
3. Feeling
4. Hearing
5. Seeing
6. Sleeping
7. Believing
8. Working…
And so on…
15. WHAT DO YOU USE YOUR BODY FOR?
1 Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in
view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a
living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is
your true and proper worship.
everythin
g!
16. WHAT DO YOU USE YOUR BODY FOR?
1 Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in
view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a
living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is
your true and proper worship.
the surrender or destruction of something prized or desirable for t
he
sake of something considered as having a higher or more pressing
claim
17. ROMANS 12:1
1 Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in
view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a
living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is
your true and proper worship.
18. Old Testament Sacrifice New Testament Sacrifice
• Bull
• Goat
• Ram
• Lamb
• Grain
• Cereal
• Oil
• Life of the person offering
• For the high priest
• For the congregation
• Holy
• Pleasing
• Symbol of true and proper
worship
http://www.agapebiblestudy.com/charts/levit
ical%20sacrifices%20and%20offerings%20of
%20the%20old%20covenant.htm
19. Lesson 1
Offer our daily lives to Him
When we live a life that is holy and pleasing to God,
• this is our true and proper worship, and
• a sign of our gratitude for His mercy.
20. DON’T FOLLOW THE #TREND
BE #TRANSFORMED!
~ R O M A N S 1 2 : 1 - 2
21. WE ARE A LIVING
SACRIFICE
We have the tendency
to move and crawl out!
22. SO HOW?
HOW CAN I STAY AT THE ALTAR?
HOW DO I LIVE A LIFE THAT IS HOLY AND
PLEASING TO GOD?
23. ROMANS 12:2
2 Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but
be transformed by the renewing of your
mind. Then you will be able to test and approve
what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and
perfect will.
25. PATTERNS OF THIS WORLD
•Politics
•Media
•Success
•Violence
•Getting rich
•Educational attainments
•Etc, etc
26. ROMANS 12:2
2 Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but
be transformed by the renewing of your
mind. Then you will be able to test and approve
what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and
perfect will.
30. HOW DO I RENEW MY MIND?
Know what God says and replace what’s on your mind.
31. GUARD WHAT’S ON YOUR MIND
“Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is
true, whatever is noble, whatever is
right, whatever is pure, whatever is
lovely, whatever is admirable--if
anything is excellent or praiseworthy--
think about such things.” ~ Philippians
4:8
thoughts
words
actions
habits
character
life
32. ROMANS 12:1-2
2 Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be
transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will
be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good,
pleasing and perfect will.
It is God’s will for us to be sanctified (1 Thessalonians 4:3) and be
transformed from glory to glory (2 Corinthians 3:18).
33. Lesson 2
Renew our minds
When I think not according to the expectations of this
world, but according to God’s standards, then I can
discern God’s greater plan for my life - holiness.
34. DON’T FOLLOW THE #TREND
BE #TRANSFORMED!
~ R O M A N S 1 2 : 1 - 2
35. HOW DOES ONE MAKE A LIFE CHANGE?
A SHIFT IN THINKING
36. SUMMARY
1. Offer our daily lives to Him
When I live a life that is holy and pleasing to God,
• this is my true and proper worship, and
• a sign of my gratitude for His mercy.
2. Renew our minds
When I think not according to the expectations of this
world, but according to God’s standards, then I can
discern God’s greater plan for my life - holiness.
37. HOW CAN I APPLY THIS TO MY LIFE?
What will I do differently after hearing God’s
message on Romans 12:1-2?
38. “But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit —
the Father will send Him in My name
—will teach you all things and remind
you of everything I have told you.”
~ John 14:26
39. “Ang Espiritu Santo … ang magtuturo
sa inyo at ipapaalala Niya ang lahat ng
bagay na aking sinabi sa inyo." ~ Juan
14:26
