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Dwelling Place | Hardie de Beer | 7 February 2016 
The document contains excerpts from several Bible passages that express a longing for God's presence and guidance. The passages from Job, Isaiah, and 2 Corinthians discuss experiencing God's light, friendship, and freedom. The Psalms verses praise God for counsel, protection, and being a refuge and shepherd for his people. Overall, the document highlights the comfort and assurance that comes from keeping one's eyes on God.
New Season, Ancient Values | Michael Neumann | 03 April 2016
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Our Model
The document outlines the mission and values of an organization aimed at restoring people to God and others through various programs and expressions. The mission involves restoring, empowering, and unleashing people, with values of restoring relationships, empowering reproduction, and unleashing generosity. The organization achieves its mission through Sunday services, community impact programs, and micro churches.
Paul Lostritto - The Dwelling Place of Midtown Manhattan
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Dwelling Place | Hardie de Beer | 7 February 2016
The document contains excerpts from several Bible passages that express a longing for God's presence and guidance. The passages from Job, Isaiah, and 2 Corinthians discuss experiencing God's light, friendship, and freedom. The Psalms verses praise God for counsel, protection, and being a refuge and shepherd for his people. Overall, the document highlights the comfort and assurance that comes from keeping one's eyes on God.
New Season, Ancient Values | Michael Neumann | 03 April 2016
When we embody the ancient values stated in Ephesians 4:1-3, we will allow the Holy Spirit to position us to be salt and light and the yeast that ushers God’s Kingdom into our hearts, homes and beyond.
Seventh-day Adventist Believe and Contextualizing
This document discusses the focus and inspiration of the Scriptures. It states that the Bible reveals God and humanity's predicament, and reveals Jesus as the solution who finds the lost and brings them back to God. It says Jesus is the central focus of Scripture, and that the cross ultimately reveals both human sinfulness and God's inexhaustible love. It describes the inspiration of Scripture as coming through the Holy Spirit, who communicated truth to writers while respecting their individuality, and says the Bible is historically reliable because of this divine guidance in its production.
Franciscan Bread for the Poor and the St. Francis Breadline
Paul Lostritto is a parish priest and registered nurse who was accepted into an NYU nursing master's program. As the executive director of St. Francis Breadline, part of Franciscan Bread for the Poor, he oversees providing food to those in need. Franciscan Bread for the Poor has been feeding struggling communities for over 80 years through volunteers who supply and serve food. They continue to rely on volunteers to carry out services like working on the breadline, delivering food, and assisting in the food pantry.
A Dwelling Place For God
How much stained glass, how high a steeple, how awesome a choir, and how great a preacher would it take to cause God to leave the splendour of heaven?
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This document discusses God's dream for one's life based on Jeremiah 29:11. It states that God's dream is personal, as God made each person with a purpose and plan in mind. It is also positive, as God's plans are to prosper and not harm individuals. Finally, God's dream is promising for the future, giving hope and a future. The document aims to convey that God has purposeful plans to bless individuals.
Our Model
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Paul Lostritto - The Dwelling Place of Midtown Manhattan
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2) Jesus explained that the Holy Spirit would empower and guide the disciples' ministry, giving them speech, convicting the world, and enabling them to do greater works than Jesus. The Spirit was necessary for effective evangelism.
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