Skitz was failing as a friend. For some reason he had changed and had not bothered to give his friends the memo. They looked in at his life and wanted to be part of it, but he did not know how to invite them in.
We are more blessed than we realize.
It has become a cliche that we all accept, but don’t really do anything about. Especially as adults we are burned out on need. We are so accustomed to seeing the adds with starving children on TV and hearing about it on the news that we have just accepted it as part of life. Something that we have no real chance to change.
While that is true, it is not true enough. There is no way any of us, even in the richest country in the world, could help everyone, but we could certainly help someone.
What is amazing very year we go to Mexico is that students do not have the moral shielding that adults do. When they see poverty, they don’t justify their wealth, they just give it away. They throw the little they have at those who need it, and run to get more.
They are not worried about the practicality, or the sustainability of their efforts, they are just lost in a moment of total compassion. I wonder if the world would be a better place if we could all learn to be so irresponsibly compassionate.
2009 Internet Strategy Forum Corporate Internet Executive Research Study -- 4...sgehlen
This PDF file is a 4-page Brief report excerpt from the complete 70-page Corporate Internet Executive Research Study report published by the Internet Strategy Forum. For more information, visit http://wwww.internetstrategyforum.org.
We are not alone in this universe. The Bible talks of other kinds of beings that occupy the same space that we do. These ancient beings are unseen and powerful, and they want to destroy us. These evil beings are masters of temptation and will do whatever they can to seduce us into leaving the narrow path that pleases God, and joining in their path of destruction.
The Prince that rules these dark minions is also spoke of in the Bible. He is the Devil. A fallen angel who leads his forces against all goodness and light. As crazy and unbelievable as this sounds, our lives are being played out in the midst of a cosmic battle that effects us in ways we cannot fully understand.
We are not alone in this universe. The Bible talks of other kinds of beings that occupy the same space that we do. These ancient beings are unseen and powerful, and they want to destroy us. These evil beings are masters of temptation and will do whatever they can to seduce us into leaving the narrow path that pleases God, and joining in their path of destruction.
The Prince that rules these dark minions is also spoke of in the Bible. He is the Devil. A fallen angel who leads his forces against all goodness and light. As crazy and unbelievable as this sounds, our lives are being played out in the midst of a cosmic battle that effects us in ways we cannot fully understand.
Teaching Outline: It wasn’t always this way. Once the first humans walked with God and did not desire sin they way we do today. But now our very nature is against God. Our flesh want to sin, and we do not need any external pressure or demonic influence to make us do it.
Something is wrong inside of us. Though God desires for us to live the best kind of life full of beauty and good, our desires lead us astray. Like a starving man hungers for bread, our fallen nature hungers for sin. Even though we know it is wrong we long for the promised treasures of sin. Even though we know it will hurt us in the end, often we do not say no. Like an addict we are hooked.
It wasn’t always this way. Once the first humans walked with God and did not desire sin they way we do today. But now our very nature is against God. Our flesh want to sin, and we do not need any external pressure or demonic influence to make us do it.
Sierra is extraordinarily faithful...
Sierra Is really serious about God and her faith. She is extraordinarily serious in fact. So serious that she is a little prone to being judgmental. She would gladly give Jesus her life, so long as it did not mean enduring life among the sinners.
Growing up in a good church and learning from an early age of God’s love and the life that He wants everyone to live, Sierra has doubt which path she wants to live on. But while her love for God is strong, her understanding of others is still forming. To her, she doesn’t get why people would choose anything else. Her patience and respect for sinful people is pretty thin, until the day she made on E.Z. mistake...
"For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him."
~John 3:17
Nobody can save the day for everyone, but almost everyone can help someone.
The Problem isn’t our lack of ability, it is our lack of effort. All around us people struggle and hurt, yet we do not engage. We hold back and wait to see what happens. The end of this process is that we become spectators to the painful problems of others as if we have no part in the outcome.
But we do.
We have the ability to help people, nearly every day.
We have a choice. Will we help others around us, or will we keep our abilities for ourselves.
Ben is extraordinary in many ways...
Blessed by the gods of puberty Ben is the antithesis of middle school awkwardness. He is unusually confident and in control, light years ahead of his class developmentally. His confidence has been reinforced by his recent interactions with girls. He is bright, gifted, articulate, funny, and in many ways he is achieving popularity effortlessly. But there is a cost.
Ben’s drive to explore his new “popular” life has led him to many places once unimagined. Ben grew up in a good Christian home, but His newfound success with the ladies has led him to put his faith and values on hold. While some people ride the fence, Ben has jumped it entirely. He has traded faith and God, for pleasure and popularity. Ben is not the alone.
2009 Internet Strategy Forum Corporate Internet Executive Research Study -- 4...sgehlen
This PDF file is a 4-page Brief report excerpt from the complete 70-page Corporate Internet Executive Research Study report published by the Internet Strategy Forum. For more information, visit http://wwww.internetstrategyforum.org.
We are not alone in this universe. The Bible talks of other kinds of beings that occupy the same space that we do. These ancient beings are unseen and powerful, and they want to destroy us. These evil beings are masters of temptation and will do whatever they can to seduce us into leaving the narrow path that pleases God, and joining in their path of destruction.
The Prince that rules these dark minions is also spoke of in the Bible. He is the Devil. A fallen angel who leads his forces against all goodness and light. As crazy and unbelievable as this sounds, our lives are being played out in the midst of a cosmic battle that effects us in ways we cannot fully understand.
We are not alone in this universe. The Bible talks of other kinds of beings that occupy the same space that we do. These ancient beings are unseen and powerful, and they want to destroy us. These evil beings are masters of temptation and will do whatever they can to seduce us into leaving the narrow path that pleases God, and joining in their path of destruction.
The Prince that rules these dark minions is also spoke of in the Bible. He is the Devil. A fallen angel who leads his forces against all goodness and light. As crazy and unbelievable as this sounds, our lives are being played out in the midst of a cosmic battle that effects us in ways we cannot fully understand.
Teaching Outline: It wasn’t always this way. Once the first humans walked with God and did not desire sin they way we do today. But now our very nature is against God. Our flesh want to sin, and we do not need any external pressure or demonic influence to make us do it.
Something is wrong inside of us. Though God desires for us to live the best kind of life full of beauty and good, our desires lead us astray. Like a starving man hungers for bread, our fallen nature hungers for sin. Even though we know it is wrong we long for the promised treasures of sin. Even though we know it will hurt us in the end, often we do not say no. Like an addict we are hooked.
It wasn’t always this way. Once the first humans walked with God and did not desire sin they way we do today. But now our very nature is against God. Our flesh want to sin, and we do not need any external pressure or demonic influence to make us do it.
Sierra is extraordinarily faithful...
Sierra Is really serious about God and her faith. She is extraordinarily serious in fact. So serious that she is a little prone to being judgmental. She would gladly give Jesus her life, so long as it did not mean enduring life among the sinners.
Growing up in a good church and learning from an early age of God’s love and the life that He wants everyone to live, Sierra has doubt which path she wants to live on. But while her love for God is strong, her understanding of others is still forming. To her, she doesn’t get why people would choose anything else. Her patience and respect for sinful people is pretty thin, until the day she made on E.Z. mistake...
"For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him."
~John 3:17
Nobody can save the day for everyone, but almost everyone can help someone.
The Problem isn’t our lack of ability, it is our lack of effort. All around us people struggle and hurt, yet we do not engage. We hold back and wait to see what happens. The end of this process is that we become spectators to the painful problems of others as if we have no part in the outcome.
But we do.
We have the ability to help people, nearly every day.
We have a choice. Will we help others around us, or will we keep our abilities for ourselves.
Ben is extraordinary in many ways...
Blessed by the gods of puberty Ben is the antithesis of middle school awkwardness. He is unusually confident and in control, light years ahead of his class developmentally. His confidence has been reinforced by his recent interactions with girls. He is bright, gifted, articulate, funny, and in many ways he is achieving popularity effortlessly. But there is a cost.
Ben’s drive to explore his new “popular” life has led him to many places once unimagined. Ben grew up in a good Christian home, but His newfound success with the ladies has led him to put his faith and values on hold. While some people ride the fence, Ben has jumped it entirely. He has traded faith and God, for pleasure and popularity. Ben is not the alone.
This presentation is based on Data from 2005... it needs to be updated and the sources need to be cited. I will hopefully put up an updated version soon.
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 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.
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).
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 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.
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
5. Everyone can help someone...hero
What should skitz have said to his
friends?
What did Skitz do right in the video?
What motivated Him to spend so
much time serving others?
What do you think he should do now?
What have you done to help others
with your resources?
17Wednesday, February 4, 2009
7. Everyone can help someone...
hero
1. Blessed to Bless:
(What will you do with your
amazing resources?]
19Wednesday, February 4, 2009
8. James 1:27 Religion that God our
Father accepts as pure and
faultless is this: to look after
orphans and widows in their
distress and to keep oneself from
being polluted by the world.
20Wednesday, February 4, 2009
9. James 4:13 Now listen, you who say, "Today
or tomorrow we will go to this or that city,
spend a year there, carry on business and make
money." 14 Why, you do not even know what
will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You
are a mist that appears for a little while
and then vanishes. 15 Instead, you ought to
say, "If it is the Lord's will, we will live and
do this or that." 16 As it is, you boast in your
arrogant schemes. All such boasting is evil. 17
So then, if you know the good
you ought to do and don't do
it, you sin.
21Wednesday, February 4, 2009
22. James 4:17 So then, if you
know the good you ought to do
and don't do it, you sin.
34Wednesday, February 4, 2009
23. Everyone can help someone...
hero
2 a Familiar Stranger
(God takes the way we treat others seriously?]
35Wednesday, February 4, 2009
24. Matthew 25:31 "When the Son of Man
comes in his glory, and all the angels with
him, he will sit on his glorious throne. 32
All the nations will be gathered before
him, and he will separate the people one
from another as a shepherd separates the
sheep from the goats. 33 He will put the
sheep on his right and the goats on his left.
36Wednesday, February 4, 2009
25. Matthew 25:33 He will put the sheep on
his right and the goats on his left.
34 "Then the King will say to those on
his right, 'Come, you who are blessed by my
Father; take your inheritance, the kingdom
prepared for you since the creation of the
world. 35 For I was hungry and you gave
me something to eat, I was thirsty and
you gave me something to drink, I was a
stranger and you invited me in, 36 I needed
clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and
you looked after me, I was in prison and
you came to visit me.'
37Wednesday, February 4, 2009
26. Matthew 25:37 "Then the righteous
will answer him, 'Lord, when did we see
you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and
give you something to drink? 38 When
did we see you a stranger and invite you
in, or needing clothes and clothe you? 39
When did we see you sick or in prison
and go to visit you?'
40 "The King will reply, 'Truly I
tell you, whatever you did for one of
the least of these brothers and sisters
of mine, you did for me.'
38Wednesday, February 4, 2009
27. Matthew 25:40 "The King will reply,
'Truly I tell you, whatever you did for
one of the least of these brothers and
sisters of mine, you did for me.'
39Wednesday, February 4, 2009
28. Everyone can help someone...
hero
3 A More Final Exam:
(We will have to give an accounting for
our resources?]
40Wednesday, February 4, 2009
29. Matthew 25:31 "When the Son of Man
comes in his glory, and all the angels with
him, he will sit on his glorious throne. 32
All the nations will be gathered before
him, and he will separate the people one
from another as a shepherd separates the
sheep from the goats. 33 He will put the
sheep on his right and the goats on his left.
41Wednesday, February 4, 2009
30. “Love your neighbor as
yourself,” ~Jesus (Matt 12:37-39)
The way you love others is
the way you love God.
The way you love others is
the way you love God.
42Wednesday, February 4, 2009