The Christ Centered Life (Part 2): Spiritual GiftsDavid Turner
This is Part two in a seven part series on the Christ Centered Life. In this presentation we are examining 1 Corinthians 12:31-13:13 on Spiritual Gifts with the emphasis on "Love".
Philippians 4:8-9. Secrets of optimistic people. Optimistic people express gratitude, optimistic people volunteer, optimistic people notice the good, optimistic people change negative self-talk.
To secure your place in Heaven, all you have to do is believe! God's grace plus your faith plus nothing! Once saved, always saved! Jesus knows you're not perfect and never will be—and He loves you just the same!
The People of Proverbs (Part 6): The WiseDavid Turner
The last of a six unit series on The People of Proverbs. The wise listens to and studies other people. He learns from the simple, the fool, the sluggard and the scoffer and know how to make wise decisions and thus knows how to live a productive live. He is an encouragement to others.
The Christ Centered Life (Part 2): Spiritual GiftsDavid Turner
This is Part two in a seven part series on the Christ Centered Life. In this presentation we are examining 1 Corinthians 12:31-13:13 on Spiritual Gifts with the emphasis on "Love".
Philippians 4:8-9. Secrets of optimistic people. Optimistic people express gratitude, optimistic people volunteer, optimistic people notice the good, optimistic people change negative self-talk.
To secure your place in Heaven, all you have to do is believe! God's grace plus your faith plus nothing! Once saved, always saved! Jesus knows you're not perfect and never will be—and He loves you just the same!
The People of Proverbs (Part 6): The WiseDavid Turner
The last of a six unit series on The People of Proverbs. The wise listens to and studies other people. He learns from the simple, the fool, the sluggard and the scoffer and know how to make wise decisions and thus knows how to live a productive live. He is an encouragement to others.
Russian Tsars' summer residence
Music
Aram Khachaturyan 6 / 06 / 1903 -1 / 05 / 1978.
Masquerade
The Masquerade suite is an orchestral work by the Soviet-Armenian composer Aram Khachaturian
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Among all my patients in the second half of life, that is,
over thirty-five, there has not been one whose problem in
the last resort was not that of finding a religious outlook
on life. It is safe to say that every one of them fell ill
because he had lost that which the living religions of every
age have given their followers, and none of them has really
been healed who did not regain his religious outlook.
-C. G. Jung,
Modern Man in Search of a Soul
IF there had been psychiatrists in Jerusalem twenty-five
hundred years ago, Ecclesiastes might well have gone to
one and told him, "I'm unhappy because I feel that some-
thing is missing in my life. I feel that I'm not as consis-
t~ntly good as I should be. I feel I'm wasting a lot of my
lime and my talents. I keep trying to live up to the stan-
dards I set for myself and sometimes I almost get there,
~ut never quite. I feel that with all the advantages I have
ad, I have wasted my life. " And the therapist might have
:?Id him, " You're asking too much of yourself. Be realis-;• !0~er your standards. After all, you are only human ."
c esiastes would have left the appoint ment feeling even
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WHEN ALL YOU'VE EVER WANTED ISN'T ENOUGH
more disappointed in himself for not being more com.
farted by such well-intentioned professional advice.
But it would probably have been the wrong answer. A
man like Ecclesiastes needs to set his sights high. In order
for his life to take on meaning, he has to feel that he has
been summoned to do important things. We feel better
when significant moral demands are made of us. We feel
we are being taken seriously as moral creatures. It would
have been better to tell him that God would forgive him
for trying and falling short than to suggest that he give up
the effort and lower his expectations of himself.
A young man who ran away from his conventional
middle-class home to join the Unification Church was
asked why he had done it. He replied, "My father only
talks about getting into college and getting a good job.
Reverend Moon talks to me about helping him save the
world." Just as we misunderstand what it means to be a
parent when we make life so easy for our children that
they never have to test themselves, we misunderstand
human nature when we think we are helping people by not
expecting very much of them. "Only human" should not
be an excuse for laziness, carelessness, or selfishness. To
be human is a great thing, and God pays us the ultimate
compliment when He makes demands of us that He makes
of no other living creatures. It may be hard to be good,
given all the distractions and temptations of the world, but
it is a lot harder to be told that you don't have what it
takes to be good, so you are excused from trying.
Ecclesiastes asked, "What makes my life matter? What
makes it more than a passing phenomenon, not worth
noticing while I am alive and ...
“This is no time to make new enemies”. These
were the last words of French writer and
philosopher, Voltaire on his deathbed when
asked to foreswear Satan.
I, of course, have no problem making new
enemies (and upsetting old enemies) on a
regular basis. Yes, I know, being arrogant,
self-absorbed, difficult, short-tempered and
petulant - with a weird (if any) sense of
humour doesn’t help my cause at all.
Yet, if I were a genius like Ernest Hemingway,
Pablo Picasso, Leonardo da Vinci, William
Shakespeare and Mr. Spock, these character
defects would be eccentric (and expected) to
mere mortals.
Being a mere mortal myself, my frailties aren’t
cute and eccentric … they’re just bombastic
and rude.
Here a three ways I collect enemies
God's love for you is the first, primary, basic fact about you. Knowing this fact with your whole being requires you to think Christologically, do the spritual work it takes to know it not just theoretically but with your whole person, and will result in transformation into someone who is like Jesus - and I just don't mean the beard and sandles.
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