The document discusses how storms in life can help people grow spiritually. It notes that biblical figures like Job only truly learned about God after enduring hardships. While following Jesus does not prevent storms, he promises to be with believers during difficulties. Storms reveal people's true character and test their faith, helping them discover inner strength.
Tomorrow we are starting a new series of study:
“The New Man” is a seminar that will focus on the spirit of man, its soul and its body.
We will learn the properties of each one of these three parts of man.
Our spirit is called to be the ruling part of us, actually, our spirit is the main part of our being, and is the place where the spirit of God dwells in.
We meet in Room #3 at CTF Toronto Wednesdays from 7:00 – 9:00 pm. I invite you to come and participate with us in this discovery of how to let our spirit become the ruler of our life.
Tomorrow we are starting a new series of study:
“The New Man” is a seminar that will focus on the spirit of man, its soul and its body.
We will learn the properties of each one of these three parts of man.
Our spirit is called to be the ruling part of us, actually, our spirit is the main part of our being, and is the place where the spirit of God dwells in.
We meet in Room #3 at CTF Toronto Wednesdays from 7:00 – 9:00 pm. I invite you to come and participate with us in this discovery of how to let our spirit become the ruler of our life.
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.
“Being used by God
is not confined to pastors, preachers or teachers. Anybody can be an instrument
in God's hands.”
God can use anybody, believer or nonbeliever.
Tit 2:11-14 For the grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to all men, teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly in the present age, looking for the blessed hope and glorious appearing of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ, who gave Himself for us, that He might redeem us from every lawless deed and purify for Himself His own special people, zealous for good works.
We know the dictionary definition of worship (a feeling, or devotion to a deity), and we have read John 4:24, "God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth"; but, what does the Bible teach us about the subject of worship? This is a series of lessons that gets to the heart of worship and what it really means for Christians.
Some notes from recent teaching sessions - they are aimed at giving more of a background / preparatory idea about how a person might move into a position to be "anointed" by God.
2011 liongson-modeling studies flood control dams-professorial chair lectureleony1948
HYDROLOGICAL MODELING STUDIES FOR PROPOSED FLOOD-CONTROL DAMS IN THE MARIKINA RIVER BASIN
Leonardo Q. Liongson
Team Energy Professorial Chair
& Professor, Institute of Civil Engineering and National Hydraulic Research Center, University of the Philippines, Diliman, Quezon City, Philippines
Abstract
Tropical Storm Ondoy (Ketsana) crossed Metro Manila and the adjacent river basins in a late wet-season episode of 2009, starting in the evening of September 25, 2009 and continuing into the next day of September 26, 2009. TS Ondoy brought very intense and heavy rainfall to the region - record amounts of rains fell over a very short time period of 12 hours to 24 hours, which are estimated to occur at an average annual frequency of 1 in 100 years or even higher, depending on the measuring location in the region. The rains generated record-magnitude flood flows and inundation in the Pasig-Marikina River Basin in Metro Manila, and the Laguna de Bay region. This paper describes the application of the distributed watershed rainfall-runoff model SWATCH in order to simulate the TS Ondoy floods and other floods of lower return periods (2 years to 100 years) in the upper Marikina River Basin, using as input the spatially-interpolated rainfall network data and available topographic, soil/geology and river-geometry data. The SWATCH model consists of a tree-network of several variable rectangular surface/soil/aquifer storage nodes and overland/channel flow links, with accounting of soil moisture, evapotranspiration, infiltration, and recharge to groundwater, and routing of overland and channel flows, interflow and baseflow into aggregated total streamflows. Using the model-computed inflow flood hydrographs, the options of single or cascade of flood-control storage dams (with selected reservoir-storage and spillway capacities) for attenuation of floods peaks and volumes, and downstream flood hazard reduction are initially evaluated by flood-routing studies.
Learning from Failure: How to Bounce Back StrongerAndre Piazza ↗️
*As seen on ProductCamp, altMBA and PMI Austin Chapter*
Professionals are becoming aware that the journey to success increasingly includes moments in which reality does not match expectations. Recent Neuroscience findings shed light on how humans process those situations and open the door for us to act confidently and compassionately grow when faced with the inevitable of failure.
Can we mature our individual and collective emotions to where we process these situations more freely, learn in the process, and come back willing to perform better as a team?
What if we could increase our ability to bounce back stronger from these situations?
This interactive, two-way presentation will challenge participants to do just that.
In this presentation, you’ll learn:
1. Defining failure and learning
2. The Neuroscience findings on how humans learn
3. Strategies to connect and influence others: the SCARF model
4. The Drama Triangle: 3 roles we often use to tell stories... And the issues involved in those narratives
5. How cognitive reappraisal can improve individual and team's ability to connect and learn
6. Leading change using these constructs: failure, insights, patterns, lessons, commitments
7. A step-by-step process to make all these things happen, graciously
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.
“Being used by God
is not confined to pastors, preachers or teachers. Anybody can be an instrument
in God's hands.”
God can use anybody, believer or nonbeliever.
Tit 2:11-14 For the grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to all men, teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly in the present age, looking for the blessed hope and glorious appearing of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ, who gave Himself for us, that He might redeem us from every lawless deed and purify for Himself His own special people, zealous for good works.
We know the dictionary definition of worship (a feeling, or devotion to a deity), and we have read John 4:24, "God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth"; but, what does the Bible teach us about the subject of worship? This is a series of lessons that gets to the heart of worship and what it really means for Christians.
Some notes from recent teaching sessions - they are aimed at giving more of a background / preparatory idea about how a person might move into a position to be "anointed" by God.
2011 liongson-modeling studies flood control dams-professorial chair lectureleony1948
HYDROLOGICAL MODELING STUDIES FOR PROPOSED FLOOD-CONTROL DAMS IN THE MARIKINA RIVER BASIN
Leonardo Q. Liongson
Team Energy Professorial Chair
& Professor, Institute of Civil Engineering and National Hydraulic Research Center, University of the Philippines, Diliman, Quezon City, Philippines
Abstract
Tropical Storm Ondoy (Ketsana) crossed Metro Manila and the adjacent river basins in a late wet-season episode of 2009, starting in the evening of September 25, 2009 and continuing into the next day of September 26, 2009. TS Ondoy brought very intense and heavy rainfall to the region - record amounts of rains fell over a very short time period of 12 hours to 24 hours, which are estimated to occur at an average annual frequency of 1 in 100 years or even higher, depending on the measuring location in the region. The rains generated record-magnitude flood flows and inundation in the Pasig-Marikina River Basin in Metro Manila, and the Laguna de Bay region. This paper describes the application of the distributed watershed rainfall-runoff model SWATCH in order to simulate the TS Ondoy floods and other floods of lower return periods (2 years to 100 years) in the upper Marikina River Basin, using as input the spatially-interpolated rainfall network data and available topographic, soil/geology and river-geometry data. The SWATCH model consists of a tree-network of several variable rectangular surface/soil/aquifer storage nodes and overland/channel flow links, with accounting of soil moisture, evapotranspiration, infiltration, and recharge to groundwater, and routing of overland and channel flows, interflow and baseflow into aggregated total streamflows. Using the model-computed inflow flood hydrographs, the options of single or cascade of flood-control storage dams (with selected reservoir-storage and spillway capacities) for attenuation of floods peaks and volumes, and downstream flood hazard reduction are initially evaluated by flood-routing studies.
Learning from Failure: How to Bounce Back StrongerAndre Piazza ↗️
*As seen on ProductCamp, altMBA and PMI Austin Chapter*
Professionals are becoming aware that the journey to success increasingly includes moments in which reality does not match expectations. Recent Neuroscience findings shed light on how humans process those situations and open the door for us to act confidently and compassionately grow when faced with the inevitable of failure.
Can we mature our individual and collective emotions to where we process these situations more freely, learn in the process, and come back willing to perform better as a team?
What if we could increase our ability to bounce back stronger from these situations?
This interactive, two-way presentation will challenge participants to do just that.
In this presentation, you’ll learn:
1. Defining failure and learning
2. The Neuroscience findings on how humans learn
3. Strategies to connect and influence others: the SCARF model
4. The Drama Triangle: 3 roles we often use to tell stories... And the issues involved in those narratives
5. How cognitive reappraisal can improve individual and team's ability to connect and learn
6. Leading change using these constructs: failure, insights, patterns, lessons, commitments
7. A step-by-step process to make all these things happen, graciously
This is a study of Jesus being hard to understand at times. He said some very hard things that confused His listeners, and still does that today. Some are listed here and some are explained.
Life is full of opportunities and challenges. We can meet these challenges and still live life abundantly. Tough times never last, but tough people do. Tough people who survive do so because they have learnt to reach positively to their predicaments.
This is a collection of writings that deal with the paradoxes that we find in the Bible about the Holy Spirit. Other paradoxes are also explored. There are many paradoxes that we seldom consider. They can open up our eyes to see new truths.
0. Looking at the Big Picture Notes (Letter Sized)William Anderson
In "Looking at the Big Picture" we look at what life is all about according to the Bible by looking at Jesus, the gospel, the church and the mission of the church. This teaching is the introduction to the gospel series "Growing Deep in the Gospel".
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 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…
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
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.
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
13. More storms are coming soon! More storms are coming soon! More storms are coming soon! Storms are coming!
14. In the Christian life we acquire much knowledge as we study the Bible, but true wisdom only comes as the principles are applied to real life. We can analyze, discuss, and debate the principles of God, but the word fails to take on real meaning until we experience it in the crucible of our existence.
15. The prophets of old, were great spokesmen for God because they first personally experienced God's principles as they weathered the storms of life. It is only possible to learn the deeper lessons of life as the Word comes to life in us. Job was a mature faithful follower of God before his trials and tribulation (Job 1:1), but he did not really know God, until he had weathered the storms of life. It was then that Job said, "My ears had heard of you but now my eyes have seen you.” (Job 42:5 NIV.) Storms have a way of revealing what is real and lasting. In times of our deepest crisis, we gain wisdom that enables us to discover who we really are, of what we are truly made, and what life is seriously about.
16. The storms of our lives will not likely be halted in such a dramatic way, yet the spiritual power that comes from trusting in God at such times should not be overlooked or underestimated. Verse 40: Where is our faith? How are we doing on our spiritual journeys? This is an important question, because there is such a thing as spiritual preparedness that can help us to weather the storms that come our way and to recover and rebuild in the aftermath of devastation. “ Trouble is simply the factory God is using to manufacture the right type of product in our lives.”
17. God is at work in your life – even when you do not recognize it or understand it. He’s in the storm with you. He’s calling you to rise above it “ It is not the burdens of life that weigh us down; it is how we handle them.”
18. God has great plans for us. He wants us to live the abundant life. He wants us to live in His Kingdom. But . . . Storms in Life?
19. Mark 4: 35 – 41 Jesus Calms the Storm “ The Sinking Ship & the Sleeping Savior”
20. Through adversity we learn enduring faith, deeper trust, and passionate obedience. In the midst of the coming storms, it will not be the words that you speak, or the prayers that you pray, that will make a difference to your survival, so much as the degree to which your character has been steeled.
21. What will matter is the extent to which your training has had any real effect upon your life and character. Your preservation in the midst of the coming storm will depend upon the extent to which you are ready and able to suffer reproach for Christ's sake, and whether you are able to put the principles of the gospel into effect in your everyday life. “ Seeing the Storm as God See It” Richard M. Riss, Union Bible Church, Old Bridge, NJ, 9/13/92
23. (1) Let’s remember that the disciples were led into this storm by following their Master. v. 35-37. They followed Him right into a storm.
24. Following Jesus does not exempt the Christian from storms. Some believe that storms come for the Christian only when they rebel or disobey God, but that’s not true. God’s will isn’t always smooth sailing.
25. (2) We can note that Jesus was in the boat with the disciples.
26. Having Jesus on board does not exempt the Christian from storms. God has not promised us that we will be protected from storms, only that we will not be alone in the midst of them. God has not promised to keep us safe from harm, but has promised to be with us in the midst of suffering.
27. (3) We can note that the disciples turned to Jesus in the face of adversity.
28. Jesus has resources to quiet every storm in life. We can reach out to the One who can give us strength to go on, even in the face of adversity.
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30. STORMS ARE GOD'S MEANS OF TESTIMONY B. Storms Testify Of His Person When Jesus stilled the storm, the disciples knew that they were in the presence of God.
31. His power in the storms and over the storms of life testify of His person. They tell us that He is God and that He is in control of all the affairs of life. When the storms come, they are designed to bring us to the place the disciples found themselves in at the end: on our knees in worship before Him.
32. He’s There in it All – Our Storms He’s Seen it All - Our Struggles He’s Faced it All - Our Stumbling He’s Covered it All – Our Sins
Editor's Notes
Pastor Dave Martin-Cross Creek Community Church, Oct 14, 2007