The Epistle of Jude is the only book that is completely dedicated to the sin of Apostasy and its consequences - setting the stage for understanding the background of the world in the days in which Revelation would occur .
The Epistle of Jude is the only book that is completely dedicated to the sin of Apostasy and its consequences - setting the stage for understanding the background of the world in the days in which Revelation would occur .
What are you living for? Paul said for me to live is Christ. The aim of this lesson is to evaluate what we are living for and see is it in view of heaven.
Adult immersion baptism - meaning and significanceNirmal Nathan
What is really the ritual of baptism stand for? What is the valid baptism? Is child baptism biblical and acceptable by God? Is Baptism essential for Salvation? Read through along with the Bible and come to the fuller and mature understanding of this Foundation Doctrine. Feel free to download and use. Please also listen to the Youtube message on the same subject by Pr David Pawson, UK.
Acts is one of the most action packed books of the Bible. Luke describes the spread of the gospel from Jerusalem to Rome The challenge of Jesus to take the gospel to the ends of the earth was impossible with out the power and leadership of the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is mentioned 43 times in Acts more than any other book.
This slide deck on the Old Testament Book of the minor prophet Jonah is one of a series designed to enable busy teachers who lead a Bible study or Sunday School class to quickly access quality lessons that are engaging and challenging, even at the last moment, “to go”. Many more are in the works. Check back in the weeks ahead for more of these "lessonstogo"
What are you living for? Paul said for me to live is Christ. The aim of this lesson is to evaluate what we are living for and see is it in view of heaven.
Adult immersion baptism - meaning and significanceNirmal Nathan
What is really the ritual of baptism stand for? What is the valid baptism? Is child baptism biblical and acceptable by God? Is Baptism essential for Salvation? Read through along with the Bible and come to the fuller and mature understanding of this Foundation Doctrine. Feel free to download and use. Please also listen to the Youtube message on the same subject by Pr David Pawson, UK.
Acts is one of the most action packed books of the Bible. Luke describes the spread of the gospel from Jerusalem to Rome The challenge of Jesus to take the gospel to the ends of the earth was impossible with out the power and leadership of the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is mentioned 43 times in Acts more than any other book.
This slide deck on the Old Testament Book of the minor prophet Jonah is one of a series designed to enable busy teachers who lead a Bible study or Sunday School class to quickly access quality lessons that are engaging and challenging, even at the last moment, “to go”. Many more are in the works. Check back in the weeks ahead for more of these "lessonstogo"
This slide deck study on the seven churches of the Book of Revelation is one in a series designed for conscientious teachers who lead a Bible study or Sunday School class but are too busy to research and prepare well for the task. Access a quality series of 4 or more lessons that is engaging and challenging and do so even at the last moment, as it were, “to go”. More are in the works. Check back in the weeks ahead, Search using keyword "lessonstogo".
John 11;25-57, Dead Raised; Rapture; Christ Son of God; no “repent”; Weeping;...Valley Bible Fellowship
John 11;25-57, Have You Been Raised Like Lazarus?; The Rapture in John 11?; “the Christ, the Son of God”; no use of “repent” in John; Weeping Jews; God’s Compassion; "hypostatic union”; not to embalmed; “believe”; Public Prayers; Regathering
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.
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).
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.
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 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
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.
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.
6. Perfect Light of revelation,
as you shone in the life of Jesus,
whose epiphany we celebrate,
so shine in us and through us,
that we may become beacons
of truth and compassion,
enlightening all creation
with deeds of justice and mercy. Amen.
A Prayer For The Epiphany
7. ADVENT ~ Week 1
The Third Sunday After The
January 21, 2018
9. Taking the Bible SERIOUSLY
doesn’t necessarily mean
Reading all its stories LITERALLY
Jared Byas: The Bible For Normal People Podcast
10. Taking the Bible SERIOUSLY
doesn’t necessarily mean
Reading all its stories LITERALLY
We need to take the text as it is and let it speak
as it chooses to (following the evidence where it
leads), and not as we wish/assume it to…
Jared Byas: The Bible For Normal People Podcast
11. A Couple Introductory Conclusions
1. I USED TO READ JONAH AS LITERAL HISTORY
- Based on what I’ve studied/learned, I no longer do;
in the process I’ve come to love/respect it even more!
12. A Couple Introductory Conclusions
2. YOU ARE ABSOLUTELY FREE TO DISAGREE ON THIS
- The lessons we’ll explore today don’t rest on whether
or not we view this text as “parable/parody” or as
“literal” accounts of “actual historical events”
1. I USED TO READ JONAH AS LITERAL HISTORY
- Based on what I’ve studied/learned, I no longer do;
in the process I’ve come to love/respect it even more!
13. 1. JONAH IS PARABLE/PARODY, NOT “HISTORY”
- Contains no dates/king’s name/mention of Assyria
(Ninevah was the capital city); far less historical
data than other prophets; more “Once upon a time…”
- Jonah only has one other mention in the OT
- Theme of irony (e.g. Amittai; conversion/deconversion)
- Lots of Hebrew linguistic devices and a heavy use
of hyperbole/exaggeration/parody/repetition
Three Key Points to Understanding Jonah
14. 2. JONAH IS A PARABLE/PARODY ABOUT ISRAEL
- Calling to obedience; rebellion/disobedience
- Babylonian exile/self-exile; the whale/return
- Redemption/grumbling: exodus/desert; fish/Ninevah
- Ch.2 = pastiche of numerous Psalms stitched together
Three Key Points to Understanding Jonah
15. 3. JONAH IS A STORY OF REPEATED DESCENT
- “He went down to Joppa…” (1:3)
- “…down into the hold of the ship…” (1:5)
- “…threw him into the sea…” (1:15)
- “I went down to the land…” (2:6)
Three Key Points to Understanding Jonah
17. 1. GOD IS WITH YOU IN THE DEPTHS
- Whether self-inflicted or through no fault of your own
Encouragement from Jonah’s Story
18. 1. GOD IS WITH YOU IN THE DEPTHS
- Whether self-inflicted or through no fault of your own
Encouragement from Jonah’s Story
2. GOD LOVES AMIDST DISOBEDIENCE/REPENTANCE
- Israel/Jonah; Assyria/Ninevah; Church/you & me
19. 1. GOD IS WITH YOU IN THE DEPTHS
- Whether self-inflicted or through no fault of your own
Encouragement from Jonah’s Story
3. GOD REALLY DOES LOOK LIKE JESUS
- Jonah 4:2, 11
2. GOD LOVES AMIDST DISOBEDIENCE/REPENTANCE
- Israel/Jonah; Assyria/Ninevah; Church/you & me
20. …for I knew that You are
a gracious God and merciful,
slow to anger, and abounding
in steadfast love, and ready
to relent from punishing.
Jonah 4:2
21. And should I not be concerned
about Ninevah, that great city,
in which there are more than
a hundred and twenty thousand
persons who do not know their
right hand from their left,
and also many animals?
Jonah 4:11
22. 1. GOD IS WITH YOU IN THE DEPTHS
- Whether self-inflicted or through no fault of your own
Encouragement from Jonah’s Story
3. GOD REALLY DOES LOOK LIKE JESUS
- Jonah 4:2, 11
4. GOD LOVES OUR ENEMIES & THE VULNERABLE
- Who are our “Ninevites”? What is our “Ninevah”?
2. GOD LOVES AMIDST DISOBEDIENCE/REPENTANCE
- Israel/Jonah; Assyria/Ninevah; Church/you & me
23. "A Jonah lurks in every Christian heart,
whimpering his insidious message of smug
prejudice, empty traditionalism, and exclusive
solidarity. He that has ears to hear, let him hear
and allow the saving love of God which has been
outpoured in his own heart to remold his
thinking and social orientation."
Leslie C. Allen (1976)
24. God of the prophets,
you call us from evil to serve you.
Fulfill in us your commonwealth of justice and joy,
that the light of your presence
may be revealed to all nations,
to the glory of Jesus' name.
Amen.
A Closing Prayer
25. Hear, O Israel:
the Lord our God, the Lord is one;
you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart,
and with all your soul, and with all your mind,
and with all your strength.’
And, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’
There is no other commandment
greater than these.
Mark 12
