In Daniel Chapter 6, we see the influence Daniel has built over a life time. His excellence, character and faithfulness led him to be an incredible witness of Yahweh, but even late in his life, he went through incredible and unexpected hardship. Today we consider how the challenges he experienced applies to our lives today.
In Daniel Chapter 6, we see the influence Daniel has built over a life time. His excellence, character and faithfulness led him to be an incredible witness of Yahweh, but even late in his life, he went through incredible and unexpected hardship. Today we consider how the challenges he experienced applies to our lives today.
What temptations do you think Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego faced when they were brought before the king (13–15)? What impresses you most about their response to these temptations (16–18)? How could you follow their example if you were found to have terminal cancer? How could their example help if you faced the possibility of losing your job or receiving a poor grade because of your refusal to compromise God's Word?
Some Christians claim that pain or sickness or trial are always the result of sin or lack of faith. How would you respond to that claim in light of this passage? As you look at Nebuchadnezzar's response (13–15, 19–23), what evidence do you see that his basic conflict was with God rather than with these three men?
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 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.
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 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 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…
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
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).
1. O Queen of Peace, by the
graces received from the
devotion of the Rosary, we
pray to be made helpful to
one another in following the
paths of virtue so that we
may be found worthy to be
called your children
Amen.
2. “The changing climate means people
need to work together. Let us support
each other and be a good neighbour.”
5. A reading from the Book of the
Prophet Daniel 6:11-28
The presidents and satraps
came along in a body and
found Daniel praying and
6. pleading with God. They then
came to the king and said,
‘Have you not just signed an
edict forbidding any man for
the next thirty days to pray to
anyone, god or man, other
7. than to yourself O king, on
pain of being thrown into the
lions’ den?’ ‘The decision
stands,’ the king replied ‘as
befits the law of the Medes
and the Persians, which
8. cannot be revoked.’ Then they
said to the king, ‘O king, this
man Daniel, one of the exiles
from Judah, disregards both
you and the edict which you
have signed: he is at his
9. prayers three times each day.’
When the king heard these
words he was deeply
distressed, and determined to
save Daniel; he racked his
brains until sunset to find
10. some way out. But the men
came back in a body to the
king and said, ‘O king,
remember that in conformity
with the law of the Medes and
the Persians, no edict or
11. decree can be altered when
once issued by the king.’
The king then ordered Daniel
to be fetched and thrown into
the lion pit. The king said to
Daniel, ‘Your God himself,
12. whom you have served so
faithfully, will have to save
you.’ A stone was then
brought and laid over the
mouth of the pit; and the king
sealed it with his own signet
13. and with that of his noblemen,
so that there could be no
going back on the original
decision about Daniel. The
king returned to his palace,
spent the night in fasting and
14. refused to receive any of his
concubines. Sleep eluded him,
and at the first sign of dawn
he was up, and hurried off to
the lion pit. As he approached
the pit he shouted in
15. anguished tones, ‘Daniel,
servant of the living God! Has
your God, whom you serve so
faithfully, been able to save
you from the lions?’ Daniel
replied, ‘O king, live for ever!
16. My God sent his angel who
sealed the lions’ jaws, they did
me no harm, since in his sight
I am blameless, and I have
never done you any wrong
either, O king.’ The king was
17. overjoyed, and ordered Daniel
to be released from the pit.
Daniel was released from the
pit, and found to be quite
unhurt, because he had
trusted in his God. The king
18. sent for the men who had
accused Daniel and had them
thrown into the lion pit, they,
their wives and their children:
and they had not reached the
floor of the pit before the lions
19. had seized them and crushed
their bones to pieces.
King Darius then wrote to men
of all nations, peoples and
languages throughout the
world, ‘May peace be always
20. with you! I decree: in every
kingdom of my empire let all
tremble with fear before the
God of Daniel:
‘He is the living God, he
endures for ever,
21. his sovereignty will never be
destroyed and his kingship
never end. He saves, sets free,
and works signs and wonders
in the heavens and on earth;
he has saved Daniel from the
39. Alleluia, alleluia!
Stay awake and stand ready,
because you do not know the
hour when the Son of Man is
coming.
Alleluia! Gospel Acclamation
40. The Lord be with you.
And with your spirit.
A Reading from the holy Gospel
according to Luke 21:20-28
Glory to you, O Lord.
The Gospel
41. Jesus said to his disciples,
‘When you see Jerusalem
surrounded by armies, you
must realise that she will soon
be laid desolate. Then those in
Judaea must escape to the
42. mountains, those inside the
city must leave it, and those in
country districts must not take
refuge in it. For this is the time
of vengeance when all that
scripture says must be
43. fulfilled. Alas for those with
child, or with babies at the
breast, when those days
come!
‘For great misery will descend
on the land and wrath on this
44. people. They will fall by the
edge of the sword and be led
captive to every pagan
country; and Jerusalem will be
trampled down by the pagans
until the age of the pagans is
45. completely over.
‘There will be signs in the sun
and moon and stars; on earth
nations in agony, bewildered
by the clamour of the ocean
and its waves; men dying of
46. fear as they await what
menaces the world, for the
powers of heaven will be
shaken. And then they will see
the Son of Man coming in a
cloud with power and great
47. glory. When these things begin
to take place, stand erect, hold
your heads high, because your
liberation is near at hand.’
48. The Gospel of the Lord
Praise to you, Lord
Jesus Christ.
49. Prayer for the earth
God of love, teach us to care for
this world, our common home.
Inspire government leaders as
they gather in Paris:
to listen to and heed the cry of the
earth and the cry of the poor;
50. to be united in heart and mind in
responding courageously; to seek
the common good and protect the
beautiful earthly garden you have
created for us, for all our brothers
and sisters, for all generations to
come. Amen
