Tune and Prepare!

navigare necesse est written for the matured... As Oswald Chambers told it, we should be people " like broken bread and spilled wine ". What could he be referring to? Throughout the Bible we can find examples of people being "broken" for serving others. Moses was called by God to endure endless waves of murmuring and criticism as he led the people into the Promised Land. Throughout his life Joseph was betrayed, imprisoned and forced to live as a slave in Egypt for a time. Many prophets experienced this brokenness. In each case, God allowed these situations to happen so that the lives of His people would be the scene of His grace and providence, not only for their own sake but for the sake of others. God is able to use us in this way. Mark's Gospel quotes the miracle of the broken loaves, and – in both cases {Ch. 6&8} – it says : "he blessed and broke them" and Matthew also mentioned the blessing and the breaking. Br...

by Anne Kerhoulas Kindness seems to be everywhere these days. It’s posted on yard signs and granola bars, T-shirts, and posters for your home. Though kindness is not new, “Be kind!” has become an unofficial slogan, the currency on which a culture steeped in tolerance, affirmation, and acceptance runs. But for all the talk about kindness, our world is growing increasingly unkind, divided, and contemptuous. If kindness is so popular, why is our culture so harsh? Perhaps this brand of kindness is lacking, pretending to do and be good while unable to produce any real changes. In a world that’s hungry for kindness but often finds only emptiness, we must look to Scripture and the author of kindness to teach us what kindness truly is. Rooted in Love Cultural kindness is more about tolerance, being nice, and enduring differences without complaining than it is about love. It asks us only to be pleasant to those who are different from us —it doesn’t call us to love them. When k...

"a voice crying in the wilderness" What does it mean? "John the Baptist appeared in the wilderness of Judea, proclaiming, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven has come near.” This is the one of whom the prophet Isaiah spoke when he said, “The voice of one crying out in the wilderness: ‘Prepare the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.’ ” Now John wore clothing of camel’s hair with a leather belt around his waist, and his food was locusts and wild honey. Then the people of Jerusalem and all Judea were going out to him, and all the region along the Jordan, and they were baptized by him in the river Jordan, confessing their sins." Before that coming .. {John} prepares us for the coming of Jesus. Before that coming, there are many pioneers/heralds: - Many times {often times} suffering comes before him and prepares the way for the coming of Jesus, on the way, as the plough-sower ploughs the field before he sows the earth. - The ground of o...

az Ige két {plusz egy} alakja Az írott Ige Az írott Ige egyrészt rögzített kijelentés elődeinktől. Bármilyen friss kijelentés összhangban {harmóniában} kell álljon az Ó- és Újszövetség írott kijelentéseivel. Másrészt az írott Ige az eljövendő Messiás ígérete, és a megérkezett Messiásról készült feljegyzés. A testet öltött Ige Jézus pedig ember lett, aki a testté lett Ige, Isten Hangja testi formában. {Jn 1:14-15} Minden Istentől jövő ígéret látható és érinthető lett benne. Az Ige megismerése tehát több oldalú bölcsesség, ezért komplex tanulmányozást igényel és ez nem függhet a személyes preferenciámtól. Minden oldalról és kultúrából megközelíthető. Így is kell hozzá­állnunk. + A beteljesült Ige Végül emlekeztetnünk kell magunkat és egymást arra is, hogy az Ige végül elvégzett vagy betöltött Ige lesz, az utolsó napon. Ekkor fejeződik be az Egyház földi korszaka. A te véleményed szerint milyen korszakai vannak az Igének a történelemben? EN

The two form of the Word The Written Word The written Word is, on the one hand, recorded revelation from our ancestors. Any fresh revelation must be in harmony with the written revelations of the Old and New Testament. On the other hand, the written Word is a promise of the coming Messiah, and a record of the Messiah who has come. The embodied Word Jesus is the incarnate Word. {John 1:14-15} God's voice in bodily form. Every promise from Gd became visible and tangible in Him. So knowing the Word is a multi-faceted wisdom which demands complex learning and does not depend on my personal preference. It /He is accessible from all sides and cultures. It /He must be approached in these multiple ways. + The fulfilled Word Finally, we must remind ourselves and each other that the Word will finally be a completed or fulfilled Word on the last day. This is when the Church's earthly era will end. In your opinion, what are the periods of the Word in hi...

Bryan Chapell Reflecting Our God in Our Work He does care about your job because he cares about you, and he has given you a calling of extending his kingdom, his name, and his glory into the place that you work. How do I know that? Because you and I are made in the image of God. And if you think about what that means, it doesn’t mean that we are God, but we are made to reflect him. I think at times about what it means to be made in God’s image. You think about the little kid who’s got the toy lawn mower who is trailing after his dad on the super charged mower that’s cutting the lawn. There’s a sense in which the child with the toy mower is not doing the same job as his dad, but there’s an unmistakable reflection. You recognize that what the child is doing reflects his father. When we are doing our job—not as a toy, but doing the things that actually matter—we are reflecting God himself. We are made in his image. And our job, as it were, is reflecting him but al...

Andrew Wilson Anyone who has ever read the Gospels will have wondered how to square Jesus's language and style in John with his language and style in the Synoptics. Did Jesus talk — to his disciples, his opponents and his Father — like he does in John, or like he does in Mark? There are obvious points of overlap, not least the shared miracle stories, the passion and resurrection narratives, the emphatic speech ("truly, truly"), and the so-called "Johannine thunderbolt" of Matthew 11:25-30. And there are numerous contextual factors that account for some of the change of style. The Synoptics have a different focus to John when it comes to geography (Sea of Galilee vs Jerusalem), timing (all year round vs major festivals), mood (support vs opposition) and audience (generic crowds vs specific individuals), all of which would naturally affect the choice of words and the structure of conversations. But even so, there remains a marked difference between the wa...