... Ministry that God has called them to.
Worshipping the living God is something that is scary. In the Temple, it was so scary that from minute to minute, you didn't know whether you would be struck down ...
... c time. We are responsible for those round about us and the generation that we are born into. But the church is really called to make disciples of all nations. We as Christians and the churches we belo ...
... ter productive, things that will never achieve anything.
One of the things we lose sight of is our great heritage:
- This church was planted by a group of youngish people who felt called to place a ch ...
... ong you." For a while, all was silent. Then the rabbi said, "Now you must go." The abbot left without a word and without ever looking back.
The next morning, the abbot called his monks together in the ...
... do. We like to know the cost of our commitment before making it. We like to limit that cost to what we can easily afford.
It is sad because my reading of the bible shows nothing saying that we are ca ...
... ted immediately, called his friend the husband home, as a pretext asking about the work, and then sent him to his wife. But the man refused, wanting instead to return to his work. Desperation and deeper de ...
... arnabas had the opportunity to speak before a Roman official called Sergius Paulus. The only problem was that in this man's court, there was a magician called Elymas who proceeded to heckle and cause pr ...
... s ago:
A leader is someone who is actively altering their environment to achieve God's purpose
That sums up what every christian is called to do and be.
Every christian is called, anointed, gifte ...
... . How many times and situations do we look and not see the reality?
- As Christians we are called to walk like Christ did. To have his eyes and discernment. We are called to walk through a room f ...
... ers in 1926 as a guide,55. then they were working between them some 30 hours. As for students, in first term there were 5, two of which were so irregular that Reed wonders if they should be called stu ...
... life he opened a bible college in a building called Stone's folly with the aim of seeking with the students the secret to the life displayed in Acts.
They concentrated on the second experience of t ...
... he first fruits of revival. (Evans p29) On the 1st of December a three day convention was called by the Presbyterians to consider 'the necessity for a general revival of religion in all the churches re ...
... e person. The very decision was regeneration, brought about by argument.
As Finney described it:
Instead of telling sinners to use the means of grace and pray for a new heart, we called on them to m ...
... to as hopefully converted. As Thornbury writes:
"The great voices that called men to God during this period such as Jonathan Edwards, George Whitefield and Gilbert Tennent saw thousands converted, bu ...
... up and down the length of America. John Wesley in his funeral sermon stated "have we read or heard of any person who called so many thousands, so many myriads of sinners to repentance?" (Armstrong p16 ...
... extra books called the apocrypha
- The quotes of the old testament in the new may be either from hebrew versions or the septuaguinta.
- The original Hebrew version contained no vowels. The language ...
... stance.
- especially so in group of pharisees separated from main body in that they renounced political involvement and because of Zeal for the Law refused to obey the Romans.
- Called the Zealots agr ...
... ll of this.
- this is also the case with the book of the law found in the reigh of Josiah and formed the basis of their revival.
- The prophets - note the historical books called "the former proph ...
... for life
- The deuteronomic history was an argument for a return to the orthodox cult.
- The prophetic books each had their own Sitz generally in some manner Israel was threatened and was being c ...
... 10:22 called the feast of dedication.
- This is celebrated by the jews to this day - the term lights from the practise of lighting up their houses as part of the feast.
- The final festival was that o ...