My Sunday School Lesson Bible Reading for the week of April 14, 2013 is coming from the Book of John and Acts.
Monday - April 8, 2013 - I Will Not Leave You Orphaned - John 14:18-24
Final Discourse & Events (John 13:1-21:25) ... Discourse - lecture, sermon, talk, speak or write learnedly ....
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The Upper Room Ministry (John 13:1-21:25)
Comfort for the disciples in distress (John 13:36-14:31)
Tuesday - April 9, 2013 - Abide in Me - John 15:1-7
Union with Christ & its consequences (John 15:1-27)
Wednesday - April 10, 2013 - The Coming of the Advocate - John 16:1-11
The disciples, the world, and the Advocate (John 16:1-33)
Thursday - April 11, 2013 - Raised Up & Freed from Death - Acts 2:22-28
Pentecost & The Preaching (Acts 2:1-47)
Peter's Speech (Acts 2:14-36)
Friday - April 12, 2013 - The Promise of the Spirit - Acts 2:14-21
Saturday - April 13, 2013 - The Promise Received - Acts 2:29-36
Sunday - April 14, 2013 - The Day of Pentecost - Acts 2:1-13
The descent of the Holy Spirit (Acts 2:1-13)
Acts of the Apostle ... published between 62 & 70 A.D., not long after 62 A.D.
Luke the physician is the writer, a companion of the apostle Paul.
This Book has been called "the Gospel of the Holy Spirit," who is mentioned in the Acts more often than in any other book in the New Testament.
Scripture reference used/taken from: KJV Precious Promise Bible, Zondervan Commentary & Reader's Digest Oxford Complete Wordfinder
Wednesday, April 10, 2013
Tuesday, April 9, 2013
Bread & Wine a love letter to life around the table with recipes - Book Review
Enjoyable read and family-friendly.
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I am not promoting the sale and use of wine or any alcoholic beverages but, I am promoting harmony and a time to slow down and enjoy your family, loved ones and true friends around the kitchen and dining table. There will come a day when all you have is memories, because one day the chain will be broken.
In my home as a child and some of my adult life I can remember meals at the table just like on a television show "Soul Food." There is nothing like good food, loved ones around at the table laughing and some sad when a loved one has passed on.
Bread: I Corinthians 5:8 ... Sacred Seasons; Historical Sacred Seasons; The Passover Becomes a Christian Festival ................ I Corinthians 10:16 ... Sacred Rites & Forms; Sacraments, Worship, & Church-Fellowship; The Lord's Supper, Its Significance
Wine: Wine Prescribed; Abuse of It; & Prohibited to the Priesthood When On Duty .... Psalm/Tehillim 104:15; Joel 2:24; I Timothy 5:23; Titus 2:3; Ephesians 5:18; Ezekiel 44:21
Gather the people you love around your table and feed them with love and honesty and creativity.
Shauna Niequist mom's dad is Irish, a storyteller and her mom is German, a rose gardener and meticulous baker. They were married just before her grandpa joined the navy, and her mom, their first child, was born at Pearl Harbor.
Neither of them grew up in religious home, but when they married, they decided that religion was important, and that they wanted to join a church. They visited all sorts of churches before settling at Lake Center Bible Church.
There is a difference between religious and righteous.
They were meat and potatoes people, men who work long days on the farm and ate accordingly.
Six brothers - Shauna's grandfather and her dad's five uncles - all died of heart attacks before they were fifty-five. When she was born her parents knew something had to change.
Because of Shauna's dad scary family history, her mother became a health food person before it was fashionable.
Now that Shauna is an adult, she can appreciate how much effort this entailed, how expensive it was for her to feed them that way.
Sunday afternoons were family time - private, casual, silly.
The Cooking Club began when Aaron and Shauna moved back to Chicago from Grand Rapids three years ago. There are six of them in the Club.
They met once a month, and sometimes more, and whoever's hosting the theme and cooks the main course, and then the rest of them fill in - appetizers, side dishes, desserts.
They have attended funerals and birthday parties together, reported bad tests results, gotten advice about sick children, made trips to the ER, walked together through postpartum depression. They have talked about faith and fear and fighting with their husbands, sleeping through the night and anxiety and how to ask for help when they needed it.
It all started around the kitchen table, once a month and sometimes more.
Each of us should be able to nourish ourselves in the most basic way and to create meals and traditions around the table that tell the story of who we are to the people we care about.
Marketing and advertising campaigns are created to influence us to eat our or buy prepared foods. They want us to think that plain old cooking is difficult and not worth learning. In order to sell canned food and cake mixes, advertisers had to convince American women that cooking is too hard and troublesome for our modern world. But it wasn't true then, and it isn't true now.
When you're dependent on prepared foods, you don't get to decide how something is seasoned. You don't get to add flavor according to your geography, your story, your table.
Shauna started buying cookbooks and reading them cover to cover in bed before turning out the lights at the end of the day.
In my case, I have my bigmomma cookbooks which some of them might be older than I am.
Our goal is to feed around our table the people we love. We're not chefs or restaurateurs or culinary school graduates, and we shouldn't try to be. Make it the way the people you love want to eat it, and the way you love it.
During a three-month period after Shauna's last book came out she traveled to twenty-two cities to speak at forty-four events.
Near the end of that season, she became aware that her appetites were escalating. The longer she was away from home the more intensed her appetites became.
She was all feasting and no fasting - all noise, connection, go: without rest, space, silence. At one event, she licked the icing off a cupcake right as she walked onstage to speak, mouth full of sugar and butter as she walked up the steps to the podium. She lost her manners and lost her ability to slow down.
You say grace before meals.
All right.
But I say grace before the concert,
And grace before I dip the pen in the ink. - G. K. Chesterton, "A Grace," Collected Poetry
Shauna feels that women feel shame about two things: their bodies and their homes. She feels men have no shame about their homes. She thinks for men its about paychecks or cars and these are stereotypes, but in her house, they hold true.
When she and her husband were first married, they lived in a one-bedroom town house so small they couldn't sit at their kitchen table at the same time, and the only place for her husband grand piano was their bedroom. It was mostly a big piece of furniture on which to pile their clothes, but sometimes in the middle of the night, Aaron would terrify her out of sleep by sneaking out of bed to play "Great Balls of Fire" at a shattering volume.
Their first home was not fancy, but it was their first home together.
In the years they lived in that tiny home, they must have had a hundred parties.
You'll miss the richest moments in life - the sacred moments when we feel God's grace and presence through the actual faces and hands of the people we love - if you're too scared or too ashamed to open the door.
She doesn't knock herself out for picky eaters. Homes are are not restaurants and your host is not a short order cook.
Depending on medical condition of your loved ones and friends some may not be able to eat certain foods so that should be taken into consideration when inviting guests into your home. I know of one person who was taking radiation and was at a business meeting and he could not eat smoked meat. He was doing well until he went to this meeting and he thought that the turkey meat was baked and it was smoked. He had a little back set, but he is doing well now back in his office.
Shauna is learning that feasting can only exist healthfully - physically, spiritually, and emotionally - in a life that also includes fasting.
Some things only come by fasting and prayer.
A few years ago she went to a natural health doctor, after a particular indulgent summer. She was getting sick more easily than usual.
No one changes their life until the pain is unmanageable, and in all sorts of ways for her, the pain level had reached the unmanageable point. She followed his advice for more than four months. She felt great. She lost some weight, started sleeping better, didn't ache at all.
Her work these days is to find that fine balance - allowing her senses to taste every bite of life without being driven by appetites, indiscriminate and ravenous.
Me, myself I am not having any problem staying on my level. For it is just the way I was raised to eat and I have lost weight and losing weight. I am not starving and I am not on any weight loss medications - injections. Just back to the basic. My doctor placed me on the diet that I am on and then I decided to take another look at my bigmomma's cookbooks and nutrition list.
During Christmastime we find ourselves most tempted to abandon Christlikeness in favor of overspending, overdoing and overconsuming, but she finds it to be true: the season that centers around the silent holy night; the humble baby; and the star very quickly becomes the season in which we over - everything - overspend, overeat, overindulge, overcommit, all int he name of celebration.
Let's honor the story - the silent night, the angels, the miracle child, the humble birth, with each choice that we make.
Food and cooking are among the richest subjects int he world. Even more, they sit us down evening after evening, and in the company that forms around our dinner tables, they actually create our humanity. - Robert Farrar Capon, The Supper of the Lamb
For more than thirty years their church has been giving food to families in immediate need all over the city.
Hunger upsets her. It upsets her and makes her angry.
The Church is at its best, in her view when it is more than a set of ideas, when it is a working, living, breathing, on-the-ground, in-the-mess force for good in our cities and towns.
The last several times the Cooking Club has gathered, they've talked about hunger. They are moms, and aunts, and sisters. As they talked about hunger, privilege, waste and wealth, they talked about how easy it is to settle into a lifestyle of accumulation.
This is how they arrived at the Cooking Club garage sale and bake sale with all the proceeds benefiting the Care Center.
They earned a thousand dollars for the Care Center.
A thousand dollars in the face of a problem like hunger in a city the size of Chicago isn't that much. It's so easy to think that because you can't do something extraordinary, you can't do anything at all.
She wants to be a part of making sure the kids in her town, and in every town, have breakfast, lunch, and dinner, and she wants to be clearer about what money can and can not buy.
Gather the people you love around your table and feed them with love and honesty and creativity.
I was sent an advanced review copy of this book from Zondervan.
Shauna Niequist is the author of this book as well as Cold Tangerines & Bittersweet. She lives in Chicago with her husband, Aaron, and their sons, Henry and Mac. Shauna writes about family, friendship, faith, and life around the table.
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I am not promoting the sale and use of wine or any alcoholic beverages but, I am promoting harmony and a time to slow down and enjoy your family, loved ones and true friends around the kitchen and dining table. There will come a day when all you have is memories, because one day the chain will be broken.
In my home as a child and some of my adult life I can remember meals at the table just like on a television show "Soul Food." There is nothing like good food, loved ones around at the table laughing and some sad when a loved one has passed on.
Bread: I Corinthians 5:8 ... Sacred Seasons; Historical Sacred Seasons; The Passover Becomes a Christian Festival ................ I Corinthians 10:16 ... Sacred Rites & Forms; Sacraments, Worship, & Church-Fellowship; The Lord's Supper, Its Significance
Wine: Wine Prescribed; Abuse of It; & Prohibited to the Priesthood When On Duty .... Psalm/Tehillim 104:15; Joel 2:24; I Timothy 5:23; Titus 2:3; Ephesians 5:18; Ezekiel 44:21
Gather the people you love around your table and feed them with love and honesty and creativity.
Shauna Niequist mom's dad is Irish, a storyteller and her mom is German, a rose gardener and meticulous baker. They were married just before her grandpa joined the navy, and her mom, their first child, was born at Pearl Harbor.
Neither of them grew up in religious home, but when they married, they decided that religion was important, and that they wanted to join a church. They visited all sorts of churches before settling at Lake Center Bible Church.
There is a difference between religious and righteous.
They were meat and potatoes people, men who work long days on the farm and ate accordingly.
Six brothers - Shauna's grandfather and her dad's five uncles - all died of heart attacks before they were fifty-five. When she was born her parents knew something had to change.
Because of Shauna's dad scary family history, her mother became a health food person before it was fashionable.
Now that Shauna is an adult, she can appreciate how much effort this entailed, how expensive it was for her to feed them that way.
Sunday afternoons were family time - private, casual, silly.
The Cooking Club began when Aaron and Shauna moved back to Chicago from Grand Rapids three years ago. There are six of them in the Club.
They met once a month, and sometimes more, and whoever's hosting the theme and cooks the main course, and then the rest of them fill in - appetizers, side dishes, desserts.
They have attended funerals and birthday parties together, reported bad tests results, gotten advice about sick children, made trips to the ER, walked together through postpartum depression. They have talked about faith and fear and fighting with their husbands, sleeping through the night and anxiety and how to ask for help when they needed it.
It all started around the kitchen table, once a month and sometimes more.
Each of us should be able to nourish ourselves in the most basic way and to create meals and traditions around the table that tell the story of who we are to the people we care about.
Marketing and advertising campaigns are created to influence us to eat our or buy prepared foods. They want us to think that plain old cooking is difficult and not worth learning. In order to sell canned food and cake mixes, advertisers had to convince American women that cooking is too hard and troublesome for our modern world. But it wasn't true then, and it isn't true now.
When you're dependent on prepared foods, you don't get to decide how something is seasoned. You don't get to add flavor according to your geography, your story, your table.
Shauna started buying cookbooks and reading them cover to cover in bed before turning out the lights at the end of the day.
In my case, I have my bigmomma cookbooks which some of them might be older than I am.
Our goal is to feed around our table the people we love. We're not chefs or restaurateurs or culinary school graduates, and we shouldn't try to be. Make it the way the people you love want to eat it, and the way you love it.
During a three-month period after Shauna's last book came out she traveled to twenty-two cities to speak at forty-four events.
Near the end of that season, she became aware that her appetites were escalating. The longer she was away from home the more intensed her appetites became.
She was all feasting and no fasting - all noise, connection, go: without rest, space, silence. At one event, she licked the icing off a cupcake right as she walked onstage to speak, mouth full of sugar and butter as she walked up the steps to the podium. She lost her manners and lost her ability to slow down.
You say grace before meals.
All right.
But I say grace before the concert,
And grace before I dip the pen in the ink. - G. K. Chesterton, "A Grace," Collected Poetry
Shauna feels that women feel shame about two things: their bodies and their homes. She feels men have no shame about their homes. She thinks for men its about paychecks or cars and these are stereotypes, but in her house, they hold true.
When she and her husband were first married, they lived in a one-bedroom town house so small they couldn't sit at their kitchen table at the same time, and the only place for her husband grand piano was their bedroom. It was mostly a big piece of furniture on which to pile their clothes, but sometimes in the middle of the night, Aaron would terrify her out of sleep by sneaking out of bed to play "Great Balls of Fire" at a shattering volume.
Their first home was not fancy, but it was their first home together.
In the years they lived in that tiny home, they must have had a hundred parties.
You'll miss the richest moments in life - the sacred moments when we feel God's grace and presence through the actual faces and hands of the people we love - if you're too scared or too ashamed to open the door.
She doesn't knock herself out for picky eaters. Homes are are not restaurants and your host is not a short order cook.
Depending on medical condition of your loved ones and friends some may not be able to eat certain foods so that should be taken into consideration when inviting guests into your home. I know of one person who was taking radiation and was at a business meeting and he could not eat smoked meat. He was doing well until he went to this meeting and he thought that the turkey meat was baked and it was smoked. He had a little back set, but he is doing well now back in his office.
Shauna is learning that feasting can only exist healthfully - physically, spiritually, and emotionally - in a life that also includes fasting.
Some things only come by fasting and prayer.
A few years ago she went to a natural health doctor, after a particular indulgent summer. She was getting sick more easily than usual.
No one changes their life until the pain is unmanageable, and in all sorts of ways for her, the pain level had reached the unmanageable point. She followed his advice for more than four months. She felt great. She lost some weight, started sleeping better, didn't ache at all.
Her work these days is to find that fine balance - allowing her senses to taste every bite of life without being driven by appetites, indiscriminate and ravenous.
Me, myself I am not having any problem staying on my level. For it is just the way I was raised to eat and I have lost weight and losing weight. I am not starving and I am not on any weight loss medications - injections. Just back to the basic. My doctor placed me on the diet that I am on and then I decided to take another look at my bigmomma's cookbooks and nutrition list.
During Christmastime we find ourselves most tempted to abandon Christlikeness in favor of overspending, overdoing and overconsuming, but she finds it to be true: the season that centers around the silent holy night; the humble baby; and the star very quickly becomes the season in which we over - everything - overspend, overeat, overindulge, overcommit, all int he name of celebration.
Let's honor the story - the silent night, the angels, the miracle child, the humble birth, with each choice that we make.
Food and cooking are among the richest subjects int he world. Even more, they sit us down evening after evening, and in the company that forms around our dinner tables, they actually create our humanity. - Robert Farrar Capon, The Supper of the Lamb
For more than thirty years their church has been giving food to families in immediate need all over the city.
Hunger upsets her. It upsets her and makes her angry.
The Church is at its best, in her view when it is more than a set of ideas, when it is a working, living, breathing, on-the-ground, in-the-mess force for good in our cities and towns.
The last several times the Cooking Club has gathered, they've talked about hunger. They are moms, and aunts, and sisters. As they talked about hunger, privilege, waste and wealth, they talked about how easy it is to settle into a lifestyle of accumulation.
This is how they arrived at the Cooking Club garage sale and bake sale with all the proceeds benefiting the Care Center.
They earned a thousand dollars for the Care Center.
A thousand dollars in the face of a problem like hunger in a city the size of Chicago isn't that much. It's so easy to think that because you can't do something extraordinary, you can't do anything at all.
She wants to be a part of making sure the kids in her town, and in every town, have breakfast, lunch, and dinner, and she wants to be clearer about what money can and can not buy.
Gather the people you love around your table and feed them with love and honesty and creativity.
I was sent an advanced review copy of this book from Zondervan.
Shauna Niequist is the author of this book as well as Cold Tangerines & Bittersweet. She lives in Chicago with her husband, Aaron, and their sons, Henry and Mac. Shauna writes about family, friendship, faith, and life around the table.
Sunday, April 7, 2013
Wordpress vs Overblog ... How My Account Was Suspended
I was updating my angelawatkinsblog (http://angelawatkinsblog.wordpress.com) last night with one of my writing profiles(http://angelawatkins.overblog.com) and as soon as I edited my "wordpress blog" with my writing profile it was suspended in the administration-edit.
Angela Watkins - http://angelawatkins.overblog.com
I have that same writing profile at my "blogger blog" and "pinterest" and there is no problem with it.
My Blogger Blog: http://angelawatkins57.blogspot.com and as soon as I edited my "wordpress blog" with my writing profile it was suspended.
Angela Watkins - http://angelawatkins.overblog.com
I have that same writing profile at my "blogger blog" and "pinterest" and there is no problem with it.
Angela's Blogger Blog: http://angelawatkins57.blogspot.com
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Saturday, April 6, 2013
2 of 2 ... Promises Kept .... 4/7/2013
Sunday School Lesson for 4/7/2013. Unit II. Resurrection Hope. Luke 24:36-53 (Devotional Reading I Corinthians 15:1-8).
Jesus/Yeshua kept His word and fulfilled the words of prophecy about Himself through His Resurrection.
The Christian Church has failed their God-given assignment to proclaim Jesus/Yeshua to all nations (Luke 24:47).
The Great Commission – global evangelism – which Jesus/Yeshua preached after He arose from the dead.
Mankind is too skeptical of things at times that seems too good to be true, and that’s why some miss out on opportunities. We can also become at times overwhelmed when the unbelieveable becomes believeable.
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Kenneth T. Wessner, Chairman of the Board of Service Master company’s philosophy was shared in my sunday school lesson and you can learn more about it: http://www.evancarmichael.com/Sales/385/Mastery-can-be-a-valid-sales-goal–what-is-your-mission.html ( http://www.kiva.org/lender/EntrepreneursForAfrica ).
Luke 24:36-53
Verses 36-43 … Jesus Christ; Appearances Of Christ After His Resurrection; On the Day of His Resurrection; To the Ten, – Then Thomas
Verse 39 … Jesus Christ; Christ’s Humanity; Christ’s Incarnation
Luke 24:39,42,43 … Jesus appeared in bodily/flesh form to His disciples and ate food with them. Their was eyewitnesses of Jesus walking – talking – eating after the grave which testifies that He arose from the dead.
(John 20:19-23; Luke 24:13; John 21:1; Acts 1:3; I Corinthians 15:6 – Reference Scriptures from Sunday School Book)
Verse 44 … Scripture; Characteristics of Scripture; Permanence and Fulfillment of Scripture
Verse 45 … Scripture; Promulgation of Scripture; Instruction in Scripture (Promulgation – decree, news, make know to the public)
Verse 46 … Jesus Christ; Prophecies Concerning Christ; Resurrection
Verse 47 … Man Redeemed; Justification; Pardon, Promised … Pardon for Sins and Iniquities Promised
Verse 48 … Sacred Persons & Offices; Apostles; The Twelve; Special Duties, To Bear Witness
Verse 49 … Jesus Christ; Christ’s Divinity; Performs the Works of God, In Bestowing Spiritual Blessings … The Holy Spirit Promised
Luke 24:44 … Jesus refreshed His disciples mind concerning the prophecies about Him.
Luke 24:46-47 …. Jesus suffering – death – resurrection was the only way for mankind to receive forgiveness for sins. Repentance and remissions of sins should be preached to all nations, in His name.
(Deuteronomy 18:15; Psalms/Tehillim 2:7, 22:14-18; Isaiah 53, 61:1; Luke 24:32,45; Acts 1:4-8; Acts 1:9-11)
Verse 50 … Jesus Christ; Appearance Of Christ After His Resurrection; At Other Times, To the Eleven at the Mount of Olives
Verse 51 … Jesus Christ; Christ’s Ascension: Christ In Heaven; Christ’s Ascension
Verse 52 … Jesus Christ; Christ’s Divinity; Christ Possesses the Attributes of God, Is an Object of Worship
Verse 53 … Sacred Places; Other Sacred Places; Among Christians, Who Used the Jewish Temple
Luke 24:50,51 …. Bethany – a village near Jerusalem, beyond the Jordan (John 1:28) and the Ascension of Christ was at Bethany.
Luke 24:52 … The disciples praised God in the temple.
(Exodus 34:14; John 4:24)
I Corinthians 15:1-8
Verses 1,2 … Scripture; Promulgation of Scripture; God’s Word Declared
Verse 3 … Jesus Christ; Offices of Christ; Our Propitiation (Propitiation – atonement) … Pardon for Sins and Iniquities Promised
Verse 4 … Jesus Christ; Prophecies Concerning Christ; Resurrection
Verse 5 … Jesus Christ; Appearances of Christ After His Resurrection to Peter
Verse 6 … Jesus Christ; Appearances of Christ After His Resurrection; At Other Times, To Five Hundred Brethren at Once
Verse 7 … Jesus Christ; Appearances Of Christ After His Resurrection; At Other Times, To James
Verse 8 … Jesus Christ; Christ’s Ascension: Christ In Heaven; Christ in Heaven
Scripture reference used/taken from: KJV Precious Promise Bible, KJV Topical Reference Bible & Reader’s Digest Oxford Complete Wordfinder
Jesus/Yeshua kept His word and fulfilled the words of prophecy about Himself through His Resurrection.
The Christian Church has failed their God-given assignment to proclaim Jesus/Yeshua to all nations (Luke 24:47).
The Great Commission – global evangelism – which Jesus/Yeshua preached after He arose from the dead.
Mankind is too skeptical of things at times that seems too good to be true, and that’s why some miss out on opportunities. We can also become at times overwhelmed when the unbelieveable becomes believeable.
Click Here to Advertise on My Blog
Kenneth T. Wessner, Chairman of the Board of Service Master company’s philosophy was shared in my sunday school lesson and you can learn more about it: http://www.evancarmichael.com/Sales/385/Mastery-can-be-a-valid-sales-goal–what-is-your-mission.html ( http://www.kiva.org/lender/EntrepreneursForAfrica ).
Luke 24:36-53
Verses 36-43 … Jesus Christ; Appearances Of Christ After His Resurrection; On the Day of His Resurrection; To the Ten, – Then Thomas
Verse 39 … Jesus Christ; Christ’s Humanity; Christ’s Incarnation
Luke 24:39,42,43 … Jesus appeared in bodily/flesh form to His disciples and ate food with them. Their was eyewitnesses of Jesus walking – talking – eating after the grave which testifies that He arose from the dead.
(John 20:19-23; Luke 24:13; John 21:1; Acts 1:3; I Corinthians 15:6 – Reference Scriptures from Sunday School Book)
Verse 44 … Scripture; Characteristics of Scripture; Permanence and Fulfillment of Scripture
Verse 45 … Scripture; Promulgation of Scripture; Instruction in Scripture (Promulgation – decree, news, make know to the public)
Verse 46 … Jesus Christ; Prophecies Concerning Christ; Resurrection
Verse 47 … Man Redeemed; Justification; Pardon, Promised … Pardon for Sins and Iniquities Promised
Verse 48 … Sacred Persons & Offices; Apostles; The Twelve; Special Duties, To Bear Witness
Verse 49 … Jesus Christ; Christ’s Divinity; Performs the Works of God, In Bestowing Spiritual Blessings … The Holy Spirit Promised
Luke 24:44 … Jesus refreshed His disciples mind concerning the prophecies about Him.
Luke 24:46-47 …. Jesus suffering – death – resurrection was the only way for mankind to receive forgiveness for sins. Repentance and remissions of sins should be preached to all nations, in His name.
(Deuteronomy 18:15; Psalms/Tehillim 2:7, 22:14-18; Isaiah 53, 61:1; Luke 24:32,45; Acts 1:4-8; Acts 1:9-11)
Verse 50 … Jesus Christ; Appearance Of Christ After His Resurrection; At Other Times, To the Eleven at the Mount of Olives
Verse 51 … Jesus Christ; Christ’s Ascension: Christ In Heaven; Christ’s Ascension
Verse 52 … Jesus Christ; Christ’s Divinity; Christ Possesses the Attributes of God, Is an Object of Worship
Verse 53 … Sacred Places; Other Sacred Places; Among Christians, Who Used the Jewish Temple
Luke 24:50,51 …. Bethany – a village near Jerusalem, beyond the Jordan (John 1:28) and the Ascension of Christ was at Bethany.
Luke 24:52 … The disciples praised God in the temple.
(Exodus 34:14; John 4:24)
I Corinthians 15:1-8
Verses 1,2 … Scripture; Promulgation of Scripture; God’s Word Declared
Verse 3 … Jesus Christ; Offices of Christ; Our Propitiation (Propitiation – atonement) … Pardon for Sins and Iniquities Promised
Verse 4 … Jesus Christ; Prophecies Concerning Christ; Resurrection
Verse 5 … Jesus Christ; Appearances of Christ After His Resurrection to Peter
Verse 6 … Jesus Christ; Appearances of Christ After His Resurrection; At Other Times, To Five Hundred Brethren at Once
Verse 7 … Jesus Christ; Appearances Of Christ After His Resurrection; At Other Times, To James
Verse 8 … Jesus Christ; Christ’s Ascension: Christ In Heaven; Christ in Heaven
Scripture reference used/taken from: KJV Precious Promise Bible, KJV Topical Reference Bible & Reader’s Digest Oxford Complete Wordfinder
4-3-2013 ... Truth, Integrity & Honesty
April/May/June 2013 Devotional & Educational Quarterly Emphasis is covering “Building Character: Truth, Honesty, & Integrity.”
This devotion is designed to be studied once a week for adults, and once per month for children, juniors, and teenagers.
Devotional Scripture …. Proverbs 12:17
Topic Scripture … John 14:6, 14:9, 17:17, 18:37-38; Isaiah 9:2; Psalm/Tehillim 119:142
The lips of truth shall be established forever; but a lying tongue is but for a moment (Proverbs 12:19) … Key Verse
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Civil & Social Life; Manners & Customs; Discourse, Lying, & Its Exposure … The Upright are Blessed & Prospered ….. (now I realize that prosperity means different things to different people)
Do you remember the television game show that was once aired “To Tell The Truth?” We still have impostors like that today in different sectors in the secular as well as the christian world. But when God gets tired He will allow them to be exposed and sit them down.
Proverbs 12:17 … Man Redeemed; Duties & Graces of the New Life; Government of the Tongue
John 14:6 … Jesus Christ; Offices of Christ; Our Mediator
John 14:9 … Jesus Christ; Christ‘s Divinity; Is Made Equal With God
John 17:17 … Scripture; Characteristics Of Scripture; Perfection & Truth of Scripture
John 18:37 … Jesus Christ; Christ’s Trial; Christ Replies
John 18:38 … Jesus Christ; Christ’s Trial; Pilate’s Unwillingness to Condemn
Isaiah 9:2 … Jesus Christ; Prophecies Concerning Christ; Journey to Galilee
Psalm/Tehillim 119:142 … Scripture; Characteristics of Scripture; Perfection & Truth of Scripture
Topic Scriptures … I Peter 1:23; I Peter 2:1-2
I Peter 1:23 … Man Redeemed; Effectual Calling; The Understanding Enlightened, The Truth Received …. Scripture; Advantages of Scripture; Sanctifying & Saving
I Peter 2:1 … Man Redeemed; Blessedness of The New Life; Love of Truth & Righteousness
I Peter 2:2 … Scripture; Advantages of Scripture; Satisfying Desire
Scripture reference used/taken from: KJV Topical Reference Bible & KJV Precious Promise Bible
This devotion is designed to be studied once a week for adults, and once per month for children, juniors, and teenagers.
Devotional Scripture …. Proverbs 12:17
Topic Scripture … John 14:6, 14:9, 17:17, 18:37-38; Isaiah 9:2; Psalm/Tehillim 119:142
The lips of truth shall be established forever; but a lying tongue is but for a moment (Proverbs 12:19) … Key Verse
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Civil & Social Life; Manners & Customs; Discourse, Lying, & Its Exposure … The Upright are Blessed & Prospered ….. (now I realize that prosperity means different things to different people)
Do you remember the television game show that was once aired “To Tell The Truth?” We still have impostors like that today in different sectors in the secular as well as the christian world. But when God gets tired He will allow them to be exposed and sit them down.
Proverbs 12:17 … Man Redeemed; Duties & Graces of the New Life; Government of the Tongue
John 14:6 … Jesus Christ; Offices of Christ; Our Mediator
John 14:9 … Jesus Christ; Christ‘s Divinity; Is Made Equal With God
John 17:17 … Scripture; Characteristics Of Scripture; Perfection & Truth of Scripture
John 18:37 … Jesus Christ; Christ’s Trial; Christ Replies
John 18:38 … Jesus Christ; Christ’s Trial; Pilate’s Unwillingness to Condemn
Isaiah 9:2 … Jesus Christ; Prophecies Concerning Christ; Journey to Galilee
Psalm/Tehillim 119:142 … Scripture; Characteristics of Scripture; Perfection & Truth of Scripture
Topic Scriptures … I Peter 1:23; I Peter 2:1-2
I Peter 1:23 … Man Redeemed; Effectual Calling; The Understanding Enlightened, The Truth Received …. Scripture; Advantages of Scripture; Sanctifying & Saving
I Peter 2:1 … Man Redeemed; Blessedness of The New Life; Love of Truth & Righteousness
I Peter 2:2 … Scripture; Advantages of Scripture; Satisfying Desire
Scripture reference used/taken from: KJV Topical Reference Bible & KJV Precious Promise Bible
Thursday, April 4, 2013
April/May/June 2013 Calendar of Events
Calendar of Events for April/May/June 2013.
There may be more events, but these are the ones that I chose to share.
April
April 1 – April Fool’s Day
Autism Awareness Month
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May
May 12 – Mother’s Day
May 18 – Armed Forces Day
May 27 – Memorial Day
Graduation Month
This month is also set aside to mentor-coach those with disabilities… such as personal development could lead to employment via of job training as well aid to self-esteem, social skills and being productive in the home, communities and places of worship. (I do realize that there could be some exceptions to this situation) ……… I personally know of one person who has a full time home business and another person who work a part-time job.
June
June 14 – Flag Day
June 16 – Father’s Day
June 21 – First Day of Summer
Professional Counseling/Therapy and early warning signs detection for children with disabilities
There may be more events, but these are the ones that I chose to share.
April
April 1 – April Fool’s Day
Autism Awareness Month
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May
May 12 – Mother’s Day
May 18 – Armed Forces Day
May 27 – Memorial Day
Graduation Month
This month is also set aside to mentor-coach those with disabilities… such as personal development could lead to employment via of job training as well aid to self-esteem, social skills and being productive in the home, communities and places of worship. (I do realize that there could be some exceptions to this situation) ……… I personally know of one person who has a full time home business and another person who work a part-time job.
June
June 14 – Flag Day
June 16 – Father’s Day
June 21 – First Day of Summer
Professional Counseling/Therapy and early warning signs detection for children with disabilities
1 of 2 ... Promises Kept ... 4/7/2013
My Sunday School Lesson Bible Reading for the week of April 7,2013 is coming from the Book of I Corinthians, John and Luke.
You can make a promise(s), but if you do, let your yes be yes, and your no be no.
Place your trust in Christ not mankind for God is in control, no matter what circumstances comes up in life.
Monday – April 1, 2013 – Appearances of the Risen Lord – I Corinthians 15:1-8
Tuesday – April 2, 2013 – The Appearance to Mary Magdalene – John 20:11-18
Resurrection Appearances of Jesus/Yeshua … John 20:11-18
Wednesday – April 3, 2013 – The Appearance to Thomas – John 20:24-29
Resurrection Appearances of Jesus … John 20:24-29
Thursday – April 4,2013 – The Appearance to Seven Disciples – John 21:1-8
John 21:1-8 … The Appendix
The Appendix … the last two verses of John Chapter 20 probably constituted the ending of the Gospel. Probably John Chapter 21 as an appendix to clear up-explain a misunderstanding that had risen regarding Jesus’ words concerning the future of the beloved disciple (verses 20-23), and to restore Peter to a position of unique responsibility within the Church (verses 15-19).
Appendix … subsidiary matter at the end of a book or document.
Friday – April 5, 2013 – Breakfast with the Disciples – John 21:9-14
John 21:9-14 … Appendix
Saturday – April 6, 2013 – Simon Peter Called To Follow – John 21:15-19
John 21:15-19 … Appendix
Sunday – April 7, 2013 – You Are Witnesses of These Things – Luke 24:36-53
In the upper room … Luke 24:36-49
The Ascension of Jesus/Yeshua …. Luke 24:50-52
Personal Private Assignment:
Meditate on any promise to God and others that you have not followed through on/failed to keep. Ask God for grace to fulfill that/those promises according to His will.
Create a Private Journal/Diary of promises via of searching Scriptures of God’s promises to you regarding various concerns you face on your life’s journey.
My Personal Concerns …
June 8, 2010 I placed 3 areas of concerns in My Precious Promise Bible ad wrote Scriptures Chapters and verses concerning these.
One year later the second concern God answered my prayer.
May 13, 2011 I wrote on the back of this list and added another request.
My Scriptures with Promises are in the Old and New Testament.
Scripture & reference used/taken from: Zondervan Bible Commentary & Reader’s Digest Complete Wordfinder
You can make a promise(s), but if you do, let your yes be yes, and your no be no.
Place your trust in Christ not mankind for God is in control, no matter what circumstances comes up in life.
Monday – April 1, 2013 – Appearances of the Risen Lord – I Corinthians 15:1-8
Tuesday – April 2, 2013 – The Appearance to Mary Magdalene – John 20:11-18
Resurrection Appearances of Jesus/Yeshua … John 20:11-18
Wednesday – April 3, 2013 – The Appearance to Thomas – John 20:24-29
Resurrection Appearances of Jesus … John 20:24-29
Thursday – April 4,2013 – The Appearance to Seven Disciples – John 21:1-8
John 21:1-8 … The Appendix
The Appendix … the last two verses of John Chapter 20 probably constituted the ending of the Gospel. Probably John Chapter 21 as an appendix to clear up-explain a misunderstanding that had risen regarding Jesus’ words concerning the future of the beloved disciple (verses 20-23), and to restore Peter to a position of unique responsibility within the Church (verses 15-19).
Appendix … subsidiary matter at the end of a book or document.
Friday – April 5, 2013 – Breakfast with the Disciples – John 21:9-14
John 21:9-14 … Appendix
Saturday – April 6, 2013 – Simon Peter Called To Follow – John 21:15-19
John 21:15-19 … Appendix
Sunday – April 7, 2013 – You Are Witnesses of These Things – Luke 24:36-53
In the upper room … Luke 24:36-49
The Ascension of Jesus/Yeshua …. Luke 24:50-52
Personal Private Assignment:
Meditate on any promise to God and others that you have not followed through on/failed to keep. Ask God for grace to fulfill that/those promises according to His will.
Create a Private Journal/Diary of promises via of searching Scriptures of God’s promises to you regarding various concerns you face on your life’s journey.
My Personal Concerns …
June 8, 2010 I placed 3 areas of concerns in My Precious Promise Bible ad wrote Scriptures Chapters and verses concerning these.
One year later the second concern God answered my prayer.
May 13, 2011 I wrote on the back of this list and added another request.
My Scriptures with Promises are in the Old and New Testament.
Scripture & reference used/taken from: Zondervan Bible Commentary & Reader’s Digest Complete Wordfinder
3-27-2013 ... True Worship
Jan/Feb/March 2013 Devotional & Educational Quarterly Emphasis is on True Worship.
I am sharing my notes on the last two lessons outlined for the quarter of Jan/Feb/March 2013.
4th Week in March:
Devotional Scriptures …. Psalm/Tehillim 119:1-8; Proberbs 4:1-5; 8:30-35
Topic Scripture … Psalm/Tehillim 100:1-5
Devotional Message Scriptures … Proverbs 4:1-5; Proverbs 8:30-35
Topic For Discussion Scriptures … Psalm/Tehillim 100:3,5,2b,1,2a,4a,4b
Psalm/Tehillim 119 … Diadectic Psalm. Showing the excellence of God‘s law… Professing the psalmist’s integrity.
Didactic character refers to matters of religion and morality.
Proverbs 4:1-5; 8:30-35 … The Hebrew title of the book is ‘Mishle, singular title is ‘mashal,’ usually translated “proverb.”
Chapters 1-10 … “The proverbs of Solomon the son of David,” indicating the aim and object of the book… The remaining portion a connected poem in praise of wisdom.
Psalm/Tehillim 100 … Of God’s power, majesty, and glory… Relative to public worship… Of God’s goodness and mercy.
5th Week in March
Devotional Scripture … Psalm/Tehillim 23; Isaiah 43:1-3a
Topic Scripture … Matthew 7:7,18; 19-20; 28:20
Devotional Message Scriptures … Matthew 7:11; Matthew 5:45b; Deuteronomy 28; Matthew 7:7; Matthew 18:19-20
Topic For Discussion Scriptures … Matthew 7:7; Matthew 18:19-20; Matthew 28:20; Matthew 7; Luke 18:1-8; Matthew 7:9-11; John 10:27; John 10:4; Matthew 28:20; Isaiah 43:2-3b; Psalm/Tehillim 23
Psalm/Tehillim … Expressing trust in God
Isaiah 43:1-3b … Chapters 40-48, the prophet Isaiah emphasizes the certainty of the approaching release from exile (Israel), assures them that nothing can hinder their deliverance, and points out the power of Jehovah to fulfil His promises, and the impotence of the gods of the heathen.
Matthew 5,6,7 … the works of the Kingdom and its true nature…. Matthew wrote for Jewish Christians… discourses of Jesus Christ
Matthew 28:20 …. The Lord’s Love and Care for His Children
Deuteronomy 28… Chapters 27 & 28 directions as to the writing down of the law after the crossing of the Jordan, and delivery of blessings and cursings from Mount Gerizim and Mount Ebal.
Luke 18:1-8… Luke 9:51-19:48, journeyings towards Jerusalem
Luke was inspired by the apostle Paul with his mind and spirit.
John 10:4,27 … Christ the good Shepherd … The Lord’s Love and Care for His Children
Scripture reference used/taken from: KJV Precious Promise Bible
I am sharing my notes on the last two lessons outlined for the quarter of Jan/Feb/March 2013.
4th Week in March:
Devotional Scriptures …. Psalm/Tehillim 119:1-8; Proberbs 4:1-5; 8:30-35
Topic Scripture … Psalm/Tehillim 100:1-5
Devotional Message Scriptures … Proverbs 4:1-5; Proverbs 8:30-35
Topic For Discussion Scriptures … Psalm/Tehillim 100:3,5,2b,1,2a,4a,4b
Psalm/Tehillim 119 … Diadectic Psalm. Showing the excellence of God‘s law… Professing the psalmist’s integrity.
Didactic character refers to matters of religion and morality.
Proverbs 4:1-5; 8:30-35 … The Hebrew title of the book is ‘Mishle, singular title is ‘mashal,’ usually translated “proverb.”
Chapters 1-10 … “The proverbs of Solomon the son of David,” indicating the aim and object of the book… The remaining portion a connected poem in praise of wisdom.
Psalm/Tehillim 100 … Of God’s power, majesty, and glory… Relative to public worship… Of God’s goodness and mercy.
5th Week in March
Devotional Scripture … Psalm/Tehillim 23; Isaiah 43:1-3a
Topic Scripture … Matthew 7:7,18; 19-20; 28:20
Devotional Message Scriptures … Matthew 7:11; Matthew 5:45b; Deuteronomy 28; Matthew 7:7; Matthew 18:19-20
Topic For Discussion Scriptures … Matthew 7:7; Matthew 18:19-20; Matthew 28:20; Matthew 7; Luke 18:1-8; Matthew 7:9-11; John 10:27; John 10:4; Matthew 28:20; Isaiah 43:2-3b; Psalm/Tehillim 23
Psalm/Tehillim … Expressing trust in God
Isaiah 43:1-3b … Chapters 40-48, the prophet Isaiah emphasizes the certainty of the approaching release from exile (Israel), assures them that nothing can hinder their deliverance, and points out the power of Jehovah to fulfil His promises, and the impotence of the gods of the heathen.
Matthew 5,6,7 … the works of the Kingdom and its true nature…. Matthew wrote for Jewish Christians… discourses of Jesus Christ
Matthew 28:20 …. The Lord’s Love and Care for His Children
Deuteronomy 28… Chapters 27 & 28 directions as to the writing down of the law after the crossing of the Jordan, and delivery of blessings and cursings from Mount Gerizim and Mount Ebal.
Luke 18:1-8… Luke 9:51-19:48, journeyings towards Jerusalem
Luke was inspired by the apostle Paul with his mind and spirit.
John 10:4,27 … Christ the good Shepherd … The Lord’s Love and Care for His Children
Scripture reference used/taken from: KJV Precious Promise Bible
2 of 2 ... Resurrection Sunday ... 3/31/2013
Sunday School Lesson for 3/31/2013. Unit II. Resurrection Hope. Luke 24:13-21; 28-35 (Devotional Reading Luke 24:22-26).
I Corinthians 15 … Time line for different Resurrection appearances of Jesus Christ of Nazareth.
I Corinthians 15:1-58 … The Resurrection
Luke 24:13-21; 28-35
Bible Maps …. Biblical Maps …. The distance from Jerusalem to Emmaus … now meditate on walking on foot in this distance which is 7 miles.
Biblical Truths – Teaching … You need to understand Geography & Power in Biblical Times by viewing/using Biblical maps at the time of their dates in history of Study of Scriptures.
Think on two issues … 1. What the two disciples must have felt as they were disappointed and losing hope….. 2. Compare you heart felt emotions/feelings about the death of a loved one to the disciples emotions/feelings concerning Jesus death and Resurrection.
Luke 24:13-16
Verses 13,14 … Civil & Social Life; Manners & Customs; Discourse, News …. (Manners – way …. Genesis 31:35; Judges 1:39 …. Luke 1:9; Acts 6:14, manner means usage in the New Testament)
Verses 15,16 … Jesus Christ/Yeshua ; Appearances of Christ After His Resurrection; On the Day of His Resurrection, To the Two Disciples
Emmaus – a village where the two disciples were walking on the day of Jesus resurrection. When Jesus met them and was evidently recognized by them as Jesus broke bread at supper with them (Luke 24;7-35)…. Emmaus was 7 miles or 60 furlongs from Jerusalem.
The two disciples were talking about what had happened during the Passover weekend (verse 14). The two disciples did not recognize who Jesus was (verse 16. Jesus made more appearances in the following 40 days, including to the 11 disciples (John 20:26-31).
(Mark 16:12-23; John 20:26-31 – Reference from Sunday School Book)
Luke 24:17-31
Verses 17,18 … Civil & Social Life; Manners & Customs; Discourse, News
Verse 18 … Cleopas walked with Jesus to Emmaus, not knowing nor recognized who Jesus was.
Verse 19 … Jesus Christ; Christ’s Reception by Men; Regarded as a Prophet
Verse 20 … Jesus Christ; Christ’s Trial; Christ’s Condemned
Verse 20 … Cleopas remembering how the Jewish leaders sentenced Jesus and crucified Him…. (No man took Jesus’ life, He came to deliver – redeem mankind which would give them eternal life John 3:16).
Verse 21 … Jesus Christ; The Burial & Resurrection of Christ; Incredulity of the Disciples …. Incredulity – unbelieving, doubtful, questioning
Verse 21 … Cleopas told Jesus that the Jewish people had trusted for a Messiah which should redeem Israel.
Verse 21 … Jesus Christ; The Burial & Resurrection of Christ; Incredulity of the Disciples … Incredulity – unbelieving, doubtful, questioning
Luke 24:25-27 … Jesus explains that His Crucifixion, Resurrection was a Divine Plan.
Luke 24:28-35
Verses 28,29 … Civil & Social Life; Manners & Customs; Hospitality, Instances
The two disciples invited Jesus to stay the evening with them.
Verses 30,31,32,33,34,35 …. Jesus Christ; Appearances Of Christ After His Resurrection, To the Two Disciples
Verses 30,31 … As Jesus sat with the two disciples and took bread, blessed it, and then gave it to the two disciples
Verse 31 …. the two disciples eyes were opened and then they recognized who He was and then Jesus vanished out of their sight
Verse 32 … the two disciples hearts burned within them, as Jesus talked with them and explained the Scriptures to them
Verses 33,34 … the two disciples went back to Jerusalem with Good News and told the 11 disciples their encounter on the Walk to Emmaus
(I Corinthians 15:5)
Mankind has experienced time of doubt as well as time of joy and being hopeful.
Let us be like the two disciples on the road to Emmaus and have our hope restored in Jesus Christ to the end, which is heaven-bound.
4 Forms of the Cross …. Crucifixion – Cross
1. Latin
2. St. Andrews
3. St. Anthony
4. Greek
Crucifixion was via of tying or nailing.
Cross means the gospel (Galatians 6:14) or suffering (Ephesians 2:16).
I am reminded of a song … No Cross No Crown.
Scripture & reference used/taken from: KJV Topical Reference Bible, Zondervan Bible Commentary & Reader’s Digest Oxford Complete Wordfinder
I Corinthians 15 … Time line for different Resurrection appearances of Jesus Christ of Nazareth.
I Corinthians 15:1-58 … The Resurrection
Luke 24:13-21; 28-35
Bible Maps …. Biblical Maps …. The distance from Jerusalem to Emmaus … now meditate on walking on foot in this distance which is 7 miles.
Biblical Truths – Teaching … You need to understand Geography & Power in Biblical Times by viewing/using Biblical maps at the time of their dates in history of Study of Scriptures.
Think on two issues … 1. What the two disciples must have felt as they were disappointed and losing hope….. 2. Compare you heart felt emotions/feelings about the death of a loved one to the disciples emotions/feelings concerning Jesus death and Resurrection.
Luke 24:13-16
Verses 13,14 … Civil & Social Life; Manners & Customs; Discourse, News …. (Manners – way …. Genesis 31:35; Judges 1:39 …. Luke 1:9; Acts 6:14, manner means usage in the New Testament)
Verses 15,16 … Jesus Christ/Yeshua ; Appearances of Christ After His Resurrection; On the Day of His Resurrection, To the Two Disciples
Emmaus – a village where the two disciples were walking on the day of Jesus resurrection. When Jesus met them and was evidently recognized by them as Jesus broke bread at supper with them (Luke 24;7-35)…. Emmaus was 7 miles or 60 furlongs from Jerusalem.
The two disciples were talking about what had happened during the Passover weekend (verse 14). The two disciples did not recognize who Jesus was (verse 16. Jesus made more appearances in the following 40 days, including to the 11 disciples (John 20:26-31).
(Mark 16:12-23; John 20:26-31 – Reference from Sunday School Book)
Luke 24:17-31
Verses 17,18 … Civil & Social Life; Manners & Customs; Discourse, News
Verse 18 … Cleopas walked with Jesus to Emmaus, not knowing nor recognized who Jesus was.
Verse 19 … Jesus Christ; Christ’s Reception by Men; Regarded as a Prophet
Verse 20 … Jesus Christ; Christ’s Trial; Christ’s Condemned
Verse 20 … Cleopas remembering how the Jewish leaders sentenced Jesus and crucified Him…. (No man took Jesus’ life, He came to deliver – redeem mankind which would give them eternal life John 3:16).
Verse 21 … Jesus Christ; The Burial & Resurrection of Christ; Incredulity of the Disciples …. Incredulity – unbelieving, doubtful, questioning
Verse 21 … Cleopas told Jesus that the Jewish people had trusted for a Messiah which should redeem Israel.
Verse 21 … Jesus Christ; The Burial & Resurrection of Christ; Incredulity of the Disciples … Incredulity – unbelieving, doubtful, questioning
Luke 24:25-27 … Jesus explains that His Crucifixion, Resurrection was a Divine Plan.
Luke 24:28-35
Verses 28,29 … Civil & Social Life; Manners & Customs; Hospitality, Instances
The two disciples invited Jesus to stay the evening with them.
Verses 30,31,32,33,34,35 …. Jesus Christ; Appearances Of Christ After His Resurrection, To the Two Disciples
Verses 30,31 … As Jesus sat with the two disciples and took bread, blessed it, and then gave it to the two disciples
Verse 31 …. the two disciples eyes were opened and then they recognized who He was and then Jesus vanished out of their sight
Verse 32 … the two disciples hearts burned within them, as Jesus talked with them and explained the Scriptures to them
Verses 33,34 … the two disciples went back to Jerusalem with Good News and told the 11 disciples their encounter on the Walk to Emmaus
(I Corinthians 15:5)
Mankind has experienced time of doubt as well as time of joy and being hopeful.
Let us be like the two disciples on the road to Emmaus and have our hope restored in Jesus Christ to the end, which is heaven-bound.
4 Forms of the Cross …. Crucifixion – Cross
1. Latin
2. St. Andrews
3. St. Anthony
4. Greek
Crucifixion was via of tying or nailing.
Cross means the gospel (Galatians 6:14) or suffering (Ephesians 2:16).
I am reminded of a song … No Cross No Crown.
Scripture & reference used/taken from: KJV Topical Reference Bible, Zondervan Bible Commentary & Reader’s Digest Oxford Complete Wordfinder
Wednesday, March 27, 2013
1 of 2 ... Resurrection Sunday ... 3/31/2013
My Sunday School Lesson Bible Reading for the week of 3/31/2013 is coming from The Book of Luke and The Book of Isaiah.
Monday – 3/25/2013 – The Trial before Pilate – Luke 23:13-25
The Last Hours (Luke 22:14-23:56) …. The Second trial before Pilate (Luke 23:13-25)
Tuesday – 3/26/2013 – The Crucifixion of Jesus/Yeshua – Luke 23:32-38 …. The way to Calvary (Luke 23:26-32) …. The Crucifixion (Luke 23:33-49)
Wednesday – 3/27/2013 – The Death of Jesus/Yeshua – Luke 23:44-49 … The Crucifixion (Luke 23:33-49)
Thursday – 3/28/2013 – The Burial of Jesus/Yeshua – Luke 23:50-56 ….. The burial (Luke 23:50-56)
Friday – 3/29/2013 – The Messiah’s Suffering – Isaiah 53:3-9 …. The Return of the Exiles (Isaiah 40:1-66:24) ….. God’s Servant: His Suffering & Triumph (Isaiah 52:13-53:12)
Saturday – 3/30/2013 – Discovery of the Empty Tomb – Luke 24:1-12 …. Resurrection & Ascension (Luke 24:1-12)
Sunday – 3/31/2013 – The Lord Has Risen – Luke 24:13-21,28-35 …… The Walk to Emmaus (Luke 24:”13-25)
Luke was a Gentile and a physician, very dear to the apostle Paul. He was the apostle Paul fellow worker in spreading the faith and his attendant in both his Roman imprisonment. Luke was probably a Syrian of Antioch, and may have been converted by St. Paul.
St. Luke wrote for the whole world, whether Jew or Gentile, but especially for Greeks, as Matthew for Jews, and Mark for Romans.
The last days, passion, resurrection, and ascension (Luke 20:1-24::53)
Isaiah received the prophetic call in the last year of King Uzziah’s reign (Isaiah 6:1), and prophesied during the reigns of the following three kings: Jothan, Ahaz, and Hezekiah (Isaiah 1:1).
Isaiah Chapters 40-66 …. restoration of Israel from Babylon.
Isaiah Chapters 49-53 … the prophecy of the servant of Jehovah, His Sufferings & Glory. Isaiah 49-57 tells us of the personal Messiah.
Scripture reference used/taken from: KJV Precious Promise Bible & Zondervan Bible Commentary
Monday – 3/25/2013 – The Trial before Pilate – Luke 23:13-25
The Last Hours (Luke 22:14-23:56) …. The Second trial before Pilate (Luke 23:13-25)
Tuesday – 3/26/2013 – The Crucifixion of Jesus/Yeshua – Luke 23:32-38 …. The way to Calvary (Luke 23:26-32) …. The Crucifixion (Luke 23:33-49)
Wednesday – 3/27/2013 – The Death of Jesus/Yeshua – Luke 23:44-49 … The Crucifixion (Luke 23:33-49)
Thursday – 3/28/2013 – The Burial of Jesus/Yeshua – Luke 23:50-56 ….. The burial (Luke 23:50-56)
Friday – 3/29/2013 – The Messiah’s Suffering – Isaiah 53:3-9 …. The Return of the Exiles (Isaiah 40:1-66:24) ….. God’s Servant: His Suffering & Triumph (Isaiah 52:13-53:12)
Saturday – 3/30/2013 – Discovery of the Empty Tomb – Luke 24:1-12 …. Resurrection & Ascension (Luke 24:1-12)
Sunday – 3/31/2013 – The Lord Has Risen – Luke 24:13-21,28-35 …… The Walk to Emmaus (Luke 24:”13-25)
Luke was a Gentile and a physician, very dear to the apostle Paul. He was the apostle Paul fellow worker in spreading the faith and his attendant in both his Roman imprisonment. Luke was probably a Syrian of Antioch, and may have been converted by St. Paul.
St. Luke wrote for the whole world, whether Jew or Gentile, but especially for Greeks, as Matthew for Jews, and Mark for Romans.
The last days, passion, resurrection, and ascension (Luke 20:1-24::53)
Isaiah received the prophetic call in the last year of King Uzziah’s reign (Isaiah 6:1), and prophesied during the reigns of the following three kings: Jothan, Ahaz, and Hezekiah (Isaiah 1:1).
Isaiah Chapters 40-66 …. restoration of Israel from Babylon.
Isaiah Chapters 49-53 … the prophecy of the servant of Jehovah, His Sufferings & Glory. Isaiah 49-57 tells us of the personal Messiah.
Scripture reference used/taken from: KJV Precious Promise Bible & Zondervan Bible Commentary
Tuesday, March 26, 2013
The Fifth Wave ... Book Review
I am highly elated that I was contacted to review this book.
Mobile internet could alter life as we know it, society, and commerce.
According to The Book of Daniel, Proverbs, &The Abrahamic Convenant it is that infomation will increase and the transfer of revenues/wealth.......In 2012 around July I did a study on the Abrahamic Covenant from my home on The Abrahamic Convenant & Abrahamic Blessings /Provision & Wealth of the sinner is laid up for the just ........... the only reason why I haven't wrote about it was because I was placed in a discipleship class at my Church
Mobile internet could have the real potential to create a universal market of six billion users generating $2.5 trillion annually in economic value, how it will change lives, create wealth, destroy more businesses, and could upend more political systems that any force in history.
Robert Marcus and Collins Hemingway are the authors of this book.
Robert Marcus is the Chairman and CEO of QuatumWave Capital, which is a global investment banking boutique specialized in early-stage mobile internet M&A. He also built a public company to a half-billion dollar valuation, co-founded three successful start-ups, and led a turnaround, generating two IPOs.
Collins Hemingway is best known for partnering with Microsoft Bill Gates to co-author the #1 best-selling book Business the Speed of Though. Collins is a tech sector expert. He has founded and worked for startups, an served as director in Microsoft's fastest-growing division. He is a marketing and business consultant, and has written books on retail branding and strategy, ethical and leadership principles, and on cognitive fitness. He lectures regularly on leadership and the future of technology.
In the Third Wave of computing, Microsoft turned out three billionaires and more than 12,000 millionaires; Apple turned out one billionaire and another thousand millionaires. In the Fourth Wave, Google produced two billionaires and a thousand millionaires, and Facebook's public offering will create another billionaire or two and about 700 more millionaires. Together the Third and Fourth computing waves likely have produced 100,000 people who became millionaires or better. The Fifth Wave is likely to produce many more - app stores alone are producing millionaires from downloads of $1 and $2 mobile applications. The Fifth Wave will be a machine of great wealth.
Consider how much more amendable the meetings might be if the identifies are fully developed via Mobile Presence. It couldn't guarantee personal chemistry, because sometimes the fun is in the differences; but it could rule out certain attributes that are unacceptable and select for others that are deemed essential, all based on a much fuller profile of each person.
For advertisers, marketers, and content and service providers, Mobile Presence enables the distribution and consumption of information, media, and services with unprecedented relevance. With Mobile Presence, advertisers will have very precise demographic and geographic information about potential customers.
With high response rates, more companies will advertise, particularly small ones that previously lacked the confidence to. Many more firms will advertise if the opportunity is great and the risk is zero. Local merchants also will benefit from the instantaneous and hyperlocal nature of commerce.
Partnerships among travel companies, media outlets, and other information providers will boom because meaningful information can be directly tied to time and location.
Other techniques are important, but Mobile Presence is the future. The opportunity is not in any one element of Mobile Presence alone but in the combination of all four - identity, security, geospatial, and social.
Mobile Presence is the force that will account for most of the value of the mobile internet, and Mobile Presence is approaching a kairos moment.
The true impact of the mobile internet will be beyond commerce and into the realm of personal, social, and political interactions.
When an engineer in Bogota has the same access to world markets as an engineer in Silicon Valley, the world has changed. When a solider in Afghanistan can share a video call with his wife and kids halfway across the world, the world has changed. Even in the poorest areas of the world, where electricity is often lacking, people find ways to buy and use mobile phones. Mobile phones can be used for education, for payment of bills and money transfers to family, for alerts about medical treatments or when communal wells are working - even for warning women of dangerous parts of town.
People are simply more involved personally when they have devices that give them direct, personal contact with other people.
Society will reinvent itself across the globe. No market sector or country will escape the tidal wave.
As being a time of unpredictability, can also be a time of great creativity.
Mobile Presence is built upon four pillars: personal identity, security, privacy controls, geospatial information, and social connectivity.
Though social networks are growing rapidly, a distinct subset of people are fleeing such broad spectrum environments. People want to use social tools to reach out to others, but they also want to find social environments that are protected and personal.
All of a person's interactions on a mobile device help build a personal identity. Each identity will be personal and unique, because each person's traits, tendencies, movements, social interactions and purchases are personal and unique. Inappropriately, handled, this information can inflict extraordinary damage to a person's life. Security, is of paramount importance.
The mobile internet raises security and privacy issues on a number of levels: personal physical safety and the physical safety of children; financial; medical; career; and lifestyle. But the most serious kind of harm can be exposure of highly personal data. For example, cyber-bullying, which oftens involves malicious gossip and the online posting of unflattering private information about others, has led to the suicides of several young people. In response, 38 U.S. states have enacted laws criminalizing electronic harassment and similar misuse of personal data.
Every medium has security issues.
In an imperfect world, mobile transactions are intrinsically more secure than others. Regarding online security in general, consumers need to follow well-understood security measures in managing their online affairs; and financial institutions and online vendors need to follow, and improve upon, strict industry protocols for the safe storage of customer data.
Google, Facebook, and other companies with large customer bases have a vested interest in protecting user information. Yet Google and Facebook have gotten trouble more than once for the overzealous collecting of personal data and for the careless handling of it.
The sensible solution is for industry to police itself, creating clear and transparent mechanisms by which users explicitly opt in to the way in which their data will be used.
A huge business opportunity could exist for third parties to provide to consumers a rigorous review of identity protection measures and privacy policies by mobile internet providers. Consumers would look for the mobile internet equivalent of the seal of approval by Underwriters Laboratories or Consumer Reports.
Mobile internet leaders need to decide whether to proactively treat data security and privacy as a very high priority, or to prepare for legitimate but burdensome government response after the fact.
Mobile Presence enables the delivery of highly relevant information, whether personal or commercial, at a time and in a place where you want to read it.
Google's incentive for merchants to use its wallet, for instance, is that it does not plan to charge transaction fees but rather to run ads on mobile devices.
First-generation geospatial services are available from providers such as Foursquare.com, which has created the most successful geospatial social networking site to date, based on GPS. The information is posted on Foursquare.com and on the person's social networks.
Because the system is opt in, Foursquare does not know anyone's location unless the individual chooses to divulge it by checking in, thus resolving the privacy challenges.
Because it does not tie anyone down to a desk, Mobile Presence offers the best of the real and virtual world.
The desktop internet was also the first wave to restructure businesses that were not themselves involved in technology, such as publishing and retail. Hard media - books, CD's, and the like-could be ordered through web portals.
The Fourth Wave upended the media industries - photography, travel, newspaper, book, music, and video. The internet was the final nail in the coffin for many general brick and mortar retailers, who were already struggling as the result of Wal-Mart and other low-cost physical stores and were further hammered by the low price points made possible by e-commerce. Amazon, sells five times as much merchandise of any kind online as Wal-Mart sells online. Companies, that were probably positioned for online sales did exceedingly well.
Tablets and e-readers rode upon the changes brought to media and entertainment by the mobile internet. Because every form of media is now digitized and delivered in an IP format, previously separate delivery methods have collided.
Book revenues have declined for three years, from $5.18 billion in total sales for 2008 to $4.86 billion in 2010. E-book sales rose from 3.2 percent to 8.3 percent in the same period, and surged because of tablets and e-readers in 2011 to an estimated 20 percent of the overall market. The shift to digital is now so rapid that there is one predicted that e-books could overtake printed books as early as 2015.
TV viewership is increasing.
Search-related advertising is the largest component of advertising for the desktop internet. Mobile search is expected to explode to $1.6 billion by 2014 (numbers for the U.S.).
Publishers also want to get in on the many opportunities provided by mobile devices, including search, banner ads, sponsorships, videos, and store locators.
Major newspapers are finally embracing the new economy of social networks and the mobile internet is a lesson for all business. The papers are developing compelling audio and video, blogs, chats and discussion forums. Their journalists use blogs and tweets to develop both the paper's brand and their own personal brands.
Journalists also use social media to pick up ideas, develop story ideas, and collect facts.
Today the many bloggers, those informal and usually unpaid commentators, have as much cumulative impact as professional journalists. Twitter makes it easy for companies to be discovered by reporters and audiences. Twitter is the new version of the business press wire.
Products and services that were previously not feasible could very well hit critical mass with a worldwide market measured in the billions.
The mobile internet is large and dynamic.
Fortunes can be made and lost in the blink of an eye, with the mobile internet.
Understanding technology in depth is not the same thing as understanding the value of technology-based solutions.
In a time of difficult economic conditions, the mobile internet is one of the few sectors showing robust growth, spawning jobs and prosperity around the globe.
Mobile internet could alter life as we know it, society, and commerce.
According to The Book of Daniel, Proverbs, &The Abrahamic Convenant it is that infomation will increase and the transfer of revenues/wealth.......In 2012 around July I did a study on the Abrahamic Covenant from my home on The Abrahamic Convenant & Abrahamic Blessings /Provision & Wealth of the sinner is laid up for the just ........... the only reason why I haven't wrote about it was because I was placed in a discipleship class at my Church
Mobile internet could have the real potential to create a universal market of six billion users generating $2.5 trillion annually in economic value, how it will change lives, create wealth, destroy more businesses, and could upend more political systems that any force in history.
Robert Marcus and Collins Hemingway are the authors of this book.
Robert Marcus is the Chairman and CEO of QuatumWave Capital, which is a global investment banking boutique specialized in early-stage mobile internet M&A. He also built a public company to a half-billion dollar valuation, co-founded three successful start-ups, and led a turnaround, generating two IPOs.
Collins Hemingway is best known for partnering with Microsoft Bill Gates to co-author the #1 best-selling book Business the Speed of Though. Collins is a tech sector expert. He has founded and worked for startups, an served as director in Microsoft's fastest-growing division. He is a marketing and business consultant, and has written books on retail branding and strategy, ethical and leadership principles, and on cognitive fitness. He lectures regularly on leadership and the future of technology.
In the Third Wave of computing, Microsoft turned out three billionaires and more than 12,000 millionaires; Apple turned out one billionaire and another thousand millionaires. In the Fourth Wave, Google produced two billionaires and a thousand millionaires, and Facebook's public offering will create another billionaire or two and about 700 more millionaires. Together the Third and Fourth computing waves likely have produced 100,000 people who became millionaires or better. The Fifth Wave is likely to produce many more - app stores alone are producing millionaires from downloads of $1 and $2 mobile applications. The Fifth Wave will be a machine of great wealth.
Consider how much more amendable the meetings might be if the identifies are fully developed via Mobile Presence. It couldn't guarantee personal chemistry, because sometimes the fun is in the differences; but it could rule out certain attributes that are unacceptable and select for others that are deemed essential, all based on a much fuller profile of each person.
For advertisers, marketers, and content and service providers, Mobile Presence enables the distribution and consumption of information, media, and services with unprecedented relevance. With Mobile Presence, advertisers will have very precise demographic and geographic information about potential customers.
With high response rates, more companies will advertise, particularly small ones that previously lacked the confidence to. Many more firms will advertise if the opportunity is great and the risk is zero. Local merchants also will benefit from the instantaneous and hyperlocal nature of commerce.
Partnerships among travel companies, media outlets, and other information providers will boom because meaningful information can be directly tied to time and location.
Other techniques are important, but Mobile Presence is the future. The opportunity is not in any one element of Mobile Presence alone but in the combination of all four - identity, security, geospatial, and social.
Mobile Presence is the force that will account for most of the value of the mobile internet, and Mobile Presence is approaching a kairos moment.
The true impact of the mobile internet will be beyond commerce and into the realm of personal, social, and political interactions.
When an engineer in Bogota has the same access to world markets as an engineer in Silicon Valley, the world has changed. When a solider in Afghanistan can share a video call with his wife and kids halfway across the world, the world has changed. Even in the poorest areas of the world, where electricity is often lacking, people find ways to buy and use mobile phones. Mobile phones can be used for education, for payment of bills and money transfers to family, for alerts about medical treatments or when communal wells are working - even for warning women of dangerous parts of town.
People are simply more involved personally when they have devices that give them direct, personal contact with other people.
Society will reinvent itself across the globe. No market sector or country will escape the tidal wave.
As being a time of unpredictability, can also be a time of great creativity.
Mobile Presence is built upon four pillars: personal identity, security, privacy controls, geospatial information, and social connectivity.
Though social networks are growing rapidly, a distinct subset of people are fleeing such broad spectrum environments. People want to use social tools to reach out to others, but they also want to find social environments that are protected and personal.
All of a person's interactions on a mobile device help build a personal identity. Each identity will be personal and unique, because each person's traits, tendencies, movements, social interactions and purchases are personal and unique. Inappropriately, handled, this information can inflict extraordinary damage to a person's life. Security, is of paramount importance.
The mobile internet raises security and privacy issues on a number of levels: personal physical safety and the physical safety of children; financial; medical; career; and lifestyle. But the most serious kind of harm can be exposure of highly personal data. For example, cyber-bullying, which oftens involves malicious gossip and the online posting of unflattering private information about others, has led to the suicides of several young people. In response, 38 U.S. states have enacted laws criminalizing electronic harassment and similar misuse of personal data.
Every medium has security issues.
In an imperfect world, mobile transactions are intrinsically more secure than others. Regarding online security in general, consumers need to follow well-understood security measures in managing their online affairs; and financial institutions and online vendors need to follow, and improve upon, strict industry protocols for the safe storage of customer data.
Google, Facebook, and other companies with large customer bases have a vested interest in protecting user information. Yet Google and Facebook have gotten trouble more than once for the overzealous collecting of personal data and for the careless handling of it.
The sensible solution is for industry to police itself, creating clear and transparent mechanisms by which users explicitly opt in to the way in which their data will be used.
A huge business opportunity could exist for third parties to provide to consumers a rigorous review of identity protection measures and privacy policies by mobile internet providers. Consumers would look for the mobile internet equivalent of the seal of approval by Underwriters Laboratories or Consumer Reports.
Mobile internet leaders need to decide whether to proactively treat data security and privacy as a very high priority, or to prepare for legitimate but burdensome government response after the fact.
Mobile Presence enables the delivery of highly relevant information, whether personal or commercial, at a time and in a place where you want to read it.
Google's incentive for merchants to use its wallet, for instance, is that it does not plan to charge transaction fees but rather to run ads on mobile devices.
First-generation geospatial services are available from providers such as Foursquare.com, which has created the most successful geospatial social networking site to date, based on GPS. The information is posted on Foursquare.com and on the person's social networks.
Because the system is opt in, Foursquare does not know anyone's location unless the individual chooses to divulge it by checking in, thus resolving the privacy challenges.
Because it does not tie anyone down to a desk, Mobile Presence offers the best of the real and virtual world.
The desktop internet was also the first wave to restructure businesses that were not themselves involved in technology, such as publishing and retail. Hard media - books, CD's, and the like-could be ordered through web portals.
The Fourth Wave upended the media industries - photography, travel, newspaper, book, music, and video. The internet was the final nail in the coffin for many general brick and mortar retailers, who were already struggling as the result of Wal-Mart and other low-cost physical stores and were further hammered by the low price points made possible by e-commerce. Amazon, sells five times as much merchandise of any kind online as Wal-Mart sells online. Companies, that were probably positioned for online sales did exceedingly well.
Tablets and e-readers rode upon the changes brought to media and entertainment by the mobile internet. Because every form of media is now digitized and delivered in an IP format, previously separate delivery methods have collided.
Book revenues have declined for three years, from $5.18 billion in total sales for 2008 to $4.86 billion in 2010. E-book sales rose from 3.2 percent to 8.3 percent in the same period, and surged because of tablets and e-readers in 2011 to an estimated 20 percent of the overall market. The shift to digital is now so rapid that there is one predicted that e-books could overtake printed books as early as 2015.
TV viewership is increasing.
Search-related advertising is the largest component of advertising for the desktop internet. Mobile search is expected to explode to $1.6 billion by 2014 (numbers for the U.S.).
Publishers also want to get in on the many opportunities provided by mobile devices, including search, banner ads, sponsorships, videos, and store locators.
Major newspapers are finally embracing the new economy of social networks and the mobile internet is a lesson for all business. The papers are developing compelling audio and video, blogs, chats and discussion forums. Their journalists use blogs and tweets to develop both the paper's brand and their own personal brands.
Journalists also use social media to pick up ideas, develop story ideas, and collect facts.
Today the many bloggers, those informal and usually unpaid commentators, have as much cumulative impact as professional journalists. Twitter makes it easy for companies to be discovered by reporters and audiences. Twitter is the new version of the business press wire.
Products and services that were previously not feasible could very well hit critical mass with a worldwide market measured in the billions.
The mobile internet is large and dynamic.
Fortunes can be made and lost in the blink of an eye, with the mobile internet.
Understanding technology in depth is not the same thing as understanding the value of technology-based solutions.
In a time of difficult economic conditions, the mobile internet is one of the few sectors showing robust growth, spawning jobs and prosperity around the globe.
Saturday, March 23, 2013
2 of 2 .. The Privilege of Serving ... 3/24/13
Sunday School Lesson for 3/24/2013. Unit II. Resurrection Hope. The Privilege of Serving. Luke 22:14-30 (Devotional Reading with Sunday School Lesson I Corinthians 10:14-22).
The Last Hours (Luke 22:14-23:56)
The Last Supper (Luke 22:14-38)
Verses 14-20... Sacred Rites and Forms; Sacraments, Worship, & Church-Fellowship; The Lord's Supper, The Supper Itself
(Matthew 26; Mark 14; I Corinthians 11 - Reference Scripture in Sunday School Book)
Focus on the meaning and observance of The Lord's Supper.
Verses 21-23 ... Jesus Christ; Christ's Ministry; His Denial by Peter, Betrayal, & Suffering
(John 12:4-6)
Jesus informed His disciples while they were at the table that the one who was at the table with Him would betray Him. The betrayer was Judas Iscariot, who served as the treasurer for the group.
Jesus chose Judas, knowing that Judas would betray Him. Judas is an example of what sin can do to anyone whether saved or unsaved.
Have you ever noticed that when you are betrayed it is often someone closest to you?
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Verse 24 ... Fallen Man; Sin Of the Spirit, & Against Ourselves; Ambition Rebuked
Verses 25,26 ... Man Redeemed; Duties & Graces Of The New Life; Humility, Required
Verse 27 ... Sacred Persons & Offices; Of Spiritual Ministry In General; Ministerial Graces, Meekness & Humility
Verses 28,29 ... Man Redeemed; Blessedness Of The New Life; Temporal & Eternal Rewards
Verse 30 ... Eschatology (Last Things); Heaven; The Blessedness of Heaven, But Eating of the Tree of Life
(John 13)
A dispute rose among Jesus' disciples concerning who would be the greatest. Jesus told His disciples that this type of action - thinking should not be among them.
As Christians/Saints of God/Believers we must resist the attitude and temptation of striving for greatness: but strive to be servants.
I Corinthians 10:14-22 ... Dangers of indulgence
Sharing a Little History on 1 of 2 - The Privilege of Serving 3/24/2013 Sunday School Bible Daily Reading for week of 3/24/2013
Monday - 3/18/2013 ... Deuteronomy 16:1-8 - Keeping the Passover to the Lord ... The Convenant Laws (Deuteronomy 12:1-26:19) ... The Three Annual Pilgrimages (Deuteronomy 16:1-17)
Feast of the Passover ... was the convenant feast of Israel, kept on the 14th Abib, or Nisan, followed by the Feast of Unleavened Bread, which lasted seven days (Leviticus 23:6)
Abib ... Hebrew Passover month (March-April).
Nisan ... April (Nehemiah 2:1; Esther 3:7)
Tuesday - 3/19/2013 - Exodus 12:21-27 ... What Does This Observance Mean? ... From Egypt to Sinai (Exodus 12:1-18:27). The Passover Instituted (Exodus 12:1-28).
Exodus Chapters 1 -18 ... the oppression of the Israelites in Egypt, the history of Moses and his dealings with Pharoh, the plagues, the exodus, the overthrow of the Egyptians, and the arrival at Sinai.
Friday - 3/22/2013 - I Corinthians 11:17-22 - Showing Contempt for the Church ... Disorders in Public Worship (I Corinthians 11:2-34). The Lord's Supper (I Corinthians 11:17-34).
Scripture reference taken/used from: KJV Precious Promise Bible, KJV Topical Reference Bible & Zondervan Commentary
The Last Hours (Luke 22:14-23:56)
The Last Supper (Luke 22:14-38)
Verses 14-20... Sacred Rites and Forms; Sacraments, Worship, & Church-Fellowship; The Lord's Supper, The Supper Itself
(Matthew 26; Mark 14; I Corinthians 11 - Reference Scripture in Sunday School Book)
Focus on the meaning and observance of The Lord's Supper.
Verses 21-23 ... Jesus Christ; Christ's Ministry; His Denial by Peter, Betrayal, & Suffering
(John 12:4-6)
Jesus informed His disciples while they were at the table that the one who was at the table with Him would betray Him. The betrayer was Judas Iscariot, who served as the treasurer for the group.
Jesus chose Judas, knowing that Judas would betray Him. Judas is an example of what sin can do to anyone whether saved or unsaved.
Have you ever noticed that when you are betrayed it is often someone closest to you?
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Verse 24 ... Fallen Man; Sin Of the Spirit, & Against Ourselves; Ambition Rebuked
Verses 25,26 ... Man Redeemed; Duties & Graces Of The New Life; Humility, Required
Verse 27 ... Sacred Persons & Offices; Of Spiritual Ministry In General; Ministerial Graces, Meekness & Humility
Verses 28,29 ... Man Redeemed; Blessedness Of The New Life; Temporal & Eternal Rewards
Verse 30 ... Eschatology (Last Things); Heaven; The Blessedness of Heaven, But Eating of the Tree of Life
(John 13)
A dispute rose among Jesus' disciples concerning who would be the greatest. Jesus told His disciples that this type of action - thinking should not be among them.
As Christians/Saints of God/Believers we must resist the attitude and temptation of striving for greatness: but strive to be servants.
I Corinthians 10:14-22 ... Dangers of indulgence
Sharing a Little History on 1 of 2 - The Privilege of Serving 3/24/2013 Sunday School Bible Daily Reading for week of 3/24/2013
Monday - 3/18/2013 ... Deuteronomy 16:1-8 - Keeping the Passover to the Lord ... The Convenant Laws (Deuteronomy 12:1-26:19) ... The Three Annual Pilgrimages (Deuteronomy 16:1-17)
Feast of the Passover ... was the convenant feast of Israel, kept on the 14th Abib, or Nisan, followed by the Feast of Unleavened Bread, which lasted seven days (Leviticus 23:6)
Abib ... Hebrew Passover month (March-April).
Nisan ... April (Nehemiah 2:1; Esther 3:7)
Tuesday - 3/19/2013 - Exodus 12:21-27 ... What Does This Observance Mean? ... From Egypt to Sinai (Exodus 12:1-18:27). The Passover Instituted (Exodus 12:1-28).
Exodus Chapters 1 -18 ... the oppression of the Israelites in Egypt, the history of Moses and his dealings with Pharoh, the plagues, the exodus, the overthrow of the Egyptians, and the arrival at Sinai.
Friday - 3/22/2013 - I Corinthians 11:17-22 - Showing Contempt for the Church ... Disorders in Public Worship (I Corinthians 11:2-34). The Lord's Supper (I Corinthians 11:17-34).
Scripture reference taken/used from: KJV Precious Promise Bible, KJV Topical Reference Bible & Zondervan Commentary
Thursday, March 21, 2013
3-20-2013 ... True Worship
Jan/Feb/March 2013 Devotional and Educational Quarterly Emphasis covers True Worship. This devotional is studied only once a week that is provided by my Church.
"Family Worship."
Devotion Scripture - Philippians 4:6-7
Topic Scripture - Ephesians 3:14-15
"For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. Of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named" (Ephesians 3:14-15). .. Key Verse
Jesus Christ: Christ's Divinity; Is Called the Son of God
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Philippians 4:6-7 ... Joy and Peace and Rest Promised
Verse 6 ... Duties To God; Prayer; The Duty of Prayer
Verse 7 ... Man Redeemed; Blessedness Of The New Life; Assurance of the Divine Favour
Topic For Discussion ... Ephesians 3:14-15; Colossians 2:1; I Thessalonians 1:2; Philippians 1:3-4; John 11:42; John 17:22a
Colossians 2:1 ... Man Redeemed; Duties and Graces Of The New Life; Chrisitian Fellowship
I Thessalonians 1:2 ... Duties To God; Intercession; For Saints, General Intercession
Philippians 1:3-4 ... Duties To God; Intercession; For Saints, General Intercession
John 11:42 .. Miracles; Miracles Considered; Purpose of Miracles
John 17:22 ... Jesus Christ; Christ's Divinity; Is Made Equal with God
Scripture reference used/taken from: KJV Precious Promise Bible & KJV Topical Reference Bible
"Family Worship."
Devotion Scripture - Philippians 4:6-7
Topic Scripture - Ephesians 3:14-15
"For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. Of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named" (Ephesians 3:14-15). .. Key Verse
Jesus Christ: Christ's Divinity; Is Called the Son of God
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Philippians 4:6-7 ... Joy and Peace and Rest Promised
Verse 6 ... Duties To God; Prayer; The Duty of Prayer
Verse 7 ... Man Redeemed; Blessedness Of The New Life; Assurance of the Divine Favour
Topic For Discussion ... Ephesians 3:14-15; Colossians 2:1; I Thessalonians 1:2; Philippians 1:3-4; John 11:42; John 17:22a
Colossians 2:1 ... Man Redeemed; Duties and Graces Of The New Life; Chrisitian Fellowship
I Thessalonians 1:2 ... Duties To God; Intercession; For Saints, General Intercession
Philippians 1:3-4 ... Duties To God; Intercession; For Saints, General Intercession
John 11:42 .. Miracles; Miracles Considered; Purpose of Miracles
John 17:22 ... Jesus Christ; Christ's Divinity; Is Made Equal with God
Scripture reference used/taken from: KJV Precious Promise Bible & KJV Topical Reference Bible
Wednesday, March 20, 2013
Disclaimer & Privacy ... Updated March 16, 2014
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I may generate ad income and accept advertising/ads and links on my blog.
As of March 30, 2014, I will no longer be placing 'Amazon' links/affilates on my blog.
I will accept family-friendly, educational, health, financial, business, marketing and christian advertising/ads.
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I welcome the secular as well as the christian community.
I will do my best to make sure that advertisements/ads are family-friendly.
I am only responsible for any actions that you may incur via of my own doing - not any transactions with others.
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I do not rent nor sell names, email addresses of individuals, businesses and or ministries.
I keep confidential information confidential - unless I could bring harm.
Tuesday, March 19, 2013
1 of 2 ... The Privilege of Serving ... 3/24/2013
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"> ........................................................................................................................ I may not approve of all ads or endorse them .............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. My Sunday School Lesson Bible Reading for the week of 3/24/2013 is coming from the Books of Deuteronomy, Exodus, Luke & I Corinthians. ........................................................................................................... We are leading up to Resurrection Sunday. I prefer to say Resurrection Sunday, but many will say Easter. ............... Now think about Judas Iscariot ... he betrayed Jesus for 30 pieces of silver.. Greed was the cause of this... ........... 3/18/2013 - Monday - Keeping the Passover to the Lord - Deuteronomy 16:1-18 ............................................. 3/19/2013 - Tuesday - What Does This Observance Mean? - Exodus 12:21-27 ................................................. 3/20/2013 - Wednesday - Preparations for the Last Supper - Luke 22:7-13 ................................................. 3/21/2013 - Thursday - Partaking of the Lord's Table - I Corinthians 10:14-22 ........................................... 3/22/2013 - Friday - Showing Contempt for the Church - I Corinthians 11:17-22 ........................................... 3/23/2013 - Saturday - Examine Yourselves - I Corinthians 11:23-32 ...................................................... 3/24/2013 - Sunday - The Last Supper - Luke 22:14-30 ......................................................................................................................... I may not agree or endorse all ads that show up at my blog...............................
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Saturday, March 16, 2013
2 of 2 ... Dreams of a Better Tomorrow ... 3/17/13
Sunday School Lesson for 3/17/2013. Unit I. The Kingdom of God. Daniel 8:19-26 (Devotional Reading with Sunday School Lesson Psalm/Tehillim 91:1-12). .......................................................................................
The Two Beasts and The Dreadful Horn (Daniel 8:1-27) ..................................................................
The interpretation (Daniel 8:15-27) ...................................................................................
Daniel 8:9-26 .........................................................................................................
Verse 19 ... Angels, Good Angels; Offices of Good Angels, Convey God's Messages .......................................
"time of the Gentiles" - http://gotquestions.org ......................................................................
(Daniel 8:16-27; 9:21-27; Ezekiel 30:3; Revelation 19:17-19 - Reference Scriptures in Sunday School Book)..............
Verses 20 - 22 ........................................................................................................
Verse 20 ... Other Nations; Notices Of Gentile Nations: Chiefly Prophetic & Denunciatory; The Medo-Persian Empire, Daniel's Vision .......................................................................................................
Verse 21 ... Other Nations; Notices Of Gentile Nations: Chiefly Prophetic & Denunciatory; The Macedonia Empire, Under Alexander .............................................................................................................
Verse 22 ... Other Nations; Notices Of Gentile Nations: Chiefly Prophetic & Denunciatory; The Macedonia Empire, To Be Broken Up After the Death of Alexander, 323 B.C. ......................................................................
Media/Medes ... those that dwelled in the land ... Scriptures that share their importance - II Kings 17:6; 18:11; Esther 1:19; Isaiah 13:17; Daniel 5:28 ................................................................................
Persia ... prophecies concerning - Daniel 5:28; 8:10; Esther married the King of Persia, and her throne was in Susa/Iran - Nehemiah 1:1; Esther 1:2; Daniel 8:2,16 ...................................................................
Grecia ... Greece - Daniel 8:21 ... prophecies - Daniel 8:21; 10:20; 11:2; Zechariah 9:13 .............................
(Daniel 8:7,8,27) .....................................................................................................
Verses 23, 24, 25 .... Other Nations; Notices of Gentile Nations: Chiefly Prophetic and Denunciatory; The Macedonian Empire, Antiochus Epiphanes, the Eighth King of Syria, 176-174 B.C. ...................................................
Verse 26 ... Scripture; Promulgation of Scripture; Sealing of Books (Promulgation - decree; make known) ...............
(Daniel 8:9) ..........................................................................................................
Psalm/Tehillim 91 ... Psalms of Adoration - Of God's goodness and mercy, Of God's power, majesty and glory; ..... Dialetic Psalms - showing the blessings of God's people and the misery of his enemies, .... There are seven Biblical Promises in Psalm/Tehillim 91:1-12. ...................................................................................
Hope points us forward concerning the future. Daniel received help from Gabriel, when he could not understand the vision - there were times when Daniel interpreted dreams and knew. ....................................................
Dreams to compare ... Daniel's (Book of Daniel), Joseph (Book of Genesis), and Joseph's (Book of Matthew). ............
Pray and trust God, even if you can not see God's hands. ..............................................................
Scripture and reference used/taken from: KJV Topical Reference Bible, KJV Precious Promise Bible & Zondervan Bible Commentary
Free Google: Free SEO, Social Media, & AdWords Resources for Small Business Marketing - Book Review
This book shares on Internet Marketing that will give you ideas that you will teach you step-by-step. Designed for small business marketers, with an easy to understand lay out of tips that will not break your budget (since everything is free!) ............................................................................................................. Even though SEO or Search Engine Optimization is all about getting to the top of Goggle for free, many small business owners or marketers do not know that Google produces an official free SEO guide. ...................................... But there's a problem - a catch. ...................................................................................... The catch is that despite the fact that Google is the world's number one search engine, Google does a terrible job of explaining where all the free goodies are in the Googleplex. .......................................................... The author teaches online marketing at corporate workshops, for his own company, at Stanford University Continuing Studies and elsewhere in the San Francisco Bay Area. His mission is to make SEO, Social Media Marketing, and AdWords easy, fun and (to the extent possible), free. ......................................................................... In this 299 Free Guide, the author is giving a tour to the readers amazing free but sometimes hidden, resources provided by Google for small business. ................................................................................ Internet marketing is an art, not a science. .......................................................................... This guide is an unauthorized, non-official guide to Google resources and has not been sanctioned by Google. .......... Most consumers have little idea of the algorithm behind Google Search, just as many business owners have only the vaguest of ideas about how this algorithm can be influenced to show one website over another (such is the quest called SEO or Search Engine Optimization). ................................................................................... So from the consumers perspective, Google is a search engine that displays its results in the following basic categories: ........................................................................................................... Ads ... Showing product or "shopping" as with pictures. ............................................................... Organic or natural resources ... non-paid results appearing beneath the paid ads ...................................... Google + Local results ... non-paid company listings appearing beneath the organic results. ....................................................................................................................... From the small business perspective in contrast, each of these categories presents marketing opportunities: paid ways to get to the top (advertising) as well as free ways to get there (SEO). Hidden in the Googleplex is a wealth of free tools and information resources that can help you from novice to expert in how to leverage Google to get your marketing message to more customers for less money and effort! .................................................................. In addition to Google + Local, Google has a new social media platform called Google +. On Google +, as on Facebook, individuals can set up "profiles" whereby they can post and share with their Google + friends (known as "circles"), and businesses can set up "pages" to talk with consumers. ................................................................. A final and very successful part of Google's social media strategy is YouTube, the video sharing site. YouTube is the largest video site in the world and the second largest search engine on the planet, serving more searches than Bing. ....................................................................................................................... Google provides a few very important free tools for webmasters and Internet marketers to learn how users search the Web. .................................................................................................................. Google makes more than 96% of its money from advertising, via its flagship advertising service, AdWords. .............. It's best to know where you want your ads to appear on Google and work backwards. ..................................... It is possible to use Google search techniques to penetrate into the Googleplex and identify free marketing tools and opportunities. ........................................................................................................ You can use the free GoogleAlerts to alert you to .... ................................................................ Informational items ................................................................................................... Your company name ..................................................................................................... SEO, or Search Engine Optimization is the art and science of getting to the top of Google and Bing fro free. Google has quite a few free resources for SEO for webmasters, marketers, and small business owners but they are rather hidden. ....................................................................................................................... Google does not make money on SEO, so it does not promote the tactic. ................................................. Google produces an informative, well-written guide to SEO called the "Search Engine Optimization Guide." .............. Google provides quite a few free tools to help with your SEO, especially in terms of keyword research. ................ There is also a tool called "Pagespeed insights" that will measure your website's speed and give helpful tips on how to speed it up. Website response speed is increasingly an important factor for achieving good SEO rank. .................. Since Google dominates search, it is important to pay attention to what Googlers are saying about SEO. ................ Get your free listing on Google + Local and be found by consumers in your area for your products or services by keywords. ............................................................................................................. It's a competitive game, but with some knowledge and perseverance you can out-compete your competitors and get to the top of Google's Google + Local listings for free! ..................................................................... Google + Local is free for a basic listing, and with some tips and tricks you have a shot at getting your company to appear at the top of the list, for free, for relevant Google queries! ................................................. Claiming your free business listing can be a hassle, but it only has to be done once, and then you have claimed it forever. .............................................................................................................. Once you have the basics of Google + Local under control, you will want to educate yourself on the ins and outs of successful local SEO marketing. ....................................................................................... Google + is Google's competitive challenge to Facebook, a social network platform wherein individuals can have "profiles" and businesses can have "pages." ........................................................................... As on now, Google + is not yet a huge opportunity for businesses as the social network has not yet grown to a huge subscriber base, but it has a very powerful owner - Google - so it merits watching. ................................... What's great about Google + personal is that, if you have uploaded a personal photo and correctly attached it to your website, Google will often show your picture next to search results. The more people that you follow on Google +, the more your picture shows, the more you get clicks .... thereby creating a virtuous circle on Google! ................... Businesses can get on Googlet as well, but they cannot get their pictures to show on search results. .................. Google + for business may still be worth setting up, because since Google owns Google +, there is no doubt that it will tilt search results to favor businesses that participate in the network. This is all the more likely now that the FTC has ruled in Google's favor on the monopoly issue. .................................................................... YouTube, owned by Google, is both a learning resource about free Google opportunities, and a free opportunity in its own right. ............................................................................................................ Whether it is Google Analytics, AdWords, or Webmaster tools, you can almost find both official and non-official videos that explain step-by-step tools and opportunities across the GooglePlex. .............................................. Trends on the Internet often hit YouTube first, and if your business depends on consumer trends, YouTube is one of the best free platforms to monitor consumer trends. ....................................................................... Other YouTube trend resources are somewhat hidden. .................................................................... Any business can set up its own YouTube channel, for free, and then post videos to that channel. ...................... YouTube has very good, free, analytics tools about your video engagement, but it is quite buried as well. ............. Google makes its money off advertising, and so does YouTube. So if video advertising might be good for your business, start off with their free resources to learn about how to advertise on YouTube. ....................................... In addition to Google or the "Search Network," AdWords can also place your ads across blogs, YouTube, Gmail, and other sites via what is called the "Display Network." ....................................................................... Google produces many good learning resources and tools for AdWords, if you know where to look. ........................ If you are an ad agency or web designer, you might consider becoming AdWords certified. This program allows you to become an officially certified AdWords partner at the individual or company level, and provides co-op marketing support from Google. .......................................................................................................... Analytics is Goggle's free web metrics platform. Beyond being by Google, for Google, ad about Google, it's not only free but is very powerful. ............................................................................................ Analytics can be pretty easy to set up, but it isn't necessarily easy to use. Google provides a wealth of free learning resources. ............................................................................................................ Analytics offers an ecosystem of free and paid apps similar to Google play for the masses. ............................ Almost every Google media property - AdWords, Google Webmaster tools, Google + - has an official blog. The trick is to know how to look for it, and then bookmark or subscribe to it via RSS so that you are kept informed of any and all opportunities or policy changes. ...................................................................................... Just as with blogs, Google provides a cornucopia of information on social media (Twitter, Google +, Facebook) about SEO, AdWords, Google Analytics, Webmaster Tools, etc. Don't expect the Webmaster Tools Twitter feed to tell you where the AdWords Twitter feed is - of course! .............................................................................. AdWords does not seem to have its own YouTube channel but posts instead to Google Business! ........................... Some individual Googlers are so important that you should pay attention to their activity on social media: Matt Cutts and Maile Ohye. Mr. McDonald sent me a copy of his book for review. ................................................................... Copyright 2013, JM Internet Group and Excerpti Communications, Inc., All Rights Reserved. No reproduction or citation without written consent of the publisher. ............................................................................. Jason McDonald, Ph.D., is the author of this book and he teaches SEO and Social Media online for the JM Internet Group. He has coached thousands of business people, marketers, and web designers in his free online classes as well as paid seminars and corporate trainings. He is No. 1 on Google!
Friday, March 15, 2013
3-13-2013 ... True Worship
Jan/Feb/March 2013 Devotional and Educational Quarterly Emphasis is on True Worship. ..................................
This lessons deals with Private Worship. ..............................................................................
Devotion Scripture ... Psalm/Tehillim 61:2 ............................................................................
Topic Scripture ... John 6:15; Psalm/Tehillim 116:18,19 ...............................................................
John 6:15 ... Therefore when Jesus perceived that they were about to come and take him by force to make him king, he departed again to the mountain by himself. ............................................................................
Jesus Christ; Christ's Ministry; Christ's Reception by Men, Royal Honors Offered ......................................
Call to Worship - I will exalt thee, my God, O King; and I will bless thy name for ever and ever (Psalm/Tehillim 145:1) .......................................................................................................................
Duties To God; Praise; Everlasting Praise Due To God ..................................................................
Psalm/Tehillim 61:2 .... Joy and Peace Promised .... Duties To God; Prayer; Objects of Prayer, Help in Trouble ........
Psalm/Tehillim 116:18,19 .... Sacred Places; The Glory and The Fate of Solomon's Temple, Desired and Beloved ..........
Devotional Message ... Psalm/Tehillim 61:2 ............................................................................
Topic Discussion ... John 4:23-24; Psalm/Tehillim 116:18, 19; Psalm/Tehillim 91 .......................................
John 4:23-24.... ......................................................................................................
verse 23 ... Duties To God; Prayer; Conditions of Acceptable Prayer, In Sincerity .....................................
verse 24 ... God; Attributes of God As Being; Spirituality ............................................................
Psalm/Tehillim 51 ... A Prayer For Forgiveness ........................................................................
Scripture and reference used/taken from: KJV Topical Reference Bible, KJV Precious Promise Bible & Zondervan Commentary
A Rabbi Looks At The Last Days - Book Review
Now remember that I have no theology/seminary training. So I am sharing some Scriptures as well for those that would like to study further. ................................................................................................ But first I want to share a few Scriptures on "last days" for Israel and The Church. I researched these Scriptures in a book for those that might want to study further on this matter. ....................................................... Israel ... Isaiah 2:2; Jeremiah 23:20; 49:39; Ezekiel 38:16; Hosea 3:5; Micah 4:1; Acts 2:17 .......................... The Church ... II Timothy 3:1; Hebrews 1:2; James 5:3; II Peter 3:3 ................................................... Scriptures that teach on Israel in Prophecy .. Daniel 9:24-27; Isaiah 28:14-22; Ezekiel 38-39; Zephaniah 2:1-2; Ezekiel 22:17-22 .............................................................................................................. Scriptures that teach on Jerusalem in Prophecy ... Luke 13:33; Matthew 24:21-31; Zechariah 12:2-3; 14:2; Zechariah 12-14; Revelation 20:7-9; II Kings 19:34; Psalm/Tehillim 122:6 ........................................................... Whether the Lord returns again tomorrow, next year, or two hundred years from now should not make any difference in the way we live. The Lord wants His people to recognize the signs of the times and know that His return is at hand. We must be ready. You must be ready! .......................................................................................... Rabbi Bernis states in his book as Christians we are not unequivocally obligated to support every action taken by the State of Israel. He also shares the restoration of the Jewish people to the land is a divine fulfillment of biblical prophecy, and we must support this divine venture. .................................................................... This does not mean that God loves the Jew more than the Arab - the Israeli more than the Palestinian. God loves everyone equally and desires that none should perish, but that all should find everlasting life (John 3:16). God is not a respector of persons. ............................................................................................... In Daniel 12, the prophet Daniel wrote a number of astounding statements under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit. ...................................................................................................................... The Lord tells Daniel to "seal the words of the scroll the time of the end." He then shares with us an amazing revelation that in the last days, "many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased." ...................... Running "to and fro" indicates an increase in knowledge is clearly related to the technological boom. Information is available at our fingertips in a matter of seconds. To imagine that Daniel saw all this more than 2,500 years ago is nothing short of mind-boggling! ....................................................................................... Jesus was very clear when He told us, "No one knows about that day or hour, not even the angels in heaven, nor Son, but only the Father" (Matthew 24:36). He also said, "Therefore keep watch, because you do not know on what day your Lord will come" (Matthew 24:42). ........................................................................................... He is coming, and it could be very soon. .............................................................................. The Gospel must first be preached throughout the world, and then, only after this happens, the end will come. ....................................................................................................................... In nearly every country of the world a wide variety of people groups can be found - including the Jews. Jews are a migrant people who have been scattered throughout the world. The Jews have had to make their homes in foreign lands throughout the world. ................................................................................................. The United States is a melting pot for a myriad of nations (ethnic groups) that have settled here to find freedom. Italian and Greek communities thrive here, as well as Irish, Chinese, Puerto Rican, Indian, Persian, Arab, Cuban - the list goes on and on. .................................................................................................. In Romans 11:15, we agree that Israel's rejection of Jesus as their Messiah has caused the Gospel to go to the nations (ethnos). ............................................................................................................. Romans 11:11-15 and other verses reveal that there is a linked destiny between Israel and the Church and between Israel and the nations. ...................................................................................................... Believers are reaching out to the nations, including the Jews, in countries around the world. Thousands of Jewish people are coming to faith. The Jewish Voice Ministries International is also equipping the Church to effectively share their faith with their Jewish friends. God has raised up other ministries similar to The Jewish Voice Ministries International that is also reaching out to the Jewish people. ......................................................... My October 28, 2012 Sunday School Lesson taught on Spirit - directed ... Acts 8:26-39. Philip was directed by the operation of God's Spirit. ............................................................................................ The Holy Spirit guides (John 16:13), tells His servants what to preach (I Corinthians 2:13), directs missionaries where to go (Acts 13:2), and tells believers where they are not to go (Acts 16:6, 7). ....................................... The Bible makes it clear that there is only one plan of salvation for all people. Yeshua - Jesus Himself said, "I am the Way and the Truth and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through me" (John 14:6). ........................ Either we believe God's Word or we do not. There is no-in between. And there is no second Gospel for the Jewish people apart from a relationship with Yeshua. ................................................................................ At Jewish Voice Ministries International, they take Paul's model seriously. ........................................... Their minis\try is taking medical, dental and eye clinics to remote parts of the world such as Ethiopia and India. In those clinics they help thousands of non-Jews and share the Gospel with them. In fact they reach more Gentiles than Jews, but their motivation in going to the remote places is to reach out first to the Jewish communities. ............. God is calling us to reach out to the Jewish people with the one message of salvation through His Messiah, Yeshua. ....................................................................................................................... God does not love Jews more than anyone else. God loves us all equally (John 3:16). ................................... Just as their rejection brought the Gospel to the other nations of the world, their restoration will bring about worldwide revival for the nations. .................................................................................... Rabbi Bernis could read Hebrew, but he could not translate it. Although they were called the people of the Book, the only real study he had of the Scriptures was in preparing for his bar-mitzvah - a Jewish ritual rite of passage to signify a thirteen - year old boy's traditional entry into adulthood. ................................................. In reality, Jewish people overall have not rejected the Gospel - they have simply not heard the Gospel in a way that they can understand it. ............................................................................................... How do they believe? They believe by hearing the Word of God! That Word must come to them from someone, and that someone is you! ....................................................................................................... Traveling to Israel and collecting Judaica, sending support to Israel or seeking to be Torah observant are no replacements for the mandate to provoke the Jewish people to jealously and share your faith with that Jewish person whom God has placed in your life. ..................................................................................... God loves the Jewish people. .......................................................................................... It is the heart of the Father to see every son and daughter of Abraham living happily in His Kingdom. He desires for all Abraham's children to come into their ultimate destiny, and that destiny is a relationship with Him. .............. Jews are coming to faith in Yeshua in greater numbers than at any time since the first century. ....................... The Messiah (Jesus)is actually waiting in heaven. He is waiting for God's appointed people to intersect with God's appointed time and fulfill the restoration prophesied in the Word of God (Acts 3:19-21) ............................... And we are witnessing an incredible hunger and interest among Christians to truly understand the Jewish roots of their faith, as well as an increased love and support for Israel and the Jewish people. Overwhelmingly today Christians want to bless Israel and the Jewish people. ................................................................................ What Should We Then Do? ............................................................................................... Live like there is no tomorrow. ....................................................................................... Be vigilant ... Watch and Pray. ....................................................................................... Remain active in all realms of society. ............................................................................... Let you light shine. .................................................................................................. Do not worry about what is to come. ................................................................................... God's desire is that christians be an effective co-worker with Him in bringing to pass His promised last days revival and restoration, not only for Israel and the Jewish people but for the world. ......................................... Pray for your Jewish friends by name because I am convinced as well as Rabbi Bernis that God answers prayer. .......... As a believer, you have something no one else has: n a direct pipeline to the Lord. And He urges christians to call upon Him in prayer. ................................................................................................... Pray that Jewish people - the physical descendants of Abraham, Issac and Jacob - around the world will come to know Yeshua as their Messiah and King. ..................................................................................... Although Jewish people who accept Yeshua HaMashiach (Jesus the Messiah) are often ostracized by their families, friends and business associates, Jews all over the world are turning to Him and becoming Messianic Jews in numbers not seen since the first century. .............................................................................................. A Messianic Jew is a Jew by birth who has come to believe that Jesus - Messianic Jews call Him by His Hebrew name, Yeshua - is the promised Messiah of Israel. ........................................................................... Failing to kill the Messiah as an infant and not realizing that God had planned all along to offer Him as a sacrifice for our sins, Satan then convinced the Jewish and Roman leaders to condemn Yeshua to death. ........................... With the atonement and resurrection of the Messiah at Calvary, the Bible is clear that Yeshua defeated Satan and brought captivity, captive, making an open show of this victory (Colossians 2:14-15). ................................. I received this book from Chosen Books to review. ..................................................................... Rabbi Jonathan Bernis is the president and CEO of Jewish Ministries International. His weekly television show, Jewish Voice is broadcast throughout the world. He has authored a number of books and is a frequent speaker at conferences throughout the USA and abroad. A leader in the Messianic Jewish movement for more than thirty years, He and his wife, Elisangela, live in Phoenix with their two daughters, Liel and Hannah.
Thursday, March 14, 2013
Position To Receive - Book Review 2007
Position To Receive ................................................................................................... (Michael Matthew sent me his book March 8, 2007 to review) ............................................................ The author, Michael Matthews of this book is a multi-talented music business executive, artist manager, business consultant, marketing guru, motivational speaker and option trader. ................................................... He serves as a growth and financial consultant to businesses spanning many industries. ................................ There is a lot of valuable information regarding finances, wealth building systems, unorthodox business principles and philosophies. ......................................................................................................... You will want to seek your true gifting first and then pursue further development and training. ....................... The author's philosophy has always been why he can't build his own network verus contributing to someone else's. Don't let finances, lack of education, experience, race, or anything else be an excuse! ..................................... No matter what you decide to do in life make sure you focus on your niche. ............................................ In order to get into the Position To Receive you have to have something in place that will enable you to have endless possibilities. The author is not saying quit your job. The more you work it increases your chances of making more money when you are self-employed. ........................................................................................... The author turned to the Internet. The Internet does not limit you to time confinements, for it is available 24 hours a day - 7 days a week - 52 weeks a year. ................................................................................ The author started his own digital delivery service (music to dj's); it works much like the post office! Instead of sending music by post office to dj's on compact disc, they send it digitally via email. ............................... Anything you actually want out of life the author believes you will have to sow into it. Whether it is your time, money, ability, patience or anything else you have to sow into it. .................................................... The author was watching a DVD one day about a documentary on hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons, and the interviewer asked him, "Why do he do what he do?" Russell simply replied, "To serve..." You see as one of the few African American billionaires in the entertainment business, much less the world, he understands the power of giving, that we are blessed to be a blessing. The author shares he has had the privilege to meet Mr. Simmons and talk with him one on one. ....................................................................................................................... The author also shares he was watching the life story of Comedian Steve Harvey; and Steve said in the interview it's about giving back and helping someone else. ........................................................................... Being an entrepreneur,we tend to live by another level of faith. ...................................................... You can not be afraid to take risks and try something new. ............................................................ You simply can not be afraid to step out and learn something new, try something different and see where your faith takes you. Buckle up, the ride is not always smooth. .................................................................. When the author first started his first internet business he didn't have a clue on how to build websites nor how to market online. As he launched his business back in 2005 who would have thought in its first year it would gross 1000%? ....................................................................................................................... If you want to be successful in life you simply just have to be teachable. Are you the type of person that thinks they know it all? .......................................................................................................... The author remembers one day while visiting at a client's home, he say something very unusual to him a computer with four monitors. His client began asking him if he ever heard of option trading and was the author familiar with the stock market. His client told him that Wall Street and the stock market wasn't going anywhere! He told him to "Go open a TD Waterhouse account (now TD Ameritrade) and I'll teach you." The author went on to become an occasional option trader, making money from day trading options and have now taught others how to do it. ................................ No matter what's going on you have to maintain focus and keep yourself available to hear. ............................. There are two types of voices: one is God's voice within us and the other is God's voice through other people. ........ The author thinks one big problem is a lot of people miss their blessing simply because they didn't hang in there long enough. ............................................................................................................... Don't always look to take short cuts or give up too soon because things don't happen in a certain time. ............... The author has an extensive marketing team that constantly solicits for new prospective clients and generates traffic to the website. They have a consistent advertising campaign that runs month after month on the various search engines to generate sales leads and traffic on the site. All this happens month after month; and sure enough the business is generating consistent revenues and showing above projected growth. .................................................... How about consistency in your finances? Be consistent in your giving. Like in your financial giving in church you need to be consistent. ..................................................................................................... This goes for finances, attendance in church, ministering to others and building His kingdom overall! Malachi 3:10 (NKJV) Try Him. "Bring all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be food in My house, and try Me now in this," says the Lord of hosts. ............................................................................................... As it is written in Deuteronomy 6:18 (NKJV) it says, "And you shall do what is right and good in the sight of the Lord, that it may be well with you, and that you may go in and possess the good land of which the Lord swore to your fathers." ............................................................................................................. God allows people to come into our lives for a higher purpose, therefore creating the connection. ..................... God uses people to bless you. God will use anyone, anywhere and at anytime to carry out His will and purpose for life! ....................................................................................................................... Many very successful people have a totally different mindset than the average person. ................................. You have to build your network. There are two types of marketing lists: one you build yourself and the other is the one that others build. .................................................................................................... I'm sure if you examine your life you will be able to find evidence of God's will through favor you have received. ....................................................................................................................... There is nothing like God making other people move on your behalf. .................................................... As you work to position yourself, remember to be patient as you pursue your dreams. Make sure you are really ready and can handle what lies ahead. ........................................................................................... Unfortunately in business people profile each other constantly, whether it is a car salesman or a real estate agent profiling exists. People tend to look at things like what kind of car you drive when you pull up. They look at simple things like what kind of clothes you wear; shoes you have on or type of jewelry you have especially your watch. ..................................................................................................................... The various types of publications you subscribe to can lead to other opportunities and information leads. ............. One of the author's personal millionaire friends told him about a way of raising resources that is perfectly legal and allows you to raise resources in the millions. It is called Regulation D offerings also known as Reg. D. Do your own research on the internet and consult with an attorney before attempting a Regulation D offering. ...................... There are so many ways someone can build their credit, eliminate debt and save money. Consult an attorney, financial advisor or do a lot of research to make sure you have a full understanding before attempting any technique. ........... If you haven't received your credit report within the last year, the author suggest you obtain a copy. Carefully examine your credit report for inaccuracies and other information that may not be yours. .............................. There are hundreds of credit repair techniques and companies out there to assist you. ................................. There are several companies that give you leads on lenders that extend credit to those with bad or less than good credit ratings. Sometimes, you have to start over in rebuilding your credit by getting a new credit card. ............. The easiest way is to borrow someone's credit history. There are companies that charge you fees; and they seek out individuals that are willing to add you to their accounts. ............................................................ I will make you inhabited as in former things, and do better for you than at your beginnings. Ezekiel 36:11 (NKJV)
Tuesday, March 12, 2013
1 of 2 .. 3/17/13 .. Dreams of a Better Tomorrow
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My Sunday School Lesson Bible Reading for the week of 3/17/2013 is coming from the Book of Exodus, Judges, Luke and Daniel. ...............................................................................................................
3/11/2013 - Monday - A Guide into the Future - Exodus 23:20-25 ..........................................................
3/12/2013 - Tuesday - A Messenger of Rebuke - Judges 2:1-5 ..............................................................
3/13/2013 - Wednesday - A Messenger with Good News - Luke 1:8-20 ........................................................
3/14/2013 - Thursday - A Messenger from God - Luke 1:26-38 .............................................................
3/15/2013 - Friday - A Helper in Understanding - Daniel 8:13-18 ........................................................
3/16/2013 - Saturday - A Helper in Response to Prayer - Daniel 9:20-27 .................................................
3/17/2013 - Sunday - A Helper in Facing the Future - Daniel 8:19-26 ....................................................
I plan to be back later this week and share my Sunday School Notes.
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