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
Saturday, April 6, 2013
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.
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