A Season of Waiting What does this season of advent mean for you? Advent is a season of hope, of expectancy, of preparation. As Christians, we are looking forward to celebrating the incarnation, the first coming of Jesus, but of course, we also are looking ahead to something that is not fully here yet – …
The following is a short excerpt of the book Evangelism and Missions by Ronald Blue which we find to be inspiring: Worship is both the initiating force for missions and the inevitable fruit of missions. As people respond to the gospel, they then join the chorus adding their voices in praise to God. World missions …
As a body of Christians which desires to spread the gospel and to fulfill the Great Commission of our Lord Jesus Christ we always want to keep our mission statement before our eyes.
Romans 15:8-33 We will look at Romans 15:8-33 from the point of view of the church and missions. What can we learn about the church-mission connection from this passage of this great epistle?
The Burden of Loneliness When we study the book of 2 Timothy we see how lonely the apostle Paul felt. Paul writes this letter to encourage Timothy but in the same time Paul himself needed encouragement. We can see that in the whole epistle.
Dr A. T. Pierson once said, ‘There has never been a spiritual awakening in any country or locality that did not begin in united prayer.’ Let me recount what God has done through concerted, united, sustained prayer.
1 Corinthians 15:1-58 The Word of God deals exclusively with the question of the dead’s resurrection in 1 Corinthians Chapter 15. From this chapter, we understand that the Corinthians held a position similar to Hymenaeus and Philetus in 2 Timothy 2:18. Concerning them, the apostle Paul tells his spiritual son Timothy (2 Timothy 2:16-18): 16 …
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The Role of Christ in Salvation Salvation has two sides. The first is that which our Lord Jesus Christ did. Jesus Christ is the core of the gospel. Without his deed, without his mission nobody could ever be saved. What was His mission? His mission was His birth on this earth, to live a holy …
Matthew 19:16-20:16 The text from Matthew 20:1-16 is known as “The Parable of the workers in the vineyard”. In this parable as in a number of other parables Jesus allows us to look into the human heart and see what lies within it. This particular parable deals with an attitude that like pride and unforgiveness …
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1 Samuel 25:1-44 In the passional of St. Macarius, we read an interesting story. Once on his way home, St. Macarius was walking through the desert with his disciple – a young novice. The path lay through a forest. Walking faster, the novice left the old man behind. Then he suddenly met a pagan priest.