TIME OF POWER

Joel Clarkson said: “Often, during a homily or while kneeling during the prayers of the people, I’ll glance over toward the gathered congregation and see a strange, otherworldly sight: a single beam of light, pouring down into the congregation, its path articulated by the swirling mist of incense, falling on a favoured individual. Often, these people will have their eyes closed against the blinding brightness, which only serves to heighten the sense of the strange, heavenly calm, the sudden instance…

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1. “As far as the east is from the west, so far does he remove our transgressions from us.” 2. “In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace.” 3. For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, now that we are reconciled, shall we be saved by his life.” 4. “The Lord is not slow to fulfill…

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Some would argue why we need reconciliation with God? Make things clearly; why would two friends reconcile? Envision two companions who have a battle or contention. The significant relationship they once delighted in in stress to the end of breaking. They stop addressing one another; correspondence is considered excessively abnormal. The companions steadily become outsiders. Such alienation must be turned around by Reconciliation. To be accommodated is to be reestablished to fellowship or amicability. When old companions settle their disparities…

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Johann Ernst von Holst said: “The Lord did not say, “I am going up to Jerusalem.” He said, “We are going.” It is this “we” that we have to emphasize. For it does not apply only to those first disciples; it also applies to us insofar as we want to be his followers. For us, too, the way to glory passes through suffering and death. To suffer with Christ for sin in the obedience of faith; to give up all…

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1. “Beware of practicing your righteousness before other people in order to be seen by them, for then you will have no reward from your Father who is in heaven. “Thus, when you give to the needy, sound no trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may be praised by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward. But when you give to the needy, do not let…

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Have you not heard that generosity with your money is one of the essential parts of your faith? Yes, to all Christians, generosity with our cash form a crucial path of our worship! Precisely, the lesson of the widow’s mite or the widow’s offering presented in the Synoptic Gospels (Mark 12:41–44, Luke 21:1–4) clarify the vitality of being generous – she gave it all. For example, you can begin to live generously by applying the biblical principle of tithing! Brady Boyd said: “I know…

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John Wesley said: “Do all the good you can; by all the means you can; in all the ways you can; in all the places you can; at all the times you can; to all the people you can; as long as ever you can.” Yes, it is all about you can and as ever as you can. Naturally, you have more generosity in you than the pride you crave. Therefore, charity isn’t the responsibility or privilege of the wealthy…

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1. “He who does not love does not know God, for God is love.” 2. “And we have known and believed the love that God has for us. God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God in him.” 3. Know therefore that the LORD your God is God, the faithful God who keeps covenant and steadfast love with those who love him and keep his commandments, to a thousand generations.” 4. “But you, O Lord,…

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Have faith in God is love-based and never meant to be rule-based. Some engaged dangerously and fruitlessly in querying God’s existence by putting several rule-based questions like self-esteem, self-defence, self-contained, self-control, and the likes; they ask if God exists, why evil? If God loves us, why permitting grief? If God is indeed a father, why death is allowed to take away his children? If I have knocked, why has he not opened to me? And much more, as earlier noted,…

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Carlo Carretto said: “If God exists, why evil? If God is love, why sorrow? If God is a father, why death? If I have knocked, why has he not opened to me? Wait! Believe in him not out of self-interest, but out of love! If you want to reach the Promised Land, you must accept the scandal of all the things you don’t understand right to the limits. Having faith means believing that he fills all space, that no leap…

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