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Under the Shadow of the Almighty
Pastor John
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from last week
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from the scriptures
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Preparation
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Read the
Psalm aloud.
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Read the Scripture
from
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Take
a moment
to meditate on the Scripture.
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Questions for Reflection
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Multiple 1*1*1. What is the answer? Why isn't it 3?
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Studying the Text
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How many disciples were there?
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What did they do when they saw him?
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Did everyone of the disciples believe?
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What had been given to Jesus?
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Who did Jesus tell them to make discples?
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In whose name were they to baptize?
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How long would Jesus be with them?
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Living the Text
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So how many disciples have you made? Why have you not made
more?
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Are you obeying everything that Jesus taught?
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Do you know all that he taught?
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What efforts are you making to learn about everything that Jesus
taught?
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What could you do to start implementing this?
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Closing
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Read
the
Scripture lesson again
and
take a moment to meditate on the passage.
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What
is God
saying to you?
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Thank
God
for
his presence
and ask him
to
apply what you have learned to your life.
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from the news
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Euthanasia - still a dilemma for Dutch doctors
The number of Dutch euthanasia cases fell to 2,325, or 1.7 percent of all deaths
in 2005, from 2.6 percent in 2001. Though it only became legal in 2002,
euthanasia has long been an accepted practice in the Netherlands and doctors
avoided prosecution if they met certain conditions. . . . read more
Film on Billy Graham’s Life in Production
A film on America’s favorite evangelist, Billy Graham, is being produced in
Nashville, Tenn., where one of the featured cast members is Graham’s first
cousin.
The biopic, Billy: The Early Years, focuses on Graham’s
life, starting with his teenage years in Charlotte, N.C. Besides Nashville, the
film was also shot in Watertown, Tenn. . . . read more.
McCain Vows to Push Religious Freedom
Sen. John McCain
(R-Ariz.) delved into issues of religious freedom and human rights
Wednesday morning, telling a crowd of several hundred supporters that
policymakers need to confront the fact that "evil still exists in the
world."
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from the net
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Blessed Be the Name of the Lord
Why 'Creator, Redeemer, Sanctifier' is somewhere between heresy and idolatry.
Anyone baptized "in the name of the Creator, and of the Redeemer, and
of the Sanctifier" or "in the name of the Creator, and of the
Liberator, and of the Sustainer" didn't really get baptized, explained
Cardinal Urbano Navarrete after the Vatican's brief statement. If you
got married after such an invalid baptism, Navarrete said, your
marriage isn't valid either (at least in the Roman Catholic sacramental
sense). . . . read more
Jeremiah Wright, Evangelicals' Brother in Christ
Jeremiah Wright goes to church looking for Jesus. And that's why
evangelicals should pay attention to him. This is not to say they
should agree with him. But Jeremiah Wright is a serious Christian. He
didn't have to be — many gifted black intellectuals have gotten off the
bus with the church for having been, as it inarguably has, a slave
religion. (Wright has argued with Muslim friends that its track record
is no better on slavery.) Even within the young tradition of
Africentric theology, birthed by James Cone at Union Seminary in the
late 1960s, former theologians have left Jesus behind in their effort
to embrace the wider black diaspora worldwide. Cone himself worries
that exclusive attention to Jesus yields something he calls
"Christofascism," by which he seems to mean exclusivity. . . . read more
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