But before we can do that we need to know who is in the area. ... Once we get that done, we will see who and what we are dealing with in the community and as a church we should start to reach out to those people. ... Christ died to take away your sin debt. 4. ... It explains how we were: 1. ... We want to glean from the leadership teams of SSBC to see just how they have accomplished these things and how they continue to keep it going. ...

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Darwin showed that scientific observations collect facts and through these facts we can learn things about how the past was, and therefore learn more about what is to come. ... When his best friend Arthur Hallam died Tennyson was extremely depressed. ... In the next section he contradicts the last by seeing the sun and stars as slowly dying with no hope for rebirth, "The stars," she whispers, "blindly run; A web is wov"n across the sky; From our waste places comes a cry, And murmurs from the dying sun: (Tennyson 3.5-8). ... "And all night long we have not stirred, /And yet Go...

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The Bible How do we as evangelicals treat the Bible today? ... Is this how we tremble at the Word of God? ... How rarely we hear the warning to flee the wrath to come and yet Roman Catholicism for all of it's faults in the 16th century never forgot to tell sinners where they go when they die in their sins. ... And how do we excuse away our sin? ... When people ask you about those who die never having heard the gospel. ...

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God is in my opinion the only hope we have in this world of living a life with purpose and the only one who can save us the day our lives end and we die. ... I didn't fight what I was feeling in any moment because it was definitely the best feeling I had ever felt at the time, I could feel how the Holy Spirit embraced me and started ministering my heart and life, I could feel his power, presence, and love. ... Why do we live then? Why were we put in this earth I think that the Bible misses out explaining scientific reasons for our existence and how the universe came to be created, but it...

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Indeed do we need to fear the possibility of an eternal hell? Where can we find information and who's report can we believe? ... Or indeed how could a loving God send anyone to hell? ... We were saved by Christ, both historically and in actuality when we believed upon Christ's death, we are saved now and along with the eschatological understanding that we are yet to be saved. He expresses this by stating "we have been saved from sin's penal...

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How God develops His plan and how He overcomes man's shortcomings can be thoroughly studied through the Adamic, the Noahic, the Abrahamic , the Mosaic and finally, the New Covenants Covenant A covenant is an agreement or legal contract between two individuals which forms a bond between the parties that bring them together under mutual obligations, not unlike the agreement struck between a landlord and the renter wishing to lease an upstairs flat. ... The Adamic Covenant "For just as through the disobedience of the one man the many were made sinners" (Romans 5:19), is a profound illu...

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When you and I discuss how an infinite God can have a relationship with a finite human being there is always a sense of discomfort or of deep darkness. ... However, if we picture God as touchy, unapproachable, and easily annoyed, if we image God as haughty, indifferent, or angry, if we invest him with unlovable qualities and cringe before his glance, we will dismiss the way of trust in the gospel of grace. ... A better understanding of this passage will allow us to see how Jesus taught his disciples and the Pharisees about the love and grace of God. ... "But when he came to himself he said...

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Even though we cannot encapsulate the totality of the gospel message into one study, may we endeavor to hold its sacred spiritual value close to our heart and put forth effort to understand it better. ... As we continue in this word study of "gospel" let us move on into a careful breakdown of its past. ... In fact, Barclay says that "it is when we come to the New Testament that euangelion becomes a tremendous word... From a word's origin we can glean the "picture" of its meaning. ... As we consider the gospel in the Old Testament, during Jesus" ministry, and in the early church may we e...

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Finally, the biblical notion is not that we survive death because immortality is simply a natural property of souls; if we survive death it is becaus! ... Thus Irenaeus says: "Our survival forever comes from His gre atness, not from our nature." 2It would be interesting to discuss this option further, and especially to ask why so many recent and contemporary Christian theologians are drawn toward it, how they might distinguish " spiritual resurrection " from immortality of the soul, and how they might defend the theory against criticisms such as those just noted. ... I call the theory tempora...

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As we go about our lives in these days and times, we look and see a division between people. ... Instead, we have attacked each other as a people, and burned religious edifices. ... How can it be that we have so much in common in the way in which we worship and praise, but there is so much hatred separating us? ... Questions we could ask is, "What are the deciding factors in our peace and happiness-, easier said in asking, "What do we have in common in our beliefs?... Also, to show how region plays a part in the separatist of religion. ...

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More recently compiled works by Rabbis interpret the laws to how they apply to modern day living (Judaism: Background, Basic Beliefs and Sacred Texts [06/04/03]). ... This helps people to understand why they must die, and helps to ease the pain of bereavement. ... If humans do not live the way He has shown as the right way through the Prophet, Muhammad, however, when they are questioned on how they lived their life they will be rewarded accordingly. ... DEATH In the moments before death, the dying Muslim attempts to utter the Shahada, while companions provide reassurance by reciting v...

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In other words "If you lie, you die." ... The people thought that if they went against the values, Osiris, god of the afterlife, would punish them after their died. ... The revelations that Muhammad received were collected into a new book, the Koran, directing his followers what to believe and how to live (In the same manner, the Bible is a collection of writings from prophets, including Abraham, Moses, Elijiah, etc. ... The Koran, using sources in the older Scriptures and later traditions, relates the stories of Abraham, Joseph, Moses and Aaron, David, Solomon, Jesus, and others, all of who...

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We know that the author was Jewish, he knows the Hebrews Scriptures thoroughly. And we know that the author was Christian, he uses many saying of Jesus, and speaks of the practices of the early church. ... When and where the letter was written is also not important, as long as we know it was a time when there was suffering and oppression, and Christian communities needed it. ... They cold not regain their strength, and would therefore die. ... No one is sure if the poor belong to a Christian community, we do know that the rich in the letter do not belong to a Christian community. ...

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Understanding how Revelation was written and also the original context of the letters is a key factor in understanding the Book. ... "The fact that the symbolism is drawn from three sources and not merely two is already sufficient to dispose of the idea that two Old Testament witnesses are to reappear on earth in person, testify anew, and again die.... "We are led, then, to the conclusion that he has not in mind the reappearance of the historical personages themselves, but rather prophets who shall perform the function assigned to Elijah and Moses in Hebrew tradition....

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Understanding how Revelation was written and also the original context of the letters is a key factor in understanding the Book. ... "The fact that the symbolism is drawn from three sources and not merely two is already sufficient to dispose of the idea that two Old Testament witnesses are to reappear on earth in person, testify anew, and again die.... "We are led, then, to the conclusion that he has not in mind the reappearance of the historical personages themselves, but rather prophets who shall perform the function assigned to Elijah and Moses in Hebrew tradition....

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He died on the 3rd of June, 1963 and was succeeded by Pope Paul VI, who convened the remaining three sessions of Vatican II after playing an important part in the first session. ... Vatican II's first session was held by Pope John XXIII, who stated that: "Today more than ever, we are called to serve mankind as such, and not merely Catholics; to defend above all and everywhere, the rights of the human person and not merely those of the Catholic Church...... Stand offs such as that of the Space Race, the Arms Race, and the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis led to fears over the destruction o...

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The Korean Religious Heritage Korea's religious heritage has contributed to the teaching of the Unification Church. Since it first appeared on Korean soil and was nourished by the Korean philosophy of life, the new movement was naturally influenced to some extent by its environment. Just as Eastern...

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