It happened in THAILAND:

I REMEMBER THE YOUNG MISSIONARY SWEEPING THE FLOOR!

BUT I ALSO REMEMBER HIM BEING ELECTED AS THEIR LEADER!

“VERGEBUNG BEDEUTET NICHT URLAUB, SONDERN ABSCHIED VON DER VERGANGENHEIT.”

Peter Hahne

ARMINIANISM OR CALVINISM?

WHAT DOES THE BIBLE SAY?

THE FIVE POINTS OF ARMINIANISM:

Free Will

Conditional Election

Universal Atonement

Obstructable Grace

Falling from Grace

THE FIVE POINTS OF CALVINISM:

T-Total Depravity

U-Unconditional Election

L-Limited Atonement

I-Irresistible Grace

P-Perseverance

Ein reiches Leben durch Dankbarkeit:

IM NORMALEN LEBEN WIRD ES EINEM OFT GAR NICHT BEWUSST, DASS DER MENSCH UEBERHAUPT UNENDLICH MEHR EMPFAENGT, ALS ER GIBT, UND DASS DANKBARKEIT DAS LEBEN ERST REICH MACHT.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

ARE YOU A MEMBER OF THE BODY OF CHRIST?*

IF YOU ARE, YOU MUST BE AWARE OF THE SPIRITUAL DROUGHT, NOT ONLY IN THE WORLD, BUT ALSO IN THE CHURCHES.

SPIRITUAL DROUGHT BEGINS TO HURT.

WHEN?

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Body of  Christ.

The church is the body of Christ, in Paul’s figur of speech (First Corinthians 12:12-26). Christian believers are members (parts) of the body of  Christ. As the head, Christ rules over the body (Ephesians 1:22-23, Ephesians 4:12, 15-16).

20th Century Bible Dictionary

Believe! Acts 16:31

“BEFORE ME EVERY KNEE WILL BOW.”

Isaiah 45:23

Romans 14:11

Philippians 2:10

“It’s made it very hard on my bucket list.”

That was said by a young man who was given a very short time to live. He is dying of cancer – but he is laughing in the face of death. His story is called “Laughing in the face of cancer”  in the newspaper.

All of us have a list of things we want to do before we die. This young man called the list his bucket list. There were so many things he wanted to do before he “kicked the bucket”.

He lived longer than expected and he has done things.

Maybe he has even done the overnight fishing trip with his friend to Tutukaka he was looking forward to so much by now. It was one thing on his ultimate to-do list.

But things are up with him. And things are down with him. What comes next? He does not know. The paper says, “But for now he is laughing”.

We must have the things of God on our to-do list. We must have the commandments of God on our to-do list. We are reading about the commandments of God in the Bible, the Word of the Living God. Here is one:  Acts 17:30 says:  “In the past God overlooked such ignorance, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent.” Read also Second Peter 3:9

When we repent, we know what comes next!

*Is the bucket list coming from Ecclesiastes 12:6, where it is written “…; before the pitcher is shattered at the spring,…” ?