Archive for January, 2010
Sent or Not Sent
Posted by Werner Dekarski in Diary on January 31, 2010
SENT
Have you ever noticed how the apostle Paul begins his letters in the New Testament?
Galatians 1:1 “…. – sent …..by Jesus Christ and God the Father,…..”
First Corinthians 1:1 “…..by the will of God, …..”
Second Corinthians 1:1 “…. by the will of God, ….” Also Ephesians 1:1; Colossians 1:1; Second Timothy 1:1.
First Timothy 1:1 “….by the command of God our Savior and of Christ….”
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Read also Saul’s (Paul’s) conversion. His conversion is three times related in the book of Acts: Acts 9:1-19; Acts 22:3-21; Acts 26:2-23. Also Galatians 1:11-17.
NOT SENT
Jeremiah 14:14 “Then the Lord said to me, ‘The prophets (prophets and priests: Jeremiah 23:11) are prophesying lies in my name. I have not sent them or appointed them or spoken to them.’”
Jeremiah 14:15 “….: I did not send them,…..”
Jeremiah 23:21 “I did not send these prophets, yet they have run with their message;…”
ARE YOU SENT OR ARE YOU NOT SENT?
IT IS A BLESSING TO LISTEN TO SERMONS BY PEOPLE WHO ARE SENT!
CALM, QUIET, EASE AND PEACE
Posted by Werner Dekarski in Diary, Golden Nuggets on January 30, 2010
That are four very important words for all of us. Are you looking for calm, quiet, ease and peace?
Listen to what I read this morning in a book written by C.H. Spurgeon: His text is Jeremiah 23:6 “THE LORD IS OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS.”
This is the first sentence in his book “Morning and Evening”: “It will always give a Christian the greatest calm, quiet, ease and peace to think of the perfect righteousness of Christ.”
Praise the LORD!
THE MARKETPLACE!
Posted by werner in Personal Evangelism on January 30, 2010
KAITAIA MARKET
Saturday morning
- rain or shine
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My Pulpit is the Marketplace!
Where do you start?
It happened in THAILAND:
I REMEMBER THE YOUNG MISSIONARY SWEEPING THE FLOOR!
BUT I ALSO REMEMBER HIM BEING ELECTED AS THEIR LEADER!
VERGEBUNG
“VERGEBUNG BEDEUTET NICHT URLAUB, SONDERN ABSCHIED VON DER VERGANGENHEIT.”
Peter Hahne
GOLDEN NUGGET
Posted by Werner Dekarski in Golden Nuggets on January 28, 2010
“WORSHIP THE LORD YOUR GOD,
– and his blessing will be on your food
– and water.
– I will take away sickness from among you,
– and none will miscarry
– or be barren in your land.
– I will give you a full life span.” – In Psalm 90:10 we find the span of our days mentioned.
“The length of our days is seventy years – or eighty, if we have the strength; yet their span is but trouble and sorrow, for they quickly pass, and we fly away.”
ARMINIANISM / CALVINISM
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
KOENNEN SIE DEUTSCH? DO YOU SPEAK GERMAN?
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
Golden Nugget
Posted by Werner Dekarski in Golden Nuggets on January 27, 2010
“They answered, ‘We saw clearly that the Lord was with you;….’”
Notice the word clearly!
What do people see clearly when they have a meeting with us?