This is a list of random comments on All Blogs - ordered by date. Click on the blog title to view the blog. Click here to create a Blog.
What Makes Jesus Unique? No one else made the claims that He did, He is alive...............
Jesus Said What?Date:1/3/21
Series: Matthew
Passage: Matthew 26:26-29......Speaker: BJ Chursinoff
Throughout the 4 Gospels, Jesus constantly makes shocking and awesome statements. When we hear Jesus’ words repeatedly, we can easily grow numb to just how scandalous some of His statements are. His words can begin to sound almost normal to us. But His Words are anything but normal, and we'll look at an example in this message that takes place during the Last Supper, the night before Jesus is crucified.
It happened almost 20 years ago, but I can still remember seeing the footage of it on CNN. Giant explosions everywhere and a lot of them all at once. It was it was surreal.
It was back in 2003 when the United States led a coalition that invaded Iraq and overthrew the government of Saddam Hussein.
The Iraq war began with what is known as the shock and awe campaign. It was called the shock and awe campaign.
Because of the force that was used, the military force was shocking and it left you in awe if you saw it.
It was extraordinary, it was abnormal, it was not something that you saw every day, it took your breath away if you saw it, it took mine away, to be sure. Part of the reason it was so shocking to me personally was the fact that war has never been a part of my life as a Canadian citizen. I haven't seen or heard gunshot fire first hand. I haven't been present when a bomb has gone off anywhere. I wasn't used to what I saw happen in Iraq.
So when I saw it, it really left an imprint on my mind. But there are so many people in our world today who have had upbringings that are totally different from what mine was like.
There are people who have grown up in war torn countries and all they've ever known is gunfire, explosions and war on a daily basis. Some people have experienced war so much that it's not even shocking or awesome to them anymore. It's become almost normal to them.
They've become numb to it all because they've seen the sights too many times and they've heard the sounds one too many times.
They've become numb to the shock and awe of war. Now, I think the same thing can happen to us on a spiritual level when it comes to Jesus. See, almost every time Jesus opens his mouth and speaks, it's like a verbal shock and awe campaign. Powerful words, explosive words, words that change everything Jesus says, shocking and awesome statements constantly throughout the gospels.
And I think that when we hear Jesus words repeatedly every day for years on end, I think that we, too, can grow numb to the shocking and awesome things that he has to say.
His words can become almost normal sounding. But his words are almost anything but normal. I want to show you an example of this in our text tonight, some shocking and awesome words from the Lord Jesus. So if you have your Bible with you, I want to get you to turn to our text, which is Matthew, Chapter 26, Verse is. Twenty six to twenty nine as we pick up our study through the book of Matthew together. As you find your place, I'll start in the very beginning of verse twenty six and it goes like this.
Says now as they were eating, so there's a stop there for now in this scene, Jesus and his disciples are enjoying what's what is known as the Passover meal.
They're eating this dinner together on the eve of Jesus crucifixion. Now, if we're going to comprehend the shocking and awesome words that come out of Jesus mouth in this scene, we're going to have to grasp the significance of the Passover meal.
You can read about the institution of the Passover more fully if you go back and start near the end of the Book of Genesis and read through about the first third of the Book of Exodus, all that I'm about to reference about the Passover here can be found in more detail there.
RE: God Bless the USA! Court Lowers Trump Bond From $464 Million to $175 Million. Due in 10 days.
When you're up against a collective, well, you could find yourself having enoughwith just defending yourself it seems.
But yea, I heard a rumor he is considering suing this Letitia James or what her name is
but if I was his leagal advisor I'd recommend him not to.
"Donald Trump has civil rights grounds to sue Letitia James: Deroy Murdock"
RE: JOSEPH SMITH ( founder of Mormons ).
I always figure that mob was 40 or so male Mormons retaliating for pulling the wool over their eyes.???
Freaky Story
Yes...I freaked out.
RE: Freaky Story
Did you tell him about the dream yet?Don't be surprised if someone takes out life insurance on you.
RE: Not a terrorist act
Rubbish.U.S. President Joe Biden pledged that the federal government will pay the full cost to rebuild the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, ...
What did you expect him to say ?Surely any President in Office would have said the same under the circumstances. The fact that this has happened in an election year is beside the point.
Not a terrorist act
No, you don’t understand. My intent is to show it’s not right for biden to use this disaster as a political stunt to help him campaign to win a a reelection. And he he is steering this country to other disasters. Carry on. Carry on.RE: Not a terrorist act
Oh I totally understand your ridiculous image post but not why you think it ok to bring politics into a tragic accident.There is a time and a place for everything and this incident was neither the time or the place to continue to humiliate Biden at every opportunity.
P.S. I have no time for Trump or Biden . Both far too old to run a country.
RE: Speed dating
Yeah, it's probably not a good idea to meet a bunch of strangers and announce you're now walking back to your car on your own...and then repeat that action several weeks running.Otherwise, it sounds like fun.
Not a terrorist act
Well if you don’t understand my opening post why haven't you asked me to explain it as well as other post of in this blog.Well you probably don’t know mumbling joes record for building back better smusing this tragedy to further better his campaign or this idea of building back the wrecked bridge.
RE: Not a terrorist act
Maybe I was offline, or doing something else when that blog was in the top ten of the list.If you cite the link for the blog, I'll have a look at it.
RE: Not a terrorist act
Firstly I objected to the poster's opening post with my comment on post 4 .It shows no respect whatsoever to the people who lost their lives. How anyone can mock this accident with comedy is totally beyond my comprehension.Secondly this is NOT a terrorist attack it's a tragic accident . What has it got to do with Politics?
Thirdly Where is R.F?
RE: Not a terrorist act
Germanshpitz ''Absolutely.handshake''Well, ladies, isn't this a pure example of hypocrisy.
If you agree with this statement from Joanie. (Which I totally support) then how come not a single of you on CS Singles did not say any words to condemn a terrorist attack in RF? Not a single
.Here comes to mind a book by George Orwell '' Animal Farm''.
''All animals are equal,but some animals are more equal than others,,
For those who suffered in this accident because of stupidity and greedof politicians and president of the USA. Who do not care about their own people.
Not a terrorist act
Exactly. Sleepy joe wants to look good during his reelection campaign by jumping on this tragedy immediately stating that u.s. taxpayers would foot the entire cost to restore the bridge. Which unlike when the train derailment in East Palestine Ohio it took him 1.5 years before he visited the derailment site. And where was the transportation secretary him and the epa director.Besides that mumbling joe is steering this country to a complete disaster.
Speed dating
Well, exactly why I blogged about it and didn't just book and go along I do know within seconds if I think someone is attractive. I know within minutes whether that first assessment was right or wrong. So in THEORY it is a way of spending literally 5 minutes across a table with a single bloke looking for a single woman, both of us on our best behaviour and trying to impress, before a little bell dings and you speed on to the next encounter. You have a little list and if you liked him, you tick his name. At the end the organizer collects all the lists and where the like is mutual, sends you each other's contact details. Not mutual, oh well.
What could possibly go wrong ...
The best-looking bloke in the room could be ticked on every list and not tick a single woman there. His loss. You could have a brilliant 5 minutes laughing, convinced you've made a hit, and - nothing. The bloke who told me about it probably ticked every woman just for being single and available. The first woman who ticked back said on their first date he was scruffy and hadn't spruced up enough for their date. The second said she had family coming to stay for six weeks so they wouldn't be able to meet again, and good luck with his search. The third has so far cancelled every plan they've set up (four!) so am I expecting Cupid hovering over the table, arrows lined up? No!
But - you know - like the lottery, never going to win if you don't even buy a ticket even though the odds are millions to one -
And you are so right about seeing what a man is like when he loses. Hmmmm maybe make it a backgammon game rather than just 5 minutes of talking ...
RE: Not a terrorist act
Well said, Joanie.
RE: Is the real truth being hidden?
Challenge accepted. You were outright wrong in calling FOMO an emotion, and one felt only by women.
Just to clarify, then - fear of missing out is literally the lurking feeling other people are having more fun than you are. It is not really even an emotion. It is most certainly not limited to females. Friends having a dinner party, you weren't invited because you don't have a partner? Damn, wish I had someone special so I could be invited along to such things. Oh hello FOMO. Colleague at work is invited onto a project even though you have as much experience in that area. There's no added pay, no obvious benefits bar a bit of a profile boost, he / she has only added to their workload but you wonder why them not you. Oh hello FOMO.
"I enjoy learning and becoming a better human" is because you know you are missing out on what some others manage to achieve. You blog about things you don't understand in the hope someone will magically clarify it all. THAT IS FOMO, and every single one of us, male, female, young, old, at work or at play, has the occasional lurking feeling we don't understand something. It is NORMAL and HUMAN and NON-GENDER. .
I have no idea whether that makes you a better human but I do hope you enjoyed learning what it actually means. If I should ever on one of your future blogs write just FOMO
, read back what you have written ... What Makes Jesus Unique? No one else made the claims that He did, He is alive...............
With so much "purchasing power" and "educational excellence," we need to see the first wave of pioneers from the American Born Chinese Church.We read in Acts that "during the night Paul had a vision of a man of Macedonia standing and begging him, 'Come over to Macedonia and help us'" (16:9). Throughout the past year, the Lord has laid the same invitation upon my heart-"Come over to Asia and help us." Won't you come and answer the invitation?
What Makes Jesus Unique? No one else made the claims that He did, He is alive...............
How does this information apply to missions and the American Born Chinese church? It applies in many ways.
According to George Barna's analysis of the same 2000 population data, there was no significant growth among ethnic churches in the last decade. The only exception is the 27% growth of the Asian American Churches.9 When we combine the economic purchasing power and the educational excellence of the Asian Americans in general and the Chinese Church in particular, we are talking about a great potential missionary force. At the last Urbana 2000 over 5,000 Asian Americans attended the missions conference. This was 27% of those attending. Over 1,000 Chinese Americans met during the conference, while others had to be turned away for lack of space.
Implications
"By the year 2025, the Chinese Church will take the Gospel back to Jerusalem." This prediction is unfolding before our eyes.
Those volunteers who survived the 1948 massacre when they first tried to cross the border of Western China prayed each night with their face to Jerusalem, that the Lord would preserve and keep the vision alive. One Sunday morning in 1998, after imprisonment for 40 years, Simeon Chiu was sitting in church service. That morning, a young preacher led the congregation to sing a hymn he had written 40 years ago for the Back to Jerusalem Gospel Band. The message challenged the members to take the baton and complete the race by taking the Gospel back to Jerusalem. Now an old man, Simeon could not help but weep throughout the worship service. The young preacher noticed his strange behavior and immediately after the service approached Simeon. Hardly able to speak, Simeon told the young preacher he wrote the hymn 40 years ago.
Today, there are a number of initiations to complete this vision of the Chinese Church. In fact, there are thousands who are ready and willing to go. God in His wisdom has allowed the responsibility of carrying the Gospel to the ends of the world to fall into the lap of Christians from a particular nation. In the first era of modern missions from 1792-1910 the European Christians dominated. America has taken the lead in the second era from 1865-1980.10 Missiologists believe that the Chinese Church will complete the race and finish the task.
In a team rally race, medals are won or lost during the transition. The most critical part of the race is during each transition when one runner hands the baton to the next. Dropping the baton or failing to hand it to the next runner within the prescribed distance will disqualify the whole team. The European and American churches have each paid the price and completed their part of the race. Will the Chinese Church drop the baton? I am glad to report that the baton is safe. Chinese churches in East Asia as well as the Mainland are now busy dreaming, recruiting, training, preparing and engaging in the task.
One question remains: "Will our brothers and sisters in the American Born Chinese church jump onto the train and join the rest of our team to complete this task?"
Some professional "headhunters" for mission agencies are worried and concerned about a trend they've observed. While there has been much talk and many activities and mission conferences organized by the Chinese American Church, we have yet to see the first wave of volunteers. Brian Leong of ESI reports that each year he recruits and trains over 100 volunteers for short-term ministry, but only half a dozen are Chinese or Asian. I spoke to over 20 interested individuals at a huge conference but found that only our Western brothers and sisters are ready to go. A year later only Western believers are on the field as career cross-cultural workers. Our Chinese believers are still home scouting the options. This is not to invalidate short-term missions or the efforts of churches; however, the overall picture is not encouraging. With so much "purchasing power" and "educational excellence,"
What Makes Jesus Unique? No one else made the claims that He did, He is alive...............
Missionary Zeal of the Church in AsiaAccording to Operation World, the number of cross-cultural missionaries from East Asian countries totaled almost 18,000 in the year 2000.4 The conservative estimate for 2002 increased this number to approximately 25,000. Note that these figures do not include workers from China since we have no way of knowing how many more we can count on.
The conclusion is quite clear. The churches in East Asia are beginning to assume the missionary responsibility that our Western brothers predicted. The following are missionary mottos of the churches in East Asia. The Mongolian church missionary motto is "Taking the Gospel to the places that the Great Khan devastated."
The missionary motto of the church in China is "Taking the Gospel back to Jerusalem along the Silk Route."
In order to fulfill these two mottos the Gospel will need to reach the four resistance blocks of unreached people groups: Islamic, Hindu, Buddhist and atheist.
Potential of the American Born Chinese Church
In the last few months American Demographics Magazine released an analysis of the Chinese population from the 2000 national population census. According to these reports, 3.6% or 10,242,998 of the US population is Asian.5 While the national population grew only 6% from 1990 to 2000, the Asian population grew 107%. In the next five years the Asian segment will grow another 27% to 13,957,310.
We all know that the term Asian American can mean different things. The report provides a detailed break down of those who call themselves Asian into more than 20 subgroups. The Chinese form the largest subgroup with 2,734,841 individuals. To this figure we must add 144,795 from Taiwan, 18,566 from Malaysia, 2,394 from Singapore, and199 from Indonesia for a total of 2,900,795.6
"Crowning Cash Flow" and "Superlative Segment" are two terms used to describe the economic wealth of the Asian American. American Demographics also reports that a disproportionate 21.9% of Asian Americans earn $100,000 and above annually.7 The San Jose Mercury reports that the average annual income of Chinese citizens is $36,000 which is higher than the general population.
"Education-Asian American Excellence" is the subtitle for another major segment of the American Demographics report. 44.4% Asian Americans hold an under-graduate or higher degree as compared to 34.4% of the general population.
What Makes Jesus Unique? No one else made the claims that He did, He is alive...............
Taking the Gospel Back to Jerusalem--Missions Challenge for the ABC1 Churchby David Tan
Introduction
On November 25, 1942, Vice-Principal Mark Ma of the Northeast Bible College was praying and reading his Bible when he heard an audible voice telling him to set up an evangelistic band to take the Gospel back to Jerusalem. Since he was not a Pentecostal, he kept the encounter to himself for six months.
On the next Easter Sunday, April 25, 1943, Pastor Ma delivered a sermon about taking the Gospel back to Jerusalem. After the service, Miss Ho En Cheng, shared that she had received a similar call 10 years earlier.
Meanwhile, on the campus of Northeast Bible College, students gathered at the court yard that same morning to pray together. Each of these students heard a call to also take the Gospel back to Jerusalem. After praying, the students realized that they had each heard the same message from God.
Pastor Ma returned to the campus after his preaching to hear the students' exciting news. In consultation with the principal and staff of the college, the "Back to Jerusalem Gospel Band" was established.
God was also speaking to others around the nation. By 1948, a movement to take the Gospel "Back to Jerusalem" became the passionate cry of the Chinese Church. It is recorded that as many as 5,000 of these individuals with the same call from God walked from Northeastern China all the way to the Western China border. They were prepared to cross into the Islamic world. However, they were stopped at the border by the communist revolution. Most of the 5,000 were shot and killed, but those who survived were sentenced to 45 years imprisonment.2
Dr. Peter Wagner, former professor of Fuller Theological Seminary, spoke these words a number of years ago: "By the year 2025, the Chinese Church will take the Gospel back to Jerusalem." When I first heard these words, I thought Dr. Wagner might be patronizing the Chinese Church, but during our first term in Asia, we did see the beginning of this new wave of the future. Others also saw this mission. Dr Larry Keyes of Overseas Crusade predicted this new wave of workers in his book in 1985.3 Although Dr. Keyes did not specifically point to the Chinese Church as the leader of this mission, he did forecast it would be the Two-Thirds World Missionaries who would complete the task of bringing the Gospel back to Jerusalem.
As you can tell, hearing the above story filled my heart with excitement. Is it true that the Chinese Church will take the Gospel all the way back to Jerusalem and reach people who have been unreached along the way? What and where is the evidence of Dr. Wagner's foresight?
First, we must examine the missionary zeal of the church in Asia. Second, we must study the potential of the American Chinese Church to fulfill this mandate. Finally, we will make logical implications from these discoveries.
RE: God Bless the USA! Court Lowers Trump Bond From $464 Million to $175 Million. Due in 10 days.
I'm sorry, I momentarily forgot you think women deserve to be beaten at times.I should have known fraud and deception committed by an adjudicated rapist aren't going to register on your moral compass.
You can go back to making up stories to feel better about yourself, now.
There's no need to worry your little head about real things, like judgement orders in the public domain and what's actually going on under your little nose.
RE: Owning a piece of Trump... stock
Fundamentals will matter at some point. As of now it's a meme stock. I wouldn't touch it but that doesn't mean it won't go higher, for a while at least. Trump won't be able to sell any shares for 6 months because of lock-up.
RE: You Can't Make This Sh*t Up
"Next thing you know he will be selling his followers prayer mats...gold ones."I can't think of anything so profane since Pope Leo hustled Indulgences 600 years ago. As with gold-bling shoes, you have to sell X thousand copies to break even. What if you don't? A slimy skunk like T-Rump can simply neglect to fill orders. By the time his Useful Idiots realize they've been stiffed and sue for consumer fraud, they would have to get in line behind the financial institutions who are owed $ millions. But The Stall defense is still working. It's ironic that T-Rump is offering his dupes something they would have to actually read.
RE: How Trump is following Hitlers playbook
I often visit South Africa too for Curry's electrical repairs. You couldn't make this stuff up Riz.
Owning a piece of Trump... stock
It's around $68 this morning.
How Trump is following Hitlers playbook
My uk bank uses a call centre in Manila, I joke with the operator that I know where he lives lolHow Trump is following Hitlers playbook
I live on Cebu island but not in Cebu city, I live in a small town far south of Cebu,I haven’t really noticed any difference since Marcos took over but the local police are getting busier hunting down drug sellers, Drug use is getting worse since Duterte, His methods were harsh but the drug scene almost disappeared now it’s returning sadly.
Worse is that Marcos has opened up various areas for American military. Duterte closed most of these sites down, he built a close relationship with the UK that has now gone, although the British SAS are still on certain islands searching for Islamic factions with local military.
The 'worm moon' lunar eclipse...
rob, many thanks for sharing. Those photos are spectacular!RE: God Bless the USA! Court Lowers Trump Bond From $464 Million to $175 Million. Due in 10 days.
How much white wash does it take to cover all his misdemeanors. If there was no truth in all the lies he thinks people spread about him he would be suing the a--e off them.RE: Not a terrorist act
Absolutely.RE: God Bless the USA! Court Lowers Trump Bond From $464 Million to $175 Million. Due in 10 days.
What if I understand but don't care?I just said i'd support Biden if hes policies was good, despite he being a morally inferior
man to Trump.
Eat that hunny bee.
"do you not understand" ,,, haha that language u use on everybody here, who you think u are sis?
You're supporting the corrupt elite of DC indirectly by going after Trump.
You chose side, with the real baddies.
What part of the word corruption do YOU not understand. Get off your high horse.
RE: God Bless the USA! Court Lowers Trump Bond From $464 Million to $175 Million. Due in 10 days.
What part of fraud being against the law do you not understand?Is it why deceptive business practise is against the law?
What Makes Jesus Unique? No one else made the claims that He did, He is alive...............
So at the end of Genesis, we see the people of God go into Egypt on good terms, then in the beginning of the Book of Exodus, we learn that over the course of 400 years, the people of God end up becoming slaves in Egypt, which in turn leads them to cry out to God to save them. And he does big time God hears the cries of his people and he acts to save them. So God calls a man named Moses and sends him to Pharaoh to get his people released.A pharaoh rejects God's word to him, which tells Pharaoh to set God's people free.
God then performs a series of ten devastating plagues that bring all of Egypt to its knees in submission. These 10 plagues demonstrated God's power towards those he was saving.
But they also displayed to the entire world that there is only one true God and all of the gods of Egypt could never hold a candle to God's glory. Is plague number 10, where our understanding of the Passover comes from, all the plagues were harsh, but number 10 was the harshest.
To understand that this is the tenth plague, Pharaoh has had more than enough time and opportunity to heed God's warning up until this point, plague number 10 was this God was going to kill the first born son of every family in Egypt, both of Egyptians and the Hebrews alike, unless each family took the blood of a lamb and painted their doorpost with it. Then, when the angel of death came to that house and saw the blood, he would pass over that house and not kill the firstborn son.
But if the blood wasn't placed on the door post when the angel came, the firstborn son would be killed. Now all of God's people killed the lamb and painted their doorpost with the blood, just like God told them to do.
And all their firstborn sons were spared. The Egyptians, they, didn't heed God's warning, and that night all the firstborn sons in Egypt were killed.
That was the final straw for Pharaoh. The next morning, God's people were finally kicked out of Egypt and then God led them through the Red Sea and into the wilderness and eventually into the promised land is during the exodus out of Egypt that God instituted that this event in his people's history should be commemorated every year with a special meal. We can read about this specifically in Exodus Chapter 12 or 14, where it reads God saying this day shall be for you, a Memorial Day and you shall keep it as a feast.
The Lord, throughout your generations as a statue forever. You shall keep it as a feast.
So every year forward from this point, from the day that God passed over his people and delivered them from out of their bondage in Egypt, God's people remembered what God had done by celebrating the Passover meal on the anniversary that their freedom was given to them.
That was what Jesus was doing with his disciples in our text. This is what they were celebrating. Now, there are many parts to this Passover meal, and for the sake of time, we're not going to break down every part of the Passover meal in this message. But we're going to look at two of the parts of the meal, the unleavened bread and the cups of wine. The unleavened bread was eaten at every single Passover meal throughout the Bible.
Unleavened bread is a picture of senselessness, and Silvan is symbolic for sin. And so unleavened bread is symbolic for now then. But there's an added layer of meaning to the unleavened bread when we consider the very first Passover event, see when the Israelites ate the unleavened bread of Passover, the very first time, it reminded them that they had to leave Egypt very quickly when the opportunity came for them to go. Listen to this in Exodus, Chapter 12, starting in verse three, it's going to be on an outline as well, if you have it says the Egyptians were urgent with the people to send them out of the land in haste, for they said we shall all be dead.