Showing posts with label inspiration. Show all posts
Showing posts with label inspiration. Show all posts

Monday 30 August 2010

Trying to get the youth inspired

As a youngster would you not like to go abroad and widen your horizon?
The Onesimus Program prepares enthusiastic young people to serve and preach, and then put them to work serving and preaching.
Anyone interested, either baptized or unbaptized, in good standing with their ecclesia, aged 16 and older is encouraged to apply for a two week training. Young people, 18 years of age or older,
interested in the full program must be baptized members in good standing with their home ecclesias.
For many it can be a stepping stone like this youngster wrote:
“Before the training I was shy about speaking to people about the Bible. Now I have more courage and confidence in myself.” And an other one:
“I went into my first year of college not having full conviction in the God of the Bible … the spark was missing. A big spark came this summer … and Onesimus was where the hammer finally hit the nail square on the head. I was immersed in the love for our Father and Christ, and I felt
God channel love to me through one on one (conversations) and talking to my peers. Walking through my spiritual struggles this past year … showed me that the Father was and is always with me. My cup overflows with the comfort of the Father through Christ … and I was baptized July 18th, 2009 in the name of Jesus Christ.” – Bro. Matt Drabenstott
So it can succeed to leave self-gratification behind and learn to give oneself in service,
sharing light with those in darkness, supplying our brother’s need, always standing ready to say, “Here am I, send me!”

Read more about it:
>39-years-onesimus
> Operation Onesimus

Tuesday 5 January 2010

A Bible Falling Apart Belongs to Someone who isn't


"A Bible Falling Apart Belongs to Someone who isn't".
- Unknown

"The Bible shows how the world goes forward.
It begins with a garden and ends with a Holy City."
- Phillips Brooks

God writes the gospel not in the Bible alone,
but on trees and flowers and clouds and stars.
- Martin Luther


If we get our information from the biblical material
there is no doubt
that the Christian life is a dancing, leaping, daring life.
- Eugene Peterson

"One can study because the brain is hungry for knowledge,
even Bible knowledge.
But we pray as the soul yearns for God."
- Leonard Ravenhill

"… that from childhood you have known the Holy Scriptures,
which are able to make you wise for salvation
through faith which is in Christ Jesus.
All Scripture is given by inspiration of God,
and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction,
for instruction in righteousness,
that the man of God may be complete,
thoroughly equipped for every good work."
2 Timothy 3:15, 16, 17

Jehovah, I ask you for my mind to grow.
that I may get more wisdom out of Your Word.
Let Your Words inspire me and transform me
to a full and good Christian man.