As Christian can you you wonder how you can distinguish yourself from non religious people.
Where do we have to hold ourselves? In the Holy Scripture, we can find several indications. Jesus has brought the New Covenant and to those new Laws we have to hold us. In the New Testament, we can find help and further guidelines for us to be a good Christian.
Read: Recommendations for the Religious > Commands to the Believers
Friday 30 October 2009
Hoe ons te gedragen
Als christen kan je je afvragen hoe jij je kan onderscheiden van niet gelovigen. Waar moet jij je aan houden? In de Heilige Schrift kunnen wij meerdere aanwijzingen vinden. Jezus heeft het Nieuwe Verbond ingesteld en aan die nieuwe Wetten horen wij ons te houden. In het Nieuwe Testament vinden wij verder richtlijnen voor ons die ons kunnen helpen een goed Christen te zijn.
Lees: Aanbevelingen voor de Gelovigen
Lees: Aanbevelingen voor de Gelovigen
I Only hope we find GOD again before it is too late !
The following was written by Ben Stein and recited by him on CBS Sunday Morning Commentary.
My confession: I am a Jew, and every single one of my ancestors was Jewish. And it does not bother me even a little bit when people call those beautiful lit up, bejeweled trees, Christmas trees. I don't feel threatened. I don't feel discriminated against. That's what they are, Christmas trees. It doesn't bother me a bit when people say, 'Merry Christmas' to me. I don't think they are slighting me or getting ready to put me in a ghetto. In fact, I kind of like it. It shows that we are all brothers and sisters celebrating this happy time of year. It doesn't bother me at all that there is a manger scene on display at a key intersection near my beach house in Malibu . If people want a creche, it's just as fine with me as is the Menorah a few hundred yards away. I don't like getting pushed around for being a Jew, and I don't think Christians like getting pushed around for being Christians.
I think people who believe in God are sick and tired of getting pushed around, period. I have no idea where the concept came from, that America is an explicitly atheist country. I can't find it in the Constitution and I don't like it being shoved down my throat. Or maybe I can put it another way: where did the idea come from that we should worship celebrities and we aren't allowed to worship God as we understand Him? I guess that's a sign that I'm getting old, too. But there are a lot of us who are wondering where these celebrities came from and where the America we knew went to. In light of the many jokes we send to one another for a laugh, this is a little different: This is not intended to be a joke; it's not funny, it's intended to get you thinking.
Billy Graham's daughter was interviewed on the Early Show and Jane Clayson asked her 'How could God let something like this happen?' (regarding Hurricane Katrina). Anne Graham gave an extremely profound and insightful response. She said, 'I believe God is deeply saddened by this, just as we are, but for years we've been telling God to get out of our schools, to get out of our government and to get out of our lives.. And being the gentleman He is, I believe He has calmly backed out. How can we expect God to give us His blessing and His protection if we demand He leave us alone?' In light of recent events... terrorists attack, school shootings, etc.. I think it started when Madeleine Murray O'Hare (she was murdered, her body found a few years ago) complained she didn't want prayer in our schools, and we said OK. Then someone said you better not read the Bible in school. The Bible says thou shalt not kill; thou shalt not steal, and love your neighbor as yourself. And we said OK. Then Dr. Benjamin Spock said we shouldn't spank our children when they misbehave, because their little personalities would be warped and we might damage their self-esteem (Dr. Spock's son committed suicide). We said an expert should know what he's talking about. And we said okay.
Now we're asking ourselves why our children have no conscience, why they don't know right from wrong, and why it doesn't bother them to kill strangers, their classmates, and themselves.. Probably, if we think about it long and hard enough, we can figure it out. I think it has a great deal to do with 'WE REAP WHAT WE SOW.' Funny how simple it is for people to trash God and then wonder why the world's going to hell. Funny how we believe what the newspapers say, but question what the Bible says. Funny how you can send 'jokes' through e-mail and they spread like wildfire, but when you start sending messages regarding the Lord, people think twice about sharing. Funny how lewd, crude, vulgar and obscene articles pass freely through cyberspace, but public discussion of God is suppressed in the school and workplace.
Are you laughing yet? Funny how when you forward this message, you will not send it to many on your address list because you're not sure what they believe, or what they will think of you for sending it. Funny how we can be more worried about what other people think of us than what God thinks of us. Pass it on if you think it has merit. If not, then just discard it... no one will know you did. But, if you discard this thought process, don't sit back and complain about what bad shape the world is in.
My Best Regards, Honestly and respectfully, Ben Stein
My confession: I am a Jew, and every single one of my ancestors was Jewish. And it does not bother me even a little bit when people call those beautiful lit up, bejeweled trees, Christmas trees. I don't feel threatened. I don't feel discriminated against. That's what they are, Christmas trees. It doesn't bother me a bit when people say, 'Merry Christmas' to me. I don't think they are slighting me or getting ready to put me in a ghetto. In fact, I kind of like it. It shows that we are all brothers and sisters celebrating this happy time of year. It doesn't bother me at all that there is a manger scene on display at a key intersection near my beach house in Malibu . If people want a creche, it's just as fine with me as is the Menorah a few hundred yards away. I don't like getting pushed around for being a Jew, and I don't think Christians like getting pushed around for being Christians.
I think people who believe in God are sick and tired of getting pushed around, period. I have no idea where the concept came from, that America is an explicitly atheist country. I can't find it in the Constitution and I don't like it being shoved down my throat. Or maybe I can put it another way: where did the idea come from that we should worship celebrities and we aren't allowed to worship God as we understand Him? I guess that's a sign that I'm getting old, too. But there are a lot of us who are wondering where these celebrities came from and where the America we knew went to. In light of the many jokes we send to one another for a laugh, this is a little different: This is not intended to be a joke; it's not funny, it's intended to get you thinking.
Billy Graham's daughter was interviewed on the Early Show and Jane Clayson asked her 'How could God let something like this happen?' (regarding Hurricane Katrina). Anne Graham gave an extremely profound and insightful response. She said, 'I believe God is deeply saddened by this, just as we are, but for years we've been telling God to get out of our schools, to get out of our government and to get out of our lives.. And being the gentleman He is, I believe He has calmly backed out. How can we expect God to give us His blessing and His protection if we demand He leave us alone?' In light of recent events... terrorists attack, school shootings, etc.. I think it started when Madeleine Murray O'Hare (she was murdered, her body found a few years ago) complained she didn't want prayer in our schools, and we said OK. Then someone said you better not read the Bible in school. The Bible says thou shalt not kill; thou shalt not steal, and love your neighbor as yourself. And we said OK. Then Dr. Benjamin Spock said we shouldn't spank our children when they misbehave, because their little personalities would be warped and we might damage their self-esteem (Dr. Spock's son committed suicide). We said an expert should know what he's talking about. And we said okay.
Now we're asking ourselves why our children have no conscience, why they don't know right from wrong, and why it doesn't bother them to kill strangers, their classmates, and themselves.. Probably, if we think about it long and hard enough, we can figure it out. I think it has a great deal to do with 'WE REAP WHAT WE SOW.' Funny how simple it is for people to trash God and then wonder why the world's going to hell. Funny how we believe what the newspapers say, but question what the Bible says. Funny how you can send 'jokes' through e-mail and they spread like wildfire, but when you start sending messages regarding the Lord, people think twice about sharing. Funny how lewd, crude, vulgar and obscene articles pass freely through cyberspace, but public discussion of God is suppressed in the school and workplace.
Are you laughing yet? Funny how when you forward this message, you will not send it to many on your address list because you're not sure what they believe, or what they will think of you for sending it. Funny how we can be more worried about what other people think of us than what God thinks of us. Pass it on if you think it has merit. If not, then just discard it... no one will know you did. But, if you discard this thought process, don't sit back and complain about what bad shape the world is in.
My Best Regards, Honestly and respectfully, Ben Stein
Wednesday 28 October 2009
Weekly World Watch Oct 04th - 24th 09
Oct 4th - 10th 09:
CLICK HERE FOR THIS WEEKS WWW.
What is the significance of Obama's Nobel prize? What is the significance of the moon bombing? What has begun happening in Israel and the Temple Mount this week? Read this weeks WWW to find out!!
Oct 11th - 17th 09:
CLICK HERE FOR THIS WEEKS WWW.
Oct 18th - 24th 09:
This week marks the end of 6 years since Andy Walton began the Weekly World Watch.
The WWW began back in October 2003. The very first WWW went out to 12 people. At the end of 6 years it goes out to almost 5000 email addresses. The website gets over 300 hits a week and over 4000 CD's have been sent out!
So much has happened in the last 6 years that proves beyond all doubt God's hand is working in the world.
Everything points to the soon return of our Lord Jesus to the earth.
Let us pray that the day of our watching is coming to an end.
CLICK HERE FOR THIS WEEKS WWW.
Israel is in trouble on all fronts. Read this weeks WWW to find out about Israel's reaction to the UN vote this week. Also the significance of Turkey turning her back on Israel. Plus, Russia makes a statement about nuclear weapons.
Tim Galbraith 30 years in India
Thirty years’ of work in India
It is now 30 years since bro. Tim Galbraith, with his bride, sis. Sarah, moved to live in India at the end of March 1979.
How enormously India has changed in that time, especially the cities. The growth for the Truth was slow at first, as the seed struggled to germinate in a totally different soil. Many came to support bro. Tim. Especially important in this were those who came for a really long time, several for one or even two years, some for several months each year.
Then the Lord began to really grant the increase: 500 brethren and sisters, then 1,000, and now more than 1,500.
However, with such growth came a fresh challenge: how to develop viable ecclesias. The Bible Week system developed, initially one for all of India, then more as there was a need to develop them in different areas, and numbers were too great. We compare the challenges the Apostle Paul faced with our difficulties in developing ecclesias, labouring “until Christ is formed” in them. The 18 states of India where, as yet, there are no brethren and sisters are full of untilled rice fields! But the 9 states where there are brethren and sisters still have room for an enormous amount of growth.
Some brothers came for 1 or 2 years, and others for up to 6 months. In the last 5 years
this has hardly happened. At present we have one brother from NZ who is there with his family for 2 years; it is a great blessing, but there is far too much work on his shoulders.
The committee decided at its last meeting to make a special appeal for more people to go for longer periods.
Finance is understandably an issue for most in making this commitment. The Victorian ACBM Secretary, bro. Graham Reeve, is keen to talk to any who would take up this challenge if only they could see a way of making it financially feasible.
There are quite a number in India during December and January, mostly for 2-4 weeks. This is good: they will be useful.
Another couple is going for 3 months from January. But what about the rest of 2010 – or 2011 – until our Lord come?
It is now 30 years since bro. Tim Galbraith, with his bride, sis. Sarah, moved to live in India at the end of March 1979.
How enormously India has changed in that time, especially the cities. The growth for the Truth was slow at first, as the seed struggled to germinate in a totally different soil. Many came to support bro. Tim. Especially important in this were those who came for a really long time, several for one or even two years, some for several months each year.
Then the Lord began to really grant the increase: 500 brethren and sisters, then 1,000, and now more than 1,500.
However, with such growth came a fresh challenge: how to develop viable ecclesias. The Bible Week system developed, initially one for all of India, then more as there was a need to develop them in different areas, and numbers were too great. We compare the challenges the Apostle Paul faced with our difficulties in developing ecclesias, labouring “until Christ is formed” in them. The 18 states of India where, as yet, there are no brethren and sisters are full of untilled rice fields! But the 9 states where there are brethren and sisters still have room for an enormous amount of growth.
Some brothers came for 1 or 2 years, and others for up to 6 months. In the last 5 years
this has hardly happened. At present we have one brother from NZ who is there with his family for 2 years; it is a great blessing, but there is far too much work on his shoulders.
The committee decided at its last meeting to make a special appeal for more people to go for longer periods.
Finance is understandably an issue for most in making this commitment. The Victorian ACBM Secretary, bro. Graham Reeve, is keen to talk to any who would take up this challenge if only they could see a way of making it financially feasible.
There are quite a number in India during December and January, mostly for 2-4 weeks. This is good: they will be useful.
Another couple is going for 3 months from January. But what about the rest of 2010 – or 2011 – until our Lord come?
If we view the whole world through a lens that is bright
"If we view the whole world through a lens that is bright,
Then the world appears rosy and cheery;
Or if viewing the world through a lens that is dark,
The whole world will seem weary and dreary.
But the world hasn’t changed, for it’s only the lens
That’s distorting whatever we see.
So abandon the lens and seek truth, pure and free,
For God lives in both truth and reality!"
- Peggy Ferrell, Poems and Prayers
"Anyone who listens to the word but does not do what it says
is like a man who looks at his face in a mirror and, after looking at himself,
goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like.
But the man who looks intently into the perfect law that gives freedom,
and continues to do this, not forgetting what he has heard, but doing it –
he will be blessed in what he does."
James 1:23-25
Lord, give that I shall view the world more properly
and study Your Word.
And that I shall let me direct in this world by your blessed Word,
in Jesus name, Amen.
Dutch version / Nederlandse versie > De hele wereld door middel van een lens bekijken
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| Words (Photo credit: sirwiseowl) |
De hele wereld door middel van een lens bekijken
"Als we de mening van de hele wereld door middel van een lens bekijken die helder is,
dan lijkt de wereld roze en vrolijk te zijn;
of als we de wereld bekijken door een lens die donker is,
zal de hele wereld moe en somber lijken.
Maar de wereld is niet veranderd, want het is alleen de lens
die verstoort wat we zien.
Dus laat de lens los en zoek de waarheid, zuiver en vrij,
want God leeft in zowel de waarheid en werkelijkheid! "
- Peggy Ferrell, Gedichten en Gebeden
"Iedereen die luistert naar het woord, maar niet doet wat het zegt
is als een man die kijkt naar zijn gezicht in een spiegel, en na te kijken naar zichzelf,
weg gaat en meteen vergeet hoe hij eruit ziet.
Maar de man die aandachtig kijkt in de volmaakte wet die vrijheid geeft,
en dit blijft doen, niet vergetende wat hij heeft gehoord, maar het doende --
hij zal gezegend worden in wat hij doet. "
Jakobus 1:23-25
Heer, geef dat ik steeds op de juiste wijze naar de wereld kijk
en Uw Woord bestudeer.
En dat ik mij in deze wereld zal laten richten door Uw gezegend Woord,
in Jezus naam, Amen.
Engelse versie / English version > If we view the whole world through a lens that is bright
Tuesday 27 October 2009
No person has greater love than this one who surrendered his soul in behalf of his friends
Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends.
- John 15:13, New International Version
Words communicate and explain. We can tell people that we love them. We can explain how precious they are to us. Actions validate and confirm. When we sacrifice our preferences for another, we show our respect and affection. When we sacrifice ourselves, our wishes, and our preferences for a friend, we give the greatest of all gifts and prove our love beyond any doubt.
Father, thank you for loving me enough to send Jesus as a ransom for my sins. I am thankful that Jesus gave himself as a loving sacrifice that not only saves me, but shows me the full extent of your love. In Jesus' name I thank you. Amen.
Dutch version / Nederlandse versie > Niemand heeft zulk een grote liefde als hij die zij leven gaf voor zijn vrienden
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2013 update:
Niemand heeft zulk een grote liefde als hij die zij leven gaf voor zijn vrienden
Christelijke Overdenking
Dinsdag 27 oktober 2009
Johannes 15:13
- Statenvertaling
- GNV
- NBG 1951
- NBV
- Het Boek
"Niemand heeft meerder liefde dan deze, dat iemand zijn leven zette voor zijn vrienden." (Joh 15:13 STV)
"Je liefde voor je vrienden kan niet groter zijn dan wanneer je je leven voor hen geeft."
"Niemand heeft grotere liefde, dan dat hij zijn leven inzet voor zijn vrienden."
"Er is geen grotere liefde dan je leven te geven voor je vrienden."
"Wie zijn leven voor zijn vrienden overheeft, heeft de grootste liefde."
Overdenking van vandaag:
Woorden communiceren en leggen uit. We kunnen mensen vertellen dat we van ze houden. We kunnen uitleggen hoe waardevol zij zijn voor ons. Daden bekrachtigen en bevestigen. Wanneer we onze voorliefde voor een ander offeren, tonen we ons respect en genegenheid. Wanneer we onszelf offeren, onze wensen en onze voorkeuren voor een vriend, geven we de grootste van alle geschenken en bewijzen onze liefde zonder twijfel.
Gebed:
Vader, ik dank u dat u genoeg van mij houdt om Jezus te sturen als een losprijs voor mijn zonden. Ik ben Jezus dankbaar voor zijn liefdevolle offer dat niet alleen mij redt, maar mij ook de volledige omvang van uw liefde laat zien. In Jezus' naam dank ik u. Amen.
Engelse versie / English version > No person has greater love than this one who surrendered his soul in behalf of his friends
Doe het passende voor een vriend
"Wanneer een vriend in de problemen is,
erger hem niet door te vragen of er iets is wat je kunt doen.
Bedenk iets passend en doe het. "
- Edgar Watson Howe
"Iemand die je dichter bij God duwde,
zij zijn je waarste vrienden."
- Onbekend Auteur
"Het is geen kleinigheid om vriendschap met God te hebben."
- Onbekend Auteur
"Een vriend heeft te allen tijde lief,
en een broer is geboren voor tegenspoed. "
Spreuken 17:17
God, laat mij steeds bereid zijn anderen te helpen
en tot vriend te maken.
Laat mij de mensen rondom mij liefhebben.
En geef mij Uw liefde in alle heerlijkheid,
Amen.
Engelse versie / English version > Do the appropriate for a friend
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