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8 jam yang lalu · For Christians, hope is a confident anticipation of an event that is sure to happen. The New Testament definition of hope is closer to how the Cambridge Dictionary defines hope: “to want something to happen or to be true, and usually have a good reason to think that it might.”. This hope isn’t based on our desires. It’s true.
8 jam yang lalu · Today, even skilled, educated, and well-meaning leaders will go badly astray if they attempt to sharpen the church’s focus and define its purpose apart from an emphasis on prayer. Leaders of churches that are searching for preachers need to give special prominence to prayer. Again, the book of Acts is instructive.
8 jam yang lalu · Shay Sayre and Cynthia King define entertainment broadly, as “a constructed product designed to stimulate a mass audience in an agreeable way in exchange for money.” They note that it can also be a “live or mediated experience that has been intentionally created, capitalized, promoted, maintained, and evolved.” ... The Congregational ...
8 jam yang lalu · There is always to be this distance between oneself and this world of corruption. This is not about being aloof but about developing wisdom and insight. So before making any decision, follow the voice of your conscience — not in doubt but in certainty. “Let each be fully convinced in his own mind” (Romans 14:5).
8 jam yang lalu · Trust, a congregation which is or was established in the district consists of less than 10 members. (2) Until the congregation increases in membership to 10 members or more: (a) the Baptist Union is to have and may exercise all of the functions with respect to the trust property that the congregation would otherwise have had and would
8 jam yang lalu · Connecticut’s1630 charter established the Congregational Church was the “onely and principall end of this plantation.” South Carolina’s 1778 Constitution not only declared, “The Christian Protestant religion shall be deemed, and is hereby constituted and declared to be, the established religion of this State.”
8 jam yang lalu · Addis Ababa (/ ˌ æ d ɪ s ˈ æ b ə b ə /; Oromo: Finfinnee, lit. 'fountain of hot mineral water', Amharic: አዲስ አበባ, lit. 'new flower' [adˈdis ˈabəba] ⓘ) is the capital and largest city of Ethiopia. In the 2007 census, the city's population was estimated to be 2,739,551 inhabitants. Addis Ababa is a highly developed and important cultural, artistic, financial and ...
