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Today : I was feeling a wee bit low when i thought that there would not be any blog posts in November, but I did not want to write anything and fill this space. I had been having a tough time, lots of assignments and stuff like that and I did not take time to relax and stay in the presence of God. Its is a truly life changing experience when you give into him. Running on my mind now is the song "Forever Reign" by Hillsong from Beautiful Exchange. The song goes ... "You are good, you are good, when there is nothing good in me You are love You are love On display for all to see You are light You are light When the darkness closes in You are hope You are hope You have covered all my sin "
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Last night was amazing, I attended a small party, a number of Christians had come together to spend some time off studies and unwind, man it feels like a great blessing now. I sat at a table and this is the table were people from almost every continent, of many languages, and it was like we were representing God from our countries here, like there I was an India, and then there was this Japanese guy, two British guys, a girl from Spain, a girl from Germany, a girl from Bulgaria, two guys whose ethnicity could be traced to Africa, a guy who was half French and half German, and I think there was some one from USA. All of us, came to this table not knowing this would be the population at the table, and they were random and we just sat at a table we found empty or something. This could not have been anything better than this, that God brought his kids from all over the world, to this tiny table covered with some table paper, in a tiny space, in his time so that we could glorify God. How mighty is your name O, Lord
This is a little map of the crowd at my table and there were 6 other table, there were people I knew from some countries in African continent, some from Australia, some from USA and some with ethnic background from South American continent. Praising God has no words, no language, its all about you Lord! all about you ..... Every knee shall bow , every tongue shall proclaim, the Jesus Christ is God!
This could be my first ever critique of art that I have ever written and that is because it is only recently art has captured my interest as much as this work. This write up is made both in English and German as I want to practice my German. 'The Nativity' by Gari Melchers. I am not an art expert and my critique is from a layman's point of view, but bear with me. I have tried reading some information about the art and the culture behind it and I have my two favourite blog posts about the same work and yes, I have shamelessly copied some of their thoughts. Woebegone but Hopeful and other is by Lisa VO . Julius Garibaldi Melchers (August 11, 1860 – November 30, 1932) was an American artist. He was one of the leading American proponents of naturalism. He won a 1932 Gold medal from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.[1] - Wikipedia The Nativity is painted during the peak of realism movement - in a gritty and less idealised manner . For m
This section of the story in 2 Kings chapter 5 focuses on Naaman. We know that Naaman was the commander in chief of the armies of Syria and possibly the right hand man as he was incharge of strategic, political and warfare and security. This was a very prestigious role that Naaman had earned. Some Jewish Rabbis say that his ruthlessness and his power resulted in God punishing Naaman with Tzaraat which is translated as Leprosy. For the sake of these notes, I would consider the word Leprosy. Naaman was powerful and wise. In fact, it was God who had blessed him from the start. The verse says that Naaman was a powerful and influential man valued by the king greatly. His victory was a gift from God to Aram. Why would God bless a foreign nation to attack the Israelites? In Deuteronomy chapter 28, Moses tells the people that God would make the enemies of Israel punish the people of God if they are disobedient. Jehoram, the then king of Israel was the son of Ahab. Ahab and his wife Jezebel le
Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, To those who are elect exiles of the Dispersion in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, 2 according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in the sanctification of the Spirit, for obedience to Jesus Christ and for sprinkling with his blood: Preface: Why are we looking through this book? Unlike the letter of James, this book is written to a Jewish / Gentile Christians who are scattered across various provinces that are outside their ideal world. In the last two weeks we have been looking at what it means to live as people who love God. Today and the weeks to follow, we will look at how this is meant to be worked out as people living among other nations. Written by Silvanus (he is the typist) - probably Silas along with Mark From "babylon" .. well babylon did not exist in that time as an important place. It was a code, a code for what Babylon stood for. Enmity to God - Where was the enemy? in Rome - Who was the enemy - Introduc
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