Why Go To Church?

If you're spiritually alive, you're going to love this! If you're spiritually dead, you won't want to read it. If you're spiritually curious, there is still hope! A Churchgoer wrote a letter to the editor of a newspaper and complained that it made no sense to go to church every Sunday... "I've gone for 30 years now, and in that time I have heard something like 203,000 sermons. But for the life of me, I can't remember a single one of them. So, I think I'm wasting my time and the pastors are wasting theirs by giving sermons at all." This started a real controversy in the "Letters to the Editor" column, much to the delight of the...

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Jim Caviezel "The Passion Of Jesus Christ"

Jim Caviezel adalah seorang aktor biasa dengan peran-peran kecil dalam film-film yang juga tidak besar. Peran terbaik yang pernah dimilikinya (sebelum The Passion) adalah sebuah film perang yang berjudul "The Thin Red Line". Itupun hanya salah satu peran dari begitu banyak aktor besar yang ikut berperan dalam film kolosal itu.Dalam Thin Red Line, Jim berperan sebagai prajurit yang berkorban demi menolong teman-temannya yang terluka dan terkepung musuh, ia berlari memancing musuh ke arah yang lain walaupun ia tahu ia akan mati, dan akhirnya musuhpun mengepung dan membunuhnya. Kharisma kebaikan, keramahan, dan rela berkorbannya ini...

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Kaká: Soccer’s Most Famous Evangelical

Goal celebrations generally fall somewhere in between raw displays of emotion (see Marco Tardelli in the 1982 World Cup final), incredible athleticism (can anyone beat Julius Aghahowa for that?), and sheer ridiculousness (see if you can recall Finidi George at the 1994 World Cup getting down on all fours before relieving himself on the corner flag). Recently, however, a new type of celebration has made its way into soccer: the religious celebration. And no player is more overt in praising God after scoring than the Brazilian Kaká. Kaká’s celebrations initially appear simple. He raises both hands and lifts his head to the sky as he runs...

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God can use you

"God! I am a DRUNK..! I am a LIAR..! I am A SINNER..! The next time you feel like GOD can't use you, just remember... Noah was a drunkAbraham was too oldIsaac was a daydreamerJacob was a liarLeah was uglyJoseph was abusedMoses had a stuttering problemGideon was afraidSamson had long hair and was a womanizerRahab was a prostituteJeremiah and Timothy were too youngDavid had an affair and was a murdererElijah was suicidalIsaiah preached nakedJonah ran from GodNaomi was a widowJob went bankruptPeter denied ChristThe Disciples fell asleep while prayingThe Samaritan woman was divorced, more than onceZaccheus was too smallTimothy had an ulcer..ANDLazarus...

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Budak atau Hamba?

Lukas 17:7-9Budak atau Hamba sebenarnya apa bedanya? Sama-sama orang rendahan? Sama-sama orang yang sudah dibeli? Sama-sama orang yang harus bekerja tanpa batas? Saya pikir dalam konteks kita, hanyalah dalam makna halus dan kasarnya saja. Jikalau kita sebutkan orang tersebut sebagai budak rasanya lebih kasar maka ada baiknya orang tersebut disebut hamba. Lalu sekarang apa makna dan relevansinya bagi kita semua itu?Konteks pembicaraan Tuhan Yesus jelas ditujukan kepada orang-orang yang memang mengerti apa itu "hamba" (secara kasar disebut sebagai budak). Saya pikir "budak" macam ini sudah jarang dijumpai lagi saat ini. Perbandingan...

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Don't Be Deceived - Hell is Real

"How did Jesus describe hell?"Jesus Christ spoke more on hell than any other subject.Just look at how Jesus described hell:WHAT JESUS CHRIST SAYS ABOUT HELL!"fire" Matt 7:19, 13:40, 25:41"everlasting fire" Matt 18:8, 25:41"eternal damnation" Mark 3:29"hell fire" Matt 5:22, 18:9, Mark 9:47"damnation" Matt 23:14, Mark 12:40, Luke 20:47"damnation of hell" Matt 23:33"resurrection of damnation" John 5:29"furnace of fire" Matt 13:42, 50"the fire that never shall be quenched" Mark 9:43, 45"the fire is not quenched" Mark 9:44, 46, 48"Where their worm dieth not" Mark 9:44, 46, 48"wailing and gnashing of teeth" Matt 13:42, 50"weeping and gnashing...

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