Just Content To Be A Son

http://sermons.worldchallenge.org/node/27663

Recent studies have predicted that by the year 2020 Islam will be the primary religion in Norway and all Scandinavian countries. If that is correct, we can expect to see it as the state religion in Norway within the next few years. That’s what has happened in every other country where Muslims developed a foothold. It saddens me to see how little impact Christians have been making in Europe. We’ve been all but powerless in effectively reaching the lost—not only in European countries but in the United States. We pray for God to expand our territory, to help the Body of Christ grow and flourish, yet so few denominations are seeing that happen. Most are shrinking, and some are dying out altogether. What will it take for God to finally grab hold and bring about the transformation that we need—the transformation we pray for? When will we finally rise up and make a serious dent in Satan’s foothold on the world? The answer is so simple it feels strange to have to say it: We must t...

BAB I PENDAHULUAN Ada banyak teks di dalam alkitab yang berkaitan dengan hari Tuhan, salah satu yang terkenal adalah 2 Petrus 3. Surat 2 Petrus sendiri mendapat respon yang beragam di dalam sejarah gereja. Bapa-bapa gereja mula-mula seperti Origen dan Eubesius meragukannya tapi Jerome, Chrysostom dan  Augustine menggunakan surat 2 Petrus tersebut. Orang-orang seperti Martin Luther dan John Calvin juga menulis komentar mereka dari surat 2 Petrus tapi sebagaimana biasa bagi mereka yang terutama adalah tulisan-tulisan Paulus. Setelah memasuki era kritik alkitab surat 2 Petrus ini semakin di tolak karena isinya yang menyangkut apokaliptik [1] eskatologi, baru dua dekade belakangan dalam abad 20 para sarjana alkitab mulai menghargainya [2] . Apokaliptik eskatologi yang akan di akhiri dengan hari Tuhan adalah sebuah topik yang suka di hindari beberapa kalangan kristen tertentu dengan berbagai alasan, dari alasan teologi sampai alasan bahwa berbicara tentang akhir zaman sudah ti...

DESCRIPTION This session outlines Paul’s understanding of the unity of the faith (Eph. 4:13) in contrast to the dividers of the faith who distort the true gospel “once for all delivered to the saints” (Jude 3). Furthermore, it examines how the early church contended for that faith in the life of the local church through the gifts and offices of the Holy Spirit. http://danieltrainingnetwork. org/local-churches-unity-of- the-faith-conference/