“Collaboration” is not only a buzzword these days; it is also a necessity for a successful ministry in today’s world. We live in a world with many challenges, where everyone is looking to see how the …… Source: https://adventist.news/en/news/calling-all-church-members-to-evangelism-and-mission
3.CAIN AND HIS LEGACY – GENESIS–THE BOOK OF THE BEGINNING | Pastor Kurt Piesslinger, M.A.
Series GENESIS – THE BOOK OF THE BEGINNING with Pastor Kurt Piesslinger, M.A.
3.CAIN AND HIS LEGACY
Negative actions will be followed by bitter consequences.
Memory Text: Genesis 4:7 – If you do well, will you not be accepted? And if you do not do well, sin lies at the door. And its desire is for you, but you should rule over it.
Content:
3.0 Introduction
3.1 Cain and Abel
3.2 The Two Offerings
3.3 The Crime
3.4 The Punishment of Cain
3.5 The Wickedness of Man
3.6 Summary
My God bless you today and always.
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I’m Not Writing a Blog Post This Week
I love writing blog posts. I have been blogging for Sabbath School Net for just over ten years now, and I have had my personal blog for 14 years. I have been preaching ever since I was 15. A friend was surprised the other day, when I told her I love writing blog posts every bit as much, if not more than preaching. I love learning and sharing what I have learned. I love connecting with the world, while sitting on my comfy sofa in my pajamas with my laptop. That must be why I love blogging more than preaching. I can’t preach in my pajamas. I also love hearing from people all over the world as they comment on my posts, and share their thoughts and what they have learned, from their personal Bible study time.
I love studying my Bible near the bay or gulf in the beautiful Tampa Bay area.
And personal Bible study time is where I am going with this. Oh no! I just started a sentence with a conjunction. A big no no. My college composition
professor would be turning over in his grave if he could see this. But guess what? I’m not writing a blog post this week, so I don’t have to worry about my grammar. Back to the personal Bible study time. As much as I love writing and preaching, sometimes I don’t have anything new or relevant to share. As sermon and blog deadlines approach I start feeling pressured. I start studying my Bible for new ideas and get frustrated if I can’t find anything. I start relating more with Martha than with Mary. You know the story, when Jesus visited Martha and Mary, and Mary was just visiting with Jesus while Martha was busy doing all the work.
But Martha was distracted with much serving, and she approached Him and said, “Lord, do You not care that my sister has left me to serve alone? Therefore tell her to help me.” And Jesus answered and said to her, “Martha, Martha, you are worried and troubled about many things. But one thing is needed, and Mary has chosen that good part, which will not be taken away from her.” Luke 10:40-42 NKJV
Often when I am substitute teaching at school, I have to tell the kids to put away their distractions and get to work, but Martha was distracted by her work. Her work was the distraction. Martha was so busy preparing a meal she forgot Jesus was the main attraction and not the meal.
I love studying my Bible and preparing blog posts and sermons when the ideas and revelations just seem to flow. But I get frustrated when I feel pressured to come up with something new and can’t. That’s when I have to tell myself to stop trying to be like Martha and just be like Mary. I have to open my Bible and tell myself not to worry about preparing a spiritual meal for anyone. I don’t mean to be irreverent by saying this, but when I study God’s Word instead of it being about a sermon or blog post preparation, I just like to chill with God. I love and treasure the moments in His Word when He speaks to me as His own child and not just His spokesperson. I love it when He shows me something just between the two of us, that is not meant for the rest of the world to see or hear. I love reading my Bible without an agenda! No deadlines to meet, no thinking about how to fit this into a blog post or sermon. I remember those nights so long ago as a little child lying in bed at night, talking to Jesus like we were best friends having a slumber party. No sermons, no blog posts, just me and my best friend hanging out together because we loved each other.
But this is really about you. What brought you here right now? Are you just chillaxing and studying right now, enjoying reading what others have to say? Then great! Are you preparing for Sabbath School class, maybe even preparing to teach, and everything is perfectly falling in place as you put your lesson together? Wonderful! However, if you are trying to put your lesson together and nothing seems to be falling into place and here it is Friday already, don’t worry. Relax. Chill. Stop feeling like a Martha, thinking you have to prepare all the time. God didn’t just create you to teach Sabbath School. He created you to be His child. He created you to be His best friend. Just borrow Michael Fracker’s lesson plan this week. It’s perfectly fine. Its not cheating. Pick up your Bible with no lesson plan, sermon preparation or agenda in mind, and just chill with your best Friend. Don’t let lesson plans and sermon preparations distract you from what your relationship with Jesus is really all about. After all, the Bible is not just a book to prepare you for eternity. The Bible takes us into God’s presence here and now. The Bible is not just a reference book to help you write sermons and prepare Sabbath School lesson plans. The Bible is God’s love story written to you.
Like the title says, I am not writing a blog post this week. Jesus and I are having a slumber party again tonight. This is not a blog post. This is your invitation. You are invited. Let’s leave our preparation agendas behind and take our Bibles and just chill with Jesus tonight. It’s okay. You don’t have to be a Martha tonight. You can be a Mary, because there will be no pastors, Bible workers or Sabbath school teachers at the party. Only best friends of Jesus.
Amen!
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3.6 Summary – CAIN AND HIS LEGACY | Pastor Kurt Piesslinger, M.A.
Series GENESIS – THE BOOK OF THE BEGINNING with Pastor Kurt Piesslinger, M.A.
3.CAIN AND HIS LEGACY
Negative actions will be followed by bitter consequences.
Memory Text: Genesis 4:7 – If you do well, will you not be accepted? And if you do not do well, sin lies at the door. And its desire is for you, but you should rule over it.
3.6 Summary
Whoever acts in a bad way will reap what he has sown.
My God bless you today and always.
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Genesis 1:6-8 #Shorts
Genesis 1:6-8 #Shorts Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIg8zS6iyXY
Giovedì 14 aprile 2022
Proverbi 15:30 – Uno sguardo luminoso rallegra il cuore; una buona notizia fortifica le ossa. Meditazione giornaliera Apri la porta del tuo cuore, autori vari, presentazione di Abby Miguel Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHNykqHw7_k
Missioni dal mondo – 16 aprile 2022
ADRA non si tira indietro – La missione nella Divisione Africa australe-Oceano Indiano. Missioni dal mondo 3° episodio – 2° trimestre 2022 Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwpYKSrLWuU
Graduation, finally!
It’s done. Graduation marked the end of a difficult year-and-a-half for Joel and Kim McAndrew. The couple “escaped Melbourne a week before lockdown” to finish their degrees at the same time. Both say they received a great education despite COVID-19 moving their class from in-person to online. Source: https://wp.avondale.edu.au/news/2022/04/14/graduation-finally/
Psalm 23 #Shorts
Psalm 23 #Shorts Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1NusGqCf0k
With a Prayerful Spirit
Open thou mine eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law. Psalm 119:18.
Many a portion of Scripture which learned men pronounce a mystery, or pass over as unimportant, is full of comfort and instruction to him who has been taught in the school of Christ. One reason why many theologians have no clearer understanding of God’s Word is [that] they close their eyes to truths which they do not wish to practice. An understanding of Bible truth depends not so much on the power of intellect brought to the search as on the singleness of purpose, the earnest longing after righteousness.
The Bible should never be studied without prayer. The Holy Spirit alone can cause us to feel the importance of those things easy to be understood, or prevent us from wresting truths difficult of comprehension. It is the office of heavenly angels to prepare the heart so to comprehend God’s Word that we shall be charmed with its beauty, admonished by its warnings, or animated and strengthened by its promises. We should make the psalmist’s petition our own: “Open thou mine eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law.”
Temptations often appear irresistible because, through neglect of prayer and the study of the Bible, the tempted one cannot readily remember God’s promises and meet Satan with the Scripture weapons. But angels are round about those who are willing to be taught in divine things; and in the time of great necessity they will bring to their remembrance the very truths which are needed. Thus “when the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the Lord shall lift up a standard against him” (Isaiah 59:19).
Jesus promised His disciples: “The Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you” (John 14:26). But the teachings of Christ must previously have been stored in the mind in order for the Spirit of God to bring them to our remembrance in the time of peril. “Thy word have I hid in mine heart,” said David, “that I might not sin against thee” (Psalm 119:11).—The Great Controversy, 599, 600.
Ye Shall Receive Power p. 112
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Prayer Requests
—-Please pray hard for E and her children that God will work mightily in their behalf. R
—-Please pray that Ainsley can get in to see the neurologist before July. Annie
—-Please pray for Harold who is in the hospital. Angie
—-I must ask for prayers for my daughter. She is in the final stages of Hodgkins Lymphoma. Please pray for her children and family. James
—-Please continue to pray for Linda who is in rehab with a stroke and her Billy her husband as they are both very discouraged.
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Dear Friends,
The weather this past weekend was perfect for camping, but we did not camp. The temperature was ideal and it was nice and sunny, but we could enjoy it only briefly. Ron and I wished that he had had the camper ready for we would have grabbed a few necessities and found a quiet spot to enjoy God’s great creation. He had been intending on getting it de-winterized long before this but has been working such long hours that it was just not possible. Because it was not ready, we had to content ourselves by taking a drive at a local lake.
How easy it is to get so busy that we put off the most important preparation there is—-being ready for Jesus to come. He warns us, “Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come. But know this, that if the goodman of the house had known in what watch the thief would come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken up. Therefore be ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh. Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his lord hath made ruler over his household, to give them meat in due season? Blessed is that servant, whom his lord when he cometh shall find so doing. Verily I say unto you, That he shall make him ruler over all his goods. But and if that evil servant shall say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming; And shall begin to smite his fellowservants, and to eat and drink with the drunken; The lord of that servant shall come in a day when he looketh not for him, and in an hour that he is not aware of, And shall cut him asunder, and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.” Matt 24:42-51
Sadly, the vast majority will not be ready for that grand and glorious day. They put off the needed preparation until it was too late to prepare. With terror and unbelievable sorrow, they will exclaim, “The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved.” Jer 8:20
“Behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.” 2 Cor 6:2 May we remember that “the end of all things is at hand, be therefore sober, and watch unto prayer.” 1 Peter 4:7 May we make the needed preparation before it is too late, is my prayer.
Rose
Source: https://rosesdevotional.org/with-a-prayerful-spirit.html
