Breve presentazione di HopeMedia Italia.
Grazie per quello che fai per noi. Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZBT4_YPrD4
Esodo 14:31 – Mercoledì 25 gennaio 2023
Israele vide la grande potenza che l'Eterno aveva mostrato contro gli Egiziani, e il popolo temette l'Eterno e credette nell'Eterno e in Mosè suo servo. Meditazione giornaliera Apri la porta del tuo cuore, autori vari, presentazione di Anna Cupertino Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1Ev69B2PUw
Pastor, Evangelist and College President, Jon Dybdahl, Passes Away at 80
24 January 2023 | Former Walla Walla University (WWU) president, professor, and long-time Walla Walla Valley resident, Jon Dybdahl, passed away Wednesday morning, January 18. Dybdahl was president at WWU from 2002 to 2006. He taught theology at WWU for 13 years starting in 1976. Prior to accepting the presidency of WWU, Dybdahl served as […] Source: https://atoday.org/pastor-evangelist-and-college-president-jon-dybdahl-passes-away-at-80/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=pastor-evangelist-and-college-president-jon-dybdahl-passes-away-at-80
Hands up for Footwashing!
by Kris Coffin Stevenson If you walk in the doors of the church and then realize it’s communion Sabbath, it will make your heart skip a beat. That’s either because you’re so excited to join in, or it’s because you missed your pedicure appointment or your outfit makes footwashing impossible or just because—feet! If you […] Source: https://atoday.org/hands-up-for-communion/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=hands-up-for-communion
Expressing Our Love for Christ
Every man according as he purposeth in his heart, so let him give; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver. 2 Corinthians 9:7
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Soviet Pastor Richard Wurmbrand, the author of Tortured for Christ, suffered terribly for the Lord. Yet he said that even while in prison, he saw fellow Soviet believers practice generous giving. “When we were given one slice of bread a week and dirty soap every day, we decided we would faithfully ‘tithe’ even that. Every tenth week we took the slice of bread and gave it to the weaker brethren as our ‘tithe’ to the Master.”
I tend to think that God did not demand that these prisoners tithe their bread and soap. Yet they felt compelled to do so in order to express their love for God. After understanding the awesome sacrifice Christ had made in expressing His love for them on the cross, they wanted a way to express their love for Christ. They wanted to give all of themselves to Christ since He had given all of Himself for them.
It is the same case with the woman in Mark 14:3-9, who broke open a bottle of ointment costing a year’s wages, so she could anoint the feet of Jesus. She was simply giving all she had because Jesus was giving all He had for her. Like the Soviet prisoners she needed a way to express her love.
God did not give us the tithe and offering system because he needed our money, but because He knew we too would need a way to express our love. God nor the church needs our money. Both were getting along just fine before we came along and both will do just fine after we are gone.
I have a plaque with a picture of the cross and written on it are the words,
“ I asked Jesus how much do you love me?”
“This much” He said, ’Then He spread out His arms and died.”
God will finish the work with or without our money. Yet He has given us the tithe and offering system so that when He asks us, “How much do you love me?” We will have a way to answer.
Amen!
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