Versetto Introduttivo: SALMO 139:7 Meditazione a cura di: Ignazio Cavalluzzi Registrato presso: Chiesa Avventista di Bari il 12/06/2021 Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTZbqlGlsSM
Ma questa croce, ce l’ha un accesso per i disabili ?
Meditazione a cura di Saverio Scuccimarri Registrato presso la comunità di Firenze il 12 giugno 2021 Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UopPL4nub5U
Fathers [Pastor Wilson Looks at the Influential Role Entrusted to Fathers]
In this video, Pastor Ted Wilson looks at the influential role that has been entrusted to fathers. Studies have shown that fathers have a profound influence upon their children, who look to them to provide a feeling of security, both physical and emotional. Furthermore, when fathers are affectionate and supportive, it enhances a child’s mental and social development and helps them feel confident. Most importantly, fathers have a profound influence on the spiritual life of their children. An interesting survey in Switzerland conducted some years ago by the Swiss Federal Statistical Office in Neuchatel, posed some questions to determine whether a person's religious practices influenced the spiritual practices of the next generation. The study concluded: "It is the religious practice of the father of the family that, above all, determines the future attendance at or absence from church of the children." We also have an abundance of inspired insight regarding the spiritual role of fathers. In Adventist Home we read, "The father . . . will bind his children to the throne of God by living faith. Distrusting his own strength, he hangs his helpless soul on Jesus and takes hold of the strength of the Most High.” The author continues: "Brethren, pray at home, in your family, night and morning; pray earnestly in your closet; and while engaged in your daily labor, lift up the soul to God in prayer. It was thus that Enoch walked with God" (p. 212). And, of course, the Bible is full of instruction regarding family relationships. In Ephesians 6:4 we read, "Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord." And in Proverbs 1:8 this important instruction is given: "Hear, my son, your father's instruction, and forsake not your mother's teaching." Sometimes, however, tensions arise, and it is at these times that the promise of Malachi 4:6 is especially comforting. Speaking of God's power to heal relationships, it says "He will turn the hearts of the fathers to their children, and the hearts of the children to their fathers." And while no human father is perfect, how wonderful it is to know that we have a perfect Heavenly Father who cares about us deeply. In Psalm 103, verses 8, 13, and 14 we read: "The Lord is merciful and gracious, slow to anger and abounding in mercy . . . As a father pities his children, so the Lord pities those who fear Him. For He knows our frame; He remembers that we are dust." And we have this assurance from Jesus Himself when He says in John 16:27 "for the Father Himself loves you. . . " Fathers–let Jesus, His Word, and constant prayer be your guide. You can find tremendous strength, courage, and wisdom just this way. Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NiG-nPgxDoU
La riscoperta del Noi
Cronache di una pandemia. Presentazione del libro a cura del prof. Hanz Gutierrez. 1° parte La ricerca esistenziale di Hanz Gutierrez si snoda da Gabriel García Márquez a Philip Roth, da Sofocle ad Albert Camus passando per Tucidide e Boccaccio, raggiungendo il suo apice in una lettura pastorale del Salmo 61 di Davide. L’autore, ispirandosi ai grandi classici del passato, che hanno una valenza universale e senza tempo, getta il suo sguardo, fresco e acuto, sulla crisi pandemica attuale – emergenza sanitaria che porta con sé altre crisi – aprendo sentieri di riflessione insospettabili e innovativi. Perché se è vero che la letteratura non fornisce risposte immediate rispetto ai mali di oggi, può comunque alimentare un confronto che ci aiuterà a tracciare il nostro percorso futuro, personale e collettivo. «Questo «Noi» ritrovato inaspettatamente e quasi malvolentieri, non è solo il «Noi sincronico» e contemporaneo di una solidarietà fra popoli che scoprono di abitare una stessa terra e di essere minacciati da un unico nemico: il virus; questo «Noi» è anche il «Noi diacronico» dei popoli che hanno vissuto prima di noi, in epoche passate, e che hanno sperimentato come noi che cosa significa essere minacciati da un’epidemia o pandemia. Da qui il collegamento con quei testi del passato che raccontano, in modi e in circostanze diversi, la sensazione di vulnerabilità e la paura di essere stati travolti da una minaccia in grado di abbattere ogni certezza e punto di riferimento». Hanz Gutierrez Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVbAvzzGWAU
Perchè il regno di Dio non consiste in parole, ma in potenza
Versetto introduttivo: 1 Giovanni 1:3 Meditazione a cura di: Jefferson Galvan Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVjBEDH4WS0