hating his brother, he is a liar. For he who does not love his brother, whom he has seen, cannot be loving God, whom he has not seen. How Can You Follow Jesus? ● When we pray, how can we show confidence in Jehovah, as Jesus did?—John 11:41, 42; Hebrews 11:6. ● How can we express heartfelt love for Jehovah in the way we use his name?—John 17:6-8. ● Why does love for Jehovah require that we imitate Jesus in remaining separate from the world?—John 17:14-16; James 4:8. ● How can we apply Jesus’ counsel
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beliefs, and habits of a group of people are transferred to other people, through storytelling, discussion, teaching, training, or research. As an educator it is our job to guide the young minds entrusted to us to a greater understanding of the subjects we teach through formal instruction. A teacher will facilitate this instruction on the basis of a teaching philosophy they have developed about teaching and learning. Being a teacher is a lifestyle, a love, a passion, and a calling, not a job. Being a Christian
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took the time to get active in study groups and spend time in the Bible that I really understood and believed that we were all created in the image of God. Genesis 1:26-27 is the first time the phrase is used and it is only referenced 3 times in the Hebrew Bible yet the New Testament is foundational in the fact that Jesus is the image of God. The image of God is a reflection of the qualities that Jesus explemplified while he here on earth to his disciples and others; abundant in love, full of patience
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mother name is Mary and his adoptive fathers name is Joseph. Both parents live in the City of Nazareth, Nazareth is a Galilean town within the “territory of Zebulun.” At the age of 12, Jesus began talking to religious teachers. As Jesus grew older his wisdom increased. At the age of 30 Jesus was by baptized by John the baptized. Jesus was led by the Holy Sprite in the wilderness where he was fasting “40 days and 40 nights.” At Jebel Qarantal west of Jericho. Jesus was known as the Messiah, the King of
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God teaches His children that being sluggish will only cause one to stumble and endure the consequences from one’s laziness, while people with good work ethics will be truly blessed in the end. Throughout the teachings of the Hebrew wisdom it is visibly stated how God feels about laziness and what He desires from His children and their work ethic. In today’s generation so many people take the lazy way out instead of putting hard work into something. While hard work can be strenuous, in the end one
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Jewish sense of history begins with the stories recounted in the Hebrew Bible or Tanakh. Biblical history begins with the creation of the world by as supreme deity, or God. Jewish history does not end where the Tanakh end, about the second century BCE. After the holy center of Judaism, the Temple of Jerusalem, was captured and destroyed by the Romans in 70CE, Jewish history is that of a dispersed people, finding unity in their teachings and traditional practices which where codified in the great compendium
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Notes on Song of Solomon 2 0 1 4 E d i t i o n Dr. Thomas L. Constable Introduction TITLE In the Hebrew Bible the title of this book is "The Song of Songs." It comes from 1:1. The Septuagint and Vulgate translators adopted this title. The Latin word for song is canticum from which we get the word Canticles, another title for this book. Some English translations have kept the title "Song of Songs" (e.g., NIV, TNIV), but many have changed it to "Song of Solomon" based on 1:1 (e.g., NASB, AV
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is the fact that we are not in control, and that means we are usually submissive to people or situations. As a kid, I know my parents sure did like to discipline me if I was doing something that wasn’t kosher in their eyes. It speaks of this in Hebrews 12:11 when it says “No discipline seems pleasant at the time, but painful. Later on, however, it produces a harvest of righteousness and peace for those who have been trained by it.” I don’t know about you, but I can certainly
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Wayne Grudem’s Business for the Glory of God: The Bible’s Teaching on the Moral Goodness of Business analyzes a myriad of misconstrued facets of business and how these facets are rather intended and are able to be implemented as acts that glorify God. Primarily, these various components of business carry negative connotations, because, it seems, more often than not that businesses fall into corruption and scandal due to greed and lust. Grudem does an exceptional job in explaining that it is not the
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and God gave us the Holy Spirit to guide us. Christians believe that God created everything. By faith, Christians understand that the universe was created at God’s command, and he made everything out of nothing. (NLT version, Biblegateway.com, Hebrews 11:3). God is believed to be the maker of earth and the creator of all the people who live on it. He stretched out the heavens with his hands and all the stars are at his command (NLT version, Biblegateway.com, Isaiah 45:12). God used his words
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