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Powerland Chapel Born with a Unique Blessing

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Volunteering An Open Letter to Volunteers

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Wisdom for Women We Thirst for You

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Life Changers Church Int. Impact 2012

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The Trinity | One God or Three By Chuck Missler

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Heaven’s Gate and Hell’s Flames

Hello Blessed People, Yes, to God be the glory! Your favourite publication, Crux Magazine is back by popular demand – this time mainly through the online edition. We will be reaching millions more readers worldwide via various mediums and particularly via the Crux Magazine eblast.

We are excited about this new phase of the magazine because the Crux Magazine website has officially became one of the busiest websites in the whole world. We are now ranked among the top 10% in terms of the number of online visitors and traffic that come to the site monthly (considering that there are over 25 million website in the world). These results generated by the very credible operators of www.alexa. com, Amazon would ensure more exposure to your ministries, events, products and services.

In keeping with our vision to Glorify God, Edify Man and Point All to Christ, you’ll see that this edition features as usual, insightful articles and some of the forth-coming events in the UK. I encourage you to browse its pages and let us know what you think.

I trust you’re still on fire for the Lord Jesus.

Remember His message to us the Church in Revelation 2 and 3? Do not forsake your first love, endure persecution, avoid worldliness, remain faithful to His word, and be steadfast in your service to Him. May we not lose our crown in Jesus’ name!

Happy reading Pastor Francis Obasogie

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uthor’s program note.

In this punk economy, the nation’s 1,000,000 charities, non-profit organizations and eleemosynary institutions are hard pressed to do all that must be done for the good of so many. To achieve their admirable goals, they need •volunteers…and lots of them.

But volunteers who don’t know how to be good volunteers are, in fact, a drag upon an organization’s limited resources. Thus this article from an old hand in the volunteer business. Whether you are a recruiter of volunteers or a publicspirited person looking for suitable volunteer options, this article is for you!

For the music to accompany this article, I have selected perhaps the greatest recruiting song ever, “Indian Love Call.”

It was first published as “The Call” but became instantly popular in the 1924 operetta-style Broadway musical with music by Rudolf Friml and Herbert Stohart, with book

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and lyrics by Otto Harbach and Oscar Hammerstein.

They made it good…

Nelson Eddy and Jeanette Macdonald in the 1936 film “Rose Marie” made it great.

If there is a drop of blood in your body and a heart that still functions, you cannot help but respond to its soaring lyrics: “When I’m calling you will you answer too? That means I offer my love to you to be your own.”

Go now to any search engine. Find this celebrated song. Put a box of tissues where you can easily get access. Turn it on… and be prepared to call your favorite charity when finished. You are about to give of yourself for the good of others. “You’ll belong to me. I’ll belong to you.” With this article in hand, you will soon be the best volunteer this organization has ever seen.

IT’S A JOB The first thing you must realize about any volunteer position is that it is not just like a job; it IS a job… and must be treated accordingly. Sadly, too many volunteers think that because there is no paycheck that they have the right to be frivolous and cavalier about the business at hand. Nothing could be more wrong.

This seriousness starts even before you are engaged as a volunteer.

The first thing you must realize about any volunteer position is that it is not just like a job; it IS a job…

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What you need to know, and what either the executive director or designee must tell you, is exactly what your duties and responsibilities will be. In other words there must be a clear understanding of what the organization expects from you and your ability to live up to these expectations.

Naturally, both parties should expect to put all this in writing, so that both parties are clear… and so that they remain clear throughout the volunteer’s involvement.

Here are just some of the things the volunteer must be told and the organization must be clear in informing: * clothes. What you’ll be doing will guide your selection. * name and contact information for person responsible for

assisting the volunteer. * available training materials and where to find them. * exact duties and when, where and how they must be done. * how to report progress and/or where and how task-related queries should be handled.

Note: new volunteers are in need of constant handholding and TLC. Expect to provide it.Introduce the players.

New volunteers must be assigned a mentor, someone who will show them the ropes, a person like the Artful Dodger in Charles Dickens’ “Oliver Twist” . His song in the 1968 film perfectly sums up the relationship between mentor and mentee.

“Consider yourself at home.

Consider yourself one of the family. We’ve taken to you so strong. It’s clear

we’re going to get along…

Consider yourself one of us”. Exactly.

Mentors must be friendly, knowledgeable, accessible, “good people” willing to extend a helpful hand and (above all) gifted with a sense of humor and an ability to live by the words of Theodore Roosevelt, “to do the best you can, with what you’ve got, where you are.” In short paragons of astonishing virtues and skills.

Is there more to learn?

Of course there is… there always is, if you want to be one of the best volunteers ever.

* Stay informed about the organization by promptly reading all organization emails, ezines, etc. Do not allow yourself the luxury of falling behind. * Action everything 5

requested in a timely fashion. Do not make your mentor or other organizational contacts chase you for the information they need to do their jobs. * Ask for and listen carefully to constructive criticism. Properly handled and considered it becomes a fuel for improvement and advancement. * Be proactive. If you see a problem, bring it to the attention of your mentor.

This is the way to show your mentor that you are “with it,” loyal, thoughtful, a self-starter… in short just the kind of person this organization needs and must have.

Still more tips. * NEVER criticize what you see. Ask why it is that way. Never come across as a pompous know-it-all. * If you cannot keep a scheduled job assignment, let your contact know as early as possible.

Remember, something you cannot do must be done by someone else. * Always be prompt and keep your excuses to the barest minimum.

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* Solve all pc and other electronic device problems as fast as possible. Don’t burden your contact with a boring “blow-by-blow” description. Don’t discuss the problem. Solve it.

Three more key points. * When you see a problem you can solve, solve it. Organizations rely on people who are willing to do more than their share, and gladly. This is the most important person of all. BE THAT PERSON! * Work to make the CEO’s life easier. CEOs are people with more on their plates than can easily be processed. In helping them you help yourself; for the more you are able to assist without adding to CEO burdens, the faster you go up in the organization. Never forget this.

And, finally, HAVE FUN! Never look upon what you do as drudgery, beneath you, something to be done with as soon as possible so that life’s fun and games can begin. Work properly understood is, as Sigmund Freud knew, one of the two pillars of the successful life,

the other being love.

Treat this opportunity for constant growth and development accordingly. Then reach out to other volunteers, newer than you, who’ll be glad to hear how you got started and why everyone in the organization speaks so well of you!

About

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Author

Harvard-educated Dr. Jeffrey Lant is CEO of Worldprofit, Inc., providing a wide range of online services for small and-home based businesses.

Services include home business training, affiliate marketing training, earn-at-home programs, traffic tools, advertising, webcasting, hosting, design, WordPress Blogs and more.

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ow does one reconcile the “One God” of the Old Testament with the three “Persons” of the New Testament Trinity? The Sh’ma of Deuteronomy 6:4-5 clearly emphasizes the singularity of God, which is also reconfirmed in the ten commandments (Exodus 20:3), etc. Yet the New Testament clearly proclaims a three-person Godhead (Matthew 28:19, 2 Corinthians 13:14, John 14-17, etc.).

How does one deal with the ostensible tensions between the Old and New Testament revelations of the ultimate mystery of the Godhead?The doctrine of the trinity has been at the heart of much theological controversy. The routine objection is that the doctrine sacrifices monotheism to tritheism. But this objection thrives on misconceptions of divine personality in the image of disparate, individual, human selves.

Rationalistic apologetics, promotive of trinitarianism on speculative rather than revelational grounds, regrettably encourages these misunderstandings.

Many of us also resort to convenient models to skirt these problems, and these, too, mislead rather than clarify. Favourites include three tones blending into one chord; a single ray of light of three primary colours; or water in the forms of ice, liquid, or steam.

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(As an executive, I have resorted to visualizing a corporation made up of three perfectly communicating partner-shareholders.) But each of these are, at best, clumsy illustrations, inadequate to communicate aspects of an infinite God to our finite mind.

How should we deal with this challenging issue? By confining ourselves to what God, in His sovereignty, has revealed to us of Himself in His Word.

The Trinity in the Old Testament There is no absurdity involved when it is contended that plurality can (and does) coexist with unity (i.e., as in Genesis 2:24: Adam + Eve become “One Flesh”; 1 + 1 = 1).

We discover that, from the first verse of Genesis, Elohim is a plural noun used with singular verbs.

This plurality even shows up in our English translations in Genesis 1:26, 3:22, and 11: 7.

If we examine the text in Ecclesiastes 12:1, we note that the source text is also in the plural: Remember now thy Creator(s) in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them;

Also, Isaiah 54:5: For thy Maker(s) [is] thine husband; the Lord of hosts [is] his name; and thy Redeemer the Holy One of Israel; The God of the whole earth shall he be called.

Isaiah 6 In the famous vision of the throne of God in Isaiah 6, we have the scene in the holy place of the holy ones, celebrated by the seraphim who veiled their faces before them: Holy, Holy, Holy.

(Note that there are three declarations.

This is reconfirmed in the similar scene in Revelation 4:8.) In Isaiah 6:8 we again see the hint of the plural: Who shall go for us?

Who is the Lord of Hosts ? All sources acknowledge its applicability to the Father. Yet it is provocative to notice

Article by of blessing: God the Father, God the source of illumination and comfort, and the God, the Redeemer.

Chuck Missler

The Benediction The famous Old Testament benediction, Numbers 6:24-27: The Lord bless thee, and keep thee: (The benevolent love of God, the Father of mercies and fountain of all good); The Lord make his face shine upon thee, and be gracious unto thee: (The redeeming and reconciling grace of our Lord Jesus Christ); that John attributes this passage to Christ (John 12:41), and Paul attributes it to the Holy Spirit (Acts 28:25). Thus, all three persons are included.

Jacob’s Blessing

The Lord lift up his countenance upon thee, and give thee peace. (The purity, consolation, and joy received by the communion of the Holy Spirit. ) Compare this with the New Testament benediction in 2 Corinthians 13:14: The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Ghost, [be] with you all. Amen.

In Genesis 48:15-16, we note Jacob’s considered preamble to his blessing: And he blessed Joseph and said, God, before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac did walk, the God which fed me all my life long unto this day, The Angel which redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads; Psalm 2 and let my name be named on them, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac; Carefully diagram Psalm 2 and you and let them grow into a multitude in the will discover that it is a trialogue midst of the earth. among the three persons of the Trinity: the Father, the Son and the The God before whom my fathers did Holy Spirit. walk, The God who fed me, and the Angel who redeemed me, are all mentioned as objects of divine worship and the source

The Integrity of the Book

It is amazing how many presumed difficulties begin to disappear when one discovers the integrity of the Bible: although composed of 66 books penned by 40 authors over thousands of years, it demonstrates an integrity of design--every detail, every place name, the subtleties of the text--all testify to its singular authorship.

The New Testament is in the Old Testament concealed; The Old Testament is in the New Testament revealed.

The Bible reveals to us: the invisible Father, from whom all revelations proceed; the Son, who mediates and objectively incarnates that revelation as a historical reality; and the Holy Spirit, who is divinely out poured and subjectively applies that revelation to each of us.

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