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03 EDITOR'S NOTE. Every Christian alive today is linked through a complex chain of historical events with this pivotal moment. The Great Commission includes promises and commands.
04 MIRACLE WORKING GOD.
Christians believe in a miracle-working God. Since He is the sovereign creator of the physical universe and the natural laws by which it operates.
06 ACCEPTING THE TESTIMONIES OF OTHERS.
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Miracles should be rare events by their very nature. It’s therefore, not surprising if we have never witnessed one ourselves.
CHRISTIANITY AND FASHIONS.
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MOVIE REVIEW!
Our movie review 08 MOTHERHOOD AS A BLESSING. God often granted motherhood to unlikely candidates, to show the surprising nature of his grace. At many points in Jesus' lineage, God intervened to give an infertile woman a child.
THE PSYCHOLOGY OF LOVE AND HATE. Love and hate can't stay in the same room. Because the psychology of these two is that, each one tends to dominate the person.
14 INSIGNIFICANT HUMBLENESS IS PART OF IGNORANCE AS WELL. You will never learn anything if you will fail to humble yourself. In humbleness, we value others.
OF EPHESIANS.
The Ephesian Christians were known for their piety and steadfast faith.
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13 THE LOVE OF CHRIST TO THE CHURCH
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World in which we live. However, to be more effective to reach out so many people around the World with the gospel of Christ Jesus. The Great Commission has given us the privilege and responsibilities to preach the Good News till the end of history. Every Christian alive today is linked through a
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e n o Any , s e v o l o h w s w kno . d o G 1 John 4:8 Â But anyone who does not love does not know God, for God is love. THE GUIDE ONLINE MAGAZNIE
MIRACLE WORKING GOD "God is not in the business of doing the miraculous simply to amaze and astound people." Christians believe in a miracle-working God. Since, He is the sovereign Creator of the physical universe and the natural laws by which it operates. We believe that, there is no obstacle to His intervening in the course of world history to do spectacular, out of the ordinary things which defy natural explanations. Therefore, God can do miracles if it pleases Him to do so. Miracles have a purpose. God is not in the business of doing the miraculous simply to amaze and astound people. Jesus refused to perform miracles to satisfy people’s curiosity. Instead, miracles are to confirm the authority of those sent by God and to testify the truth of the revelation they bring. Although, God ultimately stands behind all that happens, supernatural agents other than God can perform miracles. A miraculous event can even come from Satan to lead people astray. If a miracle is performed that encourages us to abandon authentic biblical truth and the gospel. We have to reject it.
On other occasions, they are used together in the phrase "signs and wonders" (Exodus 7:3; Psalm 135:9;Acts 2:22,43;4:30;2:12;6:8). Sometimes one text describes a miraculous event as a sign and other text describes the same event as a wonder. The description of miracles as signs and wonders tell us something about both the nature and purpose of miracles. One of the Christian philosopher Norman Geisler puts it: From the human vantage point a miracle, then, is an unusual event (wonder) that conveys and confirms an unusual message (sign) by means of unusual power. From the Divine vantage point of a miracle is an act of God that attracts the attention of God's people (wonder) to the Word of God (by a sign). Every miracle in the Bible begins with a problem and a need. Before He fed the five thousand, Jesus was moved with compassion when He saw a multitude of people who were like sheep without a shepherd (Mark 6:34).
When the Bible speaks of the miracles. It usually characterizes them as signs and wonders. And sometimes these two terms are used separately when describing miracles (Exodus 4:1-8; 11:9; John 2:11;11:47;20:30)
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DECISION MAKING
All people need to make the right decisions. The decision-making process begins when a person identifies the real problem. If the problem is inaccurately defined, every step in the decision-making process will be based on an incorrect starting point. The most troubling situations found in an organization or to some people is that, they can usually be identified as symptoms of underlying problems. Such signs indicate that something is wrong with an organization or a person, but they don't identify root causes. A successful manager doesn't just attack signs; he works to uncover the factors that cause these signs. All people need to make the right decisions. Therefore, in order to be good people in making good decisions, we need to have the ideal resources— information, time, personnel, equipment, and supplies — and identify any limiting factors. THE GUIDE ONLINE MAGAZINE
Realistically, many people operate in the environment that normally doesn't provide ideal resources. And because of that we mostly choose to satisfice in order to make the right decision possible with the information, resources, and time available. Time pressures frequently cause a person to move forward after considering only the first or most obvious answers. Successful problem solving requires a thorough examination of the challenge, and a quick answer may not result in a permanent solution. Thus, a person should think through and investigate several alternative solutions to a single problem before making a quick decision. SOURCE: DECISION MAKING BOOK WRITEN BY AVITUS LEONARD
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ACCEPTING THE TESTIMONIES OF OTHERS. God does not shake miracles into Nature at random as if from a pepper pot. They come on great occasions; they are found at the great junctions of history – not of political or social history, but of that spiritual history which cannot be fully known by man” (CS Lewis, Miracles)..
Dear friends and readers of The Guide
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Sometimes we spend much of our
lives
testimonies
accepting
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of other people
about events or facts that we cannot verify ourselves. If a claim seems unusual or extraordinary, that should, of course, make us cautious before accepting it, but if the evidence is
Many arguments favored often today are based on a misunderstanding. Scientific observation records the way that things usually operate, and theories and laws are built up around this.
sound then we are obliged to take it seriously. Miracles should
If laws imply the presence of
be rare events by their very
the lawgiver, and if laws are
nature.
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established by a supernatural
never
agent, then it could also be
surprising
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We should weigh the testimony of those who claim to have experienced one and not discount it because we weren’t there.
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therefore we
have
witnessed one ourselves. And
modified
or
temporarily
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NEVER TRUST ANYONE COMPLETELY BUT GOD. LOVE PEOPLE, BUT PUT YOUR FULL TRUST ONLY IN GOD.
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GIVING AND HELPING
Key verse: Matthew 6:1-4
DON'T GIVE IN ORDER TO GET A SPECIAL TREATMENT FROM PEOPLE WHOM YOU HELP. Dear readers of The Guide Online Magazine, some people are slaves for someone because they have helped them in their lives. In life, we oftentimes passing through hard times and therefore we are in our spotlight to look for help from our best friends and relatives in order to help us to get away from such disasters. But the problem comes when people whom we seek for help turns to be demigods or acting like they have attained divine status.
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Many people help us in order to keep us in their territories and expecting something in return. People become slaves even of their own opinions or views. You can not speak anything in front of the person who helped you. This means that even if a person speaks rubbish or acts rude you have to support his or her foolishness. Don't help a person with intention to enslave or make them loose their rights to argue differently.
Giving is an expected part of being a follower of Jesus Christ. Our Lord Jesus Christ is reminding us about our motives for forgiving. He says that we should never do our giving in order to be seen and subsequently to be praised by others. In other words, we do not give because of what we might get in return —like others thinking more highly of us or paying us compliments, or to receive some special treatment.
"Don't give in order to get a special treatment from people whom you help. Give and love because it is part of your Christian values."
MOTHERHOOD As a blessing
When I see my mother and my wife am blessed for their efforts being a mother. Motherhood is not an easy thing but is a blessing. When women are mothers, God gives them a powerful source of joy, responsibility, spiritual growth, and a lifelong journey as one who guides another life. Scripture calls us to honor our parents. We can thank our mothers for their influence and live by in the way that pleases the Lord. Seek ways to bless them through the words and actions thereof.
Being a mother is one of today’s greatest challenges. Yet countless women continue to excel in the daily effort to guide and nurture their children. The story of Elizabeth, the mother of John the Baptist, offers unique insights into some of God’s blessings for mothers. When she became pregnant after years of infertility, she said: “The Lord has done this for me,” she said. “In these days He has shown His favor and taken away my disgrace among the people” (Luke 1:25). From her perspective, becoming a mother was a blessing, calling it God’s favor.
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THE PSYCHOLOGY OF LOVE AND HATE LOVE AND HATE CAN'T LIVE TOGETHER. Love and hate can't stay in the same room. Because the psychology of these two is that, each one tends to dominate the person. That is to say, when a person is in love, the love dominates that person until that person becomes blind to the facts that he or she can't see anything wrong with that person.
And you can't fake it: because you will never fake a thing which dominates you. In nut shell, hate and love, each one has its sources and its effects. Love is from God and hate is from the Devil. In love there is life and in hate there is destruction. Let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God.
"7 Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. 8 Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love." 1 John 4:7-8
When a person hates, hates also blinds the person to the level, whereby a person can't see anything good to that person. That is why we say, love and hate can't stay or live in the same room, in these facts, there is no half of love or hate.
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Movie Reviews
To be a good dad is a good thing in life. After watching this movie. I was very inspired to be a good dad to my kid and also to the family. Courageous is a fantastic, remarkable, and inspiring film. This film projects themes of forgiveness, stepping up to fill the proper role of being a dad (and parent) and a faith in God that cannot be shaken. In one nicely orchestrated scene, a certain character is out of work and desperate. While he was praying he walked right into a miracle. You will have to see it to appreciate it. This movie gives us great lines to ponder like, “God doesn’t promise us an explanation, but to walk with us through the pain.� Dear friends, the story in the film is inspiring and it can help us to learn many things in our lives as Christians.
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So, my dear readers of The Guide Online Magazine, don't lose hope when you are in the middle of pain. God loves you. Courageous is a good movie, I recommend everyone to watch. And we will share with you movie reviews from various blogs and articles for the purpose of learning and to be inspired to live. Our God is a loving father and is our friend, don't worry about the situation you are passing through remember that our God loves you very much. __________________________________________ If you need any spiritual guidance or any advice don't hesitate to contact us.
CHRISTIANITY AND
FASHIONS. Let Fashion be your servant not your master. It isn't wrong to wear nice things. It isn't wrong for a Christian to be fashionable or operate in the world of fashion. Fashion should never become an idol in our lives. The fashion industry and its products should not be something we worship. The vicissitudes of the fashion world reflect the fleeting nature of the world in general: “The world and its desires pass away, but whoever does the will of God lives forever� (1 John 2:17). We live in this world but we are not of this world. We must shine a light for Christ. Fashions that require us to set Christ and His Word to the side, even momentarily, should be avoided.
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Don't revenge Let our love be sincere. We are living in the world, whereby the desire for revenge is often motivated. We revenge when we have been wronged in a natural human response. When we're prompted to seek revenge, it's often out of a sense of fairness. Revenge can create more suffering and injustice in the world According to Gandhi famously said that "An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind".
Do not repay anyone evil for evil and do not take revenge, leave room for God’s wrath ; because it is written "it is mine to avenge;I will repay," says the Lord. -Romans 12:9-21
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OF CHRIST To the church of Ephesians In Revelations 2:2-3.
The letter to the Ephesian church does offer the community hope if they repent and rekindle their love for Christian living. The church of Ephesus looked amazing on paper; concerning their patient endurance, intolerance of evil, suffering for Christ’s name, and exposing of false apostles. Jesus confronts them, He turns to one central issue,” But I have this against you, that you have abandoned the love you had at first."
The real problem with the Ephesians was that, even though they worked hard, they were not working out of a revelation of God’s love for them. The way to forget and forsake our first love is to go back under the law. The Ephesians may have started with grace but they are now trying to attain their goal by human effort. They started to serve and love God through will-power instead of being
These
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energized and animated by God’s
orthodoxy, and they had lost their
love and letting it overflow to others.
love for Jesus. They privately were
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religious behavior.
hard-working
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crusade for the truth about Christ.
"We can still be doing a lot, but if it is not rooted and grounded in His love for us it smells like a steaming heap of dung; also called self-effort."
Forsaking our first love therefore, is to forget that we are loved. We can still do a lot but, if it is not rooted and grounded in His love for us it smells like a steaming heap of dung; also called self-effort.
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You will never learn anything if you will fail to humble yourself. Key verse: Ephesians 4:2
Insignificant humbleness is part of ignorance as well.
Humbleness is indeed a key to a successful life and we need to be humble, always. My worries come
when
we
try
to
apply
humbleness
towards others. The shocking news is that people define humbleness by being silent, to be cool, or to be quiet and others go far that to be humble is to act stupid. But none of them can
define
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what
is
humbleness.
According to my view, humbleness is defined by humility and love towards the other. In humbleness, we value others, we become patient with one another and also we love
The concept of humbleness has been misunderstood by many people in our culture and society. You will hear our elders telling us "be humble".
everyone unconditional. The Bible is reminding us to be completely humble but not otherwise. You can be a cool person or silent man but you are not humble.
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“Legalism says God will love us if we change. The gospel says God will change us because He loves us.” – Tullian Tchividjian
THE RIVER PHILOSOPHY
WE NEED TO UNDERSTAND OUR PURPOSE. The philosophy was revealed by Socrates, Nachiketas, and Siddhartha to enhance the conception of human life with a sense of purpose, sense of end, and a sense of present respectively. The river has a beginning, and end, it always lives in the present, it has a variety of characteristics and indeed a sense of purpose too. The river leaves the mountains when it is fresh and clean, sometimes it meets rocks and trees, but it does not negotiate with the rocks or trees but it creates the meanders, which contribute to the English language as vocabulary. As the water flows through the river, it may reach a point where it gets branched out into two with one path leading to the waterfall. In real life too, sometimes we meet problems or challenges which we indicate to them as rocks, trees, or mountains. Also, we start to negotiates or please our problems, challenges, or people who are causing us to get problems. We need to understand our purpose, to have a sense of present respectively. "WE NEED TO PASS THROUGH CHALLENGES, TO WAKE UP FROM BEING IGNORANT AND HAVE A SENSE OF PURPOSE IN YOUR LIFE."
CRITICAL THINKING.
Critical thinking is "thinking about thinking". It is a way of deciding if a claim is true, false, or sometimes true and sometimes false, or partly true and partly false. It can be split into two important areas, Logical Fallacies and Cognitive Bias. Critical thinking is simply the skill of pressing certain questions further to understand and evaluate an idea or argument.
It is the opposite of evaluating an idea simply by our emotions or allowing our thinking to be driven by the media or groupthink. It is accepting the personal responsibility to not be taken “captive” but to evaluate all ideas through the lens of Christ, the One in whom we are to walk.
critical thinking is clearly an essential and a necessary bridge, particularly to an unbelieving or skeptical audience.
“Therefore, as you received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in him, rooted and built up in him and established in the faith, just as you were taught, abounding in thanksgiving. See to it that no one takes you captive by philosophy and empty deceit, according to human tradition, according to the elemental spirits of the world, and not according to Christ.” (Col. 2:6-8)
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A strong relationship with Christ personally.
THE ONLY IMPLICATION OF UNDERSTANDING THE WILL OF GOD IS,TO HAVE THE PERSONAL RELATIONSHIP WITH CHRIST.
"The Personality relationships of Christ assist us to know God's will and also, to understand things, which are pleasing to God." Personality embraces moods, attitudes, and opinions and is most clearly expressed in interactions with people. It includes behavioral characteristics, both inherent and acquired, that distinguish one person from another and that can be observed in people's relations to the environment and the social group. From a psychological perspective, the concept has two main meanings that have evolved. The first pertains to the consistent differences that exist between people: in this sense, the study of personality focuses on classifying and explaining relatively stable human psychological characteristics. When we are born again or when we are converted to Christianity, our personality is always affected and ties in the concept of repentance, which literally means," changing one's mind. The task here is keeping an open mind, and choosing to engage with the sacred stories and wisdom teachings associated with Christ.
Automatic it affects the components parts of the personality of the person. The person's character change, the person learn to more about being like Christ, Christian character calls for making conscious choices to allow the Holy Spirit to transform your character.
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Personality Awareness of others Understanding the personality of others,t his made us aware of the people who are around us because there are no two individuals who are exactly alike. Some are tall, others are short, some are quiet and controlled; others are explosive and aggressive. The more we understand the growth of the person from one point of view to another. The more we become aware of many things in life.
Sometimes we enter into conflict with other people because we try to change them to be like us. Sometimes people have intellectual uniqueness because of the personalities which are determined by heredity. Heredity is the blend of qualities that we inherited from the genetic code of our mother and father. So, due to the understanding or having this knowledge it help us to focus much on working with people and also help us to focus on helping people to grow rather than making them feel stupid in front of people.
"Understanding people from the Christianity perspective help us to focus on helping people and also, to help them to meet their needs with love and humility."
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Emotional Revelations Let all your efforts be directed to something, let it keep that end in view. It's not an activity that disturbs people, but false conceptions of things that drive them mad.
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