PRAISE AND WORSHIP
IN THE SAME PLACE
THE WHOLE WORLD
IN ONE VOICE
For the Worshipers to go before the battle:
All Relations Must Come Unto Him As A Little Child:
To Humble Ourselves and Pray:
Knowing That The Battle Is Already Won:
And Remember ...
A Strong Woman Is …
The One Who Will Patiently Wait
and Watch With Him:
Remaining in The Potter’s Hands:
Jesus Christ(face2face)
Corrie ten Boom
Chief Joseph
Chief Sitting Bull
Chief Big Foot
John F. Kennedy
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Many of my MySpace friends
And anyone who can speak rhema into my life.
I would like to sit down one-on-one with Obama and converse with him directly so that my heart and spirit can know for sure what this man is about.
Interested in meeting people of the web who have something in common with me. I desire to meet people who are passionate about something and who recognize their need for faith in the Creator. Although my personal faith is based upon the Bible, and have a personal relationship with Jesus Christ, my respect and honor for all peoples of Faith is paramount. I feel that people should know WHAT they believe and WHY they believe it.
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An epic in the spirit of THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST, this widely acclaimed motion picture is a meticulous recreation of the turbulent era of Jesus and the events that changed the course of history! Narrated by Golden Globe nominee Christopher Plummer (Best Supporting Actor, AMERICAN TRAGEDY, 2000), it’s the bold and powerful story of Jesus as told by his disciple John; The best-loved but least understood of the gospels, John presents a uniquely human portrait of courage and passion encompassing Jesus' entire three-year ministry, the final years of his life; Intimate and reflective, THE GOSPEL OF JOHN offers an unparalleled opportunity to experience the incomparable life and times of Jesus Christ;
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The Gospel of John is the latest-written of the four biographies of Jesus that have been preserved in the New Testament; Written by a Christian named John, the contents of the book indicate quite clearly that the author was not the John who was one of the twelve disciples of Jesus, for it contains no direct personal references of the type that one would expect from an intimate associate of Jesus; On the contrary, it presents an interpretation of Jesus that reflects ideas and situations that prevailed in the Christian community toward the end of the first century of the Christian era, a time when Christianity was under attack from several different quarters, including Jews, Romans, skeptics, and others making charges against it; The author of the Gospel of John was evidently aware of these attacks and knew that some of the accounts given in earlier gospels were interpreted in a manner that seemed to support these charges; Because he believed so firmly in the new Christian movement, he wanted to write a gospel that set forth its essential truth in the best possible manner; His hope was that he might write one that was not only true but that offered a presentation of the Christian faith that would overcome the objections of its critics and gain the respect of the educated and cultured people of his day; This objective helps us to understand many of the unique characteristics of John’s gospel, especially the ones that sharply contrast the Synoptic Gospels; It explains the omission in the Gospel of John of many items found in the earlier accounts, and it also explains, at least in part, the different attitude about Jews, the allegorical interpretations of certain miracle stories, the absence of apocalypticism with reference to the second coming, the subordinate role of John the Baptist, and a new concept of the Messiah;
The purpose of this gospel, as stated by John himself, is to show that Jesus of Nazareth was Christ, the Son of God, and that believers in him might have eternal life; This purpose was one that John had in common with the men who wrote the Synoptic Gospels, but his method for achieving it distinguishes his gospel from the earlier ones; The central theme in the Synoptic Gospels is the coming of the kingdom of God, and it was in relation to this event that the accounts were given of the life and teachings of Jesus; The messianic character of Jesus’ mission was described in terms of the miracles that he performed, his kindly attitude toward the poor and the oppressed, his power to cast out demons and to heal the sick, and his instructions concerning the way people should live in view of the imminence of the coming kingdom;
In the Gospel of John, the central theme is the divine Logos, the word that was with God and that was God; This Logos became flesh and dwelt among men in the person of Jesus of Nazareth; John says nothing of a supernatural birth; He regards Jesus as a human being who possessed actual flesh and blood, the same as other people; The most significant thing about Jesus is that the divine Logos was present in him, and all of the marvelous things that he accomplished were by virtue of the power of God; In this way, John conceives the relationship between the divine and the human; Because God was present in Jesus, it is appropriate to refer to Jesus as the Son of God, which is an example of what can happen in the life of anyone else in whom the power of God dwells; In this connection, John says, “Yet to all who received him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God;â€
John’s account of the ministry of Jesus consists of two parts; The first twelve chapters describe Jesus’ public ministry, beginning with his meeting John the Baptist and closing with the visit of the Greeks who came to worship at the Feast of Passover; The remaining chapters deal with the closing days of Jesus’ earthly ministry, when he gave instruction to his disciples and explained the meaning of his life and approaching death in a number of lengthy discourses; This division of the gospel into two parts follows the pattern used by the Synoptic Gospels’ writers, but the contents of the two sections differ widely from the earlier accounts; According to John, Jesus’ public ministry can be summarized in connection with a number of miracles that John reports and then follows with interpretations that point to their spiritual significance;
John records only seven miracles, considerably less than the number reported in the Synoptic Gospels; But John’s use of the miracle stories is different from that of his predecessors; John does not regard the stories’ miraculous elements themselves as having great significance but rather the spiritual meanings that he finds implicit in them; The miracles are signs not of the imminence of the coming of God’s kingdom as that term is used in the Synoptic Gospels but of the presence of the Logos, or the power of God, which brings about a transformation in people’s lives;
The seven miracle stories recorded in John are, first, the turning of water into wine at a marriage feast in Cana; second, the healing of a nobleman’s son who was at the point of death; third, the healing of a man at the sheep-gate pool; fourth, the walking on water; fifth, the feeding of five thousand; sixth, the healing of the man born blind; and seventh, the raising of Lazarus; Each of these stories is used as an introduction to a discourse concerning the significance of Jesus and his message in relation to the quality of a person’s life; This use of the miracle stories for the purpose of teaching spiritual lessons is made possible by analogies and, in many instances, by allegorizing the materials found in the stories; For example, the story of Jesus’ turning water into wine is interpreted to mean the contrast between the old and the new dispensations; The water symbolizes a cleansing, and the transformation that takes place when a person’s life is filled with the spirit present in Jesus sharply contrasts with the rites and ceremonies performed in the Jewish Temple; This meaning of the story is given special emphasis in the narratives that follow; In one of these, Jesus drives out the buyers and sellers from the Temple; In the Synoptic Gospels, this event is placed toward the close of Jesus’ ministry, but John situates it toward the beginning because to him it represents the goal of Jesus’ entire earthly career; He quotes Jesus as saying, “Destroy this temple, and I will raise it again in three days,†which is a reference to John’s belief that Jesus’ death and resurrection have brought about a new and more meaningful conception of salvation; The point is illustrated even further in the story of Jesus’ conversation with Nicodemus, in which Jesus says that unless a person is born of the water and the spirit, that person cannot see the kingdom of God; The same point of view is expressed again in the account of Jesus’ conversation with the woman at the Samarian well; In reply to her questions concerning the proper place and manner of worship, Jesus explains that external forms of worship are not as important as worshipping the Father “in spirit and truth;â€
SOURCE CliffsNotes. com: The Gospel of John
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7/5/1932 – 10/3/2004
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