One of the most moving scenes of all the Gospels is the night when the Lord of heaven and earth put his face on the ground in an agonizing prayer, sweating blood. Matthew 26 reports: Then Jesus came with them to a place called Gethsemane and said to his disciples: Sit here, while I go […]
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Today is episode 1000. This should be a little out of the ordinary, and it is. Today, we are faced with a surprisingly common phenomenon, made very convenient by smartphone technology. Of course, we’re talking about sending naked selfies. This is part of a growing discussion in our culture. I recently met with a deputy
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The service is about to begin. A video of a few minutes on the screen will attract the attention of those present, people start to sit and at the end of the video, the church band opens to normally restless music, while the orchestra plays (30 to 40 minutes), the lights are off in the
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Have I spent most of my adult life hating silence?But I didn’t know. I was a great blind spot, I ignored my constant desire to be with people simply by being extroverted and attributed my talking nature to my intense relational instincts. These qualities seemed to help me in my pastoral interactions with people, so
Our hunger for God should not be limited to our cupboards. The more we know Him and the more we rejoice in all that He is to us in Jesus, the more our joy in Him surpasses our personal experience and seeks to reproduce it in others. One of the easiest ways to accomplish this
Is there a sin that good middle-class Christians commit more than the sin of worry? You wake up ten minutes later than expected and anxiety begins to dominate: what if I’m late? What about traffic? What’s the weather like? You walk past the mirror and fear that your face has more wrinkles than before, go
Why do I insist that you follow God firmly or, which is the same, why should we follow Christ firmly?Here are four reasons: First, we must follow Christ firmly to know Him. Philippians 3. 7-8 :?But what for me was a gain, I considered it a loss for Christ. Yes, do I really regard everything
Our enemy says: “Youth is for fun; middle age, for business; old age, by religion ?. The Bible says: “Youth, fiftieth and old age are for its Creator. “ However, since it is mainly in youth when we are more inclined (decided?) To forget our Creator, it is in these years that we must work,
Pentatheal preaching is a great necessity for God’s people, many of whom have never heard the sermons of any Old Testament book, let alone the Pentateal; it is also an area of great need for preachers, who tend to flee the Pentateal. Despite the difficulties associated with him, I believe that we should preach the
Recommendation that pastors of the Baptist Church of Graca, in Sao José dos Campos, offer to their church this week Brazilian elections are coming and certainly mark a very important moment in our nation, we must exercise our responsibilities as Brazilian Christians and citizens, for example, it is our responsibility to pray for our country
