Tag Archives: Gospel
Go Light Your World — Carry Your Candle
Lyrics to Go Light Your World (carry Your Candle) (Kathy Trocoli) There is a candle in every soul Some brightly burning, some dark and cold There is a Spirit who brings fire Ignites a candle and makes His home Carry your candle, run to the darkness Seek out the hopeless, confused and torn Hold out your candle for all to see it Take your candle, and go light your world Take your candle, and go light your world Frustrated brother, … Continue reading →
The Power of Your Words
(By Pierre Eade) Wait! Stop! Don’t say it! Pegues knows how easily a few careless words can cause problems in our business and personal relationships. Here she offers 30 warm-hearted Scripture-based devotions to help you take control of that hasty, gossiping, belittling, know-it-all, retaliatory tongue . . . before you really put your foot in your mouth! 141 pages, softcover from Harvest. “The tongue has the power of life and death, and those who love it will eat its fruit.” … Continue reading →
10 Signs a Church is in Trouble
By : Thom S. Rainer The original copy of this story can be found at http://www.bpnews.net/bpnews.asp?ID=35256. Prior to my present place of ministry, I spent more than 20 years consulting with churches across America. I have also had the wonderful opportunity to research churches primarily in the United States. Over time I began to notice certain patterns or signs that would indicate a congregation might be headed for trouble. After reviewing my consultation notes and research, I found 10 warning … Continue reading →
Surat Pdt. Em. Dr. Eka Dharmaputra
Pada bulan Maret 2005, sewaktu Pdt. Em. Dr. Eka Darmaputra sedang sakit parah (kanker hati), beliau menulis sebuah surat yang berisi pelajaran yang indah mengenai sikap Kristiani dalam menghadapi kematian. Pada tanggal 29 Juni 2005 beliau dipanggil pulang Bapa di Surga, —————————————- “Rekan-rekan sepelayanan, kawan-kawan seperjuangan, dan saudara-saudaraku seiman, yang saya kasihi dengan segenap hati!” Terpujilah Tuhan, yang telah berkenan mengantarkan saya melalui perjuangan panjang, kurang lebih 21 tahun lamanya! Selama 21 tahun itu, saya akui, saya tidaklah seperkasa singa, … Continue reading →
Berkat yang dari keretakan
Berikut ini adalah cerita bijak dari Cina, sebagai bahan renungan Seorang ibu di Cina yang sudah tua memiliki dua buah tempayan yang digunakan untuk mencari air, yang dipikul di pundaknya dengan menggunakan sebatang bambu. Salah satu dari tempayan itu retak, sedangkan yang satunya tanpa cela dan selalu memuat air hingga penuh. Setibanya di rumah setelah menempuh perjalanan panjang dari sungai, air di tempayan yang retak tinggal separuh. Selama dua tahun hal ini berlangsung setiap hari, dimana ibu itu membawa pulang … Continue reading →
Integritas
“Jika Allah kami yang kami puja sanggup melepaskan kami, maka Ia akan melepaskan kami dari perapian yang menyala-nyala itu, dan dari dalam tanganmu, ya raja; tetapi seandainya tidak, hendaklah tuanku mengetahui, ya raja, bahwa kami tidak akan memuja dewa tuanku, dan tidak akan menyembah patung emas yang tuanku dirikan itu.” (Daniel 3:17-18) Ketika Raja Nebukadnezar membangun patung untuk disembah oleh semua orang yang ada di wilayah Babel; Sadrakh, Mesakh dan Abednego menolak untuk menyembah patung tersebut. Walaupun diancam akan dimasukkan … Continue reading →
Abide With Me
Abide with me; fast falls the eventide; The darkness deepens; Lord, with me abide; When other helpers fail and comforts flee, Help of the helpless, oh, abide with me. Swift to its close ebbs out life’s little day; Earth’s joys grow dim, its glories pass away; Change and decay in all around I see— O Thou who changest not, abide with me. I need Thy presence every passing hour; What but Thy grace can foil the tempter’s pow’r? Who, like … Continue reading →
Human guidance?
We need to be on our watch against the powerful influence of spiritual mentors, lest, fascinated by the fame of some popular leader, we become the willing dupes of a childish superstition, or the blind followers of a fatal error. Do not take your views of Divine truth from man; draw them primarily from God’s Word. Do not study the Bible through your theological system, but let your system be taken from, and faithfully weighed with, the Bible. Our theological … Continue reading →
The Love of God
Words: Frederick M. Lehman; he wrote this song in 1917 in Pasadena, California, and it was published in Songs That Are Different, Volume 2, 1919. The lyrics are based on the Jewish poem Haddamut, written in Aramaic in 1050 by Meir Ben Isaac Nehorai, a cantor in Worms, Germany; they have been translated into at least 18 languages. One day, during short intervals of inattention to our work, we picked up a scrap of paper and, seated upon an empty … Continue reading →