Apr 24 2011 dcfc english Worship [The Master & The Disciple] Luke 24: 28-36
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CHRISTIANS, IMPORTANCEWho I am makes a differenceDate: 4/2008.101 Youtube A teacher in NY decided to honor each of her seniors in high school. She called them out in front of the class and gave them a blue ribbon and told each one of them the difference they made in her life and why they are special. Then she pinned a blue ribbon on each of them that said, "Who I am makes a difference." She gave each of them 3 more blue ribbons and told them to carry out this assignment. "Find one person who has made a difference in your life and give them this blue ribbon. Then give them the other two and tell them to carry on this experiment by looking for someone else who had made difference in their lives. Report back to me next week what happened." One young man in her class took the blue ribbon and gave it to a junior executive in a financial company nearby because he had helped the young plan on his financial planning. The young man thanked this junior executive and gave him the remaining two ribbons. After the young man left, the junior executive thought about whom he should give the blue ribbon too. He decided to go give it to his boss who was known as a grouch. He gave his boss a call and told him that he appreciated his boss' creative genius. His boss was surprised. Then the junior executive said, "Can I place this ribbon on you?" The surprised boss said, "Sure!" Then the young executive gave his boss the next ribbon and told him to find someone he could honor. That day the boss went home and sat with his 14 year old son and told him, "The most amazing thing happened today. One of my subordinates came up to me and told me that he appreciated me for being a creative genius. Then he told me that who I am made a difference. That's surprising. And he told me to give this remaining blue ribbon and told me to continue this ceremony with someone I want to honor. As I was driving home tonight, I thought about you. I want to honor you. My days are hectic and I don't pay enough attention to you. I just yell at you for your grades and messy bedroom. But tonight I just want to tell you how important you are to me. Besides your mother, you are the person most important to me. I love you! You are a great kid." The startled boy just started weeping and his whole body shook uncontrollably. Then he said to his father, "Dad, today I was sitting up in my room writing you a later explaining why I took my own life. I didn't think I mattered at all. I wanted to commit suicide tonight. But I don't think I need it anymore." The father went upstairs and found a letter filled with pain and anguish. The next day, he went back to work a changed man, never a grouch again. You make a difference. CHRISTIANS, VALUES OFKnowing our valuesDate: 6/2006.101 28 May 2006 - Pandan Chinese Xi Yang - Luke 5:1-11 ~ Qualities of a Disciple 2 Sept 2006 - YOC Camping Luke 5:1-11 ~ The Qualities of a Disciple Oct 2007 Germany Leipzig/Weimar - Luke 5:1-11 - Qualities of a disciple
Eventually, I realized - that the person against me was my boss, but the person on my side was God. The creator of heavens & earth. So I had to speak up. It is important for us to realize how God values us. When we want to testify for God or share the gospel, we often need to overcome our own fears. However, knowing how God looks at us makes us realize that we have value, we are valuable to God. And that gives us the strength.
Born to FlyDate: 6/2006.101 DCFC Retreat 2008 (TWU) Juan Eclarin on Spiritual gifts Hot Illustrations for Youth Talks P48 One day a prairie chicken found an egg and sat on it until it hatched. Unbeknownst to the prairie chicken, the egg was an eagle egg, abandoned for some reason. That's how an eagle came to be born into a family of prairie chickens. While the eagle is the greatest of all birds, soaring above the heights with grace and ease, the prairie chicken doesn't even know how to fly. In fact, prairie chickens are so lowly that they eat garbage. Predictably, the little eagle, being raised in a family of prairie chickens, thought he was a prairie chicken. He walked around, ate garbage and clucked like a prairie chicken. One day he looked up to see a majestic bald eagle soar through the air dipping and turning. When he asked his family what it was, they responded, "It's an eagle. But you could never be like that because you are just a prairie chicken." Then they returned to pecking the garbage. The eagle spent his whole life looking up at eagles, longing to join them among the clouds. It never once occurred to him to lift his wings and try to fly. The eagle died thinking he was just a prairie chicken. Application You were born to fly. But some of you think and act like prairie chickens because the world keeps telling you that's what you are. God created you "a little lower than the angels" (see Psalms 8 and Hebrews 2:7). Do you ever feel like there's something more to life than what you are experiencing? Look up! Lift your wings and fly! God wants you to be all that you were created to be. The apostle Peter writes in 1 Peter 1:14, "As obedient children, do not conform to the evil desires you had when you lived in ignorance." In other words, "Stop living like eagles who think they are prairie chickens." You are no longer ignorant. You know who and what you are. You are born again through the living and enduring Word of God. Now live that way. Spread your wings and fly. Directory: cfs-filesystemfile.ashx -> key -> CommunityServer.Components.PostAttachments CommunityServer.Components.PostAttachments -> General editors john baillie key -> Eternity! Eternity key -> Annotated Bibliography key -> [The first seventeen verses of Matthew consists of Jesus' family tree CommunityServer.Components.PostAttachments -> A box of treasure by beverly carradine key -> The life and times — of — benjamin franklin, — by — joseph franklin, and key -> The flying inn key -> Abraham, or the Obedience of Faith CommunityServer.Components.PostAttachments -> C cares, of the world Download 0.72 Mb. Share with your friends:
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