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"We need to be careful that we do not add our own man-made rules to the Scriptures. Some convictions that we hold dearly may be derived more from our particular Christian culture than derived from Scripture, and we need to learn to discern the differences. It is okay to have cultural convictions, but we should be careful that we do not elevate them to the same authority as Scripture. So much judgmentalism among Christians today occurs because we do this."~Jerry Bridges

Come let us get into the scriptures together. Every Wednesday at 5:30pm..as we journey through St. John's Gospel at Bethel House of Prayer, Kikumi Kikumi.

Our Book of the Day; "The Gospel in the Marketplace of Ideas: Paul's Mars Hill Experience for Our Pluralistic World" by Kenneth Duncan Litwak and Paul Copan

Our world is multicultural, multireligious, multiphilosophical. It ranges from fundamental monotheism to do-it-yourself spirituality to strident atheism. How can Christians engage in communicating across worldviews in this pluralistic and often relativistic society? When Paul visited Athens, he found an equally multicultural and multireligious setting. From Jews to Gentiles, elite to poor, slaves to slave owners, from olive-skinned Gentiles to dark-skinned Ethiopians―the Greco-Roman world was a dynamic mix. Religious practices were also wide and varied, with the imperial cult of emperor worship being the most prominent. Many also frequented the temples for the traditional Greek pantheon, and participated in the secret rituals of the mystery religions.Seeking to embolden the church's witness in today's society, philosopher Paul Copan and New Testament scholar Kenneth Litwak show how Paul's speech to the Athenians (found in Acts 17) provides a practical model for Christians today. They uncover the cultural and religious background of this key episode in the apostle?s career and they encourage believers to winsomely challenge the idols of our time to point contemporary Athenians to Christ.

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Our featured book of the day: Biblical Preaching: The Development and Delivery of Expository Messages. (Haddon W. Robinson)

Are you preaching this Sunday? Have you been given that call by your pastor or reverend to preach on Sunday on a certain passage?

Where do you start from to prepare not just a motivational talk but an expository sermon? And preach biblically?

Biblical preaching requires both skill and faith. As Robinson reminds us, ministers are the only professionals who have people assemble weekly to hear what they have to say. “We preachers use words as tools, and we ought to use them with both thoughts and skill” (147). We can and should improve. That’s our challenge and our opportunity.

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Book of the Day; 'God Behaving Badly' by David T. Lamb

God has a bad reputation. Many think of God as wrathful and angry, smiting people right and left for no apparent reason. The Old Testament in particular seems at times to portray God as capricious and malevolent, wiping out armies and nations, punishing enemies with extreme prejudice. But wait. The story is more complicated than that. Alongside troubling passages of God's punishment and judgment are pictures of God's love, forgiveness, goodness and slowness to anger. How do we make sense of the seeming contradiction? Can God be trusted or not? David Lamb unpacks the complexity of the Old Testament to explore the character of God. He provides historical and cultural background to shed light on problematic passages and to bring underlying themes to the fore. Without minimizing the sometimes harsh realities of the biblical record, Lamb assembles an overall portrait that gives coherence to our understanding of God in both the Old and New Testaments.

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Our featured book of the day; 'The Death of the Savior' by Richard D. Phillips

At the heart of the Christian faith is the simple truth, yet profound mystery, that ‘Christ died for our sins’. According to the Apostle Paul, Christ dying in our place is the truth of ‘first importance’ in the gospel, apart from which we have ‘believe in vain’ (1 Cor. 15:2-3). And yet it is all too easy for Christians to lose sight of the cross and for things of this world to eclipse the glory of its message.

In seven short studies in the nineteenth chapter of John’s Gospel, Richard D. Phillips encourages the reader to take a fresh look at the amazing story of the death of the Saviour, Jesus Christ the Son of God. Writing with intelligence and pastoral warmth, the author especially delights in drawing the reader’s attention to the small details surrounding the crucifixion that John recorded in his Gospel.

The aim of these studies is to refocus eyes that have grown dim and to stir up a spirit of thanksgiving and praise in the heart of the believer. For it is at the cross, as the author says, that ‘we gaze upon the heart of our Lord with wonder and feel the warmth of his grace in our soul’.

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Our featured book of the day; Spiritual Disciplines Handbook; Practices that Transform Us by Adele Ahlberg Calhoun

On the Spiritual Discipline of Simplicity;

’Tis a gift to be simple. ’Tis a gift to be free.” We may agree
with the sentiment, but there has never been a more complicated, cluttered, bureaucratic society than the one we live in today. In fact, the “good life” is often defined by how full, busy and complicated our lives are. Modern life is not simple. It is always about adding one more thing.

But the more we add, the more can go wrong: one car, one set of problems; two cars, two sets. Adding the latest, the biggest and the best to our lives wreaks havoc in our souls as well as our environment. Keeping it simple has fallen on hard times. And though we like the idea, we also like our choices.

Jesus teaches us that freedom is not found in having and doing but in keeping God and his will first in our heart. “Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven...For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also” (Matthew 6:19-21). Jesus wants us to know that we don’t need all the things or experiences we think we do. What we really need is to keep first things first—Jesus and his kingdom. Life becomes much more simple when one thing matters most.

Our featured book of the day; Jesus and the Gospel in Africa; History and Experience' by Kwame Bediako

"But the Jesus of the deep forest' is also the Jesus of the Gospels, the miracle worker who does the impossible, who triumphs over the obstacles of nature, who provides food for the hungry and water for the thirsty, who delivers from all manner of ailments and who bestows the wholeness of salvation. What is impossible for us is possible with him:

Wonderworker, you are the one
Who has carried water in a basket
and put it by the road side
for the travellers to drink for three days.
You use the basket to carry water to the desert,
then you throw in your net and bring forth fish!
You use the net to fetch water and put it in a basket.
We ride in canoes on the water's surface and catch our fish.

For ladies, looking to grow their knowledge of the Holy Scriptures...look no further, every Tuesday at 5:15pm, somewhere in Bukoto,🌞

Our featured book of the day: Not a Fan

The biggest threat to the church today is fans who call themselves Christians but aren’t actually interested in following Christ. They want to be close enough to Jesus to get all the benefits, but not so close that it requires anything from them.

~Kyle Idleman, Not a Fan: Becoming a Completely Committed Follower of Jesus

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