Gospel of Thomas

Philippians - The Reward of Service to Christ is Priceless Is a class mainly designed for adult students who, while they have an idea of Jesus Christ, they are seeking a more personal and intimate relationship with Jesus Christ and understanding the benefit of being a true and committed servant of Jesus Christ. The goal of this class is to assist each student to gain a greater understanding of the Prison Epistles of The Apostle Paul and how his letters to the Church at Philippi are still…

the world—pleading and imploring men to be reconciled to God. Paul is imploring—begging, in fact—to the Corinthians on Christ’s behalf to be reconciled to God. The ministry of reconciliation is the work of speaking the word of reconciliation – the gospel: pleading and imploring men to turn from their unbelief, their sin and rebellion to God and be reconciled to God and be made new creations in Christ Jesus. As Paul said in II Cor. 5:14-15, the love of God compelled him to preach the message…

and resurrecting three days later. Wright thus argues that Jesus’s coronation in addition to His teachings are more than merely advice; they are in fact good news. Advice implores while news informs; in opposition to being told do’s and don’ts, the gospel potently points us to a scandalous love that gives us the realization that sanctification is our fulfilment through the story of Jesus Christ. Humanity’s reception of the…

present the gospel. However, missional churches usually share what Jesus did for the world during different events in the community. Since the church with the above mission statement is more missional, the topic will be handled from that perspective. However, the church must be careful when doing evangelism. As Mark Denver declares, “the way we do evangelism will inform the way our hearers understand the gospel. The way our hearers understand the gospel will inform the way they live the gospel.”…

As I read through the readings we have heard this morning, particularly our gospel, two memories from my childhood came to my mind. On the surface they seem to have little to do with what we have read, but bear with me, I hope to make them make sense. The first memory was of my mother, or more particularly my mother’s habit of beginning to watch a movie when it was half way through. I’m not sure if you’ve had a similar experience as that, where people join into the storyline after most of the…

learn on my mission to live the gospel each day and I will continue to do this. I have begun to think more about my future as a husband and father recently. As I try to apply the teachings of prophets in the scriptures and in these latter days, I know I will be blessed and be prepared to become who God wants me to be. I find it hard to focus on God every day, but I know that as I more readily turn to Him things will improve. I want my children to love and embrace the gospel. I want them to love…

Pliny the Younger, nephew of Pliny the Elder, was a civil servant that governed Bithynia. He was the first to encounter Christians, and was confused on how to adapt to it. So, he wrote a letter to Trajan asking for assistance. This is the soonest inner record demonstrating the Roman Empire's demeanor and arrangement towards the congregation. In addition, Pliny does students of history the immense support of portraying what he has found about the way Christians venerated. Thus, this bit of…

Bultmann, and lastly Hans Kung. They later came to realize that this view was not very open and was conservative, it does not allow everyone to receive God’s grace. The reason is because as the bond of faith between the churches is proclaiming the gospel it leaves out all those who have not come to faith in Christ and makes it seem as it is set the way it is now and isn’t open to…

with my testimony, my understanding and knowledge of the scriptures really took off. My first day in the mission, I knocked on a man’s door, and he was not a very friendly man, he used the bible to destroy everything I knew and understood about the gospel. For the next two year of my mission, I dedicated myself to study the scriptures so that it would never happen again, and it didn’t. I read the whole standard works, from the first page of the bible to the last page of the pearl of great price…

John Lewis against segregation I believe there are key turning points for John Lewis in the book March by writers Lewis and Ayden book 1 and 2. In the book March John Lewis fights against segregation for equality. Initially, Lewis received a bible as a gift for his 4th Christmas. The trip he took with his Uncle Otis to Buffalo amplified his eagerness and interest for desegregation. Finally, his ambition to go to college which was ultimately denied by his parents, these events caused a change…