Kingdom Ready Blog

Worry and stress seem to be a constant adversary to the people of faith in the age in which we live.  We are concerned about our jobs, paying the bills, our relationships, our children, our churches, our fellowships, our vehicles, and more and more.  There is so much uncertainty in our world, especially in the United States, these days.  How do we fight against worrying like everyone else?

Here are some straightforward words from Francis Chan’s book “Crazy Love” (page 42):

“Worry implies that we don’t quite trust God is big enough, powerful enough, or loving enough to take care of what’s happening in our lives.

Introduction

One of the more intriguing passages in Genesis is located in the first few verses of chapter 6. Here is that passage:

Genesis 6:1-4 (ESV):

¹When man began to multiply on the face of the land and daughters were born to them, ²the sons of God saw that the daughters of man were attractive. And they took as their wives any they chose. ³Then the LORD said, “My Spirit shall not abide in man forever, for he is flesh: his days shall be 120 years.”

In being effective ministers we must be able feel peoples emotion, when working with people it is always better to meet them where they are. To meet them on their level of emotion.

“Rejoice with those who rejoice, and weep with those who weep.” Romans 12:15 (NASB)

I wanted to apologize to everyone for the blog being down for the last 24 hours. The blog encountered sudden unexplained technical problems. I have successfully updated us to the next version of WordPress and everything now seems to be working. Thanks to Wolfgang for telling me right away when the problem began. (Ich danke Wolfgang, weil er erzählte mich, als das Problem zuerst fing an.) Hopefully we will not have this problem again. Thank you all for your patience.

grace & peace
~Sean

Introduction

One of the key figures in the New Testament is John the Baptist. For one thing, Scripture tells us that John the Baptist fulfilled the Old Testament prophesy, about the one who would “prepare the way of the Lord”:

Matthew 3:1-3 (ESV):

¹ In those days John the Baptist came preaching in the wilderness of Judea, ² “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.” ³For this is he who was spoken of by the prophet Isaiah when he said,

“The voice of one crying in the wilderness: ‘Prepare the way of the Lord;
make his paths straight.’”

Background on Methuselah

One of the patriarchs who is listed in Genesis chapter 5 is Methuselah. He has the distinction of being the longest-lived person recorded in Scripture – he lived to the ripe old age of 969.

Recently, I discovered a relatively interesting fact about Methuselah. Here are some of the items that are listed about Methuselah and his descendants:

Genesis 5:25 (ESV):

²⁵When Methuselah had lived 187 years, he fathered Lamech.

So, Lamech was born 187 years after Methuselah was born.

Genesis 5:28-29a (ESV):

by Martin Willemoes Hansen of Jesufrelse.dk

JESUS’ MAIN TEACHING: GOD’S COMING KINGDOM ON THE EARTH

“I must preach the kingdom of God to the other cities also, because for this purpose I have been sent” (Luke 4:43).

It was this message Jesus preached as the good news, as the Gospel.

    “Jesus went about all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the gospel of the kingdom” (Matt 4:23; 9:35). He urged the people, saying “seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness” (Matt 6:33). And taught his followers to pray: “Your kingdom come.  Your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven” (Matt 6:10).

Rashid Emmanuel of Faisalabad Pakistan first made contact with our ministry on September 10, 2007 by offering to translate our homepage into Urdu (the language of Pakistan). We discussed the kingdom of God a bit and then in late November we sent him our standard “evangelism package” including books, tracts, the current Glad Tidings issue, and a letter. Over the next year we had sparse communication including a phone call on January 28, 2009. We were limited in how we could work with Rashid and his ministry, primarily sending him materials and referring him to our websites. In particular, he enjoyed christianmonotheism.com). He wrote:

The “Six Reasons To Celebrate Hanukkah” thread had gotten so long that it took a long time just to open, besides the fact that it had evolved into several different unrelated discussions.  Because of this I have moved the most recent discussion, concerning what day of the week Jesus died on, to this separate thread, so anyone interested can pick it up from here.

As most of us are probably aware, there are very, very few “Unitarian Christians” in the world; i.e., Christians who recognize that Almighty God is only one person – our heavenly Father, Yahweh. In fact, the only belief that almost all mainstream churches agree on is that God is not one person, but rather that He is “three persons in one Godhead”.

As a result, the number of Unitarian Christians around the world is extremely limited – Unitarians presumably account for (much) less than 1% of all Christians. Therefore, in my opinion, it is very important for Unitarians to be able to fellowship with each other; even if we have disagreements about other issues.