Category: Beginners Christianity
Lesson 8 – Day 2
Faith is a Substance When I begin to talk to those from denominational backgrounds and families about the concept of FAITH, sometimes I hear, “My faith is: Catholic, Lutheranism, Baptist, Reform, blah blah”. When we talk about faith, it is not a sect of Christianity that Jesus refers to, but an attitude of the heart. …
Lesson 8 – Day 1
Encouragement & Faith As we start Lesson 8, remember to first start each day or each lesson with the Our Father. Pray that prayer every day, as a way to direct and protect your day. As I want to help you develop in this area, while we still have them, I am offering my 1st …
Lesson 7 – Day 6
R&R – Resting and Relaxing We are given instructions in the scriptures of opportunities to rest and relax, more than, the Sabbath, one day in seven. Some time ago, I did a count of all the Jewish festivals that required a day, a week, or a year of resting. The Feast days, sabbatical year, and …
Lesson 7 – Day 5
Every “Thing” Must Rest We’ve just established what resting means for people, but what implications does it have for every “thing” else? Not everything, but every “THING”; birds, animals, plants, land, cattle, horses…etc. In Leviticus 25:2-7, God further instructs Moses to tell the people to rest the land and the animals. “Speak to the …
Lesson 7 – Day 4
The Revelation of Rest We’ve just established what a sabbath rest means, and found that most of American society fifty years, ago believed that resting on the Sabbath was not particularly difficult, but rather very pleasurable. But first, notice this in Isaiah 58:13-14, “If you turn away your foot from the Sabbath, from doing your …
Lesson 7 – Day 3
What the Day of Rest Was Think back to just three or four generations ago, concerning Sunday church attendance in this country. Let me paint this canvas for you. Preparations for Sunday church and a day of rest begins on Saturdays. The sound of mowers would echo early through the neighborhoods. Fathers were out mowing, …
Lesson 7 – Day 2
One Day of Rest We’ve just established what the word “sabbath” means; to cease from exertion, to desist from work. A Sabbath Rest is a gift from God, that most of the nations that are not grounded in Christianity, do not understand. Even most Christians today do not understand the principle of rest, nor the …
Lesson 7 – Day 1
Rest & Encouragement We are going into this week, being encouraged to rest. If we are all just an accident of evolution, if we are just amoebas that a million years ago climbed out of the primordial slime and mutated, then we would have no direction as how to order our lives. But we do …
Lesson 6 – Day 6
Be Teachable If everyone needs a priest, then we should be able to hear what is being taught, so long as it is the Word of God. In Hebrews 4:12, “For the word of God is living and active and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing as far as the division of soul and …
Lesson 6 – Day 5
Get a Spiritual Covering Everybody needs a priest. In general terms, there were Old Testament priests that interceded to God on behalf of the people, through sacrifices and offerings. The New Testament priests ministers to the people on behalf of God. The calling of Christian leadership is as follows, in Ephesians 4:11-13, “And He gave …
