Author: Marius Sodonis

Follower of Jesus Christ, Professional Acrobat-in Training, and friend. I like to cook and I love to eat.

Living for Eternity: Setting a Vision for Christian Community

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This is part of a video series called “Coalesce for Christ” from a student-created message used in the TeenPact Presidential Election in 2018. You can find more info at their Youtube Page.

Living for Eternity: Setting a Vision for Christian Community

What is the focus of our relationships? Do we spend time with others simply to receive attention, affection, and sympathy, or do we socialize in order to remind others of the unchanging glory of God? Remember that although we live in a temporary present, we have hope in an eternal future.

Every exchange with others counts for eternity. We should ask ourselves, are the interactions we have drawing our friends, family, and culture towards God, or are those words and actions pushing them away from Him?

 

How can we Foster Christian Discipleship?

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This is part of a video series called “Coalesce for Christ” from a student-created message used in the TeenPact Presidential Election in 2018. You can find more info at their Youtube Page.

How can we Foster Christian Discipleship?

What does the word Coalesce mean? How is it important in relation to our faith? Are we called to simply LIVE with those around us, or are we called to POINT them to something much greater?

We are human; we are prone to wander, to forget what we have seen and known, but in a world that grows increasingly separate from God, it becomes all the more important that we live each day reminding each other of the faithfulness of God.

“Christian fellowship exists for this, to say [and do] things that will keep each other believing.” ~John Piper

 

A Theology of Art in Five Minutes

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A Theology of Art in Five Minutes

By John Piper. © Desiring God Foundation. Source: desiringGod.org

John Piper is founder and teacher of desiringGod.org and chancellor of Bethlehem College & Seminary. For more than thirty years, he served as pastor of Bethlehem Baptist Church, Minneapolis. He is author of more than fifty books, and his sermons, articles, books, and more are available free of charge at desiringGod.org.

 

 

 

Why Would God Create a Baby to Live for Two Minutes?

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Why Would God Create a Baby to Live for Two Minutes?

By John Piper. © Desiring God Foundation. Source: desiringGod.org

John Piper is founder and teacher of desiringGod.org and chancellor of Bethlehem College & Seminary. For more than thirty years, he served as pastor of Bethlehem Baptist Church, Minneapolis. He is author of more than fifty books, and his sermons, articles, books, and more are available free of charge at desiringGod.org.

 

 

 

Why Do You Believe That Infants Who Die Go to Heaven?

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Why Do You Believe That Infants Who Die Go to Heaven?

By John Piper. © Desiring God Foundation. Source: desiringGod.org

John Piper is founder and teacher of desiringGod.org and chancellor of Bethlehem College & Seminary. For more than thirty years, he served as pastor of Bethlehem Baptist Church, Minneapolis. He is author of more than fifty books, and his sermons, articles, books, and more are available free of charge at desiringGod.org.

 

 

 

The Gospel Comes with a Housekey Book Review

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The Gospel Comes with a Housekey

 

 

 

 

 

By Rosaria Butterfield

 

 

 

In Matthew chapter 25, Jesus instructs His disciples about the coming of the Lord. Jesus says that the Lord will bless those who truly were His followers saying, “For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me, I was naked and you clothed me, I was sick and you visited me, I was in prison and you came to me.” Puzzled, Christ’s disciples wonder at what time they did any of those things for Him. Then he assures them, “Truly, I say to you, as you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.” This is Christ’s word for us on hospitality.  

The Gospel Comes with a Housekey is a book about what practicing hospitality as a Christian looks like. “Radically ordinary hospitality is this,” Butterfield writes. “Using your Christian home in a daily way that seeks to make strangers neighbors and neighbors family of God.” Butterfield challenges us to use our homes as a tool to share the Gospel.

Imagine if your house could be a safe space for your neighbors to bring their burdens and their broken hearts! She shows us how to do this in her book. It doesn’t have to be complicated, and it most certainly does not require affluence, as Butterfield explains. Instead, her admonition is to “Start anywhere. But do start.”

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