SCHOOL of SUFFERING SERIES PART I1.B
B. SATANIC PRIDE OF ETHBAAL
That root or seed of satanic pride is clearly further echoed and expounded in Ezekiel 28:1-19 (but too long to quote here). Lucifer’s pride, which is like the megalomaniac pride of the tyrannical demigod or ruler named Ethbaal III who claimed deity on top of the Tyre’s hierarchical pyramid of power structure, is also exposed in
SCHOOL of SUFFERING SERIES PART I.1a
Where is God when life hurts? Does He really care?
Since the dawn of mankind, suffering has been an inescapable fact of life. Saints and sinners alike suffer and have been nagged by such painful questions, that even philosophers have been jousting as to what the satisfying answer should be. Pain and suffering have been such undesirable topic to people who only expects good things from life and God. And the bible clearly answers these rhetorical questions to provide comforting divine perspectives that can help us strengthen our faith in our pilgrimage on the narrow way to Him.
Ptr. Feling Aldiano Has A New Bike
In continuation of the campaign for a bike for Paglaum Baptist Mission – PIEI Philippines pastors, another pastor has been given a bike. Ptr. Feling Aldiano receives his bike on June 3, 2009.
For so long in the ministry, many of our pastors just used to walk going to their respective area of assignment. Some used to commute while transportation system in Leyte is not that good. With these bikes, it will be a lot easier to these pastors then to go to their assignments
LASBC Youth Camp 2009: “From the Inside Out”
This year’s youth camp has been a great blessing both to our young people and to our visitors. This year’s camp was themed: “From the Inside Out” quoted from two passages; Matthew 28:18-20 and Joshua 1:16. The theme’s focus is the change of life of the young people both from the inside and the outside.
Music Clinic In OLCM
May 6-8, some of the young adults from Cainta Baptist Church and a young pastor from Tagbilaran came to Ormoc Lighthouse Christian ministry to teach and share valuable things concerning music ministry in our churches.
Ptr. Gumps Beltran taught voice lesson, playing guitar and playing drums along with bro. Luke Barromeo a young people from Cainta Baptist Church.
Ptr. Emer Cables and bro. Allan Ingeniero taught things about worship leading. They covered the who, when, where, what, how, and why of worhip leading; how to be an effective worship leader; recruiting worship team members, and living a life of worship.
Ptr. Rudy Laag Receives A Bike
With the on-going project of Paglaum Baptist Mission / PIEI-Philippines, another pastor from the outreach ministries of Ormoc receives a bike.
Ptr. Rudy Laag has been in the ministry for quite sometime. He is pastoring one of the first established baranggay church under the Lighthouse Ministries wave back in 1990’s, Milagro Baptist Church. This church has been started with the joint efforts of Rev. Tom Smith and Rev. Vir Olaer
Did Mary Remained A Virgin After Giving Birth To Jesus?
In one of the email forums that I’ve been following, there were two question raised that I will try to answer in this post. The questions were:
1. Did Mary remained a virgin after giving birth to Jesus?
2. or.. Did Jesus have natural physical “brothers” or “sisters”?
To answer these questions, the answer is found in Matthew 13:54-58 and Mark 6:1-6. The context of the incident was that Jesus is in Nazareth, his home town. People used to know him and his parents along with brothers and sisters. In Mark 6:3, please note that the people said “Is this not the carpenter’s son?”. It did not mentioned of Joseph because according to tradition and some writings, Joseph was “probably” (I used probably because it’s unsure and have not been confirmed) dead during this time. Furthermore, the context speaks that that the people there are trying to question the legitimacy of Christ’s birth, thus insulting him / offended at him(v.3). This is why Jesus said in verse 4, “A prophet is not without honor except in his own country, among his own relatives, and in his own house.” Jesus did not do great miracles there (v.5)
Sermon: Qualities Needed In Facing Trials
Last week, we have discussed on how we are to face trials of any kinds. We have discussed that we are to consider it pure joy whenever we face trials. We also have learned that we need to ask God for wisdom, and that we have to believe that God give it generously.
Today, we will discuss the qualities we should posses in facing trials. With these three good qualities, it will allow us to face trials with confidence and upright even if we are in the middle of it.
Islam Demographics: A Worldwide Invasion
This video is very real, yet a very disturbing case. Many people around the world does not realize the fast growth of Islam religion. This video unveils the secret of its growth. Not only that they are trying to evangelize the world, but they are also trying to conquer the world through demographics.
The fast growth of the Islam can be contributed to many reasons. Now this are just some of the reasons why they grew so fast: