Banyak teman-teman yang minta, berikut outline dari pelajaran Alkitab singkat dari kebaktian ulang tahun ke 90 GPdI, disusun berdasarkan pengajaran GPdI-Foursquare Gospel: Continue reading
Benarkah Yesus mati hari Jumat dan bangkit hari Minggu?
Penetapan natal, dan kedua hari paskah seperti yang kita ketahui adalah penetapan oleh gereja. Penetapan hari jumat sebagai hari matinya Yesus oleh Gereja Katolik sebelumnya adalah karena dikatakan bahwa besoknya adalah hari sabat (Yoh 19:31), dan hari minggu sebagai hari bangkitnya Yesus(Yoh 20:1).
Yesus hanya untuk Israel, benarkah?
Sebuah kebenaran tidak mungkin sebagian benar sebagian salah, mari kita meneliti apakah Yesus hanya untuk umat Israel atau untuk seluruh umat manusia di dunia? Berikut adalah (lagi-lagi) Facebook notes dari akun Jalan Avraham
notes bersangkutan: https://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=10150408077595454
Facing Fear
These summary were taken from Pastor Mark Driscoll of Mars Hill Church’s sermon titled “Jesus and Anxiety (Luke 12:23-34)”, as part of the ongoing series of sermon “Luke: Investigating The Man Who Is God”. I (Calvin) added some things I think necessary.
Death of Judas
Matthew 27:5 (NIV)
So Judas threw the money into the temple and left. Then he went away and hanged himself.
Acts 1:18 (NIV)
With the reward he got for his wickedness, Judas bought a field; there he fell headlong, his body burst open and all his intestines spilled out.
If you compare these two verses, you will find two differences:
- How Judas died; hanged or fell and caused his body burst open.
- Did Judas use his thirty silver coins to buy the field, or throw it into the temple instead?
Kasih Seorang Ayah
Diambil dari sebuah kisah nyata di Amerika Serikat, dan sebuah kisah nyata dalam kehidupan kita.
Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
1 Corinthians 13:4-7 (NKJV)
1 Corinthians 13:4-7 (NKJV)
Interupsi dari Tuhan…
[BA-Devotional] Interupsi dari Tuhan
Dikutip dari: http://yesaya.indocell.net/id236.htm
Aku: Bapa di surga …
Bapa: Ya?
Aku: Jangan menyela. Aku sedang berdoa.
Bapa: Tapi kamu memanggil-Ku.
Aku: Memanggil-Mu? Aku tidak memanggil-Mu. Aku sedang berdoa.
Bapa di surga….
Bapa: Nah, ya’kan, kamu melakukannya lagi.
On the “Contradictions” of the Death of Judas
[BA-Contradictions] Death of Judas
by Calvin Limuel
I think you’ve heard much about this confusing so-called “contradiction” about Judas’ death. So let’s see our two sources of confusion:
Matthew 27:5 (NIV)
So Judas threw the money into the temple and left. Then he went away and hanged himself.
Acts 1:18 (NIV)
With the reward he got for his wickedness, Judas bought a field; there he fell headlong, his body burst open and all his intestines spilled out.
Tips-Tips Cara Berdosa
Wah ada yang baru, saya ngajarin cara berdosa? Nggak juga sih, itu biar judulnya menjual ajah 
. Lagipula, apa perlu berdosa diajarkan?
Semua tentu tahu dong, cerita bagaimana Adam dan Hawa jatuh ke dalam dosa, ya kan? Dari sekolah minggu dari TK kayaknya juga udah diajarin kan? Jadi ga harus diceritakan lagi dong? Yah kalo ga tau ceritanya bisa dibaca di Kejadian 3.
Dulu kalo kita belajar di sekolah minggu, Adam dan Hawa jatuh ke dalam dosa, gara-gara makan buah yang dilarang, karena ga taat. Itu waktu di TK ato SD, terus waktu SMP kita diajarin lagi lebih dalam yaitu gara-gara pengen sama dengan Allah. Apa seperti itu saja? Yuk kita makin mendalami perikop ini. Continue reading
Baptism Methods
Bismi Yasu’ al-Masiha, Rabbina wa Mukhalisina’.
Concerning Sacrament of Baptism, we recognize three methods of baptism:
- Immersion/Submersion – Participant is drowned in water and is risen up again.
- Affusion – Water is poured on participant’s head, thus soaking him/her with water.
- Aspersion – Water is sprinkled on participant’s head.
Immersion is mostly practiced as the early practice in Judaism and early Christianity, currently in Pentecostal and Charismatic Churches, also in Orthodox Churches. While Aspersion is mostly practiced in Roman Catholic, Reformed and Methodist Churches,
And we recognize several baptistmal formula as such:
- “I baptize you in the name of…”
- - … the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit (reading of Matthew 28:19)
- - … the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit- … the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit: Jesus Christ.
- - … the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, that is, Lord Jesus Christ. (the most complete sentence majorly used in my Church, GPdI (Gereja Pantekosta di Indonesia) and its overseas churches (IPRF, IPFC, Maranatha Ministry)
- - … Jesus (such is usually done by Jesus’ Name or Jesus-Only Movement, like Oneness Pentecostal churches)
- - et cetera.