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  • AUTHENTIC with Shawn Boonstra - Parent Trap
    In a world that’s too hectic and angry to listen to the wisdom of past generations, are we unknowingly setting ourselves up for failure? Can honoring one’s parents really enhance lives—even entire civilizations? In this episode on the fifth commandment, Shawn Boonstra answers these questions and sheds light on a dangerous cultural shift that’s redefining authority.
    29 min
  • Primum Deus - #416 - Olhos no Céu (A Casa de Cima 2/2)

    O que fazer para manter os olhos e o foco da minha vida no Céu?

    Minhas anotações:

    Introd.: Col 3:1-4 -

  • Como posso treinar minha mente a pensar nas coisas do alto, a ter os olhos no Céu?
    • Acordar para adorar - se todos os dias…
    • Culto da familia - 
    • Maneira de educar filhos (Orientação da Criança)
    • Comida e bebida - afetam meu pensamento, decisões morais e espirituais, minha inclinação para pecar. São indicadores de onde estão postos os meus olhos. 
    • A musica que ouço - ou aumenta o meu desejo por este mundo ou pelo Ceu. O ritmo, o estilo musical, é mais parecido com as coisas deste mundo, ou com as coisas do Céu?
    • O entretenimento - os filmes ou seriados que assisto me aproximam das coisas do Céu ou me prendem cada vez mais à terra? 
    • As minhas amizades e amores - são as com gente que está fazendo planos para estar no Céu, ou é com gente que não tem plano algum para estar lá? Com quem estou namorando?
    • Minha castidade - quando todo meu corpo e mente se inclinam para aproveitar oportunidades de atividade sexual fora do casamento, mas eu confesso isso a Jesus como sendo pecado, e peço a Ele um coração puro (que não tenho naturalmente), estou colocando meus olhos no céu. Quando quebro meu celular, se for preciso, para não deslizar os meus olhos pelas coisas desta terra, então estou dizendo pra mim mesmo para onde estou indo. 
    • Guarda do sábado - parar um dia, não qualquer dia, mas o dia escolhido por Deus, parar na hora escolhida por Ele, vir à casa dEle, como a Biblia indica que devo fazer, e envolver toda minha casa neste processo, sao indicativos de onde quero que meus olhos estejam. 
    • Estudos biblicos - parar uma ou duas noites por semana para estudar a Biblia com alguém, indica onde estão seus olhos. Se você não está levando ninguém para o céu é bem possível que você mesmo não esteja indo pra lá. 
    • Distribuição de livros missionários - 
    • Fundar novas igrejas - 


    Fanny Crosby nao queria receber de volta a visão. Não queria ser distraída daquilo que estava diante dela.


    Mat 6:19-24 -

    • Muitos pensam que quando Jesus se referiu aos dois senhores, estava falando de Deus e o Diabo.
    • Não é o diabo que rivaliza com Deus aqui, mas o dinheiro.
    • Mais gente devota ao consumismo que ao satanismo. 
    • Temos medo do diabo mas atração pelo dinheiro.


    Não é que seja errado ajuntar tesouros na terra. É simplesmente uma tolice. 

    Vamos perder tudo! Como?

    • vamos morrer, e caixão não tem gaveta. Não leva nada. Nu cheguei e nu sairei
    • Apoc 18 prevê a dissolução do sistema econômico mundial. 
    • Em certo momento os que temem a Deus não poderão mais comprar ou vender. 
    • Um pouco antes da volta de Jesus, turbas enfurecidas nos farão fugir deixando tudo para trás. Já iriamos perder tudo de qualquer maneira. 


    O que JESUS diz que devemos fazer?

    Lucas 16:1-15


    Este estado de coisas vai terminar:

    Mat 24:15-22 -


    Apoc 18 - descreve o colapso do sistema financeiro mundial, que era controlado por Babilônia. Todos perdem tudo!

    EGW diz que teremos que fugir de turbas enfurecidas.

    Conselho:

    1 Joao 2:16-17

    1 Tim 6:6-10 -

    1 Tim 6:17-19 -

    Atos 20:20 -

    Mat 25:14-30 -

    44 min
  • Pastor Obed Matus — Sabbath School Bible Study G... - The Nations: Part 1 — Further Thought:

    Allusions Images Symbols: How to Study Prophecy — The Nations: Part 1 — Further Thought:


    Join us as we study the Bible Study Guide for the second quarter of 2025 called Allusions Images Symbols: How to Study Prophecy. We are studying the lesson for week 4 called The Nations: Part 1.    

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    #TheNationsPart1 #FurtherThought #25April2025 #AllusionsImagesSymbolsHowtoStudyProphecy  #SabbathSchool #Week4 #AbundantLife #SecondQuarter2025

    15 min
  • Sabbath School From Home - Genesis 10 - A mighty hunter

    Nations fall short of God's ideals, but removing government usually leads to anarchy. 

    When listing the nations descended from Noah, Genesis 10 points out that Nimrod built a kingdom including places such as Babel and Ninevah. That's somewhat foreboding given our knowledge of the subsequent stories. Although it is good to be counter cultural, is the government (or government in general) always bad? 

    47 min
  • The SeedPod for Kids by Starting With Jesus - Family Problems, Friday
    Every family has its issues! Sometimes there are big problems and sometimes just little issues. We are going to discover the story of Jacob was no exception. With two wives, many children, and Jacob playing favorites, it was a recipe for disaster! Find out what terrible choices were made, but how God was going to use those choices to bring about good.

    Year A Quarter 1 Week 17
    All Bible verses are from the NKJV
    Hymn: Faith is the Victory

    Write to Ms. Katie: [email protected]
    Katie’s Korner: https://startingwithjesus.com/katies-korner/

    Find the Lessons Here:
    Kindergarten https://bit.ly/SeedPodKLessons
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    Connect with Us:
    Website: https://startingwithjesus.com
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    Acknowledgments:
    Bible Readings this week: Anthony
    Podcast Producer: Katie Chitwood
    Sound Engineer: Dillon Austin
    My Bible First, https://bit.ly/SeedPodLesson for use of their Bible Lesson curriculum.
    AudioVerse, https://www.audioverse.org/ for partnering with us and supporting our ministry.
    Lindsey Mills, for writing and performing our SeedPod Kids Theme Song & Background Music.
    To learn more about her music or to get her CD, email her: [email protected] 

    24 min
  • Bible Study - Sabbath School Podcast - Episode 2377 - Lesson 4 - Friday April 25 - Further Thought

    Read Isaiah 44:24–45:13.

    “Little by little, at first in stealth and silence, and then more openly as it increased in strength and gained control of the minds of men, ‘the mystery of iniquity’ carried forward its deceptive and blasphemous work. Almost imperceptibly the customs of heathenism found their way into the Christian church. The spirit of compromise and conformity was restrained for a time by the fierce persecutions which the church endured under paganism. But as persecution ceased, and Christianity entered the courts and palaces of kings, she laid aside the humble simplicity of Christ and his apostles for the pomp and pride of pagan priests and rulers; and in place of the requirements of God, she substituted human theories and traditions. The nominal conversion of Constantine, in the early part of the fourth century, caused great rejoicing; and the world, cloaked with a form of righteousness, walked into the church. Now the work of corruption rapidly progressed. Paganism, while appearing to be vanquished, became the conqueror. Her spirit controlled the church. Her doctrines, ceremonies, and superstitions were incorporated into the faith and worship of the professed followers of Christ.”—Ellen G. White, The Great Controversy, pp. 49, 50.

    In line with the question at the end of Wednesday’s study, are we not all in danger, especially the longer we are here, of setting “aside the humble simplicity of Christ and his apostles” for the pomp, power, accolades, and temptations of the world? If we think we’re not, we are fooling ourselves.

    Discussion Questions:

    When God exiled His people to Babylon, it was a particularly painful moment. Abraham had been called out of Chaldea to establish a covenant people as a light for the planet, and now they were taken away in chains. During their captivity, God showed Israel what might have been if they had been faithful. Nebuchadnezzar, the very head of a system utterly opposed to God, comes to Christ (Daniel 4). At the end of the Israelites’ captivity, God raises up a Persian king to serve as a type of Christ, releasing His people from Babylon and returning them to the Promised Land. Cyrus was not an Israelite, and yet God chose him to demonstrate the plan of salvation to the world as he returned God’s covenant people to Jerusalem. What lessons can we learn about how God views humanity from the fact that He was now using people outside of Israel to accomplish His goals?


    We might not be in Babylon, but how much of Babylon might be in us? How do we recognize this problem, and how can we change?

    13 min
  • Bridges Over Walls - The Wall of History - Lynchings, Slave Bibles, and Justice w/ Taylor Stewart
    If there’s one topic that divides Christian culture in the United States today more than just about any other, it’s the topic of justice. Despite Hebrew and Greek words for justice appearing more than 1,000 times throughout the Bible - the American Christian church is often starkly divided when it comes to how we go about seeking and advocating for justice today.

    While Christian pastors were prominent leaders in the Civil Rights movement and other justice work since the founding of the United States, Christianity has also been used as justification for some of the most horrifying violations of human rights. During the Civil War, the vast majority of white American slave owners used the Bible to justify slavery and racial abuse. The Confederacy was founded as a Christian organization. Many of the most prominent and violent white supremacist groups including the Ku Klux Klan explicitly claimed Christianity as their foundation. And even today, when any marginalized group begins to advocate for fair treatment and freedom from oppression, it tends to be American Christians who are the most resistant and hostile to those efforts. When it comes to what justice actually means here in the present day, Christians tend to be sharply divided.

    In Luke Chapter 4:17-21, Jesus returned to his home town and began to preach. He opened to the book of Isaiah and read a list of things he had come to earth to do. Here are a few of those things: To preach the Good News to the poor. To heal the brokenhearted. To proclaim liberty to the captives and the recovery of sight to the blind. And to set at liberty those who are oppressed.

    In a country built on a legacy of violence and oppression, the question for each of us who want to follow Jesus is - what does He want us to do about it now?

    As a Black kid growing up in Oregon, Taylor Stewart was taught very little about Civil Rights or justice at his Christian school. He grew up, graduated from college, and decided to join a trip to the American South to learn more about this history. While touring Alabama, Mississippi, and Arkansas, Taylor was especially impacted by the National Memorial for Peace and Justice, which memorializes nearly 6500 African American victims of lynching documented between the years of 1865 and 1950. As he read the names and even saw people with his own last name listed, Taylor says that he realized only time and place separated him from the people named in the memorial. As the trip ended and time went by, he found himself wanting to share the history he had learned, and started thinking a lot about a quote from Civil Rights leader John Lewis that says, “If not us, then who? If not now, then when?”

    In 2018, Taylor founded the Oregon Remembrance Project, which works side-by-side with communities that have a history of racial harm to chart a new end to their stories. Most notably, Taylor has worked with the communities of Coos Bay, Oregon, the site of the most widely documented lynching of an African American man in the state, and Grants Pass, Oregon, a former sundown town, to chart a new course toward healing, hope, and historical honesty.

    [Content Warning]: This episode contains a racial slur as part of a historical quote.

    Follow Taylor Stewart and the Oregon Remembrance project by visiting www.oregonremembrance.org or by watching their 2024 OPB Documentary at www.opb.org/article/2024/09/18/oregon-remembrance-project-truth-reconciliation/
    34 min

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