Using topic notes in E-SwordResources:Explorations of Faith. Studies in Hebrews 11. Topic note for E-sword. Download and unzip to C:\Program Files\e-sword.Psalm 50 for e-sword. Topic module. Download and unzip to C:\Program Files\e-sword.Outline of Theology for e-sword. Topic moduleNote: The installation files for both e-sword 8x and e-sword 9x can also be downloaded from e-sword-users.org:Explorations of Faith - 8.x Explorations of Faith - 9.x Outline of Theology -8.x Outline...
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(Lit files (You need MSReader to read this)Revival Lectures - Charles Fin...
Rocketing Prices Make Vegetables and Fruits a Luxury in India
Prices of agro-products soar higher in India, making fruits and vegetables almost a luxury. The Times of India reports: "The price of almost every vegetables except onion and potato has gone up to 25 to 30 per cent in the wholesale market and retail price staggering up to 45 to 50 per cent. A random market survey revealed an increase in the price of spinach to Rs 40-45 from Rs 10-15 kg a few days back."The price of tomato has gone up to Rs 55-60 from Rs 40 a kg and capsicum to Rs 60-80 from Rs 40 per kg at the start of this month. The price of...
The Rain
How blissfully dribbles the rainFuming over surfaces, flooding the drains.Drops after drops, their unceasing train,Make little oceans along the lanes.Ho! A child darts over the muddy banksThen sweeps into a messy swamp.His cries exhilarating draw in the ranksOf shirtless soldiers surfing the swamp.What peal of thunder, what cloud now bursts!The sky's now blistered to heal the earth!The wind brings shivers, the flood brings dirt!Yet, all together, they vanquish the dearth!See, the pearls now glitterIn the shimmering sun;As colors bend over,The rain...
1 Peter 3:19-20: Did Jesus Go to Hell?
1. Most scholars such as Albert Barnes, Adam Clarke, John Calvin and John Wesley believed that this referred to Christ's preaching to the people in the days of Noah. Through the preaching of Noah, he strove with men (Genesis 6:3; something like in 2 Corinthians 5:19; also see 1Peter 1:11; 1Corinthians 10:4, 9; Hebrews 4:2).2. Another interpretation, especially by the Roman Catholic Church, is found in the Apostle's Creed affirmation that Jesus descended into hell. It is based on 1 Peter 3:19, 4:6; Acts 2:27; Romans 10:7; Ephesians 4:9; Revelation...
Breaking the Barriers in World Missions
Breaking the Barriersin World MissionsIn Luke 10:2, Jesus made an important statement about our chronological placement in God's missionary plan: we are in the age of harvest - at the ends of time (in the end of times).The implications of it is that despite the apparent hostility of some mission fields, the fact abides that the world was already ready for harvesting at the time Jesus spoke these words. The coming of Jesus marked the beginning of the Harvest age and the end of times. The missionary has no time for such words as "hostility", "unresponsiveness",...
No Short Road to Success - Sermon
NO SHORT ROAD TO SUCCESSSuccessful living: What do you dream to be? You must dream to be a man or woman after God’s own heart!Meaning of Success Achieving the end, not the meansNot money, etc. which are means not end. Hinduism – artha (material possessions), kama (pleasure), dharma (duty), moksha (liberation; moksha is final end) Aristotle would ask: why moksha? To be happy, would be the answer. Happiness. Everything points to happiness, but happiness doesn’t point to any other further state. It is the end. Health, wealth, and relationships are...
12 Principles of Success (Sermon by Dr. Matthew Thomas)
Message by Dr. Matthew ThomasPentecostal Church, Itarsi, India1. If you don’t use what you got it will rot2. Don’t let a setback make you sit back, arrange for a come back3. The seed you sow is the only seed that will grow4. What you don’t overcome will overcome you5. You can be exempted, when you are tempted6. If you need a lift use your gift, if you don’t use your gift, you will drift, sift, rift7. Change your convictions and make them your addictions8. You will never survive if you compromise9. Don’t allow the failures of the past to dictate...
PEARL of Great Price - Sermon Acrostic
Pearl of Great PriceMatthew 13:44P Precious in God’s sight. E Exclusive by God’s design.A Anticipated for righteousnessR Redeemed by His blood.L Listed for servi...
Gaudapada's Karika and Christian Theology
Sri Gaudapada, spiritual teacher of Sri Sankaracharya, wrote a Karika (expository treatise) in the early 8th century A.D. It was meant to provide a systematic and rational exposition of the main teachings of the Upanisads. It argues for the doctrine of non-dualism, which basically states that reality is non-dual (the Indian philosophers hesitated to use the term “monism” since they thought that reality can only be talked of via negative). It must be remembered that salvation or liberation in Hinduism is chiefly from the cycle of rebirth; that...
Faith and Knowledge
From the author's online book Explorations of Faith (2009).Obviously, one’s way of looking at life is largely determined by one’s pre-understanding. It influences one’s way of thinking. One’s framework of beliefs, or worldview, determines to a great extent one’s interpretation of reality; for reality is never taken as it is – all belief is interpreted reality since reality by itself and in itself lacks meaning. Meaning is always found in a relation of things; that relating of things is interpretation. But meaning imposed (eisogesis) is not true...
Aristotelian Determinism: A Solution
Rational Analysis Truth is absolute, unchangeable, final. Future truth must also be absolute, unchangeable, and final. Therefore, future truth is necessary truth, not contingent.Empirical Analysis In those things which are not continuously actual, potentiality is multi-directional. Therefore, events don’t occur of necessity.Solution: Truth value in future statements exists as potentiality and not as necessity, since it is quantified by the now. This means that, future statements are contingent upon time. Past statements, however, are necessarily...
Amazing Love
Amazing love of JesusNever minding my scarlet stains,He holds me up in His arms of gloryAnd covers my heart with His unfailing grace.The sun may despise my heart of darknessThe moon from me may cover her face.But never has His light once failed me,He holds me up in His heart's embrace.I'm wrong, not once I've fumed overMy heart in doubt His Name disgraced.But still can I but love my Jesus,My Lord, my friend, my only praise?The stars above me hung in silenceAs thoughts confusing marred my face.Yet, deep within me was His assurance;He'd love me through...
Does God Know the Future? Epistemic Concerns and Rational Fideism
From the Appendix of Epistemics of Divine Reality (2007, 2009), pp. 197-199.Divine foreknowledge refers to God’s possession of the knowledge of future. The problem is whether God’s omniscience entails that He actually knows our future free actions. Rational fideism sees that the paradox is because of the distinct lines of rational and empirical epistemics by which theologians approach the issue. For instance, Norman Geisler in the rationalist way, and appealing to transcendence and infinity, argues that “An infinite, eternal God knows what we know...
Epistemic Foundations of Religious Worldviews
Man's attempt to understand himself and his world around him can be divided into three ways:1. The way of authority. Much of what we know is based on this secondary source of information. Newspapers, books, teachers, TV shows, social consensus, religious authority, Scriptures, etc are few examples of this. We have epistemic value tags for any given source claiming authority of knowledge. For instance, one might rate a popular newspaper as more credible than a not-so-popular newspaper. Some Indian schools of philosophy do not consider it right for...
