Conferinta de Misiune la Londra – Provocările Transculturale și Rolul Misiologic al Bisericii Creștine Octombrie 18-20, 2013

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Biserica Creștină Penticostală Peniel
Londra 1-5 Brampton Grove,
inside of Salvation Army Hendon Central
United Kingdom, London Post code:NW4 4AE.

Invitați:
Mircea Deteșan
Daniel Bujeniță
Mircea Deteșan Jr.

David Wilkerson in Romania – Predica de la Biserica Elim Timisoara 14 Mai 1999

THIS VIDEO has just been uploaded, from David Wilkerson’s 1999 visit to Timisoara, Romania Elim Pentecostal Church. The translator is Pastor Nelu Filip. Thanks to Cristian Draghici for the link.

Un video pretios, incarcat cu o zi in urma cu fratele David Wilkerson, din vizita lui in Timisoara pe data de 14 mai 1999. Mesajul a fost tradus de Pastorul Nelu Filip.

David Wilkerson a plecat la Domnul in 27 Aprilie 2011. Charisma magazine, o revista crestina a raportat trecerea lui David Wilkerson astfel:

David Wilkerson, founder of World Challenge Ministries, was killed April 27 in a car accident in east Texas. Wilkerson was well-known for his best-selling book,The Cross and the Switchblade, in which he told how he pioneered a minstry to gang members and drug addicts in New York City in 1958. Soon after, he founded Teen Challenge, today a worldwide ministry reaching people with life-controlling habits. Wilkerson, who was 79, was buried during a private ceremony in Tyler, Texas, on May 2. For an online tribute to Wilkerson that includes photos, videos and memories of his 50-plus years of ministry, visit wilkerson.charismamag.com.

Scrie Vasilica Croitor intr-un articol: Vestea morții lui David Wilkerson a făcut înconjurul lumii cu o viteză uimitoare. În câteva ore de la publicarea știrii pe situl Charisma, serverele au căzut din pricina unui trafic record în istoria sitului. Ceva m-a mișcat în mod special în relatarea inițială pe care a făcut-o Steve Strang. Iată cum explica editorul atenția acordată de lumea întreagă:

Aceasta s-a întâmplat fiindcă David Wilkerson […] a fost un model de integritate și și-a încheiat lucrarea bine, într-o vreme în care unii teleevangheliști sunt surprinși de fotografi în țări străine cu alte femei, alții sunt dați în vileag pentru activități homosexuale secrete, în timp ce critică public obiectivele homosexualilor. Wilkerson a fost o întruchipare a virtuții, iar influența sa a fost imensă.

VIDEO by Criste Adrian

14 Mai 1999

16 Mai 1999

78 people killed in a Pakistani church by Taliban suicide bombers, 141 others were wounded

Story and photo #1 & 3 from The Houston Chronicle

Please pray for our brothers and sisters in Pakistan, as violence against Christians now seems to be erupting here.  Pakistani officials are calling it the worst attack on the Christian minority in years, and the deadliest on record for Pakistan, according to Irfan Jamil, the bishop of the eastern city of Lahore..

The bombings, detonated almost simultaneously by 2 taliban members,  came just as 400 worshippers stepped outside the church to share a meal on the front lawn. There are 78 dead, including 34 women and 7 children. Of the 141 wounded, 37 were children.  If you click on the link to the Houston Chronicle, they are featuring 22 photos (some graphic) of this incident. Sometimes, those of us outside the Persecuted Church geographical sphere need to SEE some of the carnage in order to feel for our brothers and sisters and understand what Persecution really looks like. You cannot help but weep, in viewing some of those photos.

Photo credit The New York Times

Pray for strength and courage for those undergoing persecution, and for peace that only God can bring. Thank Him that His grace is sufficient for their needs (2 Cor 12:9). Pray that their faith will not fail, but that their suffering will draw them closer to Him and increase their faith.

The Houston Chronicle reports:

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — A pair of suicide bombers blew themselves up amid hundreds of worshippers at a historic church in northwestern Pakistan on Sunday, killing 78 people in the deadliest-ever attack against the country’s Christian minority.

A wing of the Pakistani Taliban claimed responsibility for the bombing, raising new questions about the government’s push to strike a peace deal with the militants to end a decade-long insurgency that has killed thousands of people.

The Jundullah arm of the Taliban said they would continue to target non-Muslims until the United States stopped drone attacks in Pakistan’s remote tribal region. The latest drone strike came Sunday, when missiles hit a pair of compounds in the North Waziristan tribal area, killing six suspected militants.

The attack on the All Saints Church, which wounded 141 people, occurred as worshippers were leaving after services to get a free meal of rice offered on the front lawn, said a top government administrator, Sahibzada Anees.

„There were blasts and there was hell for all of us,” said Nazir John, who was at the church in the city’s Kohati Gate district along with at least 400 other worshippers. „When I got my senses back, I found nothing but smoke, dust, blood and screaming people. I saw severed body parts and blood all around.”

Survivors wailed and hugged one another in the wake of the blasts. The white walls of the church, which first opened in the late 1800s, were pockmarked with holes caused by ball bearings contained in the bombs to cause maximum damage. Blood stained the floor and the walls. Plates filled with rice were scattered across the ground.

The attack was carried out by two suicide bombers who detonated their explosives almost simultaneously, said police officer Shafqat Malik.

The 78 dead included 34 women and seven children, said Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan. Another 37 children were among the 141 wounded, he said.

The number of casualties from the blasts was so high that the hospital ran short of caskets for the dead and beds for the wounded, said Mian Iftikhar Hussain, a former information minister of surrounding Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province who was on the scene.

„This is the deadliest attack against Christians in our country,” said Irfan Jamil, the bishop of the eastern city of Lahore.

Pope Francis led several thousand people in a prayer for the victims while on a visit to Sardinia. Those who carried out the attack, he said, „took the wrong choice, one of hatred and war.”

One of the wounded, John Tariq, who lost his father in the attack, demanded of those behind the bombing: „What have we done wrong to these people? Why are we being killed?”

Ahmad Marwat, who identified himself as the spokesman for the Jundullah wing of the Pakistani Taliban, claimed responsibility for the attack.

Read the entire story here – The Houston Chronicle

Photo By Muhammed Muheisen via The Houston Chronicle . A Pakistani woman, center, comforts another as they mourn over the coffins of their relatives, who were killed in a suicide attack on a church, in Peshawar, Pakistan, Sunday, Sept. 22, 2013.

Related articles

The most updated number of deaths as of 3 pm NY time zone is 78 deaths.

• Suicide attack on Pakistani church kills 75 people (nydailynews.com)
• Suicide bombers kill 78 Christians outside Pakistani church (haaretz.com)
• Suicide Attack On Pakistani Church Kills 78 People – NPR (npr.org)

Sometimes God uses a child to teach us (photo) Dumnezeu ne invata si prin copii

From photographer Kendisan Seruyan…via twentytwowords.com

ROMANIAN:

Putem sa invatam multe si de la copii
Romani 12:12 „Bucuraţi-vă în nădejde. Fiţi răbdători în necaz. Stăruiţi în rugăciune.”
Matei 18:3 ,,Adevărat vă spun că, dacă nu vă veţi întoarce la Dumnezeu şi nu vă veţi face ca nişte copilaşi, cu nici un chip nu veţi intra în Împărăţia cerurilor.

ENGLISH:

We can learn quite a bit from our children too!

Romans 12:12 Rejoice in hope, be patient in tribulation, be constant in prayer.
Matthew 18:3 “Truly, I say to you, unless you turn and become like children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.

What a friend we have in Jesus – Southern Gospel style

Photo credit www.taringa.net

What a friend we have in Jesus,
all our sins and griefs to bear!
What a privilege to carry
everything to God in prayer!
O what peace we often forfeit,
O what needless pain we bear,
all because we do not carry
everything to God in prayer.

Have we trials and temptations?
Is there trouble anywhere?
We should never be discouraged;
take it to the Lord in prayer.
Can we find a friend so faithful
who will all our sorrows share?
Jesus knows our every weakness;
take it to the Lord in prayer.

Are we weak and heavy laden,
cumbered with a load of care?
Precious Savior, still our refuge;
take it to the Lord in prayer.
Do thy friends despise, forsake thee?
Take it to the Lord in prayer!
In his arms he’ll take and shield thee;
thou wilt find a solace there.

What a friend we have in Jesus,
all our sins and griefs to bear!
What a privilege to carry
everything to God in prayer!

Cluster Pluckers – VIDEO by Arendientje

Matt Chandler – The Gospel in 2 minutes

Matt Chandler breaks down the Gospel for us in a new and refreshing way. VIDEO by Radicals4J Photo credit thegospelcoalition.org

The Gospel is

… that there is this infinite, almighty, all-knowing, all-powerfull Creator God who created all things for His glory.

… and you and I have belittled that, belittled His name, belittled His glory.

Everyone of us have at one time or another, actually currently believe that our way is better is better than God’s.

We fail to acknowledge, giving glory for the gifts He’s given us. We question His rule and His authority, while at the same time doing that with the brain He gave us and holds together… and the lungs and the air that He gave us to breathe with.

This is the great blasphemy of the universe.

So, we’ve all belittled God, and God being JUST, RIGHT, and HOLY, is NOT going to allow the belittlement of His name. God then, not being able to spare wrath, sends CHRIST in the flesh and crushes Him. And in so doing, pours out His wrath against the children of God, onto the SON, killing Him. Then GOD raises Him from the dead, and that same power that raised God from the dead is now at WORK in those who BELIEVE.

THIS IS THE GOSPEL:

That you and I have right standing before God, not by our efforts, not by our works, not by our skill, not by whether or not we do this or don’t do that. We are justified before God by the cross of Christ alone.

Your lust? You’re not gonna be able to fix it. Your bitterness? You’re not gonna be able to fix it. Your rage, anger, those deviances that have been following you around? You don’t possess the power of life & death. You can’t resurrect anything! Christ can. That’s the good news. So, we don’t celebrate us… that’s why we continually celebrate Him…

…we boast in the cross, and the cross alone!

 

Psalm 8 & Creation Calls by Brian Doerksen (exceptional video)

Photo credit www.damascuschristianschool.org

Psalm 8

For the director of music. According to gittith. A psalm of David.

¹ Lord, our Lord,
how majestic is your name in all the earth!

You have set your glory
in the heavens.
² Through the praise of children and infants
you have established a stronghold against your enemies,
to silence the foe and the avenger.
³ When I consider your heavens,
the work of your fingers,
the moon and the stars,
which you have set in place,
⁴ what is mankind that you are mindful of them,
human beings that you care for them?

⁵ You have made them a little lower than the angels
and crowned them with glory and honor.
⁶ You made them rulers over the works of your hands;
you put everything under their feet:
⁷ all flocks and herds,
and the animals of the wild,
⁸ the birds in the sky,
and the fish in the sea,
all that swim the paths of the seas.

⁹ Lord, our Lord,
how majestic is your name in all the earth!

Photo credit www.popscreen.com

Creation Calls

by Brian Doerksen
I have felt the wind blow,
Whispering your name
I have seen your tears fall,
When I watch the rain.
(Refrain)
How could I say there is no God?
When all around creation calls!!
A singing bird, a mighty tree,
The vast expanse of open sea
(Musical interlude)
Gazing at a bird in flight,
Soaring through the air.
Lying down beneath the stars,
I feel your presence there.
I love to stand at ocean shore
And feel the thundering breakers roar,
To walk through golden fields of grain
With endless bloom horizons fray.
Listening to a river run,
Watering the Earth.
Fragrance of a rose in bloom,
A newborns cry at birth.
(Refrain)
I love to stand at ocean shore
And feel the thundering breakers roar,
To walk through golden fields of grain
With endless bloom horizons fray
I believe
I believe
I believe
(Interlude)
I believe
I believe
I believe just like a child
(Choir I believe..)
I believe

2nd song, lyrics from Wikipedia:

VIDEO by Arendientje  : This [high quality HD 1080p] music video is meant to take a look at the wonder and majesty of God’s creation and to glorify Him. Music nature documentary of God’s beautiful Creation, with Psalm 8 and two gospel and worship songs. Praise the Lord!!! Amen! Lyrics by http://www.lyricsmode.com/

and here’s the original video-  Uploaded on Feb 11, 2008 Music by Brian Doerksen http://www.briandoerksen.com. You can buy the „Planet Earth” series DVD collection here – amazon.com/Planet-Earth-Co… The BranchChurch: Utilizing footage from the BBC Planet Earth Series, we take a look at the wonder and majesty of God’s creation. Set to the song, „Creation Calls” by Brian Doerksen, this stunning glimpse of God’s masterpiece is meant to glorify Him and draw the mind to new places of intimacy with Him. VIDEO by The Branch