Kingdom of God

September 15, 2016 was the best day of my life. Earlier that day, I handed in a paper titled Passions and Desires. However little did I know, that God was going to reveal incredible things to me and the passions and desires I had written about where going to align with God’s kingdom. Thursday, September 15, 2016 was the day I experienced God’s kingdom and His shalom here on earth so beautifully and perfectly. The story begins a little earlier than Thursday. Last week, a man by the name of Paul

way; Kingdom of God. "The time is fulfilled, and the Kingdom of God is at hand. Repent, and believe in the gospel." (Mark 1:14-15) Gospel in English derives from godspel, meaning "good news." Similarly, in the Greek in which Mark wrote, evangelion means "good tidings." When the writer of the gospel of Mark says “The beginning of the good news”, 1. it is obvious from his opening sentence that he is writing about news he thinks will benefit people. The good news is not only that there is a God, but

chapter 5-7, Jesus only preached about the kingdom of God. So that people were able to know what they had to do so as to enter the kingdom of God. For example, they shouldn 't perform adultery, shouldn 't murder, shouldn 't divorce and the greatest of all the lesson is "Love your neighbor as you love yourself." The "sermon on the mount" began with Jesus teaching Beatitudes, where he described the kingdom of God. He taught that those entitled to the kingdom of God are the mourners, poor in spirit and others

start to end with Jon. However, our stories do not end there. We as followers of Christ are called to further His kingdom. In those moments we are called we may not always see the deeper meaning beyond the call. We do not always see the needs of people around us and there is always this lurking question of how we can further his kingdom. We, as individuals, see furthering God’s kingdom in different ways. Some may see it as going abroad and telling people about Christ. Some may see it as purely doing

searching, worshipping and getting access to God or goddess. For instance Muslims pray because they are commanded to pray five times a day and strict guidelines are laid down for this. Buddhists also involve prayer pray through form of meditation and soul searching; Hindus pray and offer gifts to their many gods and in Christianity,

The rich language in the Bible is great in word picture, charting the way people have found God, and how God have found people. God using terms from their experience: rock, strong tower, fortress, and many more. Jesus too, used illustrations from everyday experience. Stories, particularly those of Jesus, told to bring about life, especially life in the kingdom of God. Parable means a putting together with purposes of comparison and new understanding. Parables apply pictures such as metaphors or comparisons

Galilean ministry that stick out to me. The stories that stick out to me are, The Sermon on the Mount, the story of the Pharisees trying to trick Christ, and the third is the story of when Jesus fed 5,000 people! All these stories show the power of God and the transparent teachings of Christ. In Mark chapter 7, we find the story of Jesus and His Disciples eating, and they are approached by the Pharisees. The Pharisees goal always was to find fault in Jesus. They Pharisees were more concerned about

Creation was also not an accident. Plantinga writes the creation was simply an act that was “fitting” for God and he states "the whole difference between construction and creation is…that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists”. The chapter concludes by discussing the creation of man in the image of God and as such, we should offer praise to Him. In the Chapter 3 entitled “The Fall”, Plantinga calls God’s creation a

The Upside Down Kingdom The main point of Kraybill’s, The Upside Down Kingdom is to make the readers understand that in God’s kingdom, the world is turned upside down. Kraybill is saying that the people who live at the top of the pyramid such as wealthy, and powerful people who are not humble, will live at the bottom of the pyramid in God’s kingdom. We need to help the poor, and the hungry. A few chapters that support Kraybill’s thesis are chapters one, six, and eleven. Chapter one, Down

receive the Kingdom of God like a child will never enter the Kingdom of God” (10:15). Just after Jesus turns around and said to his disciples “How hard it will be for rich people to enter the Kingdom of God!” (10:23), Jesus speaks to them about his death the third time and how he will be handed over to the chief priests and condemned to death, but will rise again. As to the genre of this periscope, it is much like the story before it 10:13-16, where the children will enter the Kingdom of God without