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January 28, 2008
What is the Kingdom of God?
The Kingdom of God is the movement, involvement, the stirring of God's Spirit worldwide.  The Kingdom is every effort of God to remind the world of who He is.  It is God's activity across the globe telling of His great love for us through Jesus Christ.  His Kingdom is His desire that none should perish, but that all would spend eternity with Him in heaven.  It is His rule & reign over everything.  The Kingdom of God is God & His status of ultimate supremacy.

By: Hampton Sims - January 28, 2008 - Public
Category: Good News: the Kingdom of God has come...
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January 28, 2008
"According to Jesus, what does it mean to be loved by God?"
To be loved by God means that you have His attention.  Though He has millions of children, it's as if they all have His face in between their hands all the time, just like a child would hold a daddy's face.

By: Hampton Sims - January 28, 2008 - Public
Category: God Loves & Values You
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January 16, 2008
Define "Compassion"?
Wow, how challenging these questions are!  Compassion is the heartfelt emotion of sympathy toward someone who is suffering in pain, loss, misfortune, etc. paired with the desire to want to act to alleviate the circumstance.  It's sympathy with action.  It's mercy with clothes on.  It's the sufferer's emotion giving rise to the sympathetic's emotion giving rise to some deed performed to address the sufferer's emotion.

By: Hampton Sims - January 16, 2008 - Public
Category: Compassionate - Helping the Hurting
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January 07, 2008
Brief Summary of Jesus

Jesus was born of a virgin.  He was circumsised on the eighth day according to law, left at the temple at 12, & little is written about the rest of His childhood.

As an adult, Jesus was baptized, He taught & preached, performed miracles, lived according to the law, was transfigured, predicted His own death, was betrayed & denied, put to death, buried, & raised again after the Sabbath as the sun was dawning on the first day of the week.

He appeared to hundreds following that, including the men on the road to Emmaus.  He also left His disciples (the 11 left) with the important words of the Great Commission, empowering them with the Holy Spirit to carry His message to the rest of the world.  This final encounter is how we are so privileged to know of the incredible message of the gospel of Jesus today.


By: Hampton Sims - January 07, 2008 - Public
Category: Brief Life Summaries
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