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Hope College

Locality: Varsity Lakes, Queensland

Phone: +61 7 5551 0269

Address: 4/175 Varsity Parade 4227 Varsity Lakes, QLD, Australia

Website: http://www.hopecollege.com/

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20.01.2022 CHINA ILLEGALLY CLOSES CHURCHES Local authorities on Nov.15 raided a church in Taiyuan, Shanxi province during its Sunday service, before detaining the preacher and six other members. According to International Christian Concern (ICC) at around 9:20 a.m., a team of officials hailing from the public security bureau, ethnic and religious affairs bureau, ministry of civil affairs, and police station raided Xuncheng Church as the service was underway. The public security commande...Continue reading

19.01.2022 Have you ever tried to run away from God? Can a mere man hide from the presence of an all-knowing, all-powerful God? God used a reluctant prophet to tell an evil city of his compassion for them. When God calls you to deliver a message to someone you don’t love, will you run, or get angry, or comply? Would it take a great calamity, an earthquake, or a flood for God to get your attention? Learn more bu enrolling today at https://hopecollege.com

18.01.2022 If you think God owes people mercy, you’re no longer thinking about mercy. Have you ever considered the relationship between God’s mercy and justice in the doctrine of election? https://hopecollege.com

17.01.2022 Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God. 1 CORINTHIANS 10:31 Beware of allowing yourself to think that the shallow concerns of life are not ordained of God; they are as much of God as the profound. It is not your devotion to God that makes you refuse to be shallow, but your wish to impress other people with the fact that you are not shallow, which is a sure sign that you are a spiritual prig. Be careful of the production of contemp...t in yourself, it always comes along this line, and causes you to go about as a walking rebuke to other people because they are more shallow than you are. Beware of posing as a profound person; God became a Baby. To be shallow is not a sign of being wicked, nor is shallowness a sign that there are no deeps; the ocean has a shore. The shallow amenities of life, eating and drinking, walking and talking, are all ordained by God. These are the things in which Our Lord lived. He lived in them as the Son of God, and He said that the disciple is not above his Master. Determinedly take no one seriously but God, and the first person you find you have to leave severely alone as being the greatest fraud you have ever known is yourselfm the shallow concerns. Never show the deeps to anyone but God. We are so abominably serious, so desperately interested in our own characters, that we refuse to behave like Christians in the shallow concerns of life. Determinedly take no one seriously but God, and the first person you find you have to leave severely alone as being the greatest fraud you have ever known, is yourself

14.01.2022 Jesus describes the unforgivable sin as the blasphemy of the Holy Spirit. What is this sin, and how do we know if someone is in danger of committing it? The blasphemy against the Holy Spirit was a definite sin. It was a definite, existential moment in a person’s life when they said No to the gospel or No to the work of the Holy Spirit. I was pointing out that Martyn Lloyd-Jones, I think in Preaching and Preachers, said that this was what troubled his congregation the mos...t during the course of his ministry. Most interpreters today view the sin against the Holy Spirit as unbelief, such that the only sin that cannot be forgiven is unbelief. They say that if you are brought before the judgment seat of God and do not believe, then there is no forgiveness, and that is the sin against the Holy Spirit. I’m more with the Puritans. I think that to sin against the Holy Spiritand therefore to commit the unforgivable sinis something one can commit during the course of one’s life rather than pushing it to the very end on the day of judgment. In the first instance, when you’re talking about blasphemy, it has to do with something you say or write. The context in which the warning was given was that the Pharisees were accusing Jesus of doing His miracles by the power of the devil. It was like He said, Be careful; you’re this close. Notice that, at the time of the crucifixion, Jesus said, Father, forgive them for they know not what they do (Luke 23:34). Scripture also says, Had they known, they wouldn’t have crucified the Lord of glory, (1 Cor. 2:8), and so on. I think the blasphemy of the Holy Spirit happens when the Holy Spirit reveals to a person that Jesus is the Christ, and then they accuse Him of being a devil. If you do that, you’re toast. Now, I don’t know whether anybody ever does that, but I don’t think we ought to get away from what the very root meaning of blasphemy isit’s a verbal thing.

11.01.2022 Have mercy upon us, O Lord, have mercy upon us: for we are exceedingly piled with contempt. PSALM 123:3 The thing of which we have to beware is not so much damage to our belief in God as damage to our Christian temper. Therefore take heed to thy spirit, that ye deal not treacherously. The temper of mind is tremendous in its effects, it is the enemy that penetrates right into the soul and distracts the mind from God. There are certain tempers of mind in which we never dare ...indulge; if we do, we find they have distracted us from faith in God, and until we get back to the quiet mood before God, our faith in Him is nil, and our confidence in the flesh and in human ingenuity is the thing that rules. Beware of the cares of this world, because they are the things that produce a wrong temper of soul. It is extraordinary what enormous power there is in simple things to distract our attention from God. Refuse to be swamped with the cares of this life. Another thing that distracts us is the lust of vindication. St. Augustine prayed O Lord, deliver me from this lust of always vindicating myself. That temper of mind destroys the soul’s faith in God. I must explain myself; I must get people to understand. Our Lord never explained anything; He left mistakes to correct themselves. When we discern that people are not going on spiritually and allow the discernment to turn to criticism, we block our way to God. God never gives us discernment in order that we may criticize, but that we may intercede

06.01.2022 Can we know what Jesus was truly like during His time on earth? A first-century physician set out to gather eyewitness testimony of the life, teaching, and ministry of Jesus Christ. The result is a close-up account of a compassionate Savior on His journey to redeem His people. At Hope College, we trace the record of Jesus’ life as told by Luke, the man considered by some to be one of the greatest historians of the ancient world. We show that this gospel is for believers and sceptics alike, written so that you may have certainty (Luke 1:4) about the Son of Man who came to seek and save the lost. https://hopecollege.com

05.01.2022 As Christians, we know that we are new creations in Jesus, so we try to act differently, hoping this will makes us more like him. But changing our outward behaviour doesn’t change our hearts. Only by God’s grace can we be transformed internally. https://hopecollege.com

04.01.2022 Why did it take two touches from Jesus’ hand for a blind man to be healed? At Hope College, we look at the gospel of Mark and contemplate the message Christ conveyed to His disciples by bringing this man from dimness to clarity of sight. https://hopecollege.com

02.01.2022 When Jesus was transfigured in the presence of His closest disciples, His divine glory broke forth, brighter than the sunrise. We must marvel at this transformative moment when Christ gave a glimpse of His exalted majesty. But then we read in Matthew’s gospel in chapter 17, verse 1: Now after six days, Jesus took Peter, James, and John his brother, led them up on a high mountain by themselves, and He was transfigured before them. Now we really hardly ever use the word tran...sfigure in our vocabulary. There’s a passage in the Battle Hymn of the Republic that is, Glory in His bosom that transfigures you and me. But apart from that, we just about never use this term, except with reference to this event. There is another word in English, however, that is used more frequently, and it is the word that does not translate the Greek word that is used here, but it transliterates it. That is, it just brings it right over into the English language, and it is the word, metamorphosis. We’ve heard of Ovid’s poetic work, which was written under the title Metamorphosis. When we were children and took science in elementary school, our first exposure to the idea to metamorphosis was with the extraordinary, interesting experience of the creation of a butterfly. It begins as a worm, a caterpillar who spins a cocoon. And after a period of dormancy, out of this cocoon emerges the magnificently beautiful butterfly. What a transformation, because that’s what the word metamorphosis means. Meta means across or with, and morphology is the study of form. And so, really, the word transformation means the same thing as the word metamorphosis, and we witness that kind of transformation when the worm becomes the butterfly. And so, what the gospel writers are saying here is that Jesus took apart His close inner circle of disciplesPeter, James, and Johnand while they were talking with Him, suddenly before their eyes, Jesus undergoes this startling transformation. And the transformation has to be understood as a temporary breakthrough of glory, because listen to the language that is used to describe what these men saw: His face shone like the sun, and His clothes became as white as the light. Those are the two graphic images that describe Him: His face began to shine like the sun. And so, what the gospel writers are saying here is that Jesus took apart His close inner circle of disciplesPeter, James, and Johnand while they were talking with Him, suddenly before their eyes, Jesus undergoes this startling transformation. And the transformation has to be understood as a temporary breakthrough of glory because listen to the language that is used to describe what these men saw: His face shone like the sun, and His clothes became as white as the light. Those are the two graphic images that describe Him: His face began to shine like the sun.