Tri-Youth

Seven Steps to Perfect Dating, Part 2

March 4, 2011 | by Dmitriy Belous | Category: English Thursdays 1 Comment

Dating can be one of the greatest or one of the worst experiences in your life. Doing it God’s way according to God’s Word can bring joy and delight. Remember, dating is a gift from God, but Satan has his way of counterfeiting, distorting, and destroying that which can be good and enjoyable. By following these steps, you will look back on your dating (that is if you are not married already) with gratitude and not regret!

Steps 3, 4 and part of 5 were covered during this English Thursday.

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Seven Steps to Perfect Dating, Part 1

January 28, 2011 | by Dmitriy Belous | Category: English Thursdays No Comments

Dating can be one of the greatest or one of the worst experiences in your life. Doing it God’s way according to God’s Word can bring joy and delight. Remember, dating is a gift from God, but Satan has his way of counterfeiting, distorting, and destroying that which can be good and enjoyable. By following these steps, you will look back on your dating (that is if you are not married already) with gratitude and not regret!

This English Thursday covers first two of the seven steps.

Download the handout in PDF format:
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Real Treasure

September 2, 2010 | by Yuriy Dolzhanskiy | Category: English Thursdays No Comments

What are your values in life? What do you treasure and cherish the most? How much time and effort do you dedicate to various things during the day?

Average statistics of how much time we put into different activities:
Work – 8 hrs/day
School – 12 hrs/day
Cell phones – 2.5hrs/day
23.2 hrs/wk on internet (almost like a part-time job!)
7.5 hrs on Facebook/week
17.3 billion of hrs people spent on Myspace since it was up

What about you? If you call yourself a Christian, how much time do you spend reading and studying the Bible? How much time do you dedicate to witnessing to people? Statistics say that only ~2% of Christians witness to nonbelievers.

Bible tells us about men who valued people and time with God. Jesus Christ also valued people; He valued you and me so much that He decided to come to earth and be punished because of our sin. He was bruised, beaten for our transgressions and died on the cross. He poured His blood to give us salvation and eternal life with Him in heaven.

What is our answer to God’s love to us? Do we treasure what God treasures? Is God above all in our lives?

“For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also” Mat.6:21

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Walls

July 30, 2010 | by Dmitriy Belous | Category: English Thursdays 1 Comment

Many of us have heard the saying “this person has walls in his or her life”. And we usually associate that saying with negative connotations: he is closed minded, or he is legalistic, or he is too strict, and so on. But are all “walls” bad? Can there be some “walls” which we should build in our lives? “Walls” that will protect our spiritual being from corruptions of this world?

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Liberal vs Conservative

June 8, 2010 | by Dmitriy Belous | Category: English Thursdays No Comments

Liberals and conservatives. We hear these words thrown around very often. But often times we do not even know the true meaning behind these two Christian world views. While accusing some to be liberal Christians, you might end up being one yourself, because actually your source of authority is not Bible alone. Maybe it’s Bible and feelings, or Bible and human logic. But whatever it may be, liberal source of authority boils down to three possibilities: reason, feelings, conscience. Conservative view holds to the authority of Holy Scriptures alone.

Who or what is your source of authority? Who or what dictates your Christian knowledge?

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Two forms of God’s revelations

April 12, 2010 | by Dmitriy Belous | Category: English Thursdays, Thursdays No Comments

It is believed that God is revealed to people in two forms: general revelation and special revelation.

The general revelation of God is expressed in the nature of the world (the coherent composition of earth, ocean, mountains, animals in all its power) and in the nature of mankind (peoples ability to think, to feel, to express emotions, to have spiritual needs and desires, etc.). The general revelation is passed onto ALL people on this planet.

The special revelation was intended only for certain people and at certain times. In Old Testament, that special revelation often came through prophesy, dreams, vision, etc. The special revelation in the New Testament is revealed to people when they see and accept Jesus Christ as their personal Savior.

As far as the Bible, this Book is not just a collection of God’s revelations over the course of the history. The Bible is the Word of God, and it also explains God’s character and His will towards our lives.

A person can get saved only through the special revelation of Jesus Christ as their personal Savior.

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God’s Love

March 1, 2010 | by Pastor Jan Vezikov | Category: English Thursdays No Comments

Are you in the storm? Not the physical kind of storm that New Hampshire underwent only a few days ago, but the spiritual kind of storm. As one preacher once said, everyone is either approaching a storm, going through the storm, or getting out of the storm at this very moment in life. And as crazy as it may sound, but those storms are a display of God’s love for us, just as the storm in Mark 4:35-51 was a display of God’s love.

For this month’s English Thursday we had Jan, pastor of Grace Church in Boston, MA, visit us and share on God’s love.

Grace Church website: http://www.gracechurchboston.org/

Podcast: Download (Duration: 41:39 — 11.9MB)

Sharing the Gospel

February 14, 2010 | by Dmitriy Belous | Category: English Thursdays No Comments

The Gospel of Jesus Christ is the Good News! The Good News in one sentence is that Jesus Christ, the God’s Son, came to this earth and died for our sins, and then He was raised from the dead. Gospel is 100% based on the grace of God towards men. Men are too sinful to offer anything in return for the salvation that God offers in the Gospel.

Christians came a long way. Today there are millions of churches worldwide, hundreds of Christian educational institutions. There is an entire Christian sub-culture that exists today, but it is nothing if it not based on the Gospel. A church may have the best building, the professional choir, the most eloquent preachers, but none of these things saves people. People can only get saved when they embrace the Gospel.

If we are to be called Christians, it is our job to spread the Gospel and be the light to this world!

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Holy Spirit

November 4, 2009 | by Pastor John Cerrato Jr. | Category: English Thursdays No Comments

This English Thursday we had a guest speaker from First Baptist Church in Manchester (on Union St.) – pastor John. He shared about the need of the power of the Holy Spirit for living, for serving, for purity, and for prayer. Acts 1:8 says “But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you…” This power that the author of Acts talks about is the kind of latent power that is used of the dynamite. It does not go off right away, but it does go off later – when God needs it!

In the second half of the study, pastor John answered the following questions:

• Have you experienced this power of the Holy Spirit in such a way that you had no doubt about it?
• What do you tell someone who knows that they live in sin, but just can’t get rid of it?
• What about those who live in guilt over their past sins?

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Three classes of men

October 3, 2009 | by Dmitriy Belous | Category: English Thursdays No Comments

According to Christian teachings, the humankind can be divided into three major classes: natural men, carnal men, and spiritual men.

Natural men are people who were not “born again”. Ever since Adam has sinned (Genesis ch.3), people are born into this world as natural men. The Spirit of God does not abide in natural men, and they are not saved. Once natural men recognize the sin in which they live and repent before God genuinely, they become Christians and exit the category of natural men.

However, once they become Christians they can either fall into the crowd called carnal men or grow into spiritual men. Even though carnal Christians have the Spirit of God, the power of it is muted and their life is controlled by their flesh. Carnality is one of the biggest problems among Christians today. As Christians, we must aspire to become spiritual men who’s life is not dominated by flesh or by the things of this world, but by the power of God within us!

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