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Confession, Part 2

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

God created us with ability to sense right from wrong. This ability is called conscience. People who committed sin know what it is like to feel the burden of the guilty conscience. David, for one, after he has sinned with Bathsheba, cried out in Psalm 32:3-4: “When I kept silent, my bones wasted away through my groaning all day long. For day and night Your hand was heavy on me; my strength was sapped as in the heat of summer.”

The remedy for the guilty conscience is the confession – acknowledgement, agreement with – of our sin before God. David, in the same Psalm, continues, “Then I acknowledged my sin to You and did not cover up my iniquity.” By confessing his sin David was able to restore his peace with God. We are called to do the same!

Generally speaking, there can be tree types of confessions depending on the sin committed:

1. Private confession – the sin that has been committed against God has to be confessed before God.
2. Personal confession – the sin committed against our brother or sister in Christ (gossiping, hurting some, etc.) needs to be also confessed before the same brother or sister. In Matthew 5:24 Jesus says “go and be reconciled to them”.
3. Public confession – the sin committed against the church (something that damages the reputation of the church among non-believing community for example), in addition to being confessed before God, also needs to be confessed before the church.
   

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Дружелюбие

October 21, 2011 | by Stan Glotov | Category: Thursdays No Comments

Что такое дружелюбие? Дружелюбие – это любовь к ближнему, друга к другу, расположение к миру (то есть мирное расположение), согласие к взаимной любви и услугам (Толковый Словарь В. Даля). Когда мы думаем об этом слове в контексте церкви, чаще всего приходит на ум картина приветливого и внимательного человека.

И Библия не молчит на эту тему. Как минимум 8 стихов упоминают слово дружелюбие. Петр, в своем первом послании призывает, “Наконец будьте все единомысленны, сострадательны, братолюбивы, милосерды, дружелюбны, смиренномудры” (3:8). Павел делает подобный призыв в послании к Колоссянам 3:15 – “да владычествует в сердцах ваших мир Божий, к которому вы и призваны в одном теле, и будьте дружелюбны“. И Соломон, в своих Притчах, высказывает, “кто хочет иметь друзей, тот и сам должен быть дружелюбным; и бывает друг, более привязанный, нежели брат” (18:24).

Бог хочет чтобы мы были дружелюбны, приветливы, к тем кто окружает нас!

Как проверить себя на дружелюбие? Честно проанализируете свои отношения к данным группам людей:

• К братьям и сёстрам по вере?
• К людям младше или старше возрастом?
• К людям которые первый раз в церкви?
• К гостям или новым членам церкви?
• К тем которые не замечены или нуждаются в поддержке других?

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С наступающим новым годом!

October 18, 2011 | by Stefan Slonevskiy | Category: Emails No Comments

Всем привет!

вы наверно подумали что это письмо либо затерялось где то в интернете
и наконец дошло до вас, либо я поторопился и отослал его на несколько
месяцев раньше чем надо. Ха! Оба варианта не правильны! Мы на самом
деле уже начали подготовку к новому году!

В этом году, если Бог даст будем живы, мы встретим новый год в горах
(как обычно в Singing Hills) с молодежью из Гринфильда и из Вашингтон
ДиСи! Тема нашего новогоднего отдыха будет “Путь к Благословениям”
(Матфея 19:27-29). На протяжении трех дней у нас будут семинары
раскрывающие эту тему, общение по группам с практическим применением
услышанного, просто общения у камина, игры на свежем воздухе,
праздничное новогоднее общение, и многое другое.

Мы начинаем регистрацию предварительно, чтобы все могли взять выходные
и спланировать свое время так, чтобы попасть на все три дня (две
ночи). Регистрация будет открыта до 27ого Ноября. У вас есть полтора
месяца чтобы решить если вы поедите или нет. Пожалуйста
зарегистрируйтесь до этого числа, если вы планируете и можете поехать.
После 27ого, к сожалению, мы не сможем никого допустить.

Регистрацию и подробную информацию об этом событии (цены, расписание,
и т.д.) вы сможете найти здесь: http://www.triyouth.com/new-years/

Спасибо!

С Богом!

Стефа

Молодежное Служение в Воскресение

October 12, 2011 | by Stefan Slonevskiy | Category: Emails No Comments

Всем привет!

в это Воскресение, в 6 часов вечера, в церкви на Юнион Стрит, пройдет
общее молодежное служение на тему “Благоухание Христово” (2
Кор.2:14-16), с участием Ивана Васильевича Музычко. И. В. Музычко -
проповедник, преподаватель Библейских курсов, пастор евангельской
церкви в городе Торонто, Канада, и автор книг “Живое Христианство и
Тайна Беззакония” и “Свет Откровения”.

Пожалуйста подумайте как вы можете принять участие в этом служении.
Ведущий служения С. Должанский.

Мы также будем участвовать в служении нашим совместным молодежным
хором, поэтому просьба к хористам придти на спевку в 5 часов.

Спасибо за внимание!

Стефа

Как Отвечать на Сложные Вопросы, Часть 6

October 7, 2011 | by Vitalik Glotov | Category: Thursdays No Comments

Порой в беседе с людьми не разделяющими наших убеждений мы теряемся или чувствуем себя не комфортно. Библия нас учит что мы “посланники от имени Христова” (2 Кор.5:20), и значит нам надо дать ответ “всякому, требующему у вас отчета в вашем уповании” (1Пет.3:15). Иисус так-же говорит чтобы мы были “мудры, как змии, и просты, как голуби” (Мф.10:16). Цель этой серии научить нас комфортно маневрировать в разговорах о нашей Христианкой вере, и держать, так сказать, контроль над разговором, чтобы направлять его в нужное русло.

В шестой части серии, мы поговорили о том как улучшить свои навыки в наших разговорах с людьми о вере:

1. Предвидьте вопросы или аргументы ваших собеседников, чтобы заранее подготовиться к ним. Лучшие мысли приходят в голову когда мы не под давлением разговора.
2. Размышляйте о прошедших разговорах, что вы сказали правильно, что у вас не получилось, где вы не правильно отреагировали, или где не знали ответа.
3. Практикуйтесь заранее, особенно если вы знаете что предстоящий разговор будет сложным. Попросите вашего друга или подругу помочь вам в этом.

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The ‘Other-ness’ of Christ

October 6, 2011 | by Dmitriy Belous | Category: Devotions No Comments

That being true—and if it is not, perhaps you must just suspend things there until you have had dealings with the Lord—that being true, the Holy Spirit gets to work on that, as I said, to make two or three other things very real to us, the first of which is the altogether ‘other-ness’ of Christ. How altogether other He is from ourselves. Taking the disciples who went into His school—it was not the School of the Holy Spirit in the same sense as ours is, but the result of their association with the Lord Jesus during those three or three and a half years was just the same—the first thing they learned was how other He was from themselves. They had to learn it. I do not think it came to them at the first moment. It was as they went on that they found themselves again and again clashing with His thoughts, His mind, His ways. They would urge Him to take a certain course, to do certain things, to go to certain places; they would seek to bring to bear upon Him their own judgments and their own feelings and their own ideas. But He would have none of it. At the marriage feast in Cana of Galilee, His own mother, with an idea, said, They have no wine. His reply was, “Woman, what have I to do with thee? mine hour is not yet come.” What have I to do with thee? That is a weak translation. Far better, ‘Woman, you and I are thinking in different realms; we have at the moment nothing in common.’ Thus throughout their lives they sought to impinge upon Him with their mentality. No, all the time He was putting them back and showing them how different were His thoughts, His ways, His ideas, His judgments; altogether different. In the end I expect they despaired. He might well have despaired of them had He not known that this was exactly what he was doing in them. Catch that and you have got something helpful. ‘Lord, why is it that I am always caught out, always making a blunder? Somehow or other, I always say and do the wrong thing, I am always on the wrong side! Somehow I never seem to come right in line with You; I despair of ever being right!’ And the Lord says, ‘I am teaching you, that is all; deliberately, quite deliberately. That is exactly what I am bringing you to see. Until you learn that lesson, we shall get nowhere at all. When you have thoroughly learned that lesson, then we can begin constructive work, but at present it is necessary for you to come to the place where you recognize I am altogether other than you are.

T. Austin-Sparks

Bible Studies’ Locations Moved

October 6, 2011 | by Stefan Slonevskiy | Category: Emails No Comments

Hi everyone,

both of tonight’s Bible studies (7PM Bible study of the Gospel of
John, and 8PM Youth Group) have been moved to Russian Church (7A Hall
Rd. Londonderry, NH) for the reason of massive construction in the
Youth Center (aka former Korean Church).

Thanks!

Stefa

The Simplicity of Faith

October 5, 2011 | by Vitalik Glotov | Category: Devotions No Comments

Difficulties Concerning Faith

…the next step in the soul’s progress out of the wilderness of a failing Christian experience into the land that flows with milk and honey, is that of faith. And here, as in the first step, the soul encounters certain kinds of difficulty and hindrance at once.

The child of God who understands the fullness of life available to him through Jesus Christ, and whose heart hungers to experience that fullness, can be assured that this fullness is only to be received by faith. But the subject of faith is such a hopeless to his mind, that the idea of faith, instead of shedding light upon the way to fullness of life in Christ, only seems to make it more difficult and involved than ever.

“Of course it must by faith,” he says, “for I know that everything in the Christian life is by faith. But that is just what makes it so hard, for I have no faith, and I do not even know what it is, nor how to get it.” And, thus, confused at the very beginning by this difficulty, he is plunged into darkness, and almost despair. This trouble arises from the fact that the subject of faith is very generally misunderstood. For, in reality, faith is the simplest and plainest thing in the world and it is most easy to put into practice.

Your idea of faith, I suppose, has been something like this. You have looked upon it as a sort of thing either a Christian exercise of soul, or an inward attitude of heart. You suppose it to be something tangible. In fact, when you have secured it, you suppose you can look at it and rejoice over it. You suppose you can use it as a passport to God’s favor, or a coin with which to purchase His gifts. You have been praying for faith, expecting all the while to get something like this. You have never received any such thing, so now you are insisting that you have no faith.

The Simplicity Of Faith

Faith is not in the least like this. It cannot be touched. It is simply believing God. Like sight, it is nothing apart from its object. You might as well shut your eyes and look inside, and see whether you have sight, as to look inside to discover whether you have faith. You see something and know that you have sight. You believe something and know that you have faith. For as sight is only seeing, so faith is only believing. As the only necessary thing about sight is that you see the thing as it is, so the only necessary thing about belief is that you believe the thing as it is. The virtue does not lie in your believing, but in the thing you believe. If you believe the truth, you are saved. If you believe a lie, you are lost. In both cases the act of believing is the same. The things believed are exactly opposite, and it is this which makes the mighty difference. Your salvation does not come because your faith saves you. Your salvation comes because it links you to the Savior who saves. Your believing is really nothing but the link.

I beg you to recognize the extreme simplicity of faith. I beg you to recognize that it is nothing more nor less than just believing God when He says He either has done something for us, or will do it. Then trust Him to keep His word. It is so simple that it is hard to explain.

If any one asks me what it means to trust someone to do a piece of work for me, I can only answer that it means committing the work to the someone and leaving it in his hands without any feelings of anxiety. All of us trust important matters to others in this way. We feel calm in trusting because of the confidence we have in those who take care of the important matters for us. How mothers trust their precious infants to the care of nurses and feel no shadow of anxiety! How often we trust our health and our lives, without a thought of fear, to cooks and taxi drivers, and all sorts of paid workers who have us completely at their mercy. They could, if they chose to do so, or even if they failed in being careful, plunge us into misery or death in a moment. We do this and make no complaint about it. We often put our trust in people we hardly know. We require only a general knowledge of human nature as the foundation of our trust. And, we never feel as if we were doing anything in the least remarkable!

H.W.Smith

Naaman’s Road

September 30, 2011 | by Gennadiy Glabets | Category: English Thursdays 1 Comment

In Wilmington, Delaware there is a road called Naaman’s Road. For most people it’s just a road named after some guy, just like some Washington Road or Jefferson Street. But what is interesting is that Bible speaks about a certain character named Naaman, a proud, strong, wealthy, yet covered with leprosy man. He had to take a road, which did not pass through Delaware, but through God’s school of humility. At one point he almost chose leprosy over healing, simply because this school of humility seemed so difficult to him. But ultimately, to be healed from leprosy, he had to lay aside his pride: his grand expectations of the healing miracle, his concern for his status, his patriotism for his country. He had to take Naaman’s road!

Perhaps you are seeking God’s will in some situation in your life. Maybe you want to be able to forgive someone. Maybe you want to restore certain relations. Maybe there is a decision you want to make. It is possible that God already answered your prayer and told you what you ought to do. But the problem is, like Naaman, you are not willing to take your road to healing. You don’t like God’s answer, it’s not what you expected. Your pride might be getting in the way.

May God help each one of us take those roads in His strength. It really is impossible on our own!

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Watch Courageous movie in theater tonight with youth!

September 30, 2011 | by Stan Glotov | Category: Emails No Comments

Hello everyone!

As some of you are or aren’t aware, 20+ people from Manchester youth said they want to go (and most ARE going) watch Courageous movie in theater TODAY, on Friday, September 30th, which will be shown at 9:30PM. The movie is Christian, made by the creators of Facing the Giants and Fireproof, with a very good plot and very great message.  If you have no clue what’s it about, watch the trailer: http://tiny.cc/i8hdy

It is better to buy tickets ahead of time so that “your seat will be reserved” in case they might sell out. We can’t buy movie tickets online, but Luda Makarova volunteered to buy them at the movie theater for us ahead of time. If you want to join us tonight and if you want us to purchase ticket for you, please reply to this e-mail and let me know. The sooner, the better.

THEATER: The theater name is now renamed to Derry Five Star Cinemas, however, if you’ll try Google Map it with that name, you will not find it. Previous name for it is Derry Flagship Cinemas 12.
ADDRESS: 10 Ashleigh Drive, Derry, NH 03038
TIME: Movie starts at 9:30pm but please try to come in advance.

OTHER SHOWTIMES: In case you cannot go today or at the time we planned, here’s list of showtimes for this weekend in Derry theater:
Friday, September 30: 12:40pm | 3:45pm | 6:45pm | 9:30pm
Saturday, October 1: 12:40pm | 3:45pm | 6:45pm | 9:30pm
Sunday, October 2: 12:40pm | 3:45pm | 6:45pm | 9:30pm

OTHER THEATERS: Find theater closest to you with time and day that fits best for you.
By zipcode: http://courageousmovie.com/tickets
By state: http://www.courageousthemovie.com/theaterlist

MORE INFO:
Courageous Movie Trailer: http://tiny.cc/uzsqn
Courageous Music Video: http://tiny.cc/osp28
Courageous YouTube Channel: http://tiny.cc/pkkc2
Courageous Website: www.courageousthemovie.com

REMEMBER: Every ticket you buy for the opening weekend (Sept. 30-Oct. 2) is a vote telling the movie industry that this is the kind of movie you like!

With great excitement on behalf of Tri-Youth of Manchester, 
Stan G.