Dear Friends,
The "Learning Thai Prayers for Foreigners" is now ready!!!
We know that prayer is one of the most important things to learn when reaching the Thai people. Many foreign missionaries are struggling to pray in Thai and don't know if they are 'doing it right'.
So do you want to learn Thai prayers more easily? The SULADS RESOURCE CENTER is prioritizing this prayer project to help you learn Thai prayers more easily and effectively.
This "Learning Thai Prayers for Foreigners" is all that you need to learn how to pray. This comes with the CD and prayer guide booklet with English-Thai script and Thai transliteration script, so everything would be very easy for you to read if you can hardly recognize the Thai script.
The SRC designed 15 kinds of situational prayers to help you able to pray in different situation. Such as;
The Lord's prayer (Introductory prayer)
Prayer for encouragement
Prayer before giving Bible study
Prayer after giving Bible study
Prayer before giving sermon
Prayer after giving sermon
Prayer for a member who has problem
Prayer for a member about to travel
Prayer for the sick
Prayer for comfort in loss
Prayer for food
Prayer before going to bed
Prayer before starting the day
Prayer for the doubting
Prayer for the local co-Bible workers
What makes this prayer guide helpful is the audio version in CD (mp3 format) so you can easily follow the prayer booklet. If you feel you really need this booklet and audio material please consider sending a small donation. The suggested donation is 95 baht per booklet and CD (free shipment in Thailand only).
However, if you won't be able to donate and you really need this for your ministry, please let me know so I could give this out for free.
This is now ready for distribution. Let us know if you would like to have a copy. E-mail me at mienfield@yahoo.com to order. Simply put "send me" then specify the number of copies and then your complete postal address. Or call me at this number 0875573162. The SRC is a faith base ministry. We wish to give this out for free. But it has been very challenging to pay workers. As self-supporting ministry, keeping this audio recording going has been proven to be very financially challenging to us. Your 95 baht donation is one way of helping us to function normally to produce more materials. However, there are some materials we give out for free.
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Saturday, February 21, 2009
Saturday, January 10, 2009
Amalgamation; The Work of Satan
“And the great dragon was thrown down, the serpent of old who is called the devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world; he was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.” Revelation 12:9
Our English cell group had a great meeting last Saturday night. Chris a German friend did a good job of explaining that there is really a Creator-God by giving such a very relevant illustration. We encountered a question regarding the existence of the pre-historic man from a man who adhere evolution. We don't want anybody else goes out from the meeting with a confuse mind but of course we cannot avoid and so I spent my half day developing an article regarding this to answer the question Biblically.
I had attended a government school when I was in high school and I found out that the theory of evolution has been well accepted and taught as they thought the most factual theory to explain the origin of man. That is the sad picture we can readily observe today.
What is the real problem nowadays? The trouble is that many people today consult the inaccurate data of science to find out whether the Bible is true. They criticized the Bible, instead of consulting the Bible to find out whether their scientific conclusion is telling the truth. Science has a lot of mistakes. They have consulted the works of the so called “intellectual giants” rather than God’s word, the work of the INFINITE ONE. Scientists have done a lot of amazing invention and are intellectually genius but they are human, subject to make mistakes. Of course there are two kinds of science-the false science (inspired by Satan) and the true science (inspired by God).
Whenever I encountered a question like related to evolution, it would only remind me of the power of Satan to create confusion everywhere to block the humanity to believe God. In fact because of his active inspiration of the false science, he has been very successful to lead many to believe that there is no God.
How about the issue of amalgamation? There is so much wickedness in the world and who is inspiring them? SATAN does. Look at these two passages for example;
“Also you shall not have intercourse with any animal to be defiled with it, nor shall any woman stand before an animal to mate with it; it is a perversion.” Leviticus 18:23
“When a woman offers herself sexually to any animal, you must kill both the woman and the animal. They must be put to death. They deserve to die.” Leviticus 20:16.
God said don’t but many have disobeyed. Go to Google engine and search women or men having sex with animals and you will be amazed the wickedness of the world which is inspired by the devil. Science tries to prove and said it is impossible that the sexual union of man and animal could produce offspring. Yes, that is if our world is only mere science-base without thinking the supernatural phenomenon authored by the spirit world (both good and bad). So is it impossible for Satan to do this? Look at these;
“For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the powers, against the world forces of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places.” Ephesians 6: 12
With great surprise a disciple asked Jesus, “And the servants of the master of the house came and said to him, 'Master, did you not sow good seed in your field? How then does it have weeds? He said to them, 'An enemy has done this. So the servants said to him, 'Then do you want us to go and gather them?” Matthew 13:27, 28.
While God put everything in order, Satan, the enemy of God, works to create confusion. It is not impossible for Satan to do such wonders. He will be a skillful deceiver. "He performs great signs, so that he even makes fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men. And he deceives those who dwell on the earth by those signs... “ Revelation 13: 13-15.
The work of Satan is to confuse to deceive the world. The point is that Satan is actively involved and responsibility for all evil confusion in our world. Satan has mighty power to amaze the intellectuals and leaders. He works confuse to get their attention. Look at this carefully;
“The LORD said to Moses and Aaron, "When Pharaoh says to you, 'Perform a miracle,' then say to Aaron, 'Take your staff and throw it down before Pharaoh,' and it will become a snake." So Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and did just as the LORD commanded. Aaron threw his staff down in front of Pharaoh and his officials, and it became a snake. Pharaoh then summoned wise men and sorcerers, and the Egyptian magicians also did the same things by their secret arts: Each one threw down his staff and it became a snake. But Aaron's staff swallowed up their staffs. 13 Yet Pharaoh's heart became hard and he would not listen to them, just as the LORD had said.” Exodus 7: 8-13.
Satan can do miracle almost similar to what God could do. Whenever God created a genuine, there is a counterfeit and Satan masterminded them. The point is we must believe that Satan the enemy of God is powerful to manufacture amalgamated living organisms to deceive us. Satan has been trying to establish facts that could appear to be scientific.
With this, I believe the plain statement of one of the great religious author;
“But if there was one sin above another which called for the destruction of the race by the flood, it was the base crime of amalgamation of man and beast which defaced the image of God, and caused confusion everywhere. God purposed to destroy by a flood that powerful, long-lived race that had corrupted their ways before him.” Spiritual Gifts, vol. 3, 64.
If God could inspire holy men, Satan could also inspire his wicked men to have sexual intercourse with animals. Do you think they couldn’t produce confuse offspring under the inspiration of Satan? Do you think Satan couldn’t make them to appear as pre-historic men that look like half human and half beast? If you are not fully convince yet that Satan is powerful enough to mastermind this, then read again Exodus 7: 8-13 to see how Satan successfully deceived Pharaoh.
Secondly, how about the almost unbelievable endless species of animals cause by amalgamation? The inspired author added, “Every species of animal which God had created were preserved in the ark. The confused species which God did not create, which were the result of amalgamation, were destroyed by the Flood. Since the Flood there has been amalgamation of man and beast, as may be seen in the almost endless varieties of species of animals, and in certain races of men.” Spiritual Gifts, vol. 3, 75.
Take note that Satan is the mastermind of amalgamation. Therefore the endless of variety of species are not evidence to support evolution theory, as many believed, but it is the evidence of the mighty work of the enemy of God. The Lord commanded “Keep my laws. Do not let your cattle have offspring by those of a different sort; do not put mixed seed into your field…” Leviticus 19:19. But somehow many hardened their hearts and did not obey God and they were inspired by the devil.
Finally, Christian must be aware that, “our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the powers, against the world forces of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places.” Ephesians 6: 12.
Satan is a mighty deceiver “And the great dragon was thrown down, the serpent of old who is called the devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world; he was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.” Revelation 12:9 And so Apostle Paul warns us to “Put on the full armor of God so that you can take your stand against the devil's schemes.” Ephesians 6:11.
Our English cell group had a great meeting last Saturday night. Chris a German friend did a good job of explaining that there is really a Creator-God by giving such a very relevant illustration. We encountered a question regarding the existence of the pre-historic man from a man who adhere evolution. We don't want anybody else goes out from the meeting with a confuse mind but of course we cannot avoid and so I spent my half day developing an article regarding this to answer the question Biblically.
I had attended a government school when I was in high school and I found out that the theory of evolution has been well accepted and taught as they thought the most factual theory to explain the origin of man. That is the sad picture we can readily observe today.
What is the real problem nowadays? The trouble is that many people today consult the inaccurate data of science to find out whether the Bible is true. They criticized the Bible, instead of consulting the Bible to find out whether their scientific conclusion is telling the truth. Science has a lot of mistakes. They have consulted the works of the so called “intellectual giants” rather than God’s word, the work of the INFINITE ONE. Scientists have done a lot of amazing invention and are intellectually genius but they are human, subject to make mistakes. Of course there are two kinds of science-the false science (inspired by Satan) and the true science (inspired by God).
Whenever I encountered a question like related to evolution, it would only remind me of the power of Satan to create confusion everywhere to block the humanity to believe God. In fact because of his active inspiration of the false science, he has been very successful to lead many to believe that there is no God.
How about the issue of amalgamation? There is so much wickedness in the world and who is inspiring them? SATAN does. Look at these two passages for example;
“Also you shall not have intercourse with any animal to be defiled with it, nor shall any woman stand before an animal to mate with it; it is a perversion.” Leviticus 18:23
“When a woman offers herself sexually to any animal, you must kill both the woman and the animal. They must be put to death. They deserve to die.” Leviticus 20:16.
God said don’t but many have disobeyed. Go to Google engine and search women or men having sex with animals and you will be amazed the wickedness of the world which is inspired by the devil. Science tries to prove and said it is impossible that the sexual union of man and animal could produce offspring. Yes, that is if our world is only mere science-base without thinking the supernatural phenomenon authored by the spirit world (both good and bad). So is it impossible for Satan to do this? Look at these;
“For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the powers, against the world forces of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places.” Ephesians 6: 12
With great surprise a disciple asked Jesus, “And the servants of the master of the house came and said to him, 'Master, did you not sow good seed in your field? How then does it have weeds? He said to them, 'An enemy has done this. So the servants said to him, 'Then do you want us to go and gather them?” Matthew 13:27, 28.
While God put everything in order, Satan, the enemy of God, works to create confusion. It is not impossible for Satan to do such wonders. He will be a skillful deceiver. "He performs great signs, so that he even makes fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men. And he deceives those who dwell on the earth by those signs... “ Revelation 13: 13-15.
The work of Satan is to confuse to deceive the world. The point is that Satan is actively involved and responsibility for all evil confusion in our world. Satan has mighty power to amaze the intellectuals and leaders. He works confuse to get their attention. Look at this carefully;
“The LORD said to Moses and Aaron, "When Pharaoh says to you, 'Perform a miracle,' then say to Aaron, 'Take your staff and throw it down before Pharaoh,' and it will become a snake." So Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and did just as the LORD commanded. Aaron threw his staff down in front of Pharaoh and his officials, and it became a snake. Pharaoh then summoned wise men and sorcerers, and the Egyptian magicians also did the same things by their secret arts: Each one threw down his staff and it became a snake. But Aaron's staff swallowed up their staffs. 13 Yet Pharaoh's heart became hard and he would not listen to them, just as the LORD had said.” Exodus 7: 8-13.
Satan can do miracle almost similar to what God could do. Whenever God created a genuine, there is a counterfeit and Satan masterminded them. The point is we must believe that Satan the enemy of God is powerful to manufacture amalgamated living organisms to deceive us. Satan has been trying to establish facts that could appear to be scientific.
With this, I believe the plain statement of one of the great religious author;
“But if there was one sin above another which called for the destruction of the race by the flood, it was the base crime of amalgamation of man and beast which defaced the image of God, and caused confusion everywhere. God purposed to destroy by a flood that powerful, long-lived race that had corrupted their ways before him.” Spiritual Gifts, vol. 3, 64.
If God could inspire holy men, Satan could also inspire his wicked men to have sexual intercourse with animals. Do you think they couldn’t produce confuse offspring under the inspiration of Satan? Do you think Satan couldn’t make them to appear as pre-historic men that look like half human and half beast? If you are not fully convince yet that Satan is powerful enough to mastermind this, then read again Exodus 7: 8-13 to see how Satan successfully deceived Pharaoh.
Secondly, how about the almost unbelievable endless species of animals cause by amalgamation? The inspired author added, “Every species of animal which God had created were preserved in the ark. The confused species which God did not create, which were the result of amalgamation, were destroyed by the Flood. Since the Flood there has been amalgamation of man and beast, as may be seen in the almost endless varieties of species of animals, and in certain races of men.” Spiritual Gifts, vol. 3, 75.
Take note that Satan is the mastermind of amalgamation. Therefore the endless of variety of species are not evidence to support evolution theory, as many believed, but it is the evidence of the mighty work of the enemy of God. The Lord commanded “Keep my laws. Do not let your cattle have offspring by those of a different sort; do not put mixed seed into your field…” Leviticus 19:19. But somehow many hardened their hearts and did not obey God and they were inspired by the devil.
Finally, Christian must be aware that, “our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the powers, against the world forces of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places.” Ephesians 6: 12.
Satan is a mighty deceiver “And the great dragon was thrown down, the serpent of old who is called the devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world; he was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.” Revelation 12:9 And so Apostle Paul warns us to “Put on the full armor of God so that you can take your stand against the devil's schemes.” Ephesians 6:11.
Friday, January 2, 2009
Noted Sabbath Scholar Samuele Bacchiocchi Dies
Retired Andrews Theology Professor Had Global Influence
BY MARK A. KELLNER, News Editor
Samuele Bacchiocchi, a retired theology professor at Andrews University and one of the world’s leading proponents of the seventh-day Sabbath, died December 20, the Sabbath, following a two-year battle with cancer. He was 70 years of age and resided in Berrien Springs, Michigan.
“Sam was best-known for his scholarship on the seventh-day Sabbath. He was a prolific writer, a tireless preacher, and appreciated as an energetic and passionate teacher. I’m going to miss my long-time friend and colleague,” said Keith Mattingly, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, who worked alongside Bacchiocchi in the Andrews University Department of Religion and Biblical Languages.
Bacchiocchi, who spent 26 years teaching at the Seventh-day Adventist-owned university and more than 30 years lecturing worldwide about the Sabbath and its significance, was the first Protestant to attend and graduate from the doctoral program at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, Italy. It was at the “Gregoriana,” as it is known in Italian, that his studies in church history led to the publication of From Sabbath to Sunday: A Historical Investigation of the Rise of Sunday Observance in Early Christianity, the English version of his doctoral thesis. The doctoral dissertation received a grade that merited his graduation “summa cum laude,” and Bacchiocchi received a gold medal for academic achievement donated by Pope Paul VI. Both were high honors, particularly for a non-Roman Catholic student at the Jesuit-run university.
SAMUELE BACCHIOCCHI
The book has been in print for more than 30 years and is widely recognized as a seminal text on the subject, even by those who disagree with his conclusions. For example, Cambridge University scholar R.J. Bauckham, in “From Sabbath to Lord's Day: A Biblical, Historical and Theological Investigation” (D.A. Carson, ed.; Wipf & Stock, 2000), said that while “a number of scholars have in the past argued that Christian Sunday observance originated in the second century[,] the most recent and fullest version of this thesis is that of S[amuele] Bacchiocchi.”
In the 1970s, Bacchiocchi was featured on “It Is Written,” a weekly television program sponsored by the Seventh-day Adventist Church in which his thesis was noted. This led to numerous invitations to speak, and for the following two decades, Bacchiocci would spend many weekends on the road traveling to Adventist churches and other settings to present messages about the Sabbath, its biblical roots and continuing significance. His influence spread in the age of the Internet, reaching out to members of the Worldwide Church of God, a distant off-shoot of the nineteenth century Millerite movement, which had abandoned its own Sabbatarian tradition in the 1990s.
Samuele Bacchiocchi was born on January 29, 1938, in Rome: “I was born in a godly Catholic family that lived close to the Vatican wall,” he wrote in an issue of his monthly newsletter, “Endtime Issues.”
He added, “My parents attended Sunday Mass regularly and recited the rosary faithfully every night. This continued until my father was introduced for the first time to the study of the Bible by a fellow carpenter who belonged to the Waldensian Church.”
Eventually, the Bacchiocchis were convinced that the Sabbath was a creation ordinance and at first worshipped privately on the seventh day at home, until connecting with the Seventh-day Adventist Church. Samuele Bacchiocchi earned a bachelor’s degree at Adventist-owned Newbold College near London, and then earned a master’s in theology at the Seventh-day Adventist Theological Seminary at Andrews University.
From there, he and his wife Anna went to Ethiopia. For five years, Bacchiocchi served as a Bible and history teacher at an Adventist school there. He then went on to graduate studies at the Grigoriana, after which he was invited to join the Andrews faculty.
Bacchiocchi wrote or edited 17 different books, many of which expanded on his Sabbath theme. His seminar schedule was somewhat curtailed during his illness, although, his family said in a statement, his life was that of “a man who sacrificed practically all of his time and energy to help others understand the Bible more fully, even up to end as he gave his last seminar in England the Sabbath before being taken to the emergency room.”
The family statement noted, “We believe that it is fitting that God chose the Sabbath day, the day that he loved most and spent his life preaching and writing about, to be the day that he entered into his final earthly rest.”
“Dr. Bacchiocchi’s reputation as a theological and biblical scholar is widely respected within Adventist circles and beyond. His family continues to have a significant impact on our campus and in our community. He will be very much missed by his colleagues and friends in the Andrews University community,” said Heather Knight, provost of Andrews University.
The funeral was held on December 27 at Pioneer Memorial Seventh-day Adventist Church on the campus of Andrews University in Berrien Springs. The family is receiving condolences via e-mail at the addresses of his children Loretta Bacchiocchi, at loretta_bacchiocchi@fhchs.edu, Gianluca Bacchiocchi at bacchiocchi@gmail.com, or Daniel Bacchiocchi at dbacch@sbcglobal.net.
source; http://www.adventistreview.org/article.php?id=2300
BY MARK A. KELLNER, News Editor
Samuele Bacchiocchi, a retired theology professor at Andrews University and one of the world’s leading proponents of the seventh-day Sabbath, died December 20, the Sabbath, following a two-year battle with cancer. He was 70 years of age and resided in Berrien Springs, Michigan.
“Sam was best-known for his scholarship on the seventh-day Sabbath. He was a prolific writer, a tireless preacher, and appreciated as an energetic and passionate teacher. I’m going to miss my long-time friend and colleague,” said Keith Mattingly, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, who worked alongside Bacchiocchi in the Andrews University Department of Religion and Biblical Languages.
Bacchiocchi, who spent 26 years teaching at the Seventh-day Adventist-owned university and more than 30 years lecturing worldwide about the Sabbath and its significance, was the first Protestant to attend and graduate from the doctoral program at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, Italy. It was at the “Gregoriana,” as it is known in Italian, that his studies in church history led to the publication of From Sabbath to Sunday: A Historical Investigation of the Rise of Sunday Observance in Early Christianity, the English version of his doctoral thesis. The doctoral dissertation received a grade that merited his graduation “summa cum laude,” and Bacchiocchi received a gold medal for academic achievement donated by Pope Paul VI. Both were high honors, particularly for a non-Roman Catholic student at the Jesuit-run university.
SAMUELE BACCHIOCCHI
The book has been in print for more than 30 years and is widely recognized as a seminal text on the subject, even by those who disagree with his conclusions. For example, Cambridge University scholar R.J. Bauckham, in “From Sabbath to Lord's Day: A Biblical, Historical and Theological Investigation” (D.A. Carson, ed.; Wipf & Stock, 2000), said that while “a number of scholars have in the past argued that Christian Sunday observance originated in the second century[,] the most recent and fullest version of this thesis is that of S[amuele] Bacchiocchi.”
In the 1970s, Bacchiocchi was featured on “It Is Written,” a weekly television program sponsored by the Seventh-day Adventist Church in which his thesis was noted. This led to numerous invitations to speak, and for the following two decades, Bacchiocci would spend many weekends on the road traveling to Adventist churches and other settings to present messages about the Sabbath, its biblical roots and continuing significance. His influence spread in the age of the Internet, reaching out to members of the Worldwide Church of God, a distant off-shoot of the nineteenth century Millerite movement, which had abandoned its own Sabbatarian tradition in the 1990s.
Samuele Bacchiocchi was born on January 29, 1938, in Rome: “I was born in a godly Catholic family that lived close to the Vatican wall,” he wrote in an issue of his monthly newsletter, “Endtime Issues.”
He added, “My parents attended Sunday Mass regularly and recited the rosary faithfully every night. This continued until my father was introduced for the first time to the study of the Bible by a fellow carpenter who belonged to the Waldensian Church.”
Eventually, the Bacchiocchis were convinced that the Sabbath was a creation ordinance and at first worshipped privately on the seventh day at home, until connecting with the Seventh-day Adventist Church. Samuele Bacchiocchi earned a bachelor’s degree at Adventist-owned Newbold College near London, and then earned a master’s in theology at the Seventh-day Adventist Theological Seminary at Andrews University.
From there, he and his wife Anna went to Ethiopia. For five years, Bacchiocchi served as a Bible and history teacher at an Adventist school there. He then went on to graduate studies at the Grigoriana, after which he was invited to join the Andrews faculty.
Bacchiocchi wrote or edited 17 different books, many of which expanded on his Sabbath theme. His seminar schedule was somewhat curtailed during his illness, although, his family said in a statement, his life was that of “a man who sacrificed practically all of his time and energy to help others understand the Bible more fully, even up to end as he gave his last seminar in England the Sabbath before being taken to the emergency room.”
The family statement noted, “We believe that it is fitting that God chose the Sabbath day, the day that he loved most and spent his life preaching and writing about, to be the day that he entered into his final earthly rest.”
“Dr. Bacchiocchi’s reputation as a theological and biblical scholar is widely respected within Adventist circles and beyond. His family continues to have a significant impact on our campus and in our community. He will be very much missed by his colleagues and friends in the Andrews University community,” said Heather Knight, provost of Andrews University.
The funeral was held on December 27 at Pioneer Memorial Seventh-day Adventist Church on the campus of Andrews University in Berrien Springs. The family is receiving condolences via e-mail at the addresses of his children Loretta Bacchiocchi, at loretta_bacchiocchi@fhchs.edu, Gianluca Bacchiocchi at bacchiocchi@gmail.com, or Daniel Bacchiocchi at dbacch@sbcglobal.net.
source; http://www.adventistreview.org/article.php?id=2300
Tuesday, December 30, 2008
Making Eternal Difference through Audio Bible Lessons
Sulad Jhun Cardeinte
Why we need to combine audio evangelism in our ministry today? Villagers who have not learned to read and write could easily follow. Audio Bible lessons make it possible to let the Word of God pour out to the people of every tribe and culture, in their own languages.
These Bible lessons offer a solution to the fact that over half the people on the planet today cannot read and therefore do not have a means for understanding the Word of God. By taking advantage of the conveniences and amazing offered in today’s high tech world, the Bible lessons in MP3 through CDs are shared using these methods. The Word of God will expand into the farthest reaches of the world through audio format for the benefit of all.
Some busy individuals and those people who have no interest to read can also benefit this through listening to Bible lessons in MP3 recordings. The result of the recent survey reveals that 50 percent of the world's population does not read and according to Dana Gioia, the chairman of the [National Endowment for the Arts) “Reading is in decline among all groups, in every region, at every educational level and within every ethnic group,” he said and calling the survey results “deeply alarming.” Audio Bible lessons might be helpful to them.
So do you want to participate in sharing God's word in effective ways? Do you want to learn Thai to share the gospel? Now sharing God's word and learning Thai are no longer stressful for us. The SULADS RESOURCE CENTER has been preparing Thai audio Bible lessons in mp3 files to help you learn Thai and participate in sharing Jesus. These 37 audio lessons are perfectly fitting for our Bible interests who have totally zero background about God to bringing them to the feet of Jesus. Also great tools to learn Thai language since they are in mp3 format. If you feel you need this material please consider sending a small donation. The suggested donation is 95 baht per CD (free shipment). Name your order now so we will know how many copies to make. E-mail me mienfield@yahoo.com to order. Just simply put "send me" then specify the number of copies and then your complete postal address. Payment will be made through paypal so it would be easier. The SRC is a faith base project. We wish to give this out for free. But it has been very challenging to pay workers. As self-supporting ministry, keeping this audio recording and editing going has been proven to be very challenging to us. Your small payment will serve as a donation so the SRC could normally function to produce more materials.
You can also download the free samples at http://suladsthailand.multiply.com/music/item/86
In every donation you give for a CD Bible lessons, you are helping the Word of God spread throughout the literate and illiterate world. It surely makes a difference. Remember, there are many many people who wait to hear God's Word because they cannot read it.
Why we need to combine audio evangelism in our ministry today? Villagers who have not learned to read and write could easily follow. Audio Bible lessons make it possible to let the Word of God pour out to the people of every tribe and culture, in their own languages.
These Bible lessons offer a solution to the fact that over half the people on the planet today cannot read and therefore do not have a means for understanding the Word of God. By taking advantage of the conveniences and amazing offered in today’s high tech world, the Bible lessons in MP3 through CDs are shared using these methods. The Word of God will expand into the farthest reaches of the world through audio format for the benefit of all.
Some busy individuals and those people who have no interest to read can also benefit this through listening to Bible lessons in MP3 recordings. The result of the recent survey reveals that 50 percent of the world's population does not read and according to Dana Gioia, the chairman of the [National Endowment for the Arts) “Reading is in decline among all groups, in every region, at every educational level and within every ethnic group,” he said and calling the survey results “deeply alarming.” Audio Bible lessons might be helpful to them.
So do you want to participate in sharing God's word in effective ways? Do you want to learn Thai to share the gospel? Now sharing God's word and learning Thai are no longer stressful for us. The SULADS RESOURCE CENTER has been preparing Thai audio Bible lessons in mp3 files to help you learn Thai and participate in sharing Jesus. These 37 audio lessons are perfectly fitting for our Bible interests who have totally zero background about God to bringing them to the feet of Jesus. Also great tools to learn Thai language since they are in mp3 format. If you feel you need this material please consider sending a small donation. The suggested donation is 95 baht per CD (free shipment). Name your order now so we will know how many copies to make. E-mail me mienfield@yahoo.com to order. Just simply put "send me" then specify the number of copies and then your complete postal address. Payment will be made through paypal so it would be easier. The SRC is a faith base project. We wish to give this out for free. But it has been very challenging to pay workers. As self-supporting ministry, keeping this audio recording and editing going has been proven to be very challenging to us. Your small payment will serve as a donation so the SRC could normally function to produce more materials.
You can also download the free samples at http://suladsthailand.multiply.com/music/item/86
In every donation you give for a CD Bible lessons, you are helping the Word of God spread throughout the literate and illiterate world. It surely makes a difference. Remember, there are many many people who wait to hear God's Word because they cannot read it.
Thursday, December 25, 2008
37 Audio Bible Lessons
Things are busy from the past several weeks till this Christmas. But praise the Lord that our first set of audio Bible Lessons (37 Lessons) has just finished. There have been some financial and technical obstacles but God was not short of means. We couldn’t have a laptop for this project but God has provided us on time. An Indian friend of mine loss and wasn’t able to find job and so he decided to sell his laptop in an installment basis. And I discovered later on that his Thai Buddhist wife used to work in a calling cente. And so I decided to hire his wife for our Audio Bible Lessons projects. As I started to work as audio editor, I realized that editing and re-editing is a long process, especially that I still need to learn more the Thai language. But we are so happy for the success of the first set. Why audio Bible lessons are so important? Because many are not interested to read and others simply don’t know how to read. On top of that, Filipinos and other foreign missionaries could really express themselves in such a way that their Bible interest will really understand. As “faith comes by hearing” Romans 10:17.
This first set of 37 lessons in mp3 format is very useful to reach out our Buddhist brothers who have zero background about God into knowing Jesus Christ in a clear and understandable way. My friend Buddhist wife-totally isolated in the Buddhist environment, who recorded them, commented that she really understood and she enjoyed every lesson. She was so oppose to Christianity, not allowing his Moslem husband to listen to the audio Bible and join our cell group meeting. Now praise God that she is glad to join with her husband. She even invited her neighbor to join the Bible study meeting. This set is also great tools to learn Thai language since they are in mp3 format.
If you feel you need this material please consider sending a small donation. The suggested donation is 95 baht per CD (free shipment!). Or you can send ten blank CD’s then we will send you one copy. This is to help fulfill our goal to make a lot of copies to be distributed to the oral base community in the mountain for free. And you can participate this way.
Name your order now so we will know how many copies to make. E-mail me mienfield@yahoo.com to order. Just simply put "send me" then specify the number of copies and then your complete postal address or the address of your friend you want to receive the lessons. Payment will be made through paypal so it would be easier. The SULADS Resource Center is a faith base project. We wish to give this out for free. But it has been very challenging to pay workers. As self-supporting ministry, keeping this audio recording project has been proven to be very challenging to us. Your small payment will serve as a donation so the SRC could normally function to produce more materials.
If you feel you need them for your ministry but you don’t have means to donate, please e-mail me and tell me about your case so I could send you for free.
We are in the process of doing another new set of lessons ( Steps to Christ Thai verion in audio and Learning Thai prayers for Foreigners ) with booklet in English and the Thai script and the Thai transliteration script (Thai written in English) booklet and audio and we hope to finish them soon. So this 3 type of scripts and the mp3 format audio will make it easy for you to learn Thai prayers.
God is so good to give us the opportunity to help spread his word in this way. Jesus is surely coming.
Please visit our website at www.suladsresource.org and click missionary shop for more information.
Sulads Resource Center
This first set of 37 lessons in mp3 format is very useful to reach out our Buddhist brothers who have zero background about God into knowing Jesus Christ in a clear and understandable way. My friend Buddhist wife-totally isolated in the Buddhist environment, who recorded them, commented that she really understood and she enjoyed every lesson. She was so oppose to Christianity, not allowing his Moslem husband to listen to the audio Bible and join our cell group meeting. Now praise God that she is glad to join with her husband. She even invited her neighbor to join the Bible study meeting. This set is also great tools to learn Thai language since they are in mp3 format.
If you feel you need this material please consider sending a small donation. The suggested donation is 95 baht per CD (free shipment!). Or you can send ten blank CD’s then we will send you one copy. This is to help fulfill our goal to make a lot of copies to be distributed to the oral base community in the mountain for free. And you can participate this way.
Name your order now so we will know how many copies to make. E-mail me mienfield@yahoo.com to order. Just simply put "send me" then specify the number of copies and then your complete postal address or the address of your friend you want to receive the lessons. Payment will be made through paypal so it would be easier. The SULADS Resource Center is a faith base project. We wish to give this out for free. But it has been very challenging to pay workers. As self-supporting ministry, keeping this audio recording project has been proven to be very challenging to us. Your small payment will serve as a donation so the SRC could normally function to produce more materials.
If you feel you need them for your ministry but you don’t have means to donate, please e-mail me and tell me about your case so I could send you for free.
We are in the process of doing another new set of lessons ( Steps to Christ Thai verion in audio and Learning Thai prayers for Foreigners ) with booklet in English and the Thai script and the Thai transliteration script (Thai written in English) booklet and audio and we hope to finish them soon. So this 3 type of scripts and the mp3 format audio will make it easy for you to learn Thai prayers.
God is so good to give us the opportunity to help spread his word in this way. Jesus is surely coming.
Please visit our website at www.suladsresource.org and click missionary shop for more information.
Sulads Resource Center
Tuesday, December 16, 2008
Person Versus Program
“As for me, if I am lifted up from the earth, I will draw all people to myself." John 12:32
Let me share what is happening nowadays to give you a wider picture, because this mistake is unconsciously done repeatedly over and over again by many leaders. You can readily observed today that many leaders are preaching the program they have been doing but not the person. The program was widely known but little to Jesus.
The missionary organizations which are supposed to be responsible to expand God’s kingdom have almost become like those of the government development program. The end result, they had received plague and the praises go to the leadership not to Jesus. The leaders get all the glory. The attention of the members were stolen by the leaders and the result, members lose their admiration to Jesus. Jesus said, “As for me, if I am lifted up from the earth, I will draw all people to myself." John 12:32. Jesus used the word "lifted up," this is related to the word “exaltation” to give a strong emphasis on His glorification. This means when we lift HIM up high, He has the way to achieve to be acknowledged and glorified by men. And so how could the people come to Jesus when He isn’t lifted up?
Why this has been happening? Because many outreach organizations were stucked unconsciously by their humanitarian programs. It has become their main focus not the glorification of the Life-giver-person-Jesus Christ. They get stuck on these developmental, humanitarian and feeding programs. They actively supporting the government program but they don’t have the extensive program to lift up the crucified Savior, so many might see Him. The worse is that they don’t have the disciple-making program to equip the new converts into maturity, that they may be able to participate to lift Jesus up.
Let me share what is happening nowadays to give you a wider picture, because this mistake is unconsciously done repeatedly over and over again by many leaders. You can readily observed today that many leaders are preaching the program they have been doing but not the person. The program was widely known but little to Jesus.
The missionary organizations which are supposed to be responsible to expand God’s kingdom have almost become like those of the government development program. The end result, they had received plague and the praises go to the leadership not to Jesus. The leaders get all the glory. The attention of the members were stolen by the leaders and the result, members lose their admiration to Jesus. Jesus said, “As for me, if I am lifted up from the earth, I will draw all people to myself." John 12:32. Jesus used the word "lifted up," this is related to the word “exaltation” to give a strong emphasis on His glorification. This means when we lift HIM up high, He has the way to achieve to be acknowledged and glorified by men. And so how could the people come to Jesus when He isn’t lifted up?
Why this has been happening? Because many outreach organizations were stucked unconsciously by their humanitarian programs. It has become their main focus not the glorification of the Life-giver-person-Jesus Christ. They get stuck on these developmental, humanitarian and feeding programs. They actively supporting the government program but they don’t have the extensive program to lift up the crucified Savior, so many might see Him. The worse is that they don’t have the disciple-making program to equip the new converts into maturity, that they may be able to participate to lift Jesus up.
Saturday, December 13, 2008
How the Church in the West Confuses the Church in Asia
"...They received the word with great eagerness, examining the Scriptures daily to see whether these things were so.” Acts 17:11
Nowadays, the current confusing situation of God’s people in the West affects the Asian church so much. This has made many Adventists in the verbally base community in Asia to wonder why there is so much confusion when it is simply obeying what the Bible clearly says.
The Seventh-day Adventist church in the West has been characterized by division. Many educated church leaders, have tried to question the fundamental beliefs of the church. Some members who want to keep the Biblical doctrine pure have form independent organizations. I was surprise to see how this confusing Adventist community in the West affects our church in Asia especially in my home country in the Philippines.
These hilltribe Adventist people in the mountain has been wondering why there is so much division and confusion going on when they think it is simply obeying the plain teaching in the Bible. To them who could not really read, they open their hearts and simply believe that, “Blessed are they that hear the word of God, and keep it.” Luke 11:28. While some, "they received the word with great eagerness, examining the Scriptures daily to see whether these things were so.” Acts 17:11. But they have not criticized the Word of God.
Today, many Adventist missionaries in the West love to be God’s representatives in the church in Asian but in reality their teachings are representing other branch of Adventism. They can be hardly recognized by the very ordinary members who plainly accept the Bible as inspired. Now it is the time to learn from those ordinary people we called needy and ignorance. The one we came to reach, teaching them some basic knowledge could give us wisdom, to draw close to God. They have many things to teach more than we could share.
They are simply more on verbals, but when the Holy Spirit will work in their heart, they can be intelligent for God’s cause. Our formal schools may produce leaders but may not produce humble servants. It may produce scholars but may not produce diehard missionary frontliners. It may produce teachers but may not produce teachables. It often produces dominant-like but may not produce Christ-like. It may produce intellectual but may not produce spiritual, which is the greatest need of the world to see among us.
visit also www.suladsresource.org
Nowadays, the current confusing situation of God’s people in the West affects the Asian church so much. This has made many Adventists in the verbally base community in Asia to wonder why there is so much confusion when it is simply obeying what the Bible clearly says.
The Seventh-day Adventist church in the West has been characterized by division. Many educated church leaders, have tried to question the fundamental beliefs of the church. Some members who want to keep the Biblical doctrine pure have form independent organizations. I was surprise to see how this confusing Adventist community in the West affects our church in Asia especially in my home country in the Philippines.
These hilltribe Adventist people in the mountain has been wondering why there is so much division and confusion going on when they think it is simply obeying the plain teaching in the Bible. To them who could not really read, they open their hearts and simply believe that, “Blessed are they that hear the word of God, and keep it.” Luke 11:28. While some, "they received the word with great eagerness, examining the Scriptures daily to see whether these things were so.” Acts 17:11. But they have not criticized the Word of God.
Today, many Adventist missionaries in the West love to be God’s representatives in the church in Asian but in reality their teachings are representing other branch of Adventism. They can be hardly recognized by the very ordinary members who plainly accept the Bible as inspired. Now it is the time to learn from those ordinary people we called needy and ignorance. The one we came to reach, teaching them some basic knowledge could give us wisdom, to draw close to God. They have many things to teach more than we could share.
They are simply more on verbals, but when the Holy Spirit will work in their heart, they can be intelligent for God’s cause. Our formal schools may produce leaders but may not produce humble servants. It may produce scholars but may not produce diehard missionary frontliners. It may produce teachers but may not produce teachables. It often produces dominant-like but may not produce Christ-like. It may produce intellectual but may not produce spiritual, which is the greatest need of the world to see among us.
visit also www.suladsresource.org
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