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Bible today: “Jesus was about to go to Jerusalem, and he took his twelve followers aside as they were walking and told them (JNB Matthew 20: 1)

Weekly Topic: Education.

This week. What did you learn today? We all learn, from the first day of our life to the last day. We all grow and our experiences change the way we think, the way we feel and the way we are. Education means to create particular experiences which support learning and development. Education ranges from the way our parents treat us as an infant to the days where we attend school, college or some training sessions in our job ...

The bible tells us that God educates us. He wants us to get to know him and to learn from him. He is there every day - and he guides and educates us. What is the goal and the content of his education? How is he doing it? What experiences with God's educational ways can and should we share? Come and join us day by day exploring faith in Jesus ...!

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The farmer of the vineyard ... We start to study an important story today. Jesus told this story about a farmer in a vineyard to his disciples ... it is a story about grace. Let's read its beginning first: 1 God’s kingdom is like a farmer who went out early one morning (about 6am) to get some men to work in his vineyard. 2 He agreed with the men to pay them a denarius for a day’s work, and then sent them to his vineyard ... [more]

JN Factory - Christian Blog: Children and Parenthood III - Children of the Father ... Friday, Mar 5, 2010. God is called "the father" in the New Testament. Jesus calls him "my father", but he also uses the term father for God's relation to all other humans who believe in him. The central prayer in the New Testament has the title "Our Father". Many parables talk about a father and his sons and daughters. God the Father God is the father. He is also sometimes called "mother" in the prophets/psalms. Humans in men and women originate from him - he knows both fatherhood and motherhood from its core! God has created all this, how could we think of him as some abstract being who would not know all the details, the feelings, the challenges and the joy of parenthood? He is t... [more]

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17 Jesus was about to go to Jerusalem, and he took his twelve followers aside as they were walking and told them: 18 “Look, we are on our way to Jerusalem, and there I, the Son of Man, will be handed over to the senior priests and the experts in the Jewish writings. They will sentence me to death, 19 and then hand me over to foreigners who will ridicule me, whip me, and nail me on a cross to die.”... (JNB Matthew 20: 17 ff)

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