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2014 Partnership Campaign is on its way !
We exist to serve the community as a non profit 501 c3. Our goal this year is to bring together prayer partners and financial partners to support the work to be done on the Auraria Campus and other Spiritual Conversation groups. Our goal is to be a training facilitator for many. Barbara will be on the Auraria Campus weekly. Barbara will be working diligently as a team leader with InterVarsity Ministries. Her campus leader is Robin Gerig. Robin has prior experience with inner city large campus work in Portland. Barbara will also be carefully trained by regional leader of Q PLACE spiritual conversation ministries Fran Goodrich of Lakewood. Goal for radio show is late Fall. This show will focus on Spiritual Conversations with seekers and those in groups facilitating their journeys. You can be a monthly donor or one time giver. Please use website donations button.
12 Signs of a Human Awakening Spiritually
1. An increased tendency to let things happen rather than make them happen.
2. Frequent attacks of smiling.
3. Feelings of being connected with others and with nature.
4. Frequent overwhelming episodes of appreciation.
5. A tendency to think and act spontaneously rather than from fears based on past experience.
6. An unmistakable ability to enjoy each moment.
7. A loss of ability to worry.
8. A loss of interest in conflict.
9. A loss of interest in interpreting the actions of others.
10. A loss of interest in judging others.
11. A loss of intererest in judging self.
12. Gaining the ability to love without expecting anything.
How Risen is Jesus in the Church of Metro Denver ?
Glory to God in the Highest…. Be exalted this day Jesus – King of Kings ..I am so convicted today to share my faith…to preach the Gospel today for the Glory of His Name…. I do not know if I should cling to His Feet or GO IN HIS NAME… to shout from the mountain tops…Church Arise… How will they know if we do not tell them ? I am asking God for a dozen people to GO OUT into the harvest fields with. To go to Auraria Campus and wherever Holy Spirit shows us to go.
Angels will help us preach just as they helped at the Resurrection in many ways. I cannot explain in my head the resurrection of Christ. How humble our Lord is. When He shows up to the women… He focuses on them not Himself. He did not have a crowd of 1000 shouting Hosanna….those close to Him He spoke to. We must preach the part of the three days when Jesus went to HELL to Preach the Gospel !!
I had a friend recently really challenge me about the issue if Jesus really does tell everyone about WHO HE IS ! God does tell everyone who He is ? Let the people of God hear from heaven about how to share about Christ with power and piercing conviction. Words from heaven not earth to preach and share .
Pray for Gods people to GO IN HIS NAME. To be prepared in season and out of season to share the TRUTH about Christ. He is Risen. Lord Jesus reveal yourself with signs and wonders in Metro Denver. We bring the little Children to you Lord…Let their ears be open and eyes to see your Face and hear your voice. The Kingdom of God is a matter of power not talk as Paul said. Bring the boldness of the Book of Acts to us. Baptize us in your fire Lord.
MORE LIKE FALLING IN LOVE – Jason Gray
Jason Gray – More Like Falling In Love Lyrics
Artist: Jason Gray
Album: Everything Sad Is Coming Untrue
Genre: Rock
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Give me rule
I will break them
Show me lines
I will cross them
I need more than
A truth to believe
I need a truth that lives
Moves and breathes
To sweep me off my feet, it’s gotta be
More like falling in love
Than something to believe in
More like losing my heart
Than giving my allegiance
Caught up, called out
Come take a look at me now
It’s like I’m falling, oh
It’s like I’m falling in love
Give me words
I’ll misuse them
Obligations
I’ll misplace them
‘Cause all religion
Ever made of me
Was just a sinner
With a stone tied to my feet
It never set me free, it’s gotta be
More like falling in love
Than something to believe in
More like losing my heart
Than giving my allegiance
Caught up, called out
Come take a look at me now
It’s like I’m falling, oh
It’s like I’m falling in
Love, love, love
Deeper and deeper, it was
Love that made me a believer
In more than a name
A faith, a creed
Falling in love with Jesus brought
The change in me
More like falling in love
Than something to believe in
More like losing my heart
Than giving my allegiance
Caught up, called out
Come take a look at me now
It’s like I’m falling, oh
It’s like I’m falling
More like falling in love
Than something to believe in
More like losing my heart
Than giving my allegiance
Caught up, called out
Come take a look at me now
It’s like I’m falling, oh
It’s like I’m falling in love
It’s like I’m falling
(Falling in love)
It’s like I’m falling
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Winter is a good time to check out a Spiritual Discovery Group
Spiritual Discovery Groups
Life is full of questions — some basic, some mind-boggling. If you want to find some answers, a Spiritual Discovery Group can help you in your search.
If you’re curious about spiritual matters, have questions about God, feel doubts about what to believe, and wish there was a safe place to explore these topics with others who have similar questions, then you’ll enjoy checking out one of our new Spiritual Discovery Groups.
These informal gatherings allow you to be yourself, raise the issues you’d like to discuss, hear the opinions of others, and explore what the Bible has to say about these spiritual matters. We meet in homes, offices, cafés, and coffee shops throughout the Denver region. We hope you’ll visit one of these gatherings soon.
Spiritual Discovery Groups are a safe place to explore possible answers to tough questions. At the same time, these groups are a great place to connect and build friendships with other like-minded people.
Groups meet at various times and locations, so it should be easy to find one that fits your schedule. You can even check out a Spiritual Discovery Group without making a long-term commitment. Go once or twice and see what you think. We bet you’ll want to participate on a regular basis!
If you’re looking for a way to move forward on your spiritual journey, a Spiritual Discovery Group is a great place to learn alongside other spiritually curious friends.
Contact: Barbara Moore 720 231 8337
Barna Survey – Is Evangelism going out of style ?
Is Evangelism Going Out of Style?
Dec 18, 2013 – Gospel tracts, sidewalk evangelism, street preachers with bullhorns—all of these things seem like evangelistic efforts of yesteryear. But if this seems true, where does that leave the state of evangelism today? Is faith-sharing a fading practice, or does it simply look different today? In all their innovative efforts to engage culture, have Christians left this ancient practice so integral to their faith behind?
Barna Group has charted evangelistic practices and attitudes for more than two decades, and the latest study sheds light on the gaps between evangelism in theory and practice, the social groups who are sharing their faith the most, and the surprising ways economics color one’s outreach efforts.
Evangelism in Theory and In Practice
When asked if they have a personal responsibility to share their faith with others, 73% of born again Christians said yes. When this conviction is put into practice, however, the numbers shift downward. Only half (52%) of born again Christians say they actually did share the Gospel at least once this past year to someone with different beliefs, in the hope that they might accept Jesus Christ as their Savior.
As with most convictions, there usually lies a dividing line between theory and practice. When it comes to evangelism, that dividing line looks different among various demographics.
Barna defines evangelicals according to adherence to nine theological perspectives (defined in the details below), including one’s personal responsibility to share their faith in Christ with others. So in this study, of course, evangelicals (100%) claim this responsibility by definition. Nearly seven out of 10 have acted on this conviction within the last year, meaning evangelicals have the highest rate of evangelism among the various religious segments that Barna examined.
What stands out among the data, however, is that evangelicals also have among the highest rates of failure in follow-through from conviction to action when it comes to sharing their faith. Nearly one-third (31%) believe they should evangelize, but have not done so—at least within the past year.
Catholics (34%), on the opposite end of the spectrum, are the least likely across Christian faith traditions to affirm their personal responsibility to share their faith. Yet, this minority is also the most consistent in linking their belief and behavior. Roughly one-third of all Catholics (34%) believe they should evangelize, while one-third of born again Catholics actually do.
which cities read the Bible in USA ?
Inclusive language in Bible and other issues of gender accuracy in translations
The Inclusive-Language Debate: A Plea for Realism
- D. A. Carson
- Jan 1, 1998
- Series: Volume 1 – 1998
D. A. Carson, The Inclusive-Language Debate: A Plea for Realism. Grand Rapids: Baker; Leicester: IVP, 1998. 221 pp. Pb. $ 13.99. ISBN 0-8010-5835-X;
Mark L. Strauss, Distorting Scripture? The Challenge of Bible Translation and Gender Accuracy. Downers Grove: IVP, 1998. 240 pp. Pb. $12.99. ISBN 0-8308-1940-1.
One of the more astonishing and tragic events in the recent history of Bible-translating occurred in 1997 when a self-appointed group of largely non-academics (Worldmagazine writers and editors, Southern Baptist leaders, James Dobson and others) raised such a ruckus about the new Inclusive-Language Edition of the NIV published in the U.K. and applied blackmail tactics to Zondervan and the International Bible Society who own its American rights that plans to publish it in the U.S. were suddenly abandoned. It is hard to know which is more distressing: the totally undemocratic methods by which pressure was applied to censor the new translation or the overwhelming ignorance as to what is involed in producing a reliable translation of materials from one language to another on which the criticisms were based. Given that many of the objections were also spearheaded by the Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood, co-led by Wayne Grudem and John Piper, this organization and these men bear a certain measure of responsibility as well for the confusion that ensued.
The details of this story are told, much more dispassionately, in two recent short books which are all the more significant because they are written by complementarians who generally share the concerns of the CBMW with regard to gender roles in home and church but recognize that the NIVI (as the inclusive-language edition is abbreviated) had very little to do with any alleged feminist agenda and in fact reflects, with some exceptions, the types of updating in the translation of Greek and Hebrew words for humanity and persons, or their corresponding pronouns, that is necessary given current English-language usage if we are to keep the NIV (or any other translation) as faithful as possible to the original languages and their intent in their original contexts.
Carson’s book is slightly shorter and less technical than Strauss’s and ranges across such topics as the history of the recent debacle, the conflicting principles of the committee that created the NIVI and those of their opponents, the fact that all translation inevitably involves some loss of meaning, issues of translating gender and sex in a variety of the world’s languages, key Bible texts where inclusive-language translation raises important exegetical issues, a consideration of how the English-language is changing (whether we like it or not) and pastoral considerations on how to avoid “Bible rage.”
Strauss covers much the same ground. Indeed, at numerous points both authors use the identical illustrations, both because the critics of the NIVI in fact consistently pointed to only a handful of actual Scriptures about which they were concerned and because both authors had written articles on this topic before and each cited the other at several points. Strauss does more than Carson, however, with other inclusive-language versions, especially the NRSV, and Strauss alone surveys what truly deserve the label of feminist versions (i.e., those that speak of God as Father and Mother or Jesus as Child rather than Son, instead of using inclusive-language merely for generic references to human persons).
The wealth of detail and examples in each of these judiciously-weighed discussions can scarcely be reproduced in a short review. Suffice it to say that anyone who is worried about the handful of people who, like my wife and I (who are also complementarians), regularly use the NIVI in ministry (having gone to England to get our copies which cannot legally be sold in the U.S!) or about the growing number of evenagelicals who are opting for the NRSV not least because there is no acceptable inclusive-language translation produced by evangelicals, should read these two books and then stop worrying. We can only hope that periodic reports are correct that say that Zondervan and IBS have not given up on the idea of producing a different inclusive-language NIV for the U.S., even if it is still a few years off and will need to be somewhat more carefully done, with input from an even wider constituency of scholars, than its predecessor. The alternative is to alienate an entire generation of Americans and hinder evangelism among those who have not been taught nor find it natural to think of “men” as regularly meaning “men and women” as in fact it frequently does in the original biblical languages.
Craig L. Blomberg
Professor of New Testament
Denver Seminary, Denver, CO
Feb 23 2014 – Seeker Group Training Session
We invite you to a wonderful opportunity. We will be participating in the SEEKER GROUP TRAINING with Cherry Hills Community Church on Sunday morning February 23rd. 
We are forming a core group of people who want to learn to be a facilitator of a Seeker Group in your neighborhood, work , office. You can take your time in becoming comfortable with the process. We are targeting college students but will have groups for all walks of life.
Gary Poole – www.garypoole.org – was the Evangelism Pastor at Willow Creek Church. He is now with the Institute Cherry Hills with Lee Stroble . You will learn about the carefully crafted process of hosting a one hour gathering for allowing people to see if they want to share what they believe with others in a safe place. This is not pushing our beliefs on others in any way shape or form. This is engaging others in life changing discussions. It will be an informal non threatening spiritual discovery group. The cost is $25 which includes the hardcover book by Gary Poole Seeker Groups.
Harvest Mountain is a ministry to help people in Metro Denver grow in their destiny with Christ. We will be having a radio show and doing an interview based book on peoples Spiritual Beliefs in Metro Denver. Please call 720 231 8337 for more info or email knowjesusmore@gmail.com Starts at 10:15 and finish at about 1:30. Please tell your friends and post this on your facebook page. The Harvest is plenty and we are going to pray to the Lord of the Harvest for some co- laborers with Christ.