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Our Emmanuel Born

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OUR EMMANUEL BORN Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us. ( Matthew 1:23 ) Matt 1:18–25 This Christmas I hope you see the birth of Christ in a whole new way. For I hope you see the reason God sent the Son. That he sent a child the Son to the world for the purpose of seeking and saving the lost. And today by the power of the Holy Spirit we are sent preaching good news to the poor, proclaiming freedom for the prisoners, recovery of sight for the blind, to release the oppressed, and proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor. Matthew 1:18-25 The Birth of Jesus the Messiah 18 This is how Jesus the Messiah was born. His mother, Mary, was engaged to be married to Joseph. But before the marriage took place, while she was still a virgin, she became pregnant through the power of the Holy Spirit. 19 Joseph, her fiance was a good man and did not want to disgrace her publicly...

From Village to Town

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OUR LORD LIVES FOR EVER  “I will not forget you! See, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands; your walls are ever before me” Isa. 49: 15, 16.     Testimony of K T Koshy Testimony of K T Koshy It was on April fool’s day in 1958 when my father died prematurely,  having fallen from a coconut tree. I was barely eighteen years old and my whole world died with him.  But God opened way for me to come to England in 1959 to further into a career.  It took me eight solid years to raise enough money to go and visit my home town Vermont in Kerala.  In the course of my three week visit I got married to Mary.  Having lived alone in England I had very little knowledge in raising a family.  As a result I made many mistakes on the way.  The arrival of our baby daughter Helen, two years after our marriage, was a great joy and helped in building relationships.  In 1974 we had an added blessing by the arrival o...

Twelve Disciples of Jesus

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Twelve Disciples of Jesus - Overview The Greek word for Disciple is 'mathetes' meaning 'learner' or 'follower'.                                                  The word means accepting and following the views and practices of a teacher. Apart from having a large following of people, Jesus chose twelve disciples during his earthly ministry. The list is mentioned in Matthew 10:2-4, Mark 3:16-19, Luke 6:13-16 and Acts 1:13 . The original twelve disciples are also called the 'apostles' (Greek - ' apostles ' meaning 'one who is sent out with a special commission as a fully authorized representative of the sender, like an ambassador). This article lists the names and meaning of these apostles and their occupations . 1. Peter :               (Greek: Petros  meaning 'Rock' ) -   Peter was ...

It is the power of the Word of God in their heart language.

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Because Seeing is Believing Every eight seconds, somewhere in the world, another person indicates a decision to follow Christ after watching the "JESUS" film. Every eight seconds... that's 10,800 people per day, 324,000 per month and more than 3.8 million per year! That’s like the population of the entire city of Pittsburgh, PA coming to Christ every 28 ¼ days. And yet, if you are like many people, you may have never even heard of it. Called by some “one of the best-kept secrets in Christian missions,” a number of mission experts have acclaimed the film as one of the greatest evangelistic tools of all time. Since 1979 more than 200 million men, women and children worldwide have indicated decisions to follow Jesus after viewing the film. In addition, through " Hundreds of partners an estimated 10+ million decisions have been made as the film "JESUS" is used extensively by the Body of Christ worldwide. "But how can any single fi...