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Lenten Translation Project / Devocionais Para A Quaresma

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For those who have followed my blog for sometime you know that I do translation from Portuguese to English at our church. I am not able to professionally translate but having become comfortable with live translation in church I decided to try my hand at translating my Lenten Devotional into Portuguese this year. I am truly thankful for my Pastor, Dr Joliam Sampaio for correcting and rewriting large portions of my first attempt.

The result has been a new adventure for me. If you know of anyone who would enjoy a simple daily reading in the mother language it is available in both E-book and softcover. The soft cover version brings with it the advantage of receiving the E-book version free and free lending is enabled for this.

Para aqueles que seguiram meu blog por algum tempo, você sabe que eu faço tradução do português para o inglês na nossa igreja. Não consigo traduzir profissionalmente, mas decidi tentar minha mão em traduzir o meu Devocionais para a Quaresma em português este ano. Estou realmente agradecido pelo meu Pastor, o Dr. Joliam Sampaio, por corrigir  grandes partes da minha primeira tentativa. Esperou que o resultado seria uma benção em suas vidas

Quando o cirurgião veio ao meu encontro quando eu estava deitado na mesa de operação, eu estava calmo. Embora já tivéssemos falado brevemente quando eu fui examinado em seu consultório na semana anterior, eu confiei nele. Quanto mais devemos confiar em Deus durante os tempos de mudança em nossas vidas? Quando começamos a Quaresma, por que não começar confiar mais em Deus em todas as circunstâncias de nossas vidas?

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livro de capa macia – clique aqui

Reflexões Sobre a Páscoa

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How to Get to Heaven

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I am posting today’s video not to impress anyone with my teaching at the nursing home but to impress on anyone willing to go; how simple it is to share the hope of Christ in a few minutes. Jesus gave us a great commission but at nursing home it needs to be short and to the point! Please be patient with the quality of the recording as it was done by one of our recreational aides who volunteered at the last minute to run the camera.

This is a ministry that anyone who is willing can do. Your willingness to press on through difficulties, sometimes frustrating slowness in seeing responses and the sorrow of unexpected farewells can lead to a rich harvest for Jesus Christ. We are now approaching our 24th year in ministry at Allied Skilled nursing home. There are three services each week in the various wards reaching…

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Today’s Service

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In my quiet time this morning it was as if God held up a mirror to show me how little I valued those moments compared to Him. Yes I lingered for a brief prayer and spent time in His word; but all the while the wheels of my mind were sprinting ahead towards my future plans. Yet as the apostle Peter points out to us –

But do not overlook this one fact, beloved, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. 2 Peter 3:8

We all too often lose the value and purpose of the moment of prayer and quiet because the hurry within our hearts drowns out the still small voice of God. We demean the intimate contentment with the Lord Jesus as if something later in the day or tomorrow or next year has more value in His eyes.

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But God delights in the moment. He rests in it as Jesus rested by the well. He has no sense of hurry or fearful anxiety of urgency.

He is never forced into action in a crisis. He rests in the moment like a butterfly who happily enjoys each flower without wishing He could hurry on to the next. He is not only the way and the truth – He is also like the clock of life itself and all time stands still in His presence. There is neither tomorrow nor yesterday with Him. He is the Great I Am! Whatever humble word, shy smile or simple sacrifice Jesus gives us for today is more precious to Him than any act of service we are planning for the future. The God who knows the beginning from the end also knows our hearts. If we will simply walk with Him by faith in this moment, His promise is that He will walk with us all down through the corridors of eternity!