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Their most important and solemn event is the celebration of the "Lord's Evening Meal", or "Memorial of Christ's Death". During the COVID-19 pandemic , Jehovah's Witnesses' conventions and meetings in many areas were held virtually, using videoconferencing software and video presentations.
You have heard that it was said, 'You shall love (agapēseis) your neighbor and hate your enemy.' But I say to you, Love ( agapāte ) your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven; for he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.
Thomas Grier Long (born in 1946) is the Bandy Professor Emeritus of Preaching at Candler School of Theology at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. He received his BA degree from Erskine College in 1968, the Master of Divinity from Erskine Theological Seminary in 1971, and the Ph.D. from Princeton Theological Seminary in 1980.
Eros (sexual love) is never used in the New Testament but is more prominent in the Old Testament. Storge (needy child-to-parent love) only appears in the compound word philostorgos (Rom 12:10). Saint Paul glorifies agapē in the quote above from 1 Corinthians 13, and as the most important virtue of all: "Love never fails. But where there are ...
Charles Ward "Chuck" Smith (June 25, 1927 – October 3, 2013) was an American pastor who founded the Calvary Chapel movement. Beginning with the 25-person Costa Mesa congregation in 1965, Smith's influence now extends to "more than 1,000 churches nationwide and hundreds more overseas", [1] some of which are among the largest churches in the United States.
Maria Woodworth-Etter in her later years. Maria Beulah Woodworth-Etter (July 22, 1844–September 16, 1924) was an American healing evangelist.Her ministry style was a model for Pentecostalism [1] and the later Charismatic movement, earning her the title "Mother of Pentecost" in some circles.
President-elect Donald Trump complained on Friday that American flags would still be lowered to half-staff in honor of the late President Jimmy Carter during Trump's Jan. 20 inauguration.
William Marrion Branham (April 6, 1909 – December 24, 1965) was an American Christian minister and faith healer who initiated the post-World War II healing revival, and claimed to be a prophet with the anointing of Elijah, who had come to prelude Christ's second coming; some of his followers have been labeled a "doomsday cult".