I am beyond grateful for the experience that I’ve had these past 3 weeks. I received the opportunity to be a part of a leadership and advocacy training program and I cannot believe that it is almost over. Some of the things about my website will change because I want it to represent the presentation that I want to give next week my goal is to condense information but still fully tell my story.
I loved Blossom, Mayim Bialik is still my idol. I also grew up watching the original TGIF on ABC and I love cartoons like The Jetsons The Smurfs The Flintstones, Animaniacs Rainbow Brite Heathcliff and so many other shows.
My favorite time of day is morning or evening because in those two times of my day I feel like I have the most energy and I am a coffee drinker once in the morning and once at night
The first thing I would do is make sure all public places were barrier-free for those who have disabilities. This includes making theaters such as the Pantages almanson Mark Taper and Dorothy Chandler Pavilion accessible not only in the front public entities but backstage as well, because performers with disabilities deserve to have professional jobs
And I want you to know, my dear brothers and sisters, that everything that has happened to me here has helped to spread the Good News. For everyone here, including the whole palace guard, knows that I am in chains because of Christ. And because of my imprisonment, most of the believers here have gained confidence and boldly speak God’s message without fear. It’s true that some are preaching out of jealousy and rivalry. But others preach about Christ with pure motives. They preach because they love me, for they know I have been appointed to defend the Good News. Those others do not have pure motives as they preach about Christ. They preach with selfish ambition, not sincerely, intending to make my chains more painful to me. But that doesn’t matter. Whether their motives are false or genuine, the message about Christ is being preached either way, so I rejoice. And I will continue to rejoice. Philippians 1:12-18 NLT
1. Our present adversity, is potentially a gospel opportunity
2. How we Face adversity is potentially a gospel opportunity
3. Courageous faith is contagious faith
The big idea:
The gospels advance is the reason for Paul’s existence
What is the Gospel
It is the good news that in God’s love he sent his son, Our Savior Jesus. Jesus died and rose from the grave, and when we put our trust and faith in him, Sinners Like ourselves receive forgiveness and a new life. Such that we are filled with the presence of his holy spirit and made one family sons and daughters and co-heirs in his eternal Kingdom.
But God showed his great love for us by sending Christ to die for us while we were still sinners. Romans 5:8 NLT
So you have not received a spirit that makes you fearful slaves. Instead, you received God’s Spirit when he adopted you as his own children. Now we call him, “Abba, Father.” Romans 8:15 NLT
This means that anyone who belongs to Christ has become a new person. The old life is gone; a new life has begun! And all of this is a gift from God, who brought us back to himself through Christ. And God has given us this task of reconciling people to him. For God was in Christ, reconciling the world to himself, no longer counting people’s sins against them. And he gave us this wonderful message of reconciliation. So we are Christ’s ambassadors; God is making his appeal through us. We speak for Christ when we plead, “Come back to God!” For God made Christ, who never sinned, to be the offering for our sin, so that we could be made right with God through Christ. 2 Corinthians 5:17-21 NLT
And now you Gentiles have also heard the truth, the Good News that God saves you. And when you believed in Christ, he identified you as his own by giving you the Holy Spirit, whom he promised long ago. Ephesians 1:13 NLT
But those who trust in the Lord will find new strength. They will soar high on wings like eagles. They will run and not grow weary. They will walk and not faint. Isaiah 40:31 NLT
And I am certain that God, who began the good work within you, will continue his work until it is finally finished on the day when Christ Jesus returns. I pray that your love will overflow more and more, and that you will keep on growing in knowledge and understanding. Philippians 1:6, 9 NLT
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