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Children experience disappointments early in life. From the first time they don't get their way, fail a test in school or face betrayal from friends, children have to cope with the fact that life isn't always fair. If you are a Christian parent, you can use these times in your child's life to teach him that comfort and help is found in God by trusting Him, praying and reading His Word.
For Christian families, keeping God's words in the hearts of teenagers, who are testing the limits and finding themselves, can be a challenge. Relationships, dating and peer pressure can weigh heavily on Christian teens. Remind your teenager and her friends of God's love above all others through Bible study and teen-friendly activities.
Even if you and your family attend church and have knowledge of the Bible, God can seem like a remote concept instead of an entity that is the embodiment of love. Help your child understand with simple explanations that focus on specific aspects of God and how they apply to his life. That will help your teen to relate to God on a personal level.
The objective of "Doodle God" is simple; you are the Doodle God and your job is to create the world by making new elements using the four basic elements: fire, air, water and earth. On the web based version of "Doodle God," it is only possible to make 115 elements. On the iOS version of the game, you can make over 300. "Doodle God," available in both iOS and PC formats, allows players to create new elements using the elements they have already been given.
Confirmation class allows young people, called confirmands, to learn about the Christian faith and deepen their commitment to God and His grace. The Trinity, including the Holy Spirit, are key components to such education. Activities for confirmation class students can involve several students, or provide confirmands the opportunity to learn individually.
The fifth generation of "Pokemon" games introduced a number of new items to the Pokemon universe. One such item is the "God Stone," a mysterious item hidden away in "Pokemon White's" game data. While there is no written information about this item, much can be learned about it by looking at similar items in the game and the history of hidden items in the "Pokemon" series.
If you enjoy playing the part of a vengeful god – and since you’re playing Pocket God, that’s a safe assumption – you’re going to want to bring a little variety into your rotation for smiting your pygmy worshippers. You can’t just fall back on the usual toolkit of weather events, plagues of carnivorous ants and volcanoes. Bolt Creative’s app is flexible enough to allow players to seize other forms of cosmic vengeance in their game. However, you’ll need expansion chapters if you want to add piranhas to your palate of devastation.
"Doodle God" is an online game in which players are provided with a list of elements. They must then create new elements by mixing two elements. Only some elements will mix with each other, making it a challenge to match each of the elements correctly. The goal of the game is to find all of the possible elements. While you cannot create the jet pack element in the first "Doodle God" game, in the sequel "Doodle God 2," you can create a rocket jet pack element by mixing the airplane element with the void element.
“God mode” is one of the cheats that can be activated in the Der Riese zombie map of “Call of Duty: World at War.” Once it has been turned on, the god mode cheat makes your player invincible to zombie hits and it also allows you to walk right through objects and walls. The god mode cheat can only be activated in the PC version of “Call of Duty: World at War” and is done through the console commands window.
The "Pocket God" Tyrannosaurus Rex terrorizes tiny islanders, called Pygmies, beginning with Episode 16. If you have not updated the game after that, nothing can be done to defeat him. Once he is born, all you can do is watch the massacre and hope for the best. In the next episode, the game gives the Pygmies a chance to defend themselves.
God is inherently good. This is a simple fact that shared across world religions, and it's a particularly compelling part of the Christian narrative. There are many examples of God's goodness in the Bible that can reinforce the concept with children. Simple crafts are accessible to children and help them put a concrete image to often abstract stories.
In Matthew 22:35-40, Jesus states that all of God’s law is summarized in two commandments. The first commandment from Deuteronomy 6:5 says to love God with all your heart, soul and mind. The second commandment comes from Leviticus 19:18 and requires you to love your neighbor as yourself. Crafts focused on these two laws remind believers to practice their faith.
The ancient Egyptians took death very seriously. They were a pantheistic society, believing in many gods, and death rituals, particularly for a pharaoh, were long and complicated. The ancient Egyptian idea of the afterlife mixed spiritual and physical elements. The ba, similar to the modern concept of a soul, ascended to their idea of heaven, but the body needed to be preserved to allow for continued existence after death. Therefore, the process of mummification and burial was religious as well as practical.
Friendship is a special, sacred thing, and when your best friend is God, there is nothing better. There are many ways to show your love and friendship with Him, and the world around us displays its closeness to Him every day. The act of simply watching a sunrise or sunset can bring closeness and the knowledge that He is near. Making crafts are a wonderful way to convey the relationship one can have with our Creator.
Activities on God’s holiness help children in Sunday school and other Christian Education programs understand this often difficult concept. God’s character and personality are revealed through stories in the Bible and how he interacted with people throughout history. Understanding God’s holiness helps children grasp some of the more difficult things God requires of people, especially throughout the Old Testament.
Pocket God is a paid arcade and action game, available for download in the Android Market. Its gameplay is divided into episodes, with a focus on humor and mini-games, according to its Android Market page. Download Pocket God in the same manner as any other Android Market application. Pocket God requires a device running Android 2.0 or higher to function. It requires 15MB of free space, and its content is rated "low maturity."
One of the first Sunday school lessons children learn is that God loves them. In addition to Bible stories and traditional songs such as "Jesus Loves Me," children enjoy all types of crafts to further communicate God's love to them and engage them in creative projects.
The biblical story of Abraham and Isaac tells that Abraham pleased God and was a wealthy man, yet didn't have what he wanted most -- a child of his own. God promised Abraham that even though he was too old to have children, He would nevertheless give him a son in his old age. Isaac was the miraculous fulfillment of that promise and become Abraham's cherished heir. God later tested Abraham's devotion by asking Abraham to sacrifice Isaac as a burnt offering, but stopped Abraham at the last moment -- when it became clear that Abraham loved God even more…
When working with children and even adults, educators can find it hard to explain how the unseen God of Christianity is present everywhere, hearing our prayers whenever and wherever we pray. Crafts are a good way to provide both concrete images that children can grasp and teaching opportunities for them to better understand this profound mystery about our relationship with God. Employ a variety of craft ideas to demonstrate the many facets of this complex mystery.
Whether you are teaching Sunday School or a session during Vacation Bible School, a craft helps hone in on the lesson. Choosing the right craft to reinforce a teaching is like choosing the right metaphor to use in a sermon: It comes down to the question of whether it will help or hide the point you're trying to make. A lesson on “Putting God First” can come from Exodus 20 and the Ten Commandments, the life of Hannah or anywhere in the New Testament.
John 3:16 is one of the most familiar verses in the Bible. It reminds us that God loved us enough to sacrifice himself for us. Accepting His love is a challenge for both children and adults. Children ages 4 to 10 can learn about God's love by playing heart and seek and making crosses, pictures and necklaces. Sunday school teachers can present God's love with these crafts.
One of the central tenants of most major religions is the love God has for his people. This message can be passed down to children, assuring them that God has a special place for each one of them in his heart. Help give children the message with a few Sunday school crafts.
Christian private schools and church Sunday schools often implement crafts into their curriculum to teach the children about praising God. These crafts reflect the reasons why Christians praise God and the way in which they can do it. The elements required to complete these crafts can be altered to accommodate the skill level and age for which the craft is used.
"God mode" is a common generic gaming term. It refers to a state of invincibility whereby your character cannot die from damage or injury. "Minecraft" allows this, but it is not as straightforward as typing in a simple cheat. The process involves some modification of the program itself. However, if you find the game too challenging or you simply wish to change your gaming experience, activating god mode in "Minecraft" will help lift your frustration or provide a good laugh.
Trust in God lies at the center of the believer’s faith. The Bible contains many Scriptures that encourage the believer to put her trust in God, such as Psalm 118:8 (“It is better to trust in the Lord…”) and Proverbs 3:5-6 (“Trust in the Lord with all your heart…”). It also contains many stories that demonstrate God’s faithfulness. Sunday school teachers use activities to reinforce the student’s ability to trust in God.
Many video games have a secret god mode, which makes you impervious to all damage and unwaveringly deadly against your enemies. If you'd like to run through the "Nazi Zombies" mod for "Call of Duty 5: World at War" without a scratch, you can enable the god mode cheat code through the developer console. As with all other games, you will not be able to earn any achievements while you have god mode activated.
"Pocket God" is classified as Entertainment, rather than an actual game. Little islanders, called "Pygmies," are spun around, dropped and tortured in the name of fun. The developers upload regular episodes that change the dynamics of the game. Episode 36 adds a game where the goal is to catch a monkey that has abducted one of the Pygmies. It is called, "Konkey Dong," and the it is similar to the game "Donkey Kong."
Millennialism describes a Christian belief system within Dispensation Theology. Dispensationalism applies literal interpretation to Christian prophetic scripture. Theologian Ronald Showers explains dispensationalism as a system of theology that views history a succession of dispensations issued by God. A total of seven dispensations begin with the short-lived perfected state of the Garden of Eden and end with the Millennial Dispensation when Christ rules on earth for 1000 years.
"Pocket God" sees devilish players torturing their poor, beleaguered population of pygmies in many different ways. One is by using the volcano that can seen on the horizon on Pygmy Island. While an obvious target to throw pygmies at, there is a skill to launching your followers correctly so that they travel from the island and land in the volcano.
"Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2" is a first-person shooter gamer in which players take on the roles of soldiers in single- or multi-player mode. Soldiers must complete missions to make it through each level of the game. A popular cheat places players in what is known as "God Mode." In "God Mode" players do not lose health when they are battling the enemy. Players can easily get "God Mode" for their PlayStation 3.
In "Call of Duty 5: World at War," players can unlock "Nazi Zombie" mode by beating the campaign. Players can enter cheats in this fast-paced survival mode, such as the God Mode cheat, which makes the player invincible. Activating God Mode during a "Nazi Zombie" game is a simple procedure that will leave any player with all the leisure in the world to shoot down hordes of zombies.
"In the Wake of Gods" is a free third-party add-on for "Heroes of Might and Magic III: The Shadow of Death," a computer strategy game released in 2000. If you enjoy "The Shadow of Death" but would like to see new content, "In the Wake of Gods" might be an ideal download for you as it adds new creatures, items, areas and other content to the game. Download "In the Wake of Gods" from its home page at StrategyPlanet.com.
Deuteronomy 7:21 describes God as great and awesome. Humans can never fully understand everything about him because he is incomprehensible. The Bible constantly points out that God is different in every way from men and women. While some try to bring God down to human level, or elevate themselves to God's level, God remains superior. He is the one who gives life and the one who takes it away.
The Bible describes an event called the Pentecost that describes the descent of the Holy Spirit on the people 50 days after Jesus' Resurrection. This was the point where the first Christian church began. There are several key events that took place during the Pentecost and is best known for the Holy Spirit descending upon the people.
Lilith is a controversial female figure from the Jewish Midrash, which is a text that sought to explain inconsistencies and add meaning to confusing passages in the Old Testament. The Midrash indicates that Lilith was the first wife of the Biblical figure Adam. God replaced her with Eve when she refused to submit to Adam's male authority, according to Dr. Christopher L.C. E. Witcombe from Sweet Briar College.
"Pocket God" is both a Facebook and an iOS app which places you in the position of Deity to a small tribe of pygmy islanders. You can interact with your pygmies on a variety of levels, everything from spawning more pygmies to zapping them with lightning. You can also create beneficial items for your pygmies. One such item will allow your pygmies to chug down cold refreshing beverages when they wish.
Nothing can ruin a streak of awesome notes and holds in Facebook's "Guitar God" game like that annoying buzzing. This buzzing, however, can be avoided, and pretty easily too. The reason for the buzzing is a missed note, either because you hit the key to strum a string too late or too early. So the easiest way to avoid this buzzing is to perfect your timing and to make sure that your internet connection is running at its optimum speed to reduce lag.
As the title character in "Doodle God" for PCs and mobile devices, you're tasked with creating everything in the world -- literally. Starting with just four elements -- water, fire, air and earth -- you must discover the combinations to create animals, flowers, humans and even mythological creatures. "Doodle God" has several expansions for all platforms, with hundreds of different elements and dozens of groups to uncover.
Paul admonishes Timothy to be a vessel of honor in 2 Timothy 2:15-26. In Romans 9:21, he writes that the potter chooses the purpose of the created vessel, not the vessel. In literal terms, the vessel of honor was a container to store usable food or to eat off, and a vessel of dishonor no longer served its useful purpose because it was broken or damaged. Instead of holding good things, it stored garbage. In figurative terms, the vessel of honor is a person who serves God. Paul gives definite directions on how to do this.
If you enjoy strategy games and own an iOS-compatible device such as, for example, the iPhone, you might want to purchase and download the iOS version of the "Pocket God" game from Bolt Interactive, Inc. "Pocket God" is a game in which you can play a God-like creator who has full control over an island and its inhabitants, called Pygmies. You can purchase and download "Pocket God" to play it on your iPhone by using iTunes software from Apple, Inc.
As depicted in the play "Oedipus Rex," which Sophocles wrote around 420 B.C., the ancient Greeks believed the gods influenced their lives and interacted with them, sometimes by sending signs of the gods' preferred course of action. Each god governed a specific aspect of Greek life from the harvesting of crops to war. The Greeks worshipped the gods in order to gain their favor in that aspect of their lives.
No matter what type of church you attend, one thing is for certain: every preacher, priest, pastor, rabbi or reverend has his or her own sermon style. If you're a new preacher, it's important to find a style of preaching that works for you and your congregation. It may take a bit of experimentation, but it's a necessary step to being a helpful leader in your faith community.
Gods controlled every facet of life for the ancient Greeks. From the weather to war to romance, everything that happened on Earth was because of an act of a god. Not surprisingly, people worshiped these supreme beings to keep them happy. Angry gods could spell disaster at home, so offerings were plentiful. There was no shortage of drama among the gods. The myths surrounding their lives are full of never-ending affairs, crimes and tragedies.
Angels carry a variety of implements and instruments. Sometimes armed with swords and shields, these winged messengers are often depicted with musical instrument in hand. They pluck the strings of lyres and harps or blow from horns. Trumpeting good news, angels are often shown with actual trumpets, but are also seen with bugles, French horns, and simplified instruments that seem to combine elements from each.
Fasting can clear your head spiritually and bring you closer to God. Fasting requires discipline; you will be taking in nothing but liquids for however long you decide to fast. Before the actual act of fasting, you must prepare yourself. Preparing for a fast for God requires you to be ready physically and spiritually.
The laurel wreath goes back to ancient Greece and the story of the origin remains a myth. As legend has it, when the god, Apollo reached out to Daphne, a mortal, she turned into a laurel tree. Apollo wove a wreath from the branches and wore the wreath that he made from the leaves of his beloved. Apollo also started the Pythian Games; the victor of the games would wear a laurel wreath in honor of Apollo.
The Chumash Indians called themselves "the first people" and consider the Pacific Ocean their first home. Chumash means seashell people or bead maker. The Chumash took advantage of resources from both the sea and land in their home along the coast of California. The Chumash were living in Santa Barbara, California when the first Europeans showed up. There were two groups of Chumash, one which lived on the coast and another that lived inland. Each spoke with different language dialects.
Hindus consider marriage to be the most significant event -- both socially and religiously. Marriage is a key aspect of the Indian culture and the notion can be traced back to the age of the Vedas. Hindus all over the world still consider marriage as an extremely sacred and important event in the life of a human being. Hindu weddings and Hindu engagements are regarded as very complex and elaborate events. Each wedding is associated with a series of pre-wedding rituals and the engagement ritual can be considered as the most important among them.
Since faith can be a sensitive issue to discuss, it can lead to tensions between people. Sometimes these tensions can lead to conflict that can't be ignored. Addressing interfaith tensions through a respectful conversation can help people better understand each other and relieve tensions caused by differences in beliefs.
There are all sorts of leadership roles you can take in your community. The best leaders use their intelligence, enthusiasm and ability to work with others to improve conditions where they live. Effective leaders play roles in local government, schools and non-profit organizations. They know how to bring out the best in others and foster a collaborative atmosphere.
