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#SV – We’re Fed to Feed

Ikenna Paschal Okpaleke

Sequence Lauda Sion  Laud, O Zion, your salvation,Laud with hymns of exultation,            Christ, your king and shepherd true: Bring him all the praise you know,He is more than you bestow.            Never can you reach his due. Special theme for glad thanksgivingIs the quick’ning and the living            Bread today before you set: From his hands of old partaken,As we know, by faith unshaken,            Where the Twelve at supper met. Full and clear ring out your chanting,Joy nor sweetest grace be wanting,            From your heart let praises burst: For today the feast is holden,When the institution olden            Of that supper was rehearsed. … Continue reading #SV – We’re Fed to Feed

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#SV – The Spirit’s Benefits

Ikenna Paschal Okpaleke

We did not receive the gifts to remain the same. We received the gifts to be transformed, and in being transformed, be able to transform the world. When we receive the gifts of the Spirit, we become God’s agents in the world, witnesses tot he Gospel, missionaries of faith in Christ; we become change agents, spreading love, and joy, and peace, and kindness, and gentleness, and forgiveness, and fidelity, reliability, trustworthiness, goodness, self-restraint, contentment, etc. The Holy Spirit does not live us the same Continue reading #SV – The Spirit’s Benefits

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#SV – The Disciple-Identity

Ikenna Paschal Okpaleke

To be a loving person is to constantly misunderstood, maligned and ridiculed. Yet that’s what Christ wants from us. Being a loving person is not a one-time affair. It’s a habit of life. It is not a selective attitude, that chooses who to love and who not to. God is love, and so we are called to love. Not in the abstract sense, but in the manner of the example given by Christ. Continue reading #SV – The Disciple-Identity

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#SV – Joyful Persecutees

Ikenna Paschal Okpaleke

Revelation 7:9, 14b-17 I, John, had a vision of a great multitude,which no one could count,from every nation, race, people, and tongue.They stood before the throne and before the Lamb,wearing white robes and holding palm branches in their hands. Then one of the elders said to me,“These are the ones who have survived the time of great distress;they have washed their robesand made them white in the blood of the Lamb. “For this reason they stand before God’s throneand worship him day and night in his temple.The one who sits on the throne will shelter them.They will not hunger or … Continue reading #SV – Joyful Persecutees

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#SV – “Follow me!”

Ikenna Paschal Okpaleke

Gospel  John 21:1-19  At that time, Jesus revealed himself again to his disciples at the Sea of Tiberias.He revealed himself in this way.Together were Simon Peter, Thomas called Didymus,Nathanael from Cana in Galilee,Zebedee’s sons, and two others of his disciples.Simon Peter said to them, “I am going fishing.”They said to him, “We also will come with you.”So they went out and got into the boat,but that night they caught nothing.When it was already dawn, Jesus was standing on the shore;but the disciples did not realize that it was Jesus.Jesus said to them, “Children, have you caught anything to eat?”They answered … Continue reading #SV – “Follow me!”