Peace
Peace at Heart: Enabling You to Serve Others
30/03/08 21:55
Peace at Heart: Enabling You to Serve Others
30 March 2008
Questions for reflection and discussion.
1. The painting of the Madonna and child had a profound impact on Dr. Qi. What has touched you at an unexpected moment?
2. Dr Qi’s mentor told him to “follow his art” and gave him some old art magazines. Has an encounter with someone shaped your life? If so describe.
3. Out of tragedy comes beautiful things. Can you share an example?
Extra Credit
4. What other ways are there to communicate God’s truth beside the obvious verbal and written communication? In addition to art?
30 March 2008
Questions for reflection and discussion.
1. The painting of the Madonna and child had a profound impact on Dr. Qi. What has touched you at an unexpected moment?
2. Dr Qi’s mentor told him to “follow his art” and gave him some old art magazines. Has an encounter with someone shaped your life? If so describe.
3. Out of tragedy comes beautiful things. Can you share an example?
Extra Credit
4. What other ways are there to communicate God’s truth beside the obvious verbal and written communication? In addition to art?
Peace at Heart: Enabling You to Serve Others
30/03/08 17:01
Peace at Heart: Enabling You to Serve Others
Dr. He Qi
30 March 2008
Dr. He Qi (pronounced Huh Chee)
Dr. He Qi was a professor at the Nanjing Union Theological Seminary and a tutor for master candidate students in the Philosophy Department of Nanjing University. He Qi is currently artist-in-residence at Yale, He hopes to help change the "foreign image" of Christianity in China by using artistic language, and at the same time, to supplement Chinese Art the way Buddhist art did in ancient times. Dr. He Qi was the first among Mainland Chinese to earn Ph.D. in the Religious art after Cultural Revolution. He has exhibited in Kyoto, Hong Kong, Geneva, Hamburg, London, San Francisco. Berkeley, NewHaven, Minneapolis, Washington, Princeton, Detroit, Toronto, as well as in mainland China.
His Story
Father was a famous mathematician
16 years old during the cultural revolution in China
All schools closed and He and his family sent to the country side to work on a farm.
A clever boy...”What can I do to avoid manual labor? Maybe I can paint Chairman Mao’s portrait.”
Influenced by Rafael’s painting of the Madonna on the cover of an old art magazine.
Tragedy of his mother who was falsely branded a counter revolutionary.
She was forced to bow down to Chairman Mao. She died as a result.
Painted Chairman Mao by day and the Madonna and Jesus by night.
Dr. He Qi
30 March 2008
Dr. He Qi (pronounced Huh Chee)
Dr. He Qi was a professor at the Nanjing Union Theological Seminary and a tutor for master candidate students in the Philosophy Department of Nanjing University. He Qi is currently artist-in-residence at Yale, He hopes to help change the "foreign image" of Christianity in China by using artistic language, and at the same time, to supplement Chinese Art the way Buddhist art did in ancient times. Dr. He Qi was the first among Mainland Chinese to earn Ph.D. in the Religious art after Cultural Revolution. He has exhibited in Kyoto, Hong Kong, Geneva, Hamburg, London, San Francisco. Berkeley, NewHaven, Minneapolis, Washington, Princeton, Detroit, Toronto, as well as in mainland China.
His Story
Father was a famous mathematician
16 years old during the cultural revolution in China
All schools closed and He and his family sent to the country side to work on a farm.
A clever boy...”What can I do to avoid manual labor? Maybe I can paint Chairman Mao’s portrait.”
Influenced by Rafael’s painting of the Madonna on the cover of an old art magazine.
Tragedy of his mother who was falsely branded a counter revolutionary.
She was forced to bow down to Chairman Mao. She died as a result.
Painted Chairman Mao by day and the Madonna and Jesus by night.
The Lord of Peace and the Peace of the Lord [questions]
04/03/07 21:52
The Lord of Peace and the Peace of the Lord
Pastor David Lenz
4 March 2007
Ministry Time Questions
1) What is stealing your peace?
2) David’s realization; “As I get older I am more in touch with my limits. The things I can’t control.” What limits have you recently been in touch with?
Questions for Reflection and Discussion Focusing on The Lord of Peace and the Peace of the Lord
1) What does the “Peace of the Lord” feel like? Or look like?
2) How can I get the “Peace of the Lord” when prayer doesn’t seem to work?
3) Have you had peace and lost it? What causes us to lose the peace?
Pastor David Lenz
4 March 2007
Ministry Time Questions
1) What is stealing your peace?
2) David’s realization; “As I get older I am more in touch with my limits. The things I can’t control.” What limits have you recently been in touch with?
Questions for Reflection and Discussion Focusing on The Lord of Peace and the Peace of the Lord
1) What does the “Peace of the Lord” feel like? Or look like?
2) How can I get the “Peace of the Lord” when prayer doesn’t seem to work?
3) Have you had peace and lost it? What causes us to lose the peace?
The Lord of Peace and the Peace of the Lord
04/03/07 15:53
The Lord of Peace and the Peace of the Lord
Pastor David Lenz
4 March 2007
Text: 2 Thes. 3:16
Review from last week: With Gentleness and Respect
I Peter 3:16
When anyone asks……
Be ready to answer…….
With gentleness and respect……
Assignment for next week: What’s your answer for the hope within you?
The Lord of Peace and the Peace of the Lord: 2 Thes 3:16
The Lord of Peace gives to us the peace of God.
How do you end a letter or an email?
David’s Story:
David said, “I love my family. I can provide material comforts. I can impart a value system. I can be an example of Christian character, and I can pray for my family.”
David’s prayer: “God save my boys from biting dogs and speeding cars.”
David’s realization: “As I get older I am more in touch with my limits. The things I can’t control.”
Write a Rainbow by Ann Wiens
“I love my family but I can’t write them a rainbow. I can’t give them peace.”
Trouble Finds Us: John 14:27, Johne 16:33
From a snowplow and $.20 increase in gas prices to the depletion of the ozone layer and wars.
Jesus doesn’t take us out of trouble but rather leads us through trouble.
Three Benefits.
Peace with God:
The feeling any sinner should feel facing the holiness of God is 1 million times greater than what Alice in Wonderland felt facing the mighty Oz.
But we have peace with God because of Jesus – Romans 5:1-2
Peace in the face of death
The day after the resurrection Jesus said: “Peace be with you.” Jn 20:19, 21
One week later Jesus said: “Peace be with you.” Jn 20:26
Death rids away any sense of peace. But we can have peace because we know it is not the end.
Peace even if we know the world is coming to an end.
The Passing of the Peace
It is not just filling time.
It is not just a ritual.
But it is announcing that Jesus is the Lord of Peace and he give Peace to us all
Key Phrase: “May the Lord of Peace give you peace.”
Pastor David Lenz
4 March 2007
Text: 2 Thes. 3:16
Review from last week: With Gentleness and Respect
I Peter 3:16
When anyone asks……
Be ready to answer…….
With gentleness and respect……
Assignment for next week: What’s your answer for the hope within you?
The Lord of Peace and the Peace of the Lord: 2 Thes 3:16
The Lord of Peace gives to us the peace of God.
How do you end a letter or an email?
David’s Story:
David said, “I love my family. I can provide material comforts. I can impart a value system. I can be an example of Christian character, and I can pray for my family.”
David’s prayer: “God save my boys from biting dogs and speeding cars.”
David’s realization: “As I get older I am more in touch with my limits. The things I can’t control.”
Write a Rainbow by Ann Wiens
“I love my family but I can’t write them a rainbow. I can’t give them peace.”
Trouble Finds Us: John 14:27, Johne 16:33
From a snowplow and $.20 increase in gas prices to the depletion of the ozone layer and wars.
Jesus doesn’t take us out of trouble but rather leads us through trouble.
Three Benefits.
Peace with God:
The feeling any sinner should feel facing the holiness of God is 1 million times greater than what Alice in Wonderland felt facing the mighty Oz.
But we have peace with God because of Jesus – Romans 5:1-2
Peace in the face of death
The day after the resurrection Jesus said: “Peace be with you.” Jn 20:19, 21
One week later Jesus said: “Peace be with you.” Jn 20:26
Death rids away any sense of peace. But we can have peace because we know it is not the end.
Peace even if we know the world is coming to an end.
The Passing of the Peace
It is not just filling time.
It is not just a ritual.
But it is announcing that Jesus is the Lord of Peace and he give Peace to us all
Key Phrase: “May the Lord of Peace give you peace.”