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As a UK resident thinking of undergoing some efficient Bristol Life Coaching, you should know that there are different types of coaching that match different coaching needs. Life coaching recently has evolved to be highly personal. So you might want to find a coach who is attuned to your particular goals and ideas. You might be aiming to enjoy your career more, or find more time for yourself. Bristol life coaching services provide a complete array of coaching type to suit your needs – from leadership to personal to business. For further details feel free to visit our website.

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When you are a UK dweller thinking about getting a life coach, it is vital to realize that you have a number of different kinds accessible. Here’s some information about Bristol life coaching you should know before making your final decision.

Different Kinds of Life Coaching to Meet Your Needs

Currently, life coaching is highly specialized. Find out what your specific needs are and get a coach that is completely in touch with your plans and targets. Perhaps you have an interest in family controversies, work or career aims, bettering the connections with friends or relatives, or making that vital balance between life and work. Even so, an area exists of UK life coaching which will cater to your specific needs.

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Coaching for Personal or Everyday Life

This type of coaching aims to create motivation that will help you achieve a sense of balance and fulfilment. In general, the focus is on your personal life with emphasis on helping your recognize and pursue your goals and dreams. Your coach will help you in finding sensible and easy to reach targets in order that you can put together a rational and proficient method to reach them in a process that is innovative and inspired. An adequate life coach will help a person keep his mind on obtaining his goals. All in all, you will learn about tackling antagonists head on, staying clear of frustrations, and creating harmony in your living situation.

Career Coaching

Business coaching stays further away from individuality and your emotional relationships; it targets your striving to meet work goals and work satisfaction. Business people are forever seeking fresh methods of enhancing their gains and marketing their services and goods more profitably. Your Bristol life coach will aid you to target and employ efficient work tactics for your organization. If you come up with an active plan to implement these tactics, you will maintain a usable, step-oriented plan anchored in feasible and real targets that are based on solid company practices.

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Tactics in Leadership Coaching

Leadership life coaching in Bristol has many of the same goals as business coaching but is less specialized. Leadership is a need that is present in all facets of our lives, thus it is possible to find leaders and prospective leaders in the vast amount of environments and conditions. With leadership coaching, you will be taught how to deal with the present as you are getting ready for your future. You can also create an image and convey it efficiently to your subordinates.

For UK citizens, Bristol life coaching may be as particular or wide ranged as you desire. With a little foresight and planning, you’re sure to have a positive and rewarding experience that will relate directly to your specific and unique situation.

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One of the major problems in the field of behavior science is the problem of people feeling they have no apparent purpose in their lives. Many in today’s world feel that they are trapped in an existence that offers very little in the way of inspiration or guidance or pragmatic instruction for life improvement. This situation is amplified by the Depression that has descended upon the world.

“If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable” (1 Cor 15:19).

General Douglas MacArthur (one of the generals who helped win World War II) said in a speech after the Japanese surrender: “We have had our last chance. If we cannot devise some greater and equitable system, our Armageddon will be at our door. The problem basically is theological and involves a spiritual recrudescence, an improvement [in] human character that will synchronize with our almost matchless advances in science, art, literature and all material and cultural developments of the past two thousand years. It must be of the spirit if we are to save the flesh.” It will only be of the spirit if we are to save the flesh. The flesh being saved will be that of the human trainees left over from the tribulation.

Christ spoke of the identical problem almost twenty centuries ago. Focusing on the last days, he said, “…except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved…” (Matthew 24:22). Christ predicted a time when all life might be erased from the face of this planet (the time period in which we now live). “[Seeing] then [that] all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought you to be in [all] holy conversation and godliness” (2 Peter 3:11).
In harmony with God’s time table, there will be multiple resurrections from the dead (John 5:28-29). There are some false teachers who teach that there is no resurrection of the dead (1 Corinthians 15:12).

At the last trump the dead in Christ will be raised up at the first resurrection into bodies that do not die (1 Corinthians 15:52-54). Those in the first resurrection will not experience the second death. They will rule with Christ for 1000 years (Revelation 20:6). Many coming up in the second and third resurrections will be surprised to see that they will be judged by their works (Revelation 20:12 and Revelation 20:13).

Which Works?

God will, in time, remove all rebellion to him from the face of the earth. His Son, Christ will take back the planet by force (Revelation 19:11-13) and force peace upon the earth. He will be called Wonderful, Counselor, The mighty God, the Everlasting Father, and the Prince of peace (Isaiah 9:6). And of the increase of his government there will be no end (verse 7). Individuals who overcome will be given a white stone, awarded to them by Jesus Christ himself. That stone will have the person’s new name, which will be unique in the entire universe. And no one will know the name except the one who receives the stone (Revelation 2:17).

What God has for his people is so much more than a repair job to return to an Eden-like environment. What he has planned transcends all that has ever existed. The next major positive event for the universe is the kingdom of God coming to this planet, which is the reason to pray “…thy Kingdom come.”

The kingdoms of this world will be forced to become the kingdoms of our Lord and his Christ (Revelation 11:15). The New Jerusalem will come down to this earth and God will tabernacle with his people (Revelation 21:2-3). There will be no more death, sorrow, tears, or pain (verse 4).

“Fear not, little flock; for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give to you the kingdom” (Luke 12:32).

“In the last days it will come to pass, [that] the mountain of the LORD’s house will be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills. And all nations shall flow into it” (Isaiah 2:2, Micah 4:1).

“And many nations shall come, and say, Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, and to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for the law shall go forth of Zion, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem” (Isaiah 2:3 and Micah 4:2).

“And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke strong nations afar off; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation shall not lift up sword against nation neither shall they learn war any more” (Isaiah 2:4 and Micah 4:3).

“And they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree; and none shall make them afraid: for the mouth of the LORD of hosts has spoken [it]” (Micah 4:4).

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During the past forty years, Catholics have not been educated in their faith. Many Catholic adults have high school diplomas, bachelors, masters, and even PhD’s in business, science, medicine, etc. But, unfortunately, they have a second or third grade education in their Catholic faith! This is so sad, because when we are ignorant of our Catholic faith and the history behind it, we are vulnerable to having what faith we do have destroyed by someone of equal or greater ignorance, but perhaps greater persuasive powers. In other words, they may have more faith in their error, than we do in our truth. Remember, the Catholic faith contains the fullness of divinely revealed truth! So, what should we do? We should educate ourselves by studying all our adult lives. There are many good Catholic Audio Files files available on the Internet that you can download and listen to. There are many good Catholic websites available that can offer you solid Catholic teaching, such as ,Catholic Audio, where you can begin to “catch up” on all the Catholic doctrine and history you have missed out on.

Take me, for example. Until I was in my early thirties, I didn’t really know my Catholic faith that well. I thought I did, but when I actually began studying, I discovered I knew very little! In fact, even today, I realize that there is SO much to learn, that I can study all my life and never know it all. I guess that’s why the Pope has his own personal theologian to help him when he does research and study. Yes, the Pope studies the Catholic faith, too!

Some folks learn better by reading, some learn better by hearing. The Bible says that faith comes by hearing the Word of God. That’s why I think audio might be a little better than reading for this sort of thing. That’s why I recommend that you take a little time and download some of the audio (.MP3) files from the site I recommended and similar sites.

If you have an .MP3 player or an iPod, these type files would easily play on it. If you don’t, and have a PC with a CD burner, you can easily create music CD’s with the .MP3 files. You can do like I do and play the CD’s in your car’s CD player on the way to work and back. (I live approximately 67 miles from work, and this is a great time to listen to a good Catholic lecture on some topic or other.) I was especially interested in the talks on personal conversions to Christ and the Catholic Church. I was also interested in the history of the Catholic Church by Steve Kellmeyer. All these audio files are orthodox, i.e., faithful to Catholic teaching. We need to be very careful what we read and to what we listen in this day and age, because there has been a strong attack on the Catholic Church from without AND from within. To be able to discern what is truly Catholic teaching and what is not is of utmost importance. And I believe that the Catholic Audio Files files are as orthodox as you can find!

God bless!

Steve Bergeron

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Regarding Babylon, one message in the book of Revelation is not “Come out of her, you Pagans.” The message is: “Come out of her, my people” (Revelation 18:4). This message would not be appropriate unless God’s people had a presence in Babylon at the time of the end. Why should you come out of Babylon?

“…that you be not partakers of her sins, and that you receive not of her plagues” (same verse).

“…her sins have reached unto heaven, and God has remembered her iniquities” (Revelation 18:5).

“Babylon has been a golden cup in the LORD’s hand, that made all the earth drunken: the nations have drunken of her wine; therefore the nations are mad” (Jeremiah 51:7).

While the City of Babylon will be a specific place on this earth, Babylon itself is a system that girdles the globe. It is the international control system in opposition to God. It was set up like that from the beginning when Nimrod established Babel, the seed that became Babylon.

“…Nimrod the mighty hunter before the LORD” (Genesis 10:9).

The King James “before” is from the Hebrew word “paniym”, which means, among other things, “in front of.” Nimrod placed himself in front of God, ahead of God, in essence, against God. And, Nimrod’s system, Babylon, as refined by his wife, Semiramis, became the control system opposed to the Creator God.

To understand Babylon, we must understand Babel, the tower upon which the system was founded. It was more than just a tower; it was the beginning of the control system against God. It has evolved into being the control system we see in today’s modern world: control of religion (faith control), control of media (opinion control), control of education (mind control), control of commerce (trade control), control of banking (money control), control of medications and prescriptions and medical services (drug control).

How did Babylon get started? Before there was Babylon, there was Babel. After the flood, God made a promise that he would not destroy all flesh in a flood (Genesis 9:13-15). However, many of the people were still fearful. Nimrod took advantage of this fear. Josephus describes what happened after the flood. At first many were reluctant to come down from the mountains, fearing the possibility of a future worldwide flood. This occurred in spite of a direct promise from God. When the majority of people came down from the mountains, they dwelt in the plane of Shinar, a section of territory that would comprise what was later known as a precinct of Babylon. It was a good land for farming and was filled with blessings from the ground. However a leadership arose that rejected the idea that the prosperity was a blessing from God. They believed that their own power was the proper cause of their plentiful conditions and that they were therefore under no obligation to obey God.

It was Nimrod, grandson of Ham, who incited them to exhibit such an affront and contempt of God. His philosophy was, “If you submit to God, you are a coward.” It was a philosophy of expanding self-confidence into self-worship. The building of the tower of Babel was supervised by the master mason, Nimrod. Its purpose was not just to reach into heaven (the sky). Its purpose was also to provide a place to go when the future flood arrived to drown the world. Nimrod worked on the fear people had of the flood, a flood that never came. Fear was (and is) a tool of Babylon.

The tower was made of burnt brick, cemented together with mortar consisting of bitumen, which made it water-proof. Fearful that other places might not be as fruitful and plentiful as Shinar, the majority of the people participated in the building of the tower. Nimrod controlled the people by means of the tool of fear. However, the tower-building project came to an abrupt end when God confounded their language and scattered them over the face of the earth (Genesis 11:7-9). So all the people who were participating in the building of the tower became unable to communicate with each other and, as a result, became scattered. After this time, did anyone come to inhabit the land of Shinar? Yes. Hestiaeus mentions the priests of Jupiter (a false god) took sacred vessels and came to Shinar.

Nimrod’s great uncle, Shem, is also known as Sem. He is the father of all Semitic people. According to profane history Shem killed Nimrod, cut him up, and sent pieces of his body all over the inhabited world.

This violent act had the effect of terrorizing Semiramis, Nimrod’s widow, to the extent that she turned the Babel system into a mystery, a secret system known only to the inner circle. It became the Babylonian mysteries. And today Babylon is a mystery to the majority of the world’s population who have been victimized by it. Modern education and media are, for the most part, Godless and secular.

“And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient” (Romans 1:28).

This is one reason so many in the media and in education have lost the ability to maintain logical and reasonable trains of thought. Their degeneracy has developed to the level in which their mind has become reprobate. Some newcomers have not reached that point but they are told they must get with the program or get out. After years of getting with the program, they, too, lose the associative abilities one would ordinarily expect of reporters and educators.

Christ did not institute vows of poverty for himself or for anyone else. On the other hand he did not direct that his way (Christianity) should be run like a business, complete with territorial imperatives, the spirit of competition, and an overbearing chain-of-command to lord it over the so-called “laity”.

Many demons have the effect of placing an extra amount of deception into the mind of the idolater. For example, at the end there will be frog-like demons that will influence the rulers of the world to believe that they can actually fight against Christ (Revelation 16:13-14). There is an equation at work here. The more idolatry a person is involved in, the greater capacity they have for self-deception.

“Take heed to yourself that you be not snared by following them, after that they be destroyed from before you; and that you inquire after their gods, saying, How did these nations serve their gods? Even so will I do likewise” (Deuteronomy 12:30).

At first, this may seem like someone simply going after other gods and using idols as an aid to worship other gods. The next verse makes it clearer. You shall not apply this to the true God!

“You shall not do so unto the LORD your God…” (Deuteronomy 12:31).

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References:

Elder, Wily, Babylon: Control of Religion, © 2000 Wily Elder, AFSS Corporation, Ocala, FL, United States

Hislop, Alexander, The Two Babylons, © 1916, The Loizeaux Brothers, p. 6,63,64, Neptune, NJ, United States

Josephus, Complete Works of Josephus, © 1960 Kregel Publications, page 30, Grand Rapids, MI, United States

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Just like a camera will generally have a point of focus, the human mind will usually have a point of focus. Eastern philosophies refer to the human mind as being like a drunk monkey looking for the ultimate banana. This, of course, pre-supposes that person is grasping, practicing the way of “get”. We live in a modern world that is filled with distractions of all kinds. There are many things that are devised to capture the mind: 2012 hype, imploding economy, fear-mongering in the media, moneymaking opportunities, entertainment, game playing, politics, talk radio, movies, television, games, Internet, etc. Once a mind is captured by a distraction, it usually ignores what it was previously paying attention to. It may or may not return to what it had originally focused on.

“For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also” (Matthew 6:21).

What we treasure most will usually become the focus of our attention. This can cause us to compartmentalize our priorities. Truth from scripture may become compartmentalized to a part of our mind that contains religious thought. There is nothing wrong with doing that. But wouldn’t it be better to put it into a part of the mind that contains practical pragmatic wisdom?

Christ often condemned the religious leaders because of their lack of wisdom and the spirit of competition and their blindness. They didn’t focus properly.

“The queen of the south shall rise up in the judgment with the men of this generation, and condemn them: for she arrived from the utmost parts of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon: and, behold, a greater than Solomon is here” (Luke 11:31).

The queen of Sheba heard about Solomon and his wisdom and went to see him to see if it was true that he was the wisest man. She found he was indeed the wisest man (1 Kings 10:1-9).

“And she said to the king, it was an accurate report that I heard in my own land of your acts and of your wisdom. Howbeit I believed not the words, until I came, and my eyes had seen it: and, behold, the half was not told me: your wisdom and prosperity exceeds the fame which I heard. Happy are your men, happy are these, your servants, which stand continually before you, and hear your wisdom. Blessed be the LORD your God, which delights in you, to set you on the throne of Israel: because the LORD loved Israel forever, therefore he made you king to do judgment and justice” (1 Kings 10:6-9).

The comparison made by Christ was that he (Christ) was infinitely wiser than Solomon. Yet the crowds of people, for the greater part, had no real appreciation of that. And the religious leaders hated him.

The same is true today. Christ is the living Word of God (John 1:1). The Bible is the written Word of God. In the pages of the Bible we have a wealth of knowledge that originates from wisdom that is infinite. But generally humans, for the most part, set Bible reading as a low priority. There are computer programs and internet links that can show and translate the various Greek texts on which the English New Testament is based. The same can be done with the Hebrew of the Old Testament. There are programs and concordances that show how specific original language words are used throughout scripture. There has never been an age in which this knowledge, in detail, was at the fingertips of humans until now. And yet most people have practically no appreciation of it.

There are two things that cause a major focus away from God: an evil heart of unbelief and a heart hardened through the deceitfulness of sin (Hebrews 3:12-13).

Scripture contains the knowledge we need (2 Timothy 3:16). To transform it into wisdom, we have to ask.

“If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that gives to all men liberally, and upbraids not…” (James 1:5).

The fear of God is the beginning of wisdom (Psalms 111:10, Proverbs 9:10). The King James “fear” is from the Hebrew “yirah”, which means fear, awe, respect. Our respect for God is very important. Without it we cannot even begin to have wisdom.

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Some Christians question how the books of the New Testament came to be accepted to the approved canon. Actually, it was the other way around. John, the original apostle, and his understudy, Polycarp, saw to it that spurious and fraudulent books would not become part of the recommended reading material of Christians in the first and second centuries AD. For example, they rejected the Gospel of the Lord, also known as the Gospel of Marcion. There were two extremes of religious leaders seeking to distract people away from the gospel of the kingdom of God. One extreme were the legalists, who felt salvation was earned by keeping the law and by being circumcised. The other extreme were the Nicoliatans, whose reasoning was: “God is glorified by forgiving sin, so sin early and sin often in order that God may be glorified that much more.” Sin is the transgression of the law (1 John 3:4). Antinomian imperatives are not something new in theology. Every era of time has had its advocates. The organized beginnings in the Christian era is documented as far back as the 140’s AD. At that point in time there was a heretic named Marcion who invented a new theology, which represented an unusual view of Christ.

During the second century, Marcion of Pontius (in West Asia) became associated with a professing Christian group in Rome. He was the son of the bishop of Sinope. He formulated the idea of the Bad God/Good God. His belief was a strange outgrowth of gnostic theology. He believed the Most High God was an inferior being. He believed Christ came to overturn the harsh laws of the Most-High God. He believed Christ was always spirit (never flesh). He believed Christ never really died for the sins of every one. He believed Christ was a phantasm. This is, of course, the spirit of the Antichrist. He thought the death of Christ was theatrical, not real. Therefore he believed Christ never suffered. He believed there was something holy about not having sex so he and his followers tried to practice celibacy. The bishops (supposedly, including his own father) excommunicated him for his odd philosophy. Ironically, years later, as the standard religion became more corrupt, the mainstream would embrace celibacy as something holy.

Marcion believed the role of Jesus was to liberate Christians from the power of the Most High God (the Father). So he thought the Father was the evil God of the Old Testament. And Christ (he thought) was the nice God of the New Testament who made the harsh God of the Old Testament unnecessary. Does this sound familiar? It certainly fits into some of modern day theology. Marcion felt that only Paul understood the teachings of Christ. So Marcion put together a Christian canon consisting of only ten letters of Paul and a modified Gospel of Luke. He threw out the Old Testament completely. He didn’t want his followers reading Matthew, Mark, John, Acts, 1 Peter, 2 Peter, 1 John, 2 John, 3 John, James, or Jude. And he certainly didn’t want them to read the book of Revelation. In Revelation there are the prophecies of God’s people keeping the commandments right up to the end. Of course, in the Bible, you can’t go further into the future than Revelation.

“And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ” (Revelation 12:17).

One time when Marcion encountered Polycarp (an understudy of John, the Apostle), Marcion said, “Don’t you recognize me?” Polycarp said, “I do indeed. I recognize the firstborn of Satan!”

Marcion was not the only anti-law advocate at the time. But he was one of the most well known. Marcion’s “canon” (the modified Gospel of Luke and 10 of Paul’s letters) was a thin book (scroll) to begin with. And from time to time he would alter the “canon”. He always subtracted from it. He never added to it. He removed those scriptures that encouraged obedience to God and those scriptures emphasizing works for a Christian to do. Thankfully, Polycarp, and later, Polycrates of Ephesus, made sure that contrived canons such as Marcion’s were exposed and rejected.

English Bible History

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Antiquity Online, Jews and Christians in Rome’s Golden Age, Chapter 19, 1999 Fesmitha, Eurekanet

Brom, Jennifer, The Ecole Glossary, 1999 Cedar Evansville Education, Ecole

Holmes, Peter, Five Books Against Marcion, 1868 Peter Holmes

Josephus, Flavius, Antiquities of The Jews, 1981 Kregel Pub, Grand Rapids, MI, United States

Lieuwen, Daniel F., The Emergence of the New Testament Canon, 1999 Daniel F Lieuwen

Voorwinde, Stephen; Vox Reformata Articles, 1999 Vox Reformata, Geelong, Australia

Wiki Editors, Gospel of Marcion, Copyright 2009 Absolute Astronomy

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