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I pray that God is with you, that you may be blessed, and that He may be glorified in your life.  I posted the questions and message on the web. May God bless us to live honestly before our Father God and not be hypocrites. Here is an interesting blog.

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Why are all Christians hypocrites? Are all Christians hypocrites?

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This Friday Meeting - Part 1 - Testimony Sharing
Part 2 - Book Review: Tortured for Christ, Wurmbrand
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Upcoming Events
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Event: Chicago UBF Orchestra Concert
Date: Saturday, October 31st
Time: 7 p.m.
Location: Anderson Chapel @ North Park University
Cost: Tickets $10
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Event: Bible Teachers Training Workshop
Date: Saturday Noverber 7th
Time: 8am-12:30pm
Location: Main Center @ Lenningrad house
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Event: Main Christmas Worship service
Date: Sunday, December 13th
Time: 2:30pm-4:30pm
Location: TBD
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Prayer Topics
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World: For evangelizing all nations. (Mt. 28:19, 20) For peace and prosperity in Iraq and Afghanistan. For the freedom of worship in North Korea. For doubling our ministry by 2010. For 100,000 missionaries by 2041.
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World Mission Prayer Topics
Thailand, Bangkok chapter: For the director Peter Lee and his message. For the disciples conference. For the main speakers: Ton, Peter, Tam, Mongkol and Warcharee. For 18 attendants. Dr. Mongkol is a professor at the Casetsat University . For raising 12 disciples of Jesus.
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South Africa, Pretoria chapter: For the director James. Y. Lee and his message. For his leadership as an African director. WITS chapter. For the director Jacob Kim and his message from John. Thanks for the Spring conference with the title, “If anyone would come after me.” 10 sheep attended. For Lesedi, Khomo, Boitshwaro and Kagiso. They may grow as an excellent Bible teacher.
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North America: For evangelizing all campuses in USA and Canada.
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IIT Prayer Topics
Our Ministry: We may welcome new comers and love them. God may bless our Bible study to bring them to Jesus.
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Bible Club: Please pray for Moses, Simon, Gideon and David to be good stewards of God’s work through the Bible club as they meet Tuesday’s at 7PM in the yellow room.
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Personal Needs: A) Gideon: financial  B)For , Mary and Dan (He will soon run out of unempolyment)  to get professional jobs C) Abigail and Jay’ s visa status. D) Bible House for IIT E) Immanuel: Part time job - bank loan to get sanctioned
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Pray for those who have gone out from IIT: Sarah Leingang(Korea), Johan Leonard (New York), Mike Statts (Germany), Ison Hong (Springfield), Peter Mugisa (Uganda), Jimmy Mei (OSU)

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Right-click ’save link as’ to download the pdf for each catechism.

Heidelberg Catechism

theapologeticsgroup.com/export/Articles/Heidelberg_Catechism.pdf

Westminster Shorter Catechism

www.puritanseminary.org/media/Shorter_Catechism.pdf

Book of Concord containing Luther’s Large and small catechisms

http://bookofconcord.org/pdf/TrigBOC.pdf

Article: The Need to Recover the Practise of Catechism

http://www.reformedreader.org/rpc.htm

Hello everyone,
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Immanuel has asked for some personal prayer about his financial status. He is praying for any part time job that will meet his living expenses. And for the bank loan to get sanctioned which has been delayed longer than 4 months. May God give him strength through this.
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Please pray for: A) Our ministry to make Jesus known to the student on IIT’s campus. B) Our one to one Bible study ministry to grow and be fruitful. C) the Kwon’s financial status and that God may provide their daily bread. D)For Dan to get a professional job E) For Abigail and Jae’ s visa status. F) Bible House for IIT
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Let me know if you are interested in attending the following: This coming Friday 7pm, Hyde Park UBF will be hosting this quarter’s Christian Worldview series on “Faith, Hope, Love” with this quarter’s focus on “Faith and the Pursuit of Knowledge”. Gerardo Ramirez will be leading the discussion and his talk is entitled: “Faith: In Order That You May Know.”
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Title: “Faith: In Order That You May Know”
Location: Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago
1100 E 55th St (University and 55th Street)
Room 302b
When: Friday Oct 23rd, 7pm
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God bless you to have a wonderful week.
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Who has ever had an experience with a bully? Confrontations with bullies leaves us feeling weak, alone and vulnerable. And Satan is the biggest bully of them all. He likes to harass us whenever he can.

Just as the London Tower needs to be guarded, so also we need the strong man Jesus to guard our house, our heart. Otherwise if it is left unguarded Satan, or one of his accomplices, will try to break in and live there. May God bless us to keep up fighting the good fight!
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This Friday we will attend “Founder’s Day” 6:30PM at the main center. There will be people from South America sharing what God has done in their respective nations.
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Also this Sunday we will have worship service with our U of Chicago co-workers. Their worship service starts at 11AM so you get to sleep in a little more. haha.

Upcoming Events
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Event: Founder’s Day
Theme: Latin American mission
Date: October 9th
Time: 6:30 p.m
Location: Main Center
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Prayer Topics
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World: For evangelizing all nations. (Mt. 28:19, 20) For peace and prosperity in Iraq and Afghanistan. For the freedom of worship in North Korea. For doubling our ministry by 2010. For 100,000 missionaries by 2041. (For 7th Founders Day. Latin America, a missionary sending continent. For the speakers: Abraham Hwang, Don Kuper, Joseph Ahn, Esteban Cho and Edith Najera.)
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World Mission Prayer Topics
India, New Delhi chapter: For the director Jimmy Lee and for the Autumn Bible conference with the title: Jesus, Our Savior. For the main speakers: Julie, Samuel and Robert. For the USA delegate Teddy Hembekidez. He will deliver a message.
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Ukraine, Kyiv chapter: For the director Peter Kim and his message. God may give him wisdom and spirit as he serves as the CIS director. For 120 Sunday attendants and 120 1:1 Bible studies. For Missionary John & Maria Peace family. They are full of spirit and work diligently. Maria Peace suffers from diabetes. For her health. God may console her in this time of losing her father.)
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North America: For evangelizing all campuses in USA and Canada. (For the USA staff conference with the title “House Church.” )
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IIT Prayer Topics
Our Ministry: We may welcome new comers and love them. God may bless our Bible study to bring them to Jesus.
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Bible Club: Please pray for Moses, Simon, Gideon and David to be good stewards of God’s work through the Bible club as they meet Tuesday’s at 7PM in the yellow room.
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Personal Needs:  A) Gideon: financial  B)For , Mary and Dan (He will soon run out of unempolyment)  to get professional jobs C) Abigail and Jay’ s visa status. D) Bible House for IIT
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Pray for those who have gone out from IIT: Sarah Leingang(Korea), Johan Leonard (New York), Mike Statts (Germany), Ison Hong (Springfield), Peter Mugisa (Uganda), Jimmy Mei (OSU)
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field report

On Friday September 25th, we held our 3rd annual outreach concert.  This year it was held at the Triton College Performing Arts Center. This year’s show included 3 bands and a play. The first band was made up of members from the NIU, COD and Triton UBF chapters and called themselves “The NIUCODTriton Unity Band.” The second band was from IIT and couldn’t come up with a name. They were almost called, “Holy Hand Grenades”. The last band was simply called “Westloop.”
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If you listen to the words from the IIT song list, they tell a story. If you use your imagination it goes something like this…
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The first song is “Johnny Be Goode.” When we start out in life, we all want to be good. We all have high hopes to do something good or to be somebody. Even you mom has high hope for you. Besides that, it was just a really fun song to start things off with.
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The second song is, “How to save a life.” Even though we want to be good somewhere along the way things get messed up and life does not turn out as we planned. Because of sin, we can’t carry out all the good we want to do. And as a result, areas of our lives become dark, sinful and messed up. This is Satan’s trap.Throughout our lives we have many relationships and although we want something good, because of sin sometimes those relationships get broken. Because of this we have pain and heartbreak. This song describes times such as these.
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The next song is “superman.” This song describes the struggles we all go through. Sometimes it’s hard and lonely and even a hero has the right to bleed. And the conclusion is that it’s hard to be me.
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The fourth song is “The lost get found.” This is where things begin to change in our life as Jesus seeks His lost sheep. We don’t deserve His grace or mercy but our Heavenly Father loves us so much that He sent His one and only Son Jesus to save us from our sins. This is how the lost get found.
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The next song “Undo,” is the climax of our set. It’s at this point in our lives that we finally realize that we’re a sinner and we’ve made a mess of our life. We accept God’s wonderful grace and love for us and we cry out to God for His unfailing mercy. We acknowledge our mistakes and confess our sins and repent for what we have done. We understand our short comings and ask our Father in heaven to undo what we have become. This is when we really feel God’s compassion and love within our heart and our life completely changes. We don’t enjoy that the things we used to do and we find new pleasure in the things of God.
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And then something amazing happens, we begin to look forward to the things of God. And we begin to put our hope in heaven and not in the world. Which leads us to our finale, “Don’t stop thinking about tomorrow.” This was our last song but unfortunately the tape ran out in the video camera. But it went something like this…

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In all, it was a fun night. We all prayed for those who came and for God’s blessing on Trition campus, which I heard had their club awarded with the club of the year award. may God bless them with all His blessings as they serve Triton students with the word of God.
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