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At present, sometimes in today’s ministry activities, God’s servants experience degradation of faith and character, triggered because they are not strong enough to deal with complex challengs and problems and end up leaving the ministry. This article aims to answer existing problems by discussing a character named Moses. Through his leadership character he becomes an inspirational figure that can be implemented by God’s servants into the framework of his ministry. As for the results of the character of Moses that needs to be possessed is,  a gentle heart, loyal to God, humble and relies on God in ministry. This article was written using a qualitative method of library approach. The final conclusion of the writer is that the character of Moses leadership within the framework of serving God’s servant greatly contributes to answering the problems that occur among God’s servants today.

PT Djarum is a large cigarette company with a worldwide market share. It is interesting to study why one of Djarum 76's products can have a constant price under any circumstances. Through qualitative research with a phenomenological approach, the research shows: that the Djarum company is the producer of Djarum 76, it can achieve success because it is always consistent in its business so that it can lead its owner to become the richest person in Indonesia. Humans must cultivate the quality of their faith and piety consistently, then their life will be constant. God's help will come in a reciprocal relationship with the needs of a servant. Research implications, narrative experiences bring thought and faith to be consistent in life in various circumstances. Research is expected to contribute to the science of the psychology of Sufism    

This study aims to analyze the influence of the school environment on the growth of faith and morality among Christian students at Elpida Senior High School Noelbaki. The research is based on the premise that a Christian school is not merely an institution for knowledge transfer, but also a formative environment for spiritual and moral development. The study employed a quantitative approach with a survey method. The population included all students of Elpida Senior High School Noelbaki, while the sample consisted of 80 purposively selected students. The research instrument was a five-point Likert scale questionnaire covering spiritual, social, and academic aspects of the school environment. Data were analyzed using simple linear regression to determine the effect of the school environment on students’ faith and moral growth. The results revealed that the school environment has a positive and significant influence on students’ spiritual and moral development (t = 5.36, p < 0.05). A Christian-based school environment encourages students to live in obedience, love, and responsibility toward others. This study concludes that faith and moral education are not only taught theoretically but also modeled through school culture, teacher-student relationships, and a spiritually nurturing atmosphere.

This research aims to provide reinforcement to the community so that they can further strengthen their faith, namely through the development of Islamic law on the Islamic jurisprudence of prayer with the Sanad. Bersanad prayer is an activity that begins with learning and deepening and understanding the meaning of fardu prayer both from the perspective of the Shari'a and from the essence. Prayer is the pillar of religion. Praying with a sanad does not mean that people have not had a sanad during their prayers. What is meant by bersanad prayer is that we try to connect our prayer practice to our teachers and the ulama who themselves got it from their teachers up to the prophet Muhammad SAW. We carried out this research by observing the people of Cermen village, Kedamean sub-district, Gresik district. The method used in this research is the PAR (Participatory Action Research) method. The stages of assisting the implementation of the PAR method in the Cermen village community use 3 stages, namely the preparation stage, implementation stage, and evaluation stage.

Self-muhasabah is one of the methods of moral education that is put forward by the teachers at IDIA Prenduan. Various forms of programs are structured to direct the students to always reflect on themselves, such as spiritual cleansing activities every dawn on Fridays (Kulsub) and mandatory activities for the management of the minister for studies and da'wah or (Menkada) Ma'had Student Executive Board (BEMA) at IDIA Prenduan and other things. In this study, the focus of the research was how to apply self-reflection to improve the moral quality of female female students of IDIA Prenduan and what are the supporting and inhibiting factors in the application of self-muhasabah to improve the moral quality of female female students of IDIA Prenduan. And the purpose of this study is to describe the application of self-muhasabah in improving the moral quality of female female students of IDIA Prenduan. This study uses a qualitative descriptive method of phenomelogy. Data collection techniques include interviews, observation and documentation. The data analysis techniques include data collection, data reduction, data presentation and verification. The results of this study are the application of self-muhasabah to improve moral quality in the form of dawn lectures, istirham, morning lectures, tahajjud prayers, it can be seen that this application can improve the quality of mahasantri morals such as self-muhasabah activities. The supporting factors of this activity are Kyai and Nyai who have qualified knowledge and discipline of the mahasantri while the obstacle is the lack of enthusiasm from the mahasatri in self-contemplation which is held at dawn, due to the dense activities carried out. So that some students feel sleepy and this is a form of lack of faith in Allah SWT.    

Effective learning is one of the important things for students. Therefore, teachers must be effective in teaching. Teacher effectiveness is the effectiveness that brings the success of students in participating in the learning process. PAK teacher effectiveness is a way to strengthen students' faith and improve student learning achievement. The way to find out effectiveness must be an evaluation, so that you understand the effectiveness of PAK teachers in learning. However, there are factors that affect student learning achievement, namely psychological factors. Thus, as an PAK teacher, he must be able to have effectiveness in learning to improve student learning achievement

Church dedication in carrying out God's mission is an obligation that must be carried out because it is the main task and responsibility of church institutions to remain faithful and consistently realize it. The purpose of writing this article is to provide a theoretical contribution through ideas or ideas about how the church's dedication in realizing the mission Allah in the world with the right efforts to maximize the completion of the mandate as a whole. The method used in this paper is the literature review method by collecting data in the form of observations, analysis of books, articles, magazines, websites and other sources related to the topic of discussion and looking at the links from each library source used, and all sources used are described. based on the provisions of the research. The result of this discussion is that the church is able to complete the great commission in the world in the right way, then the church is able to produce quality missionaries with various upbringings that are applied and the church consistently carries out its missions with various predetermined actions

This study examines the theme of non-violence in interactions between adolescents. This study raises the perspective of Pope Francis' encyclical “Christus Vivit” as a Christian perspective in dealing with youth development issues. There are three research focuses, namely describing bullying among adolescents, the role of teachers in schools as controls to prevent bullying, and the role of the Church in Christian assistance in the problem of bullying in adolescents. Researchers use qualitative research methods. To obtain data, researchers used direct interview techniques and zoom meeting-based interviews. Data processing and analysis were carried out in a descriptive way. The research findings show that the psychological impact felt by victims due to bullying is feeling awkward when put together in group work and feeling lonely, afraid to come to school and also afraid to look at social media again. The psychological impact can be felt if you take things too seriously or take your feelings too seriously so that the victim will feel sad. But there are also victims who feel normal because they accept and resolve it in a family and peaceful manner. Students need to be reminded again of the rules that apply in schools, the goal is that all student behavior creates comfort and safety among students. It is better for teachers not only to teach about learning material but to provide character lessons for students on the sidelines of teaching material. The role of the Church should be more aggressive in inviting youth to be involved in church services to develop maturity in their faith so that there is determination not to commit acts of bullying.

The Bible is God's Word written by the prophets through His guidance and also through God's breath itself in ancient times. As God's creation, church people need to build relationships through the intimacy of reading, contemplating and carrying out God's heart through God's Word contained in the Bible. In fact, most Christians and even young people think that this is not important so that there is a tendency for church members to rarely read the Bible. Therefore, the strategy of God's servant is really needed in motivating church members so that the love of reading the Bible increases and continues to be maintained for the continuity of church discipleship and the spiritual growth of mature congregations. This study aims to describe the duties of a servant of God in carrying out his duties as a pastor of the congregation and how the church creates devices, facilities, programs, methods or technology in order to motivate the congregation to cultivate reading the Bible in creative ways, as well as to guide and direct the congregation to grow in the knowledge of God and to accompany each member of the congregation to grow spiritually to mature one's faith in Jesus Christ.

The meaning of Abraham's call for Christian Religious Education is important in practicing Christian teachings today. By understanding Abraham's calling, Christian teachers can apply the steps that Abraham used during his life to the teaching of Christianity. The research method used is qualitative through analysis of scriptural texts and related literature. The values contained in the history of Abraham's call, such as faith, patience, obedience, and submission are very relevant to Christian religious education. This paper also discusses how to apply these values in the context of Christian education, including reflective and interactive learning. However, understanding the meaning of Abraham's call in the context of Christian religious education presents challenges, including differences in interpretation and understanding that arise from different Christian traditions. The solution to this challenge is to increase insight and understanding through dialogue between Christian traditions and interfaith studies. This paper also provides solutions to overcome challenges in understanding the meaning of Abraham's call, and the need for greater insight and understanding through dialog between Christian traditions and interfaith studies.

This research is descriptive research with a qualitative approach. The data in this research is in the form of the value of love in the novel Moments Deep by Lia Seplia which is arranged in the form of phrases found in the novel. The data collection technique used in this research is literature study. Based on research results, love between men and women is love that is given to each other, the feelings that arise within both of them form a unified whole by, giving sacrifices to the partner by thinking about the interests of the partner, mutual trust between the partners even when they are far apart, and mutual honesty to express feelings. Love for the family occurs between parents and children, children and parents, younger siblings and older siblings and vice versa, or between siblings who have blood ties which includes an attitude of affection, giving attention and care to elderly parents by caring for and loving them, being willing to make sacrifices from parents are to educate and care for a child sincerely until the child grows and develops until now, responsibility in the form of parents can be given in the form of meeting the needs of their children, and others. Love between fellow humans is an effort made by humans by providing assistance or in the form of assistance as social creatures who should work together and lend a hand. Love between humans and God means the form of human faith in God by carrying out His commands and avoiding His prohibitions and surrendering with all sincerity, performing worship, praying for help and convenience for what is done, always being grateful for everything that has been given. His. There are implications for the value of love in the novel Saat- saatjauh by Lia Seplia in learning high school novel texts in the 2013 curriculum.

This research is motivated by the rapid development of technology in the field of social media so that preachers use it to deliver their da'wah. Youtube is one of the social media that is loved by many people, including the younger generation who use YouTube to find the information they need, including da'wah content. This phenomenon is of concern to the preachers, one of which is ustadz Das'ad Latif, to convey the message of da'wah. The da'wah message he delivered used a distinctive language, the regional language, so that many viewers were happy with the da'wah message he conveyed. The purpose of this study is to find out the contents of Ustadz Das'ad Latif's da'wah messages on the @Das'adLatif YouTube channel. The type of research used is qualitative research, namely research that produces findings that can be achieved by using measurements of both spoken and written words. The subject of this research is the sound of da'wah messages in videos on the YouTube channel @Das'adLatif. The data collection technique for this research uses a descriptive approach by watching and recording video content. Data were analyzed by content analysis method. The results of the study show that in Ustadz Das'ad Latif's Youtube Channel there are three da'wah messages including: Aqidah messages, Sharia messages and Moral messages. The contents of the message examined on Ustadz Das'ad Latif's YouTube channel are the core of the lecture which contains da'wah messages in it. From the categories of messages that have been mentioned there are sub-categories including: messages of aqidah including: faith in Allah, faith in His Angels, faith in His book, faith in His Messenger, faith in the Day of Judgment, faith in making up the qadha and qadar. Shari'ah messages include: worship and muamalah. Moral messages include: morals to God and morals to humans.

The purpose of this writing is to explain the importance of community participation in KBG development in St. Mary, Mother of the Gunungsitoli Nation. Where the presence of the KBG requires the people within it to become more actively involved in every KBG activity. The problem in this research is how the community participates in the development of KBG in St. Mary's Parish. Mary, Mother of the Gunungsitoli Nation. The aim is to encourage congregational participation in the development of KBG in St. Mary, Mother of the Gunungsitoli Nation. This research approach is descriptive qualitative. Data collection techniques through interview observation and documentation. The research carried out revealed that KBG is an association of believers consisting of 10-15 families to pray together, share their faith, and listen to the Word of God. In KBG, people are generally less active in KBG activities, sometimes there are also people who are less aware of their duties and responsibilities in KBG. This research shows that through Ecclesiastical Base Community meetings, people can grow their faith in Christ.

The prophet Habakkuk was a prophet who lived in very similar times and is still relevant today, and he struggled with the commonplace question that believers should ask “why did God allow curses to happen?”  Habakkuk lived in a time of suffering, oppression of injustice, crime, hatred and division was rampant, the wicked surrounded the righteous.  The method used in this study is a qualitative method based on literature studies, namely by using data collection methods, using reliable and accurate sources such as journals, books, and the Bible.  Difficult circumstances and a sense of injustice surrounded his prophetic vocation, but in fact this did not prevent the prophet Habakkuk from fulfilling the Mission God gave him.  When the prophet Habakkuk asked God for help, he did not know of any evidence of an answer from God to his cry.  He only saw that God only seemed to be silent and did not want to answer his call, but he was sure that God would answer his prayer.  Habakkuk's sense of certainty comes from his living faith in the midst of suffering.  Habakkuk's poem provides an example for today's people to have a long-suffering, steadfast attitude, and think positively in facing difficult times.

With the anti-NKRI and anti-Pancasila movements, Indonesian society is agitated. This movement creates a feeling of insecurity in society. Sheikh Kholil Bangkalan has five principles of love for the homeland. This article aims to explore the implications of Sheikh Kholil Bangkalan's five principles of love for the homeland on security psychology. The implications can be seen through the cognitive, affective, psychomotor, and spiritual aspects. Then the scope of the implications for themselves, fathers, educators, children, students, families, neighbors, schools, communities, and the country Conclusion: First, the five principles of patriotism that are applied to oneself, family members, educators, students, and society will bring a sense of security. Second, to create a sense of security, the five principles of patriotism are given the meaning of cognitive, affective, psychomotor, and spiritual aspects. Third, create personal protectors and spreaders of security for individuals, families, neighbors, and communities, nationally and internationally, who have knowledge, feelings, attitudes, and spirituality about the five principles of love for the homeland. Fourth, security is actually a gift from Allah SWT to humans who defend their homeland with love and faith.    

Currently, Islamic education is crucial for developing knowledge based on faith and piety. It creates behavioral patterns that reflect a balance between physical and spiritual aspects, resulting in morally upright individuals. The decline in moral behavior among Muslims is a serious issue that requires significant attention. Islamic education contributes to the enhancement of faith and piety, which in turn shapes morally upright individuals, especially amidst the era of globalization that alters various aspects of life, including mindset. This study aims to understand the process of Islamic education as a means to actualize religious teachings, thereby strengthening the moral character of Muslims in the face of globalization. The research employs a qualitative method with a library research approach. The findings indicate that to address moral and ethical deviations in the era of globalization, it is necessary to revitalize Islamic education to strengthen the moral character of Muslims. The necessary steps include: 1) implementing a holistic and morality-based learning model, 2) revitalizing moral education, 3) revitalizing social education, and 4) revitalizing the role of technology.

Abstract.This article explores the creation story in Genesis 1:1-31 and provides a deeper understanding of how time, matter and space play a role in creation. Through the time perspective, we can understand that God created everything in six days and rested on the seventh day. The material perspective discusses the materials of the creation of the universe and life that show God's greatness in creating everything. Meanwhile, the spatial perspective explains the position of the Earth and the universe in the creation story.This paper also discusses how humans can understand and appreciate God's creation through this creation story. As God's created beings, humans should be able to appreciate God's greatn ess and care for His creation. The implication of understanding God's greatness in the creation story is to strengthen our faith as human beings and inspire us to care for the environment as part of our responsibility as God's creatures.  

Writing this article is based on the fact that there are still many Christian leaders today who abuse their leadership without seeing the context of their faith in God's love. Therefore the purpose of writing this scientific work is how readers can emulate Jesus' leadership in the Gospel of John, the method used in writing this article is qualitative analysis through literature study by analyzing how Jesus' leadership example is very relevant for today's Christian leadership, which can be taken through books, articles. Bible and journal. The conclusion from the results of this study is that the leadership that Jesus did cannot be denied and doubted for today's Christian leaders, because he proved that he had shown how to be a quality leader even though Jesus himself could master what he wanted but not with Jesus who always humble.

The practice of polygamy is a problem in the family that often occurs, in the Christian faith polygamy is in conflict with the principle of marriage. Family is God's creation since the beginning of the first human being, namely Adam and Eve. God first made humans a pair, so it is clear that in the event that the first humans had one husband and one wife, with this statement we can conclude that polygamy is not permitted by Christians and with polygamy is strictly prohibited in the Christian faith. The point of polygamy is to have more than one wife and that the Bible does not approve of polygamy happening. God does not approve of the marriage of more than one wife in Genesis 2:24 where it is very clear that a man will unite with his wife so that they become one flesh.    

This study aims to examine how strategies strengthen student morale through school programs. In analyzing the problem, this research uses descriptive method with observation, interview and documentation techniques. Some of the findings obtained from research that the strategy of strengthening students' morale is implemented in several aspects; firstly on the school's vision and mission where the school compiles the school's vision-mission and goals which imply faith, piety and religious values ​​to strengthen student morale, second on activities both habituation activities within the school environment or activities outside the school environment related to religious activities to increase religious values, third on school facilities and infrastructure, fourth on school rules which are arranged based on the school's vision-mission and goals. The research results show that the strategy is quite successful in strengthening student morale. There are several findings that can hinder the success of applying student moral values, such as: the number of students that is not balanced with the number of classes, the lack of optimal use of facilities, the lack of commitment from school members, especially the lack of parental cooperation in efforts to strengthen student morale.