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Essays 151 - 180
Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you" (Ma...
where there is only anguish, grief and regret. The clear message of this passage is that the true believer, the true Christian, is...
and lay persons; those he calls the "next generation of thinking Christians" (Wright). In order to reach these people, however, he...
working class (Brown). Modern playwrights have expanded the conception of tragedy to include all walks of people in all circumstan...
"unclean spirits knew who Jesus was" (Davies 94). Jesus method of exorcism was to "cast out demons by the spirit of God" (Davies 9...
day, children come to our classrooms. Some are more ready to learn than others, some are more excited about learning than others b...
little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these. I tell you the truth, anyone ...
age 12, Jesus was found in the Temple teaching Priests and Scribes about the law (Scott, 2000). In his very first chapter, Matthe...
great humility and eagerness to do as God wishes (Luke 1:39). She then travels to visit Elizabeth where she stays for three months...
King of Salem (ancient Jerusalem) befriended Abraham and his men after their victory over those kings that had taken Sodom and Gom...
as his hero. Achilles Achilles is the greatest of the Greek heroes fighting against the Trojans. As the poem begins, the war ha...
Sacrificial leadership: Jesus sacrificed Himself for all of mankind (Chandra, 2004). Servant leadership is most often associated...
for Jesus to have gone into shock at that time. He was first beaten by the guards: "The men who were guarding Jesus began mocking...
a thumbnail description of the rise of modern science beginning in the sixteenth century. This discussion offers insight into this...
heaven. This theory places a considerable weight on morality as a deciding factor in determining our final fate. The logic is th...
a core belief of Christianity that one can find on any Christian Church Web site, regardless of whether that organization is a mai...
faith, was written after Jesus death by varied authors. Mohammed essentially started Islam and in the case of Jesus, his works and...
his home, and is confronted by an angel who convinces him that Mary has told the truth. The next scenes dramatize the "birth of Je...
more certain that any consideration of Gods relationship to humanity must also consider the presence of God as manifested in the p...
way to be part of the community.3 Each person had a role - the host would extend a graceful welcome to the guest and the guest wou...
Are the criteria for the charismatic part founded on Scripture? If the criteria for the charismatic identity is not founded on Scr...
perspective is not the error, in this authors view, but rather approaching the subject of naturalizing Jesus from a preconceived n...
King of the Jews. Mark places more emphasis on what Jesus did than what He said. He saw Jesus as a powerful servant of God. Luke s...
which set the family in a state of poverty (Hooker, 1996). Mohammeds family was from the Hashim clan, which was one of the poorer ...
Passion at a distance (Atlantic Baptist University). This author suggests that Peter refers to himself as an eyewitness because "h...
all the rest of it. Nope, Jesus would be a man of the 21st century, an adult, and then they could see how he reacted to the world ...
healers could be executed (Healing Rays, 2007). In 1951, the Church made spiritual healing legal again but it is still tarnished w...
as a servant of Christ Jesus, who was "called to be an apostle" (Romans 1:1)(This reference and all subsequent references refer to...
they asked each other, "What is this? A new teaching-and with authority! He even gives orders to evil spirits and they obey him (v...
they can trust to help them. Do they have the authority, that is, the expertise necessarily to help them leave darkness and embra...