What is the theme for a story? What’s Rikki-Tikki-Tavi’s theme? Rikki-Tikki-Tavi’s is a story about a mongoose who tries to protect his owners and the other animals from these two cobras named Nag and Nagaina. Their can be so many themes that are brought out in this story. One of them is being brave and courages to help others. There is lot of big parts of the story that show these parts to show this theme.…
The Imitation of Christ by Thomas a Kempis urges Christians to take Christ as the model and seek perfection in a simple way of life. The “Brethren of the Common Life” was a group of pious laypeople carrying out the Gospel benevolent teachings to common people; they sought to make religion a personal and spiritual inner experience. They facilitated the religious practices and were a true religious revival.…
Discussing the outcome of a Roundtable discussion of federalism in Australia, John Wanna reported that "...all three levels of government - Commonwealth, state/territory and local - tended to see federalism as a malaise, not as a source of effective government" (Wanna 2007: 276).…
2. Evangelists believed that common people need to be redeemed or uplifted, committed more than just self-interest…
In The Strange Case of Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson and “Coraline” by Neil Gaiman, both represent how doubles are reflections of characters inner desires. Double’s are objects or people who contain attributes a person represses, and does not have. But put the two objects or characters together they are equivalent to a human. However, the acts the doubles do in both novels are hidden by the characters to protect their identity. Both protagonists from both narratives enjoy their acts of rebellion their double does or they do in their double world. However, when a protagonist indulges in their double live there will be consequences.…
A major part of life is our life's legacy. Keller shows great examples of people who left a great legacy in the work that they accomplished. But what was more important and impressive than the work is the motive behind the work. Look at this example: If I'm an architect, I can build buildings. If I'm an architect that is close to God, I could build an orphanage for children in Africa. Which one do you think models the fulfilling work of a Christian?…
I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life, the life of toil and effort, of labor and strife; to preach that highest form of success which comes, not to the man who desires mere easy peace, but to the man who does not shrink from danger, from hardship, or from bitter toil, and who out of these wins the splendid ultimate triumph.…
Bibliography: Gimpel, P. (2011). Introduction to the Word. In I. o. Education, Diploma of Christian Ministry and Theology (Module 2) (p. 21). Brisbane: Faith and Life.…
“How do we recognize ambition? Can we measure it? Can it be taught or learned? Or can it be developed during adulthood?” (Text 5) It is believed that ambition can be taught if a child grows up with ambitious parents or relatives. This becomes beneficial to the child when they grow up because the will have great ambition, because while they were growing up the watched all the ambitious people in their life become successful and wise and they will then want to be ambitious like them and also become successful.…
Even though, the end goal of prospering is the aim, I can’t help but be drawn to the section that shows me how to achieve it. The line that discusses meditating on God’s Word day and night, is highly challenging for me in the sense that I want to engage it deeper. Presently, I know that I read short bursts of His word throughout the day, and attempt to read my Bible plan sometimes in the morning, but I feel that there is more. Therefore, this line convicts me—and almost bothers me—when I consider how much more I could be doing, and how much is required to compel the end result to come into fruition. Is it relative to the amount of time spent abstaining from evil, delighting and meditating, or is there an established bar that we must reach before the promise is activated? My summation is that I will keep trying, and moving forward into deeper waters when it concerns this…
To state that Luther, in his essay: Treatise on Christian Liberty destroyed the motivation to live a morally good life would be an all too quick and equally false presumption. Rather, I feel that the opposite is true. In dealing with Luther's essay as well as my own personal beliefs I feel that Luther in fact strengthens every Christian's motivation for faith by way of grace and in relation, the use of works to exude an already present faith in Christ. Though it may seem that Luther shuns the idea of works he in fact presents, quite thoroughly, the case that works are nothing without faith. Yet it is by faith that works become a way of celebrating our salvation. In this essay I will show how Luther actually motivates Christians to live a morally good life and to this end offer text based evidence from his treatise to support these claims.…
Barna, George. Growing True Disciples: New Strategies for Producing Genuine Followers of Christ. Waterbrook Press, Colorado Springs, CO, 2001…
We want a church where all of our desires are catered to. We want a job where we can do just what we want to do and no more. We want a life where all of our resources: time, talent, energy, money, where all of our resources are for our use for any choice we choose no questions asked. That's what we want.…
After being disciplined for something I had done wrong, my dad would often tell me that we are all a work in progress. That we would never reach perfection till our Redeemer comes for us again but that He still extends His grace toward us. He would often say, “It’s not how many times you fall that count Bill. It’s that you get up one more time than you fall.” At the time I thought I knew what he was telling me but looking back on it I hadn’t a clue what he meant. As years have passed and my walk with Christ matured, I now am beginning to know just what he meant. We, as the children of God, can never achieve perfection, but what we can do is strive to be more like Christ. That is what the definition of a Christian is, “Christ-like”. I try to share the good news of…
David Bosch in chapter 5, “Paradigm Shifts in Missiology” explains the importance of understanding the meaning of mission for our own time and encourages us to use our freedom of thinking to understand the ministry of Jesus and the early church in an imaginative and creative way to our own time and context. The reason to do this is because the Christian faith is a historical faith and is incarnational, the reality of God entering into human affairs (p.181).…