stereotyped against due to their religion. As of today‚ September 10‚ 2010‚ a Florida Pastor Terry Jones has threatened to burn copies of the Quran (Islam’s Holy Book)‚ because he feels the Book of Quran is of the Devil. With the rise of hate crimes toward Arabs and Muslims on the rise‚ this course of action would be devastating for the Arab and Muslim communities. Although many Americans do not agree with Pastor Ted Jones‚ his actions will cause further separation between Arabs‚ Muslims. and Americans
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Pastor Bud has helped me though a lot here in the past few months and I want to thank him a lot for what he has done for me. I want to thank Wendell and Judy Moore‚ for letting me stay with them and I do a lot for them in return. I make sure they get to
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Colored Girls Opening: Four women who were prominent in our Black History stood up in opposition to the odds placed against them. Listen as they tell us about their lives‚ pain‚ and struggles on how it was to be colored (as they were labeled) during the years of segregation and the civil rights movement. I hope you get a message from this presentation and please enjoy. Teresa Hi – I’m Rosa Parks and I’m a colored girl--on Dec. 1‚ 1955 in Montgomery Alabama-- I refused to give up my
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This paper will define‚ discuss and analyze Jim Putnam and Bobby Harrington’s five stages of discipleship as well as the four spheres or areas of our life. Additionally‚ I will describe what stage I feel that I am in and offer evidence to support that. Moreover‚ I will reflect on the four spheres of my life with regards to Bonhoeffer’s discipleship and the cross. Finally‚ the concept of the meaning of submission to Christ will be discoursed. Putnam and Harrington define five stages of discipleship
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Biblical Theology for Leadership Capstone Jim Wieties Integrating leadership God’s way into my life is what is most important. After all Jesus did say to go and make disciples of all nations and teach them to obey everything that He commanded His disciples (Matt. 28-18-20). Jesus did not say to sit in church and wait for people to come to ask you about Him. He did not command us to wait for our children to ask questions about creation or God. The other thing to remember from this passage is the
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biblically educate and raise her children by incorporating the bible into their daily lives. Unlike the Gregorian reformation‚ Luther and other Protestant reformers rejected celibacy and actually believed that marriage was good for pastors. One reason being that the wives of the pastors became role models for other wives in the faith community. By treating each sex equally‚ Luther thought women would be more inclined to learn about Christianity which would hopefully pass onto her kids‚ resulting in their religion
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I really enjoy reading these two books. It gives me insights personally from psalm 52 – psalm 62. I find that these section is song of lament that express distress and great sorrow. So they appeal to God for deliverance because they were about to grief for something or someone loss of a life. Through my study I find out that lament could be verbally expressed in wailing‚ weeping‚ and crying. Furthermore‚ lament also can mean that something horrific has likely happened in someone’s life and it
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presentation of worship‚ teaching‚ community‚ and service‚ the blending has been seamless. Each group has embraced the present‚ and the past to incorporate the meshing of the generational gap. The blending was created with the leadership of the Senior Pastor‚ and the assistance from his leadership board‚ i.e.‚ associate ministers and
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Jonathan Edward´s preeminent method to incite fear of God is focusing on images of hell and the Old Testament teachings‚ where the Lord is presented as a righteous God who punishes people that commit sinful acts. The pastor accentuates that the Lord is furious at sinners‚ yet His righteous hand (reference to Isaiah 41:10) is what is abstaining them from falling to hell‚ “yet it is nothing but his hand that holds you from falling into the fire”. ‘’’’’’’ God being enraged
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The most obvious comparison for a Jewish synagogue‚ Christian church‚ and Islamic mosque‚ is that they are all places of worship for a monotheistic religion. When delving into the deeper meaning‚ some people consider Christianity and Islam to not be true monotheistic religions‚ in essence the three places of worship all share extremely important key aspects in common. Synagogues‚ churches and mosques all have different variations. There are many braches and traditions of Islamic mosques‚ Christian
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