...I. Introduction ` Religion is one of the most influential topics in today’s society. When focusing on three different types of topics that necessary to me and my life, I decided to choose the three that The topics I chose to write on are: Did Jesus need to be born of a virgin, 0 Why are personal testimonies important in sharing the gospel, and If a person is a Christian, or does it matter how they live their lives? Yes, in order for Jesus to die for our sins He had to go through the birth canal so that He could be of temptation and human flesh and overcome it without sin. I think that personal testimonies are important in sharing the gospel because who better to show or tell you what God can do, than someone who has experienced it themselves. Yes they are. When a person is a Christian, they have to have a normal attitude about themselves, that they are loving and caring people who are God loving. I. Section One Did Jesus need to be born of a virgin? Yes, in order for Jesus to die for our sins, He had to go through the birth canal so that He could be of temptation and human flesh and overcome it without sin. From the day He was born until the day He died, Jesus was without sin to be a perfect sacrifice. Since, we are born into the world as sinners, a miraculous entrance into the world was required, and that’s why the virgin birth occurred. “For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do: by sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and to...
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...Introduction Discipline of Service. The Discipline of Service is manifested in today’s culture by saying ‘no’ to the worlds way of authority to manipulate / control and by saying ‘yes’ to a life of function not of status. Mat 20:25-28. In this paper I will talk about; what I knew then and what I know now regarding the Discipline of Service. Why I thought the way I did concerning the discipline. How a significant Christian figure in history has contributed to the discipline. How the discipline in various other denominations differ to the ones set out in the Celebration of Discipline book. I will also be talking about how my understanding of the discipline has been challenged and strengthened. Most important I will be explaining how the discipline is so important in helping you produce the vital fruits that are desired. Finally; Discipline of Service in conclusion. What I knew about the Discipline of Service before the course. My knowledge about the Discipline of Service before the course was limited to an act done only when I felt like it or thought it was appropriate, not something you do in love, as you see a need arise or as a way of living. The reason I thought this way concerning the discipline was because I had never heard about it prior to the course and I had no knowledge or practise of the discipline. How ‘William Law’ (a significant figure in Christian history), in his “A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life” book has contributed to the discipline. William Law...
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... on “Liking is for Cowards. Go for What Hurts” We’re spending more and more time online and less time out in the real world. But is modern technology really doing us harm? And are we missing out on a lot of important stuff when we hide behind our screens and use a mouse as our mouthpiece? These are some of the important question that arise from reading Jonathan Franzen’s essay, “Liking is for Cowards. Go for What Hurts” from 2011. The 51-year-old author puts our daily internet routines into perspective and forces us to think critically about what we are doing online. But he beats around the bush for a while before he starts presenting his actual message. He thus starts out sharing a personal experience of getting a new smartphone and uses this as a starting point for voicing his concerns. Jonathan Franzen is aware of the danger of scaring off those young readers who might be fed up with older people complaining about the youth of today, “Very probably, you’re sick to death of hearing social media disrespected by cranky 51-year-olds” (ll. 140-142). He therefore catches this young audience’s attention by comparing his relationship to his outdated smartphone to a relationship of romantic nature. He uses familiar expressions like “trust issues”, “accountability issues” and having “outgrown the relationship”. In this way, he...
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...In Loving Monday: Succeeding in Business Without Selling Your Soul was published in 1998 by InterVarsity Press. The book, In Loving Monday depicts Beckett's attitude about business and his faith walk after experiencing unforeseen circumstances in business relations. Failure has always caused many to come to the realization that having a stronger Faith walk with the Lord is very critical in business relations. What I love most about this book is that it gives a broader view of the significance of integrating Faith and Business not only for the English language but an additional 15 languages as well. Knowing that we have a variety of cultures reading this book raises an awareness that the American people are not the only people who need tools to help them in business relations. Beckett introduces his heartfelt thesis by sharing his own unique story -- how he came to love what is considered the first day of a work week. The acronym, “TGIM which stands for: Thank Goodness It's Monday” (Beckett, 2001). – was created in an effort so that Americans would learn to look at the concept of a “Monday” differently. Beckett thought that if Americans would appreciate the start of a Monday, countless would find their jobs more appeasing. Hence, if more Americans would learn to integrate their work and their beliefs, says author John Beckett, they would find more meaning and satisfaction in their jobs and they no longer would dread the start of each new week but create a sense of admiration...
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...SCH4U – The Chemistry of Covalent Bonding Date_____________________ Orbital Hybridization One of the most influential chemistry books ever written was The Nature of the Chemical Bond by Linus Pauling (1901-1994). Published in 1939, Pauling was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1954. Pauling received a second Nobel Prize for peace in 1962. Pauling made tremendous contributions to the field of chemistry, and was an outspoken activist against war and nuclear weapons. If you consider the energy level diagram for carbon it presents a problem to the VB theory. If bonds are formed between orbitals that contain unpaired electrons, how many bonds does it appear carbon can form? | | 2 | | 1 | | Since Carbon only has 4 different 4 valence electrons, according to the Aufbau principle, the 2s orbital is filled first, and then the 2p sub shell has 2 orbitals with unpaired electrons. This suggests that Carbon can only form 2 bonds. However Carbon is clearly able to form 4 bonds, as evidenced by any carbon compound (e.g. methane, CH4). Linus Pauling suggested that carbon is able to create four unpaired orbitals by promoting one electron from the 2s orbital to the empty 2pz orbital. This hybridizes the one 2s and three 2p orbitals together. This configuration is called ‘sp3’. Like s and p orbitals, the ‘shape’ of sp3 orbitals can be defined by a probability density map of electron location around the nucleus. The shape of a sp3 orbital looks like this: Since carbon...
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...Faith Integration Paper (Relationship between God, Family, Society) In the field and study of computer science in relation to one’s relationship to others, I believe they can co-exist and that computer science can complement the Christian faith, if kept in perspective. For example, both computer science and Christianity affect the lives of other’s worldwide, especially loved ones at large. As computer science makes technological advances and progresses in discovering and applying new technology, we are able to do more in reaching out and keeping in touch with those who are close to us, for example our parents, society and, more importantly to God. With this in mind, the opportunities are limitless as knowledge increase and evolve, intertwining into the fabric of our relationship to others, thus benefiting others in an ever changing world. Computer science provides an opportunity to learn various ways of communicating to our family with knowledge and information and to others in many areas that would have been very difficult to access otherwise. One fine example is keeping in touch with loved ones who live overseas or perhaps maintain that important continuity of relationship, by letting others know that they are loved and respected. With computer technology, there are many websites that provide knowledge ample opportunities of maintaining communications with friends and family, while at the same time utilizing the opportunity of propagating the gospel of Christ as God...
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...Ronald Hammer EVAN 101-B19 October 5, 2011 “Methods of Evangelism Paper” Part ONE - Evangelistic Method #1 - The “Intellectual Method” that I have chosen is the Roman road. The Roman Road method is a very simple method that utilizes seven verses of salvation taken from the book of Romans in the New Testament. While many people believe they will go to heaven because they have done charity work, been baptized as a child, attended church, or treated others fairly, the Bible declares that none of us can live up to God’s standards of righteousness. Therefore, we need a road to God that doesn’t rely on anything we do, but rather, relies on the gift of His grace alone. The bible verses that are utilized are Romans 1:20-21 “For ever since the world was created, people have seen the earth and sky. Through everything God made, they can clearly see his invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature. So they have no excuse for not knowing God. Yes, they knew God, but they wouldn’t worship him as God or even give him thanks. And they began to think up foolish ideas of what God was like. As a result, their minds became dark and confused.” Roman 2:23 “For everyone has sinned; we all fall short of God’s glorious standard.” Romans 5:8 “But God showed his great love for us by sending Christ to die for us while we were still sinners.” Romans 6:23 “For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life through Christ Jesus our Lord.” Romans 10:9-10 “If you confess...
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...Dear grandchild, My concept of love when I was about your age was like a “fantasy”. Reading books, poetry, and watching movies and television shows, I thought love just fell into place and had that happy ending. Now that I am older, I have experience and a more understanding of what love is. Love is not always about romance. Yea, you desire and feel attraction to that person but it is more than that. Later in life when you have a family, there will be different types of ways you can love them. There is also responsibility that comes with that. Love is not always a happy feeling or ending either. Love for the wrong reasons can hurt you just as much as it can make you happy. Love is expectations, the desire to learn and make sacrifices for that person, and understand the different ways love can affect and harm you. I am sure you know the book about Cinderella and the magic slipper. Where the Prince spent a night at the ball with the young pretty girl that was transformed by a fairy. Cinderella had to be back before midnight, if not than she would return back to an ugly maid for her step sisters. She ran as quickly as she can to get back and the slipper that she was wearing fell off. The Prince had every girl in that village try on that slipper so he can one day meet her again. When he finally found her she wasn’t the same pretty girl that night at the ball but an ugly maid. The Prince didn’t care because the connection they had that night made him love her for...
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...http://www.wisegeek.com/what-are-love-languages.htm What Are Love Affirmations? Is Love Addictive? What Is Transactional Analysis? What does "Falling in Love" Mean? What is the Difference Between Infatuation and Love? What is Puppy Love? Which Brain Chemicals Underlie the Experience of Romantic Love? What are Love Languages? Dr. Gary Chapman, a Christian family counselor and author, has developed a relationship-building program called the 5 love languages. Love languages are defined as verbal and non-verbal communications between couples which improve the mental and physical well-being of both partners. These mutual expressions and actions help to build up a nurturing environment in which couples can improve both their emotional and physical intimacy levels. The first of the five love languages includes words of affirmation. These words go far beyond a perfunctory "I love you" ritual, and include specific recognition of a partner's contributions to the relationship or the household or a career. The point of the exercise is to provide enough positive affirmation of a partner's self-worth to motivate that person towards even more personal growth. By telling a partner or friend or co-worker how much you appreciate his or her efforts, you are speaking in a language he or she can understand. The second of the five love languages involves spending quality time with a loved one. This means setting aside a meaningful amount of personal time in which the friend or...
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...Americans At A Glance: Self Cultural Profile Student’s Name: Institutional Affiliation: As managers of diverse environments, there is a natural tendency to develop a cultural profile of those they work with. However, at times, there arises the need for the manager conduct a cultural profile of themselves in an inward reflective manner. This goes a long way in helping the manager understand him/herself in a way that identifies their weaknesses and strengths. This greatly influences their management styles and strategies. This paper will look to analyze and highlight a personal cultural profile in a general sense. In the paper I will highlight in topical format each cultural trait and seek to explain how this trait evident in my behavior, its strengths and its weaknesses. Highly organized and Institutionally minded Institutions provide structure and order in any situation, be it governmental or business, even family. I believe there is a need for institutions to ensure organization and security in business. This ensures order and sets rules and boundaries within which all aspects and facets of an institution or organization operate. This has a huge disadvantage though. Some sitautions in the course of day-to-day activities in the organization are not set in black and white and may require compromise. Being institutionally minded tends to create rigidity in how certain issues are handled. This may lead to loss of certain opportunities. Work Oriented and Efficient This cultural...
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...According to Buddhism, from our born to die everything mainly happened according to karmas which we have done in pervious lives (there are other four reasons described as "Niyama Dhammas"). Getting a good appearance, good house, good friends, good job or good wife everything mainly happened according to karma. Buddhists don’t pray to a Creator God, but they do have devotional meditation practices which could be compared to praying. Radiating loving-kindness to all living beings is a practice which is believed to benefit those beings. The sharing of merit is a practice where one dedicates the goodness of one’s life to the benefit of all living beings as well as praying for a particular person. In Tibet prayer is going on most of the time. Tibetans pray in a special way. They believe that when certain sounds and words, called mantras, are said many times, they arouse good vibrations within the person. If a mantra is repeated often enough it can open up the mind to a consciousness which is beyond words and...
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...Sex Chapter 5: Speaking Different Languages Chapter 6: Men Are Like Rubber Bands Chapter 7: Women Are Like Waves Chapter 8: Discovering Our Different Emotional Needs Chapter 9: How to Avoid Arguments Chapter 10: Scoring Points with the Opposite Sex Chapter 11: How to Communicate Difficult Feelings Chapter 12: How to Ask for Support and Get It Chapter 13: Keeping the Magic of Love Alive 1 4 12 18 26 40 50 59 67 78 92 110 122 2 Acknowledgments I thank my wife, Bonnie, for sharing the journey of developing this book with me. I thank her for allowing me to share our stories and especially for expanding my understanding and ability to honor the female point of view. I thank our three daughters, Shannon, Julie, and Lauren, for their continued love and appreciation. The challenge of being a parent has allowed me to understand the struggles my parents had and love them even more. Being a father has especially assisted me in understanding and loving my father. I thank my father and mother for their loving efforts to raise a family of seven...
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...So then, the relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself. Alan Watts Man is a social animal and needs emotional as well as physical support from others. He is not geared for a lonely life and his personality undergoes cathartic changes if he is left alone. Our closest relationships are formed with our parents and siblings and then are extended towards our outer family, friends, neighbors, colleagues and then strangers. But what makes these relationships strong and help in giving emotional succor depends entirely on our input and priorities. At one time, joint families were the norm of the society and one found 3 generations living together and enjoying warmth, caring and shared responsibilities. This also helped in developing adaptability and adjustability. But with changing demands of the world, joint families gave way to nuclear ones and this brought about a drastic change in looking at relationships and nurturing them. Increased materialistic needs won over sharing of our time and energy to bonding with our near families. Families grew nuclear with just husband, wife and children and even parents and brother sisters became an extended family. But has this new development helped the person into feeling an emotional stability and security or made him more insecure and unloving? Can relationships be made just a matter of convenience and need to be tolerated because...
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...on this new technological generation. The phenomenon and world is completely normal for them that they haven’t tried live in a world without this massive technological trend. Liking Is for Cowards. Go for What Hurts, is an essay written by Jonathan Franzen, that is based on a commencement speech he delivered at Kenyon College, Ohio, USA. Jonathan Franzen tries to remind people of the true meaning of love, even though technology is being at its peak. He is also trying to reach out to the young audience and tell them, that a real life isn’t on the Internet, but in real life. The author in this essay puts or daily routine on the Internet into perspective and tries to force us to be critical about what we do online. The author stars out sharing a personal experience, which is getting a new smartphone, and he is using it, as a starting point for his concerns. Jonathan Franzen is aware of the danger of scaring all those young readers who might be fed up with some older people, who are complaining about today’s generation of technological and Internet users: “Very probably, you’re sick to death of hearing social media disrespected by cranky 51-year-olds”. Therefore he catches the young audiences attention by comparing the relationship he have with his smartphone to a relationship of romantic nature. Our author seeks to keep in eye level with the young readers, by using familiar expressions like “outgrown the relationship”, “trust issues” and so on. He chooses to contrast the natural...
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...John Gray Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus Scanned by NOVA Scanner: Canoscan D1250 U2F Software: Omnipage Pro 9 Date: 28 August 2002 Proofed by eb00ks Date: 18 March, 2004 Note: As this proofing was done purely on the scanned text copy, this copy needs to be compared to a hardcopy to correct errors resulting from the source text file. eb00ks Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus A Practical Guide for Improving Communication and Getting What You Want in Your Relationships John Gray, Ph.D. Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus Contents: Introduction _________________________________________________________________ i Chapter 1: Men Are from Mars Women Are from Venus 1 4 12 18 26 40 50 59 67 78 92 Chapter 2: Mr. Fix-‐‑It and the Home-‐‑Improvement Committee Chapter 3: Men Go to Their Caves and Women Talk Chapter 4: How to Motivate the Opposite Sex Chapter 5: Speaking Different Languages Chapter 6: Men Are Like Rubber Bands Chapter 7: Women Are Like Waves Chapter 8: Discovering Our Different Emotional Needs Chapter 9: How to Avoid Arguments ...
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