...another faith, or without faith) and politics. Both normally lead to frustrated feelings from both sides because one couldn’t convince the other to his view. Of course throughout class it is obvious I have a Christian world view, and it is difficult to comprehend those around me (in my culture) may not have the same world view. I believe the only way to Heaven is to be saved by professing Jesus as our Savior, and asking for forgiveness of our sins. We are spiritually born again into a new life with God and His teachings as our guide, and also for our reason to live. God renews our faith, cleanses us of our wickedness, and refreshes our soul. Then we are also baptized, a symbolic way of washing away our sins and through the grace and mercy of Jesus our slate is wiped clean. One aspect of Christianity that non-Christians can’t seem to understand is that clean slate may get a little soiled now and again. But when you have faith that Jesus has saved you and will forgive you, there’s a real comfort that is called hope. We aren’t perfect and we know it. If we had to be perfect I suspect Jesus would be lonely in Heaven! We would also have no hope of eternal life with him, and I can’t think of anything else that could be worse. One of the most chilling quotes is from Dante’s Inferno, “Abandon hope, all ye who enter here.” It is unfathomable for me to imagine a life without hope. Until the last few years, when we started having blogs and comments on articles from magazines...
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...instrumentalityQuick gotta move fast, gotta perform miracles, gee willikers Dre, holy bat syllables, look at all the bullshit that goes on in Gotham when I'm gone, time to get rid of these rap criminals, so skip to your lou while I do what I do best, you ain't even impressed no more, you're used to it, flows too wet, nobody close to it, nobody says it, but still everybody knows the shit, the most hated on out of all those who say they get hated on in eighty songs and exaggerate it all so much, they make it all up, there's no such thing, like a female with good looks, who cooks and cleans, it just means so much more to so much more people when you're rappin' and you know what for, the show must g It's just like old times, the dynamic duo, two old friends, why panic, you already know who's fully capable, the two capped heroes, dial straight down the center eight-zero-zero, you can even call collect, the most feared duet, since me and Elton played career Russian Roulette, and never even see me blink or get to bustin' a sweat, people steppin' over people just to rush to the set, just to get to see an MC who breathes so freely, ease over these beat's and be so breezy, Jesus how can shit be so easy, how can one Chandra be so Levy, turn on these beats, MC's don't see me, believe me BET and MTV are gonna grieve, when we leave, dog fo' sheezy, can't leave rap alone, the game needs me, 'till we grow beards, get weird, and disappear into the mountains, nothin' but clowns down here,...
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...This is a character analysis on the Misfit from “A Good Man is Hard to Find” (1953) by Flannery O’Connor. The story is about a family, including the grandmother, Bailey the father, the mother who is unnamed and their two kids named John Wesley and June Star, that is about to take a family vacation. The grandmother wants to go to Tennessee instead of Florida like the rest of the family. To try to convince them she tells them about a newspaper article about an escaped convict named the Misfit that is going towards Florida. Nobody pays her any mind and the next morning they are all in the car and on the road going from Atlanta to Florida. The grandmother convinces Bailey to take the kids to see an old plantation she once visited. As they are going down a winding dirt road to get there, the grandmother is so startled by the realization that the plantation is actually in Tennessee that she bumps the basket containing her cat which jumps out on to Bailey’s shoulder. They have a terrible accident but everyone is alright. Soon after the Misfit and his two lackeys come along. The family initially thinks they are going to help them until the grandmother recognizes the Misfit as the escaped convict. The Misfit talks with the grandmother while his lackeys take first, the son and father to the woods to kill them and then the mother, daughter and the baby. After a comment the grandmother makes, the Misfit shoots her three times in the chest in a boil of emotion which is quite striking from...
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...that can steer us in the right direction? The answer is in Matthew 20. There are various ways people view or even approach leadership. Many people spend hours trying to find ways to be better leaders, always trying to find that “edge”. Many books are written about possessing certain qualities or characteristics, even applying certain principles to their way of leadership. Principles are not invented by us or society; they are the laws of the universe that pertain to human relationships and human organizations.” While some of these views can be good advice, it tends to shun the very model that we are supposed to follow in the first place. I will focus this paper on one main topic-Leadership; Leadership that is modeled by out Lord, Jesus Christ. Management paradigms in the business world change constantly. Christian organizations often print or even recommend books or some type of media that relates to these paradigms. Why do they feel the need to publish...
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...MY SWEETEST HAPPINESS Forever to be with you The happiest moment in my life Always to be loved by you You make me realize what life is From the moment I saw you I know we're meant' to be From the moment you walk I hope you are mine I do everything to be with you To prove that I love you You are my weakness My Sweetest Happiness Waking up each morning to see you My heart belongs to you Dreaming of you every night Thinking of what you're doing right now You are my world The feeling that can't hide anymore I care for you because you are my life YOU'RE GONE The selfish me, who thought only myself The heartless me, who didn't know your feelings The foolish me, who always hurt you The worthless me, who didn't deserve your love Could I stop the time and go back to the past To see the things that I'm seeking for Could I change the time and return to that place To hear the whisper that I'm listening for I couldn't believe that I'm already changed for you Now I'm ready to fall in love with you I want to make you happy and to see you're smiling To show you how much I appreciate your love But I was too late to do what's right Why I'm such a fool for not recognizing you I was wrong to hurt you that way Give me one more chance to erase the bad memories of me When my heart finally start to beats for you Now you're gone and nothing is left Come back to me, I can't face my life now It's hard to live now without you GET...
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...of five children (Virginia, Anne, Ruth, Franklin, and Ned Graham) and also dedicated husband to Ruth Graham (Back bone of the Graham family). Billy Graham has raised his family in the mountains of North Carolina, a small town fifteen minutes from Asheville called Montreat, a small town fifteen minutes from Asheville (Graham 2). Most importantly, he is a servant of the Lord Jesus Christ. Billy Graham has given his life for the purpose of teaching the Word of God too many lost countries around the world. Since graduating from Wheaton College, his first major success was as a traveling evangelist for Youth for Christ (YFC), which was founded in 1941 (Eskridge 85). Graham was the star of the foundation from early 1945 through 1947, speaking at hundreds of rallies that taught teenage audiences the gospel of Jesus Christ (Eskridge 86). During his YFC days Graham found a way to reach the youth that reluctantly helped him in his years ahead: “We used every modern means to catch the attention of the unconverted—and then punched them right between the eyes with the gospel” (Martin 90-94). He used tactics like upbeat choruses, instrumental solos, and Bible trivia contests which were marvelous tools used to...
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...on people he met; Lennie’s character was based on a man who killed a ranch foreman and stabbed his boss in the stomach with a pitchfork. One way Steinbeck portrays the importance of violence in the novel is through the way in which characters treat each other to determine status. When Curley is introduced in chapter two, he “glanced coldly” at George, his arms “gradually bent at the elbows” and his hands “closed into fists”. Curley “stiffened” and “went into a slight crouch” making Lennie “squirm” and “shift his feet nervously”. His actions foreshadow his malevolent intention to assault Lennie in chapter three in order to regain his status in the hierarchy. However, the direct opposite occurs when Curley was “flopping like a fish”, his fist “lost in Lennie’s paw”. Steinbeck uses animalistic imagery reflecting Curley’s loss of power and Lennie’s aggression which momentarily places him further up the hierarchy. Curley’s treatment of...
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...SUN STAND STILL D EVOTIONAL PUBLISHED BY M ULTNOMAH B OOKS 12265 Oracle Boulevard, Suite 200 Colorado Springs, Colorado 80921 All Scripture quotations, unless otherwise indicated, are taken from the Holy Bible, New International Version®, NIV®. Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984 by Biblica Inc.TM Used by permission of Zondervan. All rights reserved worldwide. www.zondervan.com. Scripture quotations marked (KJV ) are taken from the King James Version. Scripture quotations marked (NKJV ) are taken from the New King James Version®. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson Inc. Used by permission. All rights reserved. Italics in Scripture quotations reflect the author’s added emphasis. Details in some anecdotes and stories have been changed to protect the identities of the persons involved. Hardcover ISBN 978-1-60142-523-2 eBook ISBN 978-1-60142-524-9 Copyright © 2013 by Steven Furtick Content in this book is drawn from Sun Stand Still, copyright 2010 by Steven Furtick, published by Multnomah Books, and other published and unpublished works by Steven Furtick. Cover design by Ryan Hollingsworth All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher. Published in the United States by WaterBrook Multnomah, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Random House LLC, New York...
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...admit loneliness is something he is afraid of, like how all humans have that inner fear of being alone or dying alone. When that burden was gone, and George no longer had to fret about being held down, "George's voice was almost a whisper. He looked steadily at his right hand that held the gun" (107). The narrator is explaining how George now registers what Lennie really represented in his life. After losing grasp of the most important relationship of his life, he now realizes what it truly meant to him, like how humans never appreciate others in their lives, but only complain. Steinbeck has shown that how one might take the people who make our days great for granted, and how vital relationships are in our life. Another concept which drives our lives, and keeps us going is hope. It drives determination, happiness, and fulfillment in our lives, although it is another case where humans are not valuing it in their lives. Many characters are losing hope in this novel, and are giving up as they have no drive anymore. They are discerning what it meant in their lives while they had it. Candy is a prime example, as being an older worker, he has lost everything. When talking to George, upon the shooting of his dog he said, "'You seen what they done to my dog tonight? They says he wasn't no good to himself nor nobody else. When they can me here I wisht somebody'd shoot me"'(60). As stated before, hope actuates other forces in our lives, like happiness and the willingness to live. Candy...
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...Anyone who has ever lived in New York City knows there’s a lot of snow during the winter months. One winter we had a snow storm. I was lying in the bed with my sisters, warm and toasty. Out the window, I could see the wind blowing the snow across the field. It wasn’t enough snow to close the schools down. I could hear my Mother calling us to get up for school. Mom came into our bedroom and told us to get dress because the schools in New York were not closing today. Mom was getting ready for work. She was a nurse’s aide at a senior citizen facility. Before our Mom left for work, she told us not to cut across the field in front of our apartment building to get to school. “The snow is too deep. Go the long way around. Are you guys listening?” We all said...
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...FRESH MANDATE TO ADVANCE THE KINGDOM OF GOD The book of Matthew every time is describing the Kingdom its speaks of the kingdom of Heaven, but in the rest of the gospel its talk about the kingdom of God they are all the same the kingdom of God and the Kingdom of Heaven are all the same, the reason Matthew and Jude could not raise the kingdom of God was that, judge were very careful when they call the name of God, but the gentles were free to speak about the name of God, and it was not an offence to God, this morning I want to share with you fresh mandate to advance the Kingdom of God, when ever God calls a people to any particular task he also affanishes he also make available the things that will make that person succeed and this morning am here to inform somebody that for every task, for everything the Lord has call you to do, he has also sufficient power, he has also sufficient gifting to enable you and to give it to you for you to succeed and so am here to declare to somebody that for the marriage that God has call you into because it is the callings of God upon your life for this moment God has made provision in all provision for you to succeed for the business that God has call you into, God has made certain provision that will enable you t succeed for the task in that office for that task in that nation, for that task in that community, for that task whichever it takes and whatever it takes, that God has call you into am here to inform you do not give up do not despair...
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...There is a place where we can go, when our weary hearts need rest. We can lay our burdens at the feet of the One who loves us most. He is Jesus. In order to succeed you must fail, in order to love you must love yourself and in order to live your life must shed all negative aspects of your life."~ ♥ * One of the greatest blessings in the world is to be able to be happy even when things in life are not going the way we planned. Sometimes the road you travel doesn't lead to the destination you had hoped for. But if you can look back on the trip and still smile...then it was worth it. PUT YOUR FAITH, TRUST AND EXPECTATIONS IN THE LORD! GOD BLESS. Sometimes you have to accept that things won't ever change, no matter how much time, effort and thought you put into it. Life's not about all the steps you've taken, or all the places you have been ~ but the footprints you've left behind. If life is a waste of time and time is a waste of life, then let’s get wasted and have the time of our lives. ~"Everyone wants happiness, and nobody wants pain. But how can you make a rainbow, without any rain?."~ We don't always know what God plans for us. We must know that His Ways are not our ways, but His ways are always the best. Be Grateful each & everyday with your life that you have because there's somebody out there that would love to switch places with you in a heartbeat "Things happen because we choose to. There may be regrets but blaming is not an option. We get...
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...I’ve never had a nice body, face or even normal proportions, thanks mom for having me early and making me look like an ugly pile of crap. Dogs bark as me as I limp by them. Since I’m so ugly and have nothing to do I am going to become the biggest baddest villain of all time. I’m gonna trick this royal family with lies, and stories, to set my brother Clarence and the king against each other. Clarence is going to be locked in a prison where even the crows can’t find him. I’ll tell the king there’s a prophecy that a man starting with the letter...
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...Pastors are a gift to the church. Now, at the risk of making what reads like an arrogant assertion, we must consider what the Bible tells us, for we know from scripture that after His ascension, Jesus gave gifts to the church, and one of those gifts was pastor, “And He gave some as apostles, and some as prophets, and some as evangelists, and some as pastors and teachers” (Ephesians 4:11). This passage proceeds to shed some light on the purpose of these gifts, “For the equipping of the saints for the work of service, to the building up of the body of Christ; until we all attain to the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a mature man, to the measure of the status which belongs to the fullness of Christ” (Ephesians 4:12-13). This singular purpose, of equipping and building, produces an equally singular result – maturity in the life of the believer. There certainly are a number of other tasks and functions for the pastor to fulfill, but as I read these verses in Ephesians, the purpose of the pastor seems clear. Over my fifteen-plus years of fulltime, vocational ministry, I have seen some disturbing trends. I believe that ministry, pastoral ministry specifically, is a powerful and significant call, but I have seen many pastors fall into the trap of operating in an office outside of that which they have been called to. Sometimes this is based in a desire for notoriety, other times a desire for more money, or perhaps even because their intentions were good...
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...IN STEINBECK'S OF MICE AND MEN A Sermon by Dean Scotty McLennan University Public Worship Stanford Memorial Church July 25, 2004 There are two different accounts in the New Testament of Jesus' disciples asking him how to pray. What has become known as the Lord's Prayer comes in two different forms, this one in today's gospel lesson from Lukei being shorter and less familiar than that in Matthew.ii They seem to stem from separate liturgical traditions in the early church. Matthew has seven petitions, while Luke has only five.iii But Luke alone follows the recitation of the Lord's Prayer with a fascinating parable about the potential limits of friendship in the middle of the night. The point of the parable seems to be that if one is persistent in asking something of a friend, even when it's very inconvenient, one's petitions will be answered. How much more will one be blessed, then, if one is persistent in praying to God, our heavenly Parent?iv John Steinbeck's short novel Of Mice and Men is all about friendship in the middle of the night -- that is, under very difficult circumstances of rural poverty during the Depression. Following my sermonic theme of the last couple of weeks -- not only loving God with all of one's heart, mind and soul but also loving one's neighbor as oneself -- I'd like to explore Steinbeck's understanding of friendship with you this morning. Ultimately, I hope it will illuminate what it means existentially to knock at the door and then have it opened unto...
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