Mars Hill is holding a seminar to address Pastor Feelbetter’s concerns for his membership. Pastor Feelbetter senses there is apathy, dispiritedness, heaviness in heart, and unresponsiveness among the membership to each other and the community. To address and hopefully remedy these issues a seminar is in place. To assist the Pastor, this writer will incorporate three psychological case studies that discuss love, helping and persuasion. The three case studies included in the seminar: Sternberg’s Triangular
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and about the value of a biblical worldview. The discussion about the natural world, human identity, human relationships, and culture can be found in Romans 1-8. From Romans to Philemon, Paul sanctified the Christian doctrines through the defense of Christ and the overall defense of the Christian movement. Natural World Individuals that possess a biblical worldview acknowledges that God,
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Biblical theology is a Christian approach in which the theologian studies the Bible from the perspective of understanding the progressive history of God revealing Himself to humanity and following the fall and throughout the Old Testament and New Testament. Biblical theology is an attempt to articulate the theology that the Bible contains as its writers addressed their particular settings. It particularly focuses on the epochs of the Old Testament in order to understand how each part of it ultimately
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12. Many pastors today consider Spurgeon as someone to emulate. What things that helped make Spurgeon successful can you emulate? What things that helped make Spurgeon successful are you incapable of emulating? (10 points) There are several things that made Spurgeon a successful pastor. Several of these I am able to emulate. The first was his reliance on the Lord for the funds and people to do the work that he felt called to do. For example, the Pastors’ College was an institution that he felt
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theology are: explaining reality (often times looked upon as much more than an explanation of how things work, but a view of their place in God’s plan), systematization of Christian doctrine ( the practice of presenting Christian doctrine as an ordered or coherent whole), defending the faith and as a bridge for nonbelievers (this “apologetic theology” strives to help us refute the argument of those atheists who state that it’s not reasonable to believe in God), a critique of the life and proclamation of
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The Doctrine of Last Things Question. Can someone tell us this morning what the word “eschatology” means? 1. Any system of doctrines concerning last, or final, matters, as death, the Judgment, the future state. 2. The branch of theology dealing with such matters. There are several branches of theology found in Scripture. 1. The first is “Bibliology.” The Bible is the starting point, or the source, of our religion. Without it, we may as well be at home it the bed this morning
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June 15, 2014 Theology 104 Biblical Worldview Essay Humanity in the image of God is indeed foundational to the faith, however, the exact definition is cloudy at best. “Unfortunately, Scripture never says in so many words what is meant by the highly intriguing term ‘the image of God.’ As a result of this lack of clarity, numerous understandings of the imago Dei have developed over the course of church history.” (Hindson, Caner 249) Three main views have surfaced to attempt to define what the image
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was signed by thirty-four women and men, with John Smyth at the top. The Second London Confession was revised to form the Philadelphia Confession of Faith and is believed to have been adopted by the Association in 1742. Serving as a benefit to apologetics and education, this was the principal confession for Calvinistic Baptists until the Second Great Awakening. A Short Confession of Faith of 1610 shows strong belief in General Atonement. This states that Christ's redemption made it possible for
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Dr. Braxton Hunter, a Ph.D. in Christian Apologetics and the President of Trinity College of the Baptist and Theological Seminary, partnered with me in a debate with two good Calvinistic brothers over the doctrine of “Total Inability” this last week (which can be heard HERE). Much focus was on the biblical concept of “spiritual deadness” and the unfounded presumption by the Calvinists that it means mankind is born completely unable to respond willingly to God Himself. The analogy of being “dead”
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My Progression in Christian Thought Introduction My progression in Christian thought addresses three particular areas of growth. I have always known it is imperative to share my own personal testimony when ministering to the lost. I believe it allows them to understand that I haven’t always been a Christian and we’ve all fallen short of God’s glory. So I try very hard to maintain a standard of living which pleases the Lord because I long to become more and more Christ-like every day while
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