According to Matthew Henry the apostle begins with a thanksgiving to God for the saving benefits bestowed on them. And then mentions the sure evidences of the good success of the gospel among them, which was notorious and famous in several other places. The apostle puts the Thessalonians in mind of the manner of his preaching among them. Then of the manner of his conversation among them, Afterwards of the success of his ministry, with the effects both on himself and on them and then apologizes for
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Puritans have a strict moral compass that has severe consequences if you do anything wrong. Jonathan Edward’s narrative, Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God, conceives a darker illustration to Puritan belief than Nathaniel Hawthorne’s narrative, Young Goodman Brown. The Puritans conclude, based on scripture that God hated sin and would punish you for it. Jonathan Edward describes God’s disapproval of wrong doing by saying “ That God will execute the fierceness of his anger, implies, that he will
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"Salvation" is excerpted from Langston Hughes' personal history as a sample of an occurrence that affected him incredibly. He was going to the church to see Jesus. Langston is actually a young man around the age of thirteenth who is by all accounts experiencing a typical religious custom that is ordinarily gave to youngsters when they achieve a specific age in what is by all accounts an alternate kind of society. At this age, youngsters are asked, or possibly even better, advised to have confidence
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Why he not she? : The Exclusion of Black Women in places of authority in the black church Black women’s vocalization in the Black Christian church is facing retrenchment. Black women are prevented from obtaining high positions in the pulpit, they are persecuted due to patriarchal roots, and the women with existing positons in the church are mocked. Black women preachers and Black women pastors . Preachers can preach the gospel while Pastors are allowed to lead
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I currently attend a church named C.U.M.I, which stands for Christ United Ministries International. My church’s denomination is Pentecostal Christianity. Although C.U.M.I is international, the population consists of mostly people of African origins. I am used to seeing predominantly Nigerians and a lack of diversity. However, my perspective was completely shifted when I visited Lakewood Church on February 12th. Lakewood Church is a highly diverse non-denominational church in Houston. C.U.M.I is a
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A number of new religious groups emerged during the Second Great Awakening. This was a time in which many Americans were looking for spiritual answers but instead of sticking to traditional Protestant beliefs they chose to look to new religious ideas. There were two main groups that grew rapidly during the 1830’s, these groups were the Unitarians and Universalists. Unitarians reject the idea that Jesus was the son of God, arguing that instead he was a great teacher. Their name comes from
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The name I chose for confirmation is Kateri. The name is derived from Saint Kateri Tekakwitha whom I chose to pray to and imitate in my preparation for Confirmation. I chose this Confirmation name because St. Kateri is a role model of the Catholic faith, devoting herself completely to Jesus Christ, and is the Patron saint of the environment and orphans. St. Kateri Tekakwitha was born in a Mohawk village of Ossernenon in 1656 to a Mohawk chief father and an Algonquin mother. Her father practiced under
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Sade Moseley Johnson Rhetorical Analysis Essay Cleage, Albert B. The Black Messiah. New York: Sheed and Ward, 1968. In The Back Messiah, Albert B. Cleage’s intention is to discuss the religious roots of black power by portraying Jesus as a black innovative leader because he wanted to save black people and believed that and giving them hope would help solve their economic and political issues. Cleage was a pastor of the Shrine of the Black Madonna and before pastoring he graduated from Oberlin Graduate
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John Calvin John Calvin was born in 1509 and he died in 1564. He sought salvation through intense theological study, and at some point he experienced a sudden conversion and grasped Protestantism. He came up with the term predestination. According to John Calvin, predestination was the doctrine which attempts to describe justification as the decision and act of God alone--an act based upon no external determinants, but only on God's own, divine decision. John Calvin also defined his doctrine of predestination
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The first stage in developing an expository message is selecting the passage. The preacher has to select the passage that they will be preaching from. One statement that I am surprised that was not mentioned in selecting the passage is going into prayer and receiving the passage or theme from the Holy Spirit. The purpose of selecting the passage is to have direction. The second stage is studying the passage. The preacher needs to understand the context of the passage, and have a clear understanding
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