Marauders, Masks, Maladies, and Mendacities Hypocrisy is a word much bandied about these days. Heard it ad nauseam as a pastor. “I don’t go to the church because of all those hypocrites!” The word often refers to someone who is two-faced or inconsistent in words and deed. It always amazed me that marauders visiting the church for their own benefit accused everyone else of hypocrisy. Assuming their lives void of such a malady, they cast disdain an entire group of people. Seems, hypocrisy is everyone
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Bultmann's or Tillich's or even Alec Vidler's, I simply don't know. I see - and I'm told that you see - that it would hardly do to tell them what you really believe. A theology which denies the historicity of nearly everything in the Gospels to which Christian life and affections and thought have been fastened for nearly two millennia - which either denies the miraculous altogether or, more strangely, after swallowing the camel of the Resurrection strains at such
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Do not Forsake Before we go any further, I supposed it's as good a time as any to address that one verse arsenal someone within your sphere of influence would have squarely leveled at my head by now. “Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as is the manner of some.” (Hebrews 10:25 - NKJV) There it is — we are plainly admonished to go to church. My reply is simply that Scripture also states, “Every fact is to be confirmed by the testimony of two or three witnesses.” — 2 Corinthians
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A teenage boy just old enough to drive, found himself sitting in a church pew, singing familiar hymns and listening to the Southern Baptist preacher bring the message to the congregation. Logan Denson felt this tug at his heart strings and knew it was the Lord calling him to preach. Because of his young age, Denson ran from the calling. Months later, Denson attended a youth revival, where he heard one of his friends preaching. The friend also got the call to preach at a young age. “If a 16 year-old
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and spread to the colonies. It emphasized reason and the scientific method, focusing on ethics, government, and science. Many members of the Enlightenment rejected traditional religious beliefs in favor of Deism. The Second Great Awakening was a Christian revival movement in which there were many converts to new Protestant congregations. Ultimately, these three intellectual
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which is, God is sovereign and rules the entirety of all things. He precisely argues that all Christians give in to a degree of sovereignty especially when it comes to prayer. The second being, even as God is sovereign this should not stop believers, but should persuade them to carry out the command of the Great Commission. In his book, Evangelism and the Sovereignty of God Packer shows that Christians should not abandon the call to evangelize simply because God has power over all salvation. In other
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In Mary Rowlandson’s Narrative, “Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson”, she recounts her experience about being captured by Narragansett Indians. Throughout this text, Rowlandson makes it clear she believes that she survived only because of the help of the Lord. This narrative is written for a Catholic audience in hopes of sharing her experience of how the Lord guided her through her tough journey. Rowlandson makes a parallel between her captivity story and the bible
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In Something Wicked This Way Comes there are many allusion to the bible, literature and even mythology. The first type of allusions found in the novel are biblical allusion, we see this through “hundreds of Christians wandering through but no lions for them to be tossed to.”(Bradbury pg.190). Referring to Daniel 6:16 in the bible where they threw Daniel into a lions den to prove God would not save him. This shows Jim along with Will and Charles were anticipating bad things to happen in a seemingly
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A masterpiece contains three components. Within each component, there is a spiritual, intellectual, social or emotional connection to the viewer. First, a masterpiece stands the test of time. It has sustained appeal over decades and generations. Unlike, fads, that are popular temporarily and then fade into oblivion, masterpieces are passed on from generations to generations. Examples of masterpieces are the United States constitution and the bible. These are documents, which continue to have significant
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I attended a church service and fellowshipped with the University Parkway Church of God for my cultural diversity activity. The University Parkway Church of God is pastored by a Caucasian male, Pastor Shaffer but welcomes any and all people from many different cultures and backgrounds. Because I had grown up in a church that consisted of only African Americans in a primarily African-American community, I was somewhat nervous and anxious to see how the experience would turn out. I tried not to let
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