Personal Life of Author and Focus of Book John Ortberg the author of The Life You’ve Always Wanted, If You Want To Walk On Water You’ve Got To Get Out The Boat and Love Beyond Reason was previously the teaching pastor at Willow Creek Community Church in South Barrington, Illinois and is now on staff at Menlo Park Presbyterian Church in Menlo Park, California. The following book review is concerning his work presented in The Life You’ve Always Wanted. There’s a point in every Christian’s life where
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(Beitzel, 2009). His missionary tactic was to establish a church in the main towns, recognizing that rehabilitated guests, migrant salesmen, and seamen would spread the holy word (Mitchell, 2004). The home church was responsible for the evangelism and discipleship of their area (Zodhiates, 2001). The Apostle Paul, Timothy and also Chloe were the main personalities of this book (Mitchell, 2004). Paul’s drive in transcribing this letter to the church in Corinth was to talk to and modify the wickedness and
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Liberty University Research Paper The Origin of Anabaptist Submitted to Dr. Jerry Sutton “Church History” – CHHI 694 By Jonathan Whitfield August 11, 2013 Table of Content Thesis Statement 3 Introduction 4 Origins 5 History 7 Beliefs 10 Rituals and Worship 12 Ethics and Community 13 Conclusion 15 Bibliography 16 Thesis Statement The Anabaptists were distinct because
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Liberty University CHAPLAIN AUTUMN WILSON: BACKGROUND AND INTERVIEW A paper submitted to Dr. David Hirschman In partial fulfillment of the Requirements for the course LEAD 635 Liberty Theological seminary By WILLIS WAINRWIGHT Lynchburg, Virginia Sunday AUGUST 25, 2013 The Pastor I interviewed is my Chaplain onboard USS SHILOH CG-67, Autumn Wilson, from Atlanta, Georgia. Chaplain Wilson has been in church ministry practically all her adult life. She has served churches
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often compartmentalized without any connections between areas being made. For example, my courses in the School of Religion have taught me, among others things, how to engage in conversations with people over spiritual matters (aka evangelism or discipleship). In Global Perspectives, I learned how to relate to other cultures and be amongst a group of people on their own terms. Benevolence taught me to engage in a lifestyle of self-sacrifice towards others. It would seem as though all of these experience
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The Natural World The opening verse of the Bible states, “In the Beginning God created the heavens and the earth”. It goes on to explain how God added to the creation according to his creative decrees. One can imagine how beautiful the scene was once completed. If we take a look at today’s scenery it would be safe to assume that God is not pleased with the decline of creation. We see in the richest continent according to Craig Sorley, in Africa countless communities are facing environmental degradation
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the Nazi’s in Germany as a Lutheran pastor and wrote many influential books on Christianity and secularism. He helped found the Confessing Church and worked extensively with the Abwehr resistance organization. His most famous book, The Cost of Discipleship, along with his public condemnation of the Nazis led to his ultimate execution in 1945. Young Life Dietrich Bonhoeffer was born in Breslau, now Wroclaw, Poland, on February 4, 1906. He had a twin sister named Sabine Bonhoeffer Leibholz and
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understood as the steps in our relationship with Christ, which is equivalent to the rungs of a ladder. The author begins with God’s love for man, our need for Christ as sinners, repentance, confession, consecration, faith and acceptance, test of discipleship, growing up in Christ, the work and the life, a knowledge of God, the privilege of prayer, what to do with doubt, and rejoicing in the Lord. Ellen White covers the plan for developing an intimate relationship with Christ from the beginning to the
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Meredith Hancock CWV-101 February 15, 2013 Instructor Thomas Joseph The Christian Worldview Reflected Through Billy Graham Billy Graham is recognized as one of the most influential, American Evangelical leaders of years past and even still today. He has lead over 210 million people to Christ and has guided over eleven different United States Presidents in major decision making, particularly Eisenhower and Nixon, through his preaching and biblical knowledge (Showalter & Yichao, 2010).
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The Lost Letters of Pergamum was a very interesting and educational book. The author, Longenecker, used actual historical facts to write a biblical fictional story that takes place in the first century New Testament time span. While reading the book, I was interested in the fact that Longenecker produced enough information that allowed me visualize how early Christians lived during this time. He is able to show us people, places, events, and issues that are raised in different academic courses on
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