Apostle

an exhorter, educator, and an exemplar. The Apostle Paul lays out many attributes that someone needs to be a minister of Christ. These three encapsulate the rest of the qualities required found in the books of I Timothy, II Timothy and Titus. In these books, Paul is writing to his preacher boys and his own sons after the faith. He gives Timothy and Titus areas to work on and actions to accomplish in order to be a good minister. At the time that the Apostle Paul was writing these epistles, he was…

Patrick, Thank you for making very insightful contributions to our discussion this week. You declare, the Apostle "Paul's reaffirms that the only thing we need concern ourselves with is the will of God. Memorizing these lines and repeating them daily they become the Christian mantra to become mindful in the mindfulness of Jesus." I concur with your credo. A vast amount of Christians has already conformed themselves with the will of the universe, rather than the will of God. I breathe and live…

the life of Jesus’ preaching and healing; the Acts of the Apostles represent the apostles after Jesus was sent to heaven. The Acts of the Apostles exemplifies the power of missionaries, which the high priest deliberately tries to imprison the disciples, but unable to. Furthermore, in order to achieve the “good life”, we must show loyalty and devotion, and abandon betrayal, deception, and dishonesty to become sinless. The Acts of the apostles illustrates the importance of being loyal and…

Robert Duvall’s The Apostle (1997) is a film which depicts the modern religious man. The Apostle E.F. (played by Duvall) is met with scrutiny and doubt in the beginning of the film, eventually leading him to loose his standing in the congregation, act out violently and leave town all together. The citizens of the town do not understand or respect his religious fervor, however, in his new community, found in Bayou Butte, he begins to make positive change through God. The Apostle E.F. comes into…

priest. Among his academic interest is a focus on Pauline Chronology and Theology which gives him a more or less avid grasp of the input and contribution of Paul into Christianity and Theology.1 Paul being one of the most researched and documented apostles is as a result of his contribution to Christianity being noteworthy and him being an interesting to influence Christianity. Michael Bird has written before about understanding the different perspectives of Paul in some earlier works; The…

Book Report “Apostles of Disunion” by. Charles B. Dew Ever since the birth of our country, Americans have always been divided on the issue of slavery. Initially the debate was over whether or not slavery was moral or a constitutional right, however following the Civil War the debated shifted. Now Americans argue over whether or not the Civil War was fought over slavery or the limiting of rights held by the Southerners. Charles B. Dew, professor of American history at Williams College, further…

The apostle Paul, in Hebrews chapter 12 verses 1 and 2, uses Jesus as the example of how we should live our lives. He admonishes the reader to run with perseverance the race set before them. Looking deeper into the thoughts of this particular phrase one can surmise that not every race is identical. Each runner with have a different course and be expected to run it at a different pace. Further, some runners will be long distance runners, some will be sprinters, and some will be a combination of…

The newly form religion called Christian would have a lot of growing pains over the next two centuries. Important Christian figure like the Apostles were being killed off. The Christian authority figures calling Apostles martyrs and anyone else who dies still believing in Christ love. The Church was looking to become more then that religion that people get to watch die in the colosseum. The religion still being new and did not have many followers and most of the followers were the poor, women,…

In the book of Romans the Apostle Paul writes to Rome to present his basic statement of the gospel: Gods plan of salvation for all peoples, Jew and Gentile alike. Written, what scholars believe to be around AD 59, Paul writes to the Christians living in Rome; in chapter 16 of Romans it is suggested that there were at least five house churches stationed in the city. The believers in Rome were predominantly Gentile, however Jews must have constituted a substantial minority of the congregation (ch…

God’s reveal himself to humanity and his continual redemptive goal to transform our fallen human nature. Thirteen of the books in the Old Testament are attributed authorship to the Apostle Paul. In this lecture will discuss the Apostle Paul his life’s work and why it was was so crucial to the Christian faith. The apostle Paul lived in a time in history were there multiple views on spirituality, just like in today’s world. We will discuss how his ministry during the early formation of the…