Blessing

long drawn out process, they realized how important education is and how important it is to them that their son goes to college and in that path he will have the best chance for success. However, being a first generation student is a burden and a blessing. I find…

John Hall who wrote, The Cross in Our Context: Jesus and the Suffering World. Dr. Hall is the Professor Emeritus of Christian Theology for McGill University in Montreal, Quebec. The second theologian is Dr. Clark M. Williamson who wrote, Way of Blessing, Way of Life: A Christian Theology. Dr. Williamson is a Professor Emeritus of Christian Though at Christian Theological Seminary in Indianapolis, Indiana. Each of these theologians are widely published in the field Christian thought and…

marriage. In present days, our sex-inundated society makes it hard to oppose sexual allurement. The church teaches us that only through marriage are we to have sex with out partners for the reasons God created sexual desires. Sex is meant to be a blessing…

Pearl: A Punishment and Blessing In The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, there is a woman, named Hester Prynne, who lives in a Puritan town of Boston, Massachusetts. Hester is guilty of adultery, and the whole town gathers together to seek her punishment. Her punishment is she must wear the scarlet letter A on her bosom for shame. During the sin she committed, she has a daughter out of wedlock. She and her daughter, Pearl, stand on a scaffold for the whole town to see and some to judge.…

Cardboard Community My community participation event is Cardboard Nation in Elizabethtown, Kentucky, sponsored by Warm Blessings, Inc. Cardboard Nation is an annual community event designed to encourage people to raise money to help the homeless population. This year $12,000 was collected in one evening. Homelessness Today Experiencing homelessness, defined by the National Alliance to End Homelessness, is sleeping outside or in an emergency shelter or transitional housing program. As the…

Near the end of Apology, as Socrates approaches death, he presents a rather complex argument concluding that death must be a blessing. This paper focuses on the reconstruction of Socrates’ argument, analyzing its quality, and ultimately concluding whether or not it has merit. After observing two examples of faulty arguments, the reconstruction of Socrates verbal logic is presented and each assertion is examined carefully. This examination will focus on each assertion individually and will…

imagery and inspiration and structured after Jewish patterns. One of the earliest blessings found in the book of Tobit is recalled. The text records the blessing pronounced by Sarah’s father, Raguel: From now on you belong to her and she to you; she is yours forever from this day. May the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob be with you, and may he himself join you together, and fill you with his blessings With respect to marriage, one can confidently assert that the first…

although they casually compromise their faith to satisfy their carnal life. Like Esau, they may receive God’s blessings but His favor is far from them because their sins hinder them from having it. They misunderstood the meaning of blessing and favor. According to “Word Hippo Dictionary,” Favor is an…

received the blessings of the covenant when they became a mighty nation (Exod 1:7), entered the Promised Land (Josh 4:19-24), and lived under David and Solomon who both exhibited faith like Abraham (Heb 11:32-33). Eventually, Jesus as King became the means of mediating blessings (the Holy Spirit) and curses (judgment) onto all people, both the seed of Abraham and those outside the Abrahamic covenant (255-6, 260). Through Jesus, God grafted Gentiles into the Abrahamic line to receive the…

In life, curiosity can drive people to do certain things which may be a blessing and a curse. In “All Summer in a Day” by Ray Bradbury, the school kids have been living on Venus for their whole lives. They witness the same thing every day, day after day. After being cooped up for 9 whole years, they will do anything to finally see the sun, though this doesn’t always lead to good outcomes. In “Pandora’s Box,” retold by Louis Untermeyer, the Greek gods seek revenge on Prometheus by sending down a…