Book of Common Prayer

Bibliology: A Brief Statement The Bible, in its sixty-six books of the Old and New Testaments, is the written Word of God. It is a holy construction of dual-authorship, consisting both of God’s sovereign influence and man’s directed inscription. There is nothing false or misleading within its pages—whether actual words, intended meaning, or the practices appropriately adapted from it; the Bible is entirely true, wholly helpful, and completely incapable of wrong. As God’s written revelation of…

fundament for Christian religion. Followers believe that this book is saint and they can find all answers in it. It provides people with a certain model of lifestyle, which includes a set of rules to obey. Moreover, the book describes the history of people 's creation and development. Based on the knowledge received from the Bible, humans create a new religion called Christianity. However, nowadays there exist multiple interpretations of the book. According to the Bible, it was originally…

According to Abdul Khaliq Kazi in his article “THE MEANING OF IMAN AND ISLAM IN THE QUR’AN” ” ….the Qur 'an draws attention to this common element in all religions and shows it to be the true way and the only way. Muslim is a word of universal application for all those who find al-islam as the essence of their religious experience. A mu’min ( follower of Muhammad) is a Muslim because…

Once again, as in “Friday”, and as in Catholic devotional tradition, these failures are the “daily wounding” that continues to nail Christ to the “eternal Cross” of the poem’s title. In one of Jennings’ early collections, Song for a Birth or Death a sequence of poems entitled “The Clown”, the circus clown becomes a clear image of the crucified Christ. The similarity is apparent in a variety of terms that include innocence “you seem like one not fallen from grace”, “helplessness” and the…

For example, one can look at Huckleberry Finn’s simplistic explanation of prayer and morality. “And I about made up my mind to pray, and see if I couldn’t try to quit being the kind of a boy I was and be better. So I kneeled down. But the words wouldn’t come. Why wouldn’t they? It warn’t no use to try and hide it from Him. Nor from ME, neither. I knowed very well why they wouldn’t come. It was because my heart warn’t right; it was because I warn’t square; it was because I was playing double. I…

that achieves desired aims attains prosperity.” Yet we all seem to take the definition of the word a bit differently, what might be considered successful to a six year old will vary from what it means to a 17 year old. Malcolm Gladwell, author of the book “Outliers”, defines success based on the facts of when you born, where you grew up, and what language you speak. However, I describe success differently as, work ethic, persistence, and faith. Swimming is one of my favorite sports other than…

Thetis and his father was called Peleus, who was also the king of the Myrmidons. Achilles was very close to the Gods. He prayed many times to them, especially Zeus. He prayed for the Trojans to be given the upper hand in war, and Zeus granted his prayer. There is linkage from then to the fact that today people worship his/her own chosen God and pray to them in times of need. In addition, another way to interpret the story of Achilles as a nature myth is at the end of the Trojan War. Achilles was…

ceremony. In these traditional ceremonies, attendees would spend time together while drinking their coffee. The use of coffee quickly expanded into a religious domain, where Jews and Muslims drank coffee to stay awake for their respective nightly prayers. Centuries later in 1650, a Jewish man opened England’s first coffee shop in Oxford, where people would come to socialize, discuss ideas, and drink coffee together- a tradition that is still prevalent in today’s modern culture. In the…

in the church and to reunite Christianity after the Great Schism. Catherine didn’t just write letters she also wrote prayers. Catherine’s visions were what was driving her to write these. After Catherine died, her followers tried relentlessly to get her writing canonized. They spent a lot of time writing about her/for her. These include her visions, The Dialogue, the legend. Her book the Dialogue was about the way to God. It included steps that one would need to take to prepare for the journey…

expression to tell a person whom had not had the pleasure to visit or fellowship with Nigeria Church of Christ. To articulate another practice of Nigeria Church of Christ, it would be important to give biblical interpretation of what the bible says. Common Practices. The Nigerian Church of Christ has the same practices…