Charlie Christian

Jarell Wilson, a dynamic candidate for ordained ministry in the United Methodist Church, delivered the opening keynote address for the 2017 Reformation Project Conference in Chicago. He began his talk by asking the audience to close their eyes and raise their hands if they had ever contemplated ending their life. After an emotional opening prayer, he commended the audience for showing up in a church after all they had been through. Then, he specifie what the purpose of his keynote address was:…

example, when King Athelstan learns that Olaf has brought people to England and invaded a large chunk of it, Athelstan just knew what to do and didn’t have to worry about figuring out what heathens would prefer as a course of action versus what Christians might have preferred. The author writes, “All this when Athelstan learned, he summoned to conference his captains and his counsellors; he inquired of them what were best to do; he told the whole council point by point what he had ascertained…

protection. A contemporary attack against this principle is abortion. Rights and responsibility mean having a right to life. Abortion is not giving anything a right to have life. “The Catholic Church has always condemned abortion as a grave evil. Christian writers from the first-century author of the Didache to Pope John Paul II in his encyclical Evangelium Vitae ("The Gospel of Life") have maintained that the Bible forbids abortion, just as it forbids murder. ”…

STUDY TWO: THE GARDEN OF GETHSEMANE Jesus Passion to share His Grief (Matthew 26:36; Mark 14:32; Luke 22:39) 1.2.1 The Warning WARNING: Christians learn to PRAY! Prayer is Jesus’ PASSION. Prayer discovers the Father’s will. The alternative is to fall into temptation (as in the Garden of Eden). Jesus needs to reverse Adam’s fall and it will burden His soul to breaking point. Jesus would suffer the trauma of a world cut off from God. Are we a church asleep, in denial of the power of…

THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE BURNING BUSH; INTRODUCTION; The burning bush is still significant to modern christians and any other group that is filled with awe at the wonders of the LORD.It is significant in the sense that it marks the call of Moses by God. The burning bush is the beginning of the liberation of Isrealites and mankind. The burning bush is very important because it is the watershed of our salvation from sin which we went into when Adam and Eve sinned. The burning bush is very…

Have you ever experienced sufferings even though you followed God’s plan for you? Have you ever experienced the darkest moment of your life and God was not there with you? In the gospel, Jesus was the one who ordered the disciples to go on without him. He dismissed them and when they are far off the land, they were being tossed by the waves because the wind was against the boat they were in. If you look closer, even though it was Jesus’ plan, they are all alone and everything was against them.…

I first began working at my local church garden because I was interested in the gardening itself. The man in charge of it, Mike Knutson, made an announcement at church one Sunday. He said that they were in desperate need of volunteers. I thought it sounded like fun, and I’ve always wanted to learn how to grow my own garden. This seemed like a great learning opportunity, and I wanted to help them out. I thought I’d go for a couple of weeks; however, I’d never thought that I would decide to…

The word ‘Moksha’ is derived from ‘moksh’ which can mean emancipation or liberation etc. Sometimes it might also refer to salvation but salvation may not do justice to the word since it has a kind of Christian connotation to it rather than a Hinduism one. But it is frequently used to translate the word moksh. So instead of it meaning only freedom from sin, it includes freedom from the human life itself. In soteriological terms, moksha means freedom from samsara, the cycle of birth and death.…

Robert L. Wilken’s The Spirit of Christian Thought. Are there any things that strike you? What does it say about the relation between faith and our perception of reality? ‘Spirit of Early Christian Thought’ by Robert L. Wilken gives the reader of brief insight into the thoughts of early Christian’s scholars, theologians and the so called new thinker’s. This detailed academic research essay will also give many examples of famous religious figures within the early Christian community, figures…

Awakening is when the Baptist took off it became the largest Christian community in most of the southern states.…