Christian worship

The religious cultural belief system and their momumental constructions found at aksum. Aksum is a representation of powerful kingdom in northern Ethiopia during the early Christian era. The peoples of Aksum were the product of a linguistic and cultural mixing of African Kushitic speakers with Semitic speakers from Yemenite southern Arabia. The massive ruins, dating from between the 1st and the 13th century A.D., include monolithic obelisks, giant stelae, royal tombs and the ruins of ancient…

A sacrifice and prayer, such as what Chryses did in the text was the most common way to appease or communicate to the gods for humans. In another Greek myth, Agamemnon sacrifices his daughter Iphigenia to appease the goddess Artemis before he sets sail for Troy. It was common for ancient religions to involve sacrifices, such as Judaism and the religion of the Mesopotamians. The Greeks believed that the smell of the burning meat would appease and please the gods, while the Israelites believed it…

Literature and Form of Prayers “Prayer is simply a two-way conversation between you and God” – Billy Graham. Prayers causes me to feel a sense of relief. It is the main relaxation method for all who believe in god. Just like prayers, literature also gives me this feeling of relief and relaxation. By engaging in a storyline that I enjoy reading until the end. Literature makes me think about what happened in the storyline and prayers make me think about if my prayers will be answered. To what…

I believe that people cannot live without ‘Faith’. People know that god exists through two ways. First way is through prophets messages, which I think was the first real knowledge. God ordained Prophets to undertake the same mission from Adam to Prophet Mohamed, the religion delivered by all prophets is exactly the same. The message is monotheism, doing righteous deeds and to establish the religion and make no division therein. So how did divisions happen? When Prophets died, their followers and…

to justify themselves are those who were exiled and returned, the Samaritans, those whose ancestors were not exiled, and the Elephantine Colony. According to the Deuteronomic theory (Lecture 2), the people: could only worship Yahweh, could only worship Him in Jerusalem, and worship Him only as priests instructed. None of these groups perfectly match these descriptions. However, the group that comes the closest are those who were exiled and who returned. In my opinion, these are the “correct”…

why hast you forsaken me?” When we look over Job and his situations you have this wise servant who doesn’t want to take negative to the lord but he probably had a bit of forsaken on his heart. The moment he shaved his head and fell to the ground in worship. He was making the surrendering to the Lord with an understanding he had nothing else to lose nor to gain. Naked he came out from his mother womb and naked he will leave. After reading that I feel he definitely had a good deal of forsaken on…

praise the Lord through songs of praise and worship. Singing the songs or worship and praise is a corporate event, therefore the worship leader encourages congregants to participate is all aspects of the service. There should be a flow of God’s immanence to transcendence. Proclamation of the Word of God should be the climax of the service. The preaching of the Word of God should be expositional. A time of response and invitation should wrap-up worship. There are special ordinances that are to…

the back of the church. The passing of the peace is always a nice opportunity for the people to greet one another. I am of two minds though, is it a nice break for the parishioners partially through the service or a distraction from the tone of worship? I think I would lean toward the former. The same could be said about having the announcements twenty-eight minutes into the service. I suppose I am particularly interested…

I appreciate the sentiment that authentic worship doesn’t have to be defined by an official church building, but there really should be more signs to indicate where to go. This lack of identification gave the church an exclusive feel, making it seem like it was only for those in the “in-group,” keeping…

Why? Because it’s in full effect on social media which is major factor on a social level. You can easily put drugs and celerity worship in the same category because it is danger to America today and years to come. Celebrity worship has started since we were a kid. We dreamed about being Polly pockets and G.I Joe’s that parents weren’t even aware of it. Growing from a kid to teenager is when the situations gets bad and tricky. The…