Churches of Christ

The poems Africa and Flying Man by Rabindranath Tagore show the negative effects of man-made destruction. The destruction is the way they have mistreated the people of Africa, as well as changing the way nature used to be, from the peaceful harmonious nature to inventing more modernised technologies, making man seem more arrogant. The focus of the two poems is how man has destroyed the earth with their actions, and the poet does this by using imagery and figurative language. In Africa, Tagore…

my possible guesses for the meaning of this text. • it is a literal view of what it will be like before Jesus second coming of judgement. • It is about the hope of the coming of Christ • It is about the action needed before Christ coming again • It has something to do with eschatological theology and the idea of Christ coming to us again and again At this point I engaged others in the dialogue for help. First, I reached out to a mentor of mine with my eschatological idea. She affirmed my…

Cecil Robeck’s The Azusa Street Mission and Revival offers the response of on African American church to the social and religious segregation we learned from last weeks reading of Methodists and the Crucible of Race. As a licensed Nazarene pastor, I enjoyed that we were also given a reading that revealed the Holiness movement’s response to the dark times of segregation in our country. In The Azusa Street Mission and Revival Cecil Robeck’s explains that the worship practices of the black church…

lion body and head of a man.” This is where Yeats uses background knowledge of a mythical creature to engage with the mind of the reader. Instead of Jesus he uses the term “rough beast” to describe the sphinx arising in the illusion of the rebirth of Christ as told in the Book of Revelation.…

Charles Demuth, called “Deem” by his friends, was the only child of Ferdinand and Augusta Demuth. When Charles was four, he fell and broke his hip. While he was bed-bound because of the injury, his mother presented him with his first art supplies. It was then that his love for art began. Charles' injury caused him to become lame. He was close to both parents, but especially to his mom because of his physical frailty. When Charles was at school, he hung out with the girls because they were not…

Have you ever come across someone who couldn’t want anything more than for people to stop judging each other by color, religion or origin? Well, if you have, I guarantee they’re not as dedicated as Barrack Obama is to creating a society that is equal in all aspects. In “A More Perfect Union”, Obama expresses that people should not be focused on physical or background differences, they should be focusing on the issues that we all face in society. The issues such as, schools, healthcare and jobs.…

this moment of the election. However, running for presidency also includes the actions of family members and friends; but in the case Presidential candidate Obama’s pastor Reverend Wright. Reverend Jeremiah Wright, Pastor of Trinity United Church Of Christ criticized the U.S government by making remarks like It was America’s fault for 9/11”, and also stating that the government criticizes people of color. Presidential candidate Obama and his family going to this reverend's church at the time…

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is more commonly referred to as the Mormon Church. The basis of the church comes from the original church founded by Jesus Christ, however some adjustments were made by its original members, primarily Joseph Smith, its founder. Joseph Smith claims to have been receiving messages from God, Jesus Christ, and other Christian figures since the age of 14 years old. One markable adjustment from the original Christian faith iis how the church reveres…

believes their faith and religion was founded by a man named Joseph Smith, who at the age of fourteen, realized he did not agree with any denomination of Christianity. They believe that Smith had a vison from God telling him not to join any of the churches, but to wait. A few years later, Joseph Smith was appointed by an angel; Moroni.…

The relationship between my faith and my work as a therapist is very interesting to me. I was born and raised a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS) also known as Mormons. When I was two my family moved to a home in Provo, Utah where my father became a professor at Brigham Young University which is owned and run by the LDS Church. The area where I lived was about 99% Mormon. In fourth grade there was only one student in my entire grade-level who was not a member of the…