Contemporary worship

• Sanctification gap is a gap of knowledge, teaching, and practices of spiritual transformation between the real spiritual life and ideal spiritual life. The five typical responses to the sanctification gap are pretense, despair, programmatic and personal solutions, moral formation, and ministry activism. Pretense is pretending that one’s spiritual life is going smoothly, even though one feels the emptiness due to sanctification gap. Despair is the feeling that results from the sanctification…

Paul Gustave Marie Camille Hazard, born August 30th, the year of 1878 was a French educator, a historian of ideas, and a scholar of comparative literature. The Crisis of the European Mind, which is written by Hazard, is filled with intellectual history that gives the synopsis of the creation of Modern Europe. Hazard’s book takes a look at the transition from the old world to the new world, new developments such as science, arts, and philosophy, and how characters such as Pierre Bayle and John…

Throughout my years as a believer I have been a member of and visited some interesting churches to say the least. I have visited some churches that have an old fashion Baptist church feel to it. I have visited churches that are more modern in their presentation. And again, I have visited churches that have a very charismatic feel to it. I currently reside at a church that leans toward the cessationist model of the gifts of the Holy Spirit. It is this model that I have also drawn a favorable…

early Egypt was considered more of a domestic luxury than and artistic medium. Early Arabic stain glass showed Islamic beliefs and mainly consisted of precise geometrical shapes to show the perfection of Allah. The Islam religion opposed to idol worship hence their stained glass was deep and precise and strictly portrayed Allah’s greatness and truth. Christian used stained glass to show biblical beliefs; some artworks showed whole parts or verses of the bible in a series of stained glass. Most…

Yuhang Jia To What Degree Did Catholic- Protestant Conflicts During the 1600s Lead To the Rise of Witchcraft? World History II Ms. Chinn April 1st, 2016 Protestant Reformation was the period during 1517 -- 1648 that ends the Middle Ages and begins a new era in the history of Western Civilization. It was mainly about the conflicts between the protestant and Catholic Church. Witchcraft is the use of magic powers, especially evil ones, to make things happen. In Europe…

information – could they be sued for defamation? First, it is important to define satire and parody. Satire is “the use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people’s stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues” (cite). Parody involves the manipulation of existing materials, usually for comedic effect. Defamation, however, is a believable false statement of fact that causes material harm. Historically, the courts…

language, sectarian affiliations and temples. Within the limited regions defined by the distribution of the King’s shifting suzerainty, new political, linguistic, literary and social histories took a shape that remained vaguely identified even in contemporary modern India. Religion was at the heart of this regionalizing process: Gods, temples, inspired poets and philosophers. Expanding trade had set off political processes with new patterns of competition, but religious beliefs and institutional…

Coming into this class at the beginning of the semester, I was very confused about the subject of “truth”. Over the past few years, my definition of this word had changed dramatically. I had hoped that taking a deeper look into worldviews would help me create a contrast between what I did and did not believe, and if I could find the truth of Christianity which had been eluding me for so long. In this course, I found that the topics of Classical Christian Theism, Deism, Traditionalism, New Age…

This research paper will examine the Basotho people and how certain aspects of globalization may have impacted their traditional religion and their economics. This topic engages with and contrasts the white supremacist ideal that Africa has a monolithic culture and that its cultures are far removed from “Western” influences. This topic will be approached by first briefly analyzing the Basotho people’s history, their religion, and their economic structure before substantial contact with “Western”…

Introduction: Chaco Canyon is home a diverse collection of the most fascinating archeological sites from ancient North America, and among these sites is the well-known Pueblo Bonito. This great house is undoubtedly the most famous of all Chaco Canyon great houses, with well over 350 ground rooms, 32 kivas, and thousands of significant artefacts relating to Anasazi culture. The buildings of Pueblo Bonito were occupied over a variety of years, spanning from ca. 850 until the early portion of the…