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I Thessalonians Paper First Thessalonians is filled with encouragement which can lead readers to believe that maybe the people of Thessalonica are losing faith in a certain area. Paul is encouraging the Christians to hold fast in their faith and to not give in to the ways of sin. God speaks through Paul in this book and tells the people of Thessalonica to hold fast in the faith in Jesus Christ, and good results will come their way. The main command of this book was to hold fast to what is…

We understand discipleship is crucial to the well being of Christians so there must be a plan in place for Christians to fully become disciples of Christ. I believe this is done through small group ministry. Scripture states, “We proclaim Him, admonishing and teaching everyone with all wisdom, that we may present everyone perfect in Christ. To this end I labor, struggling with all energy, which so powerfully works in me” (Col.1:28-29 NIV). We must strive to place people in small groups for…

She was standing in an arena filled with thousands of people, who were eagerly waiting for her execution. Before this happened, the rest of the Christian martyrs, her friends, were executed where they accept their death with dignity. The question was, would she do the same? Would she turn and run in hopes of living longer, or would she face her death with the same dignity? This girl was Perpetua, who became a prominent figure of the Christian faith. In result of her valiant act, she touched the…

the same characteristics. Just as Adam was the first of the human race, so Christ is the first of those who will be raised from the dead to eternal life. Due to Christ being the first one to return from dead to an eternal life, he is a spirit in a new existence that gives life. When believers of Christ are resurrected, God will transform their eternal bodies in attempts to create a body better suited to the eternal…

When choosing to approach miracles from a biblical point of view you usually acknowledge that God has created the earth and all things that live within it. That he has created order within creation. We can view creation and natural law as coinciding, simply because we live in a predictable world. That is part of what makes miracles so amazing is the simply fact that they are unexpected. In order to find peace and order in the world there does have to be a system establish that shows order and…

The New Testament of the Holy Bible is a collection of twenty-seven writings that have been deemed as canon by the early church. The term canon comes from the Greek word kanṓn representing a carpenter’s rule. The current list of books first appeared in a festal letter from Athanasius, the bishop of Alexandria, in 367. Athanasius wrote this letter in an attempt to clarify the true writings that defined the true message to the Christians of his period. Other Christian schools and sects followed…

Barry Barclay (2000, p.1) coined the term ‘Fourth Cinema’, a classification in which he encompasses all means of Indigenous Cinema, made by Indigenous people, for Indigenous people. Barclay also puts emphasis on Fourth Cinema ‘Indigenous’ being spelt with a capital “I”, a category he created for his own personal satisfaction but has since caught on globally. This essay will discuss the concept of Fourth Cinema as outlined by Barry Barclay in general, as well as, in relation to Taika Waititi’s…

This world of ours is cruel and dark; there is so much evil lurking around trying to find victims of ungratefulness, hateful, and careless. It’s so hard for a person to become joyful in this world when such things exist and is trying to take away your life in a sense. So many people in this world focus on things that are negatives no matter how much positive there is. This world of ours has become so immune to negativity that positivity hardly exists any more. I think we could learn a thing…

result, they do not express their true feelings and opinion, since it can be treated as an action against society. Furthermore, the black box appears in the story as a second main symbol. “Mr. Summers spoke frequently to the villagers about making a new box, but no one…

culture immersed in the ideals of oppression and slavery. Being an African American woman in Antigua during the rule of the British government influenced how she wrote later in life. She eventually moved to America and landed a job as a writer for The New Yorker. Shortly after being hired, Kincaid published her first piece, “Girl,” in which a girl is given advice about how to act, dress, and work to ensure the girl is not viewed as a poor mother and husband. The topics addressed in this short…