Disciple whom Jesus loved

Well known American Baptist minister and activist, Martin Luther King Jr., optimizes the call to action for his fellow community to resist the unjust laws of the time in his speech, I’ve Been to the Mountain Top. When this speech was delivered, the act of discrimination was worsening, calling for a reform by the colored community. At that point many small victories had been made but Martin Luther King was not satisfied. In this speech, Martin Luther King emphasizes the issue of injustice and the…

and they were greeted with a contagious smile or a salutation like this, “Hello, may I help you?” This friendly gesture would open a delightful pathway to a customer’s immediate response. My friend, when we surrender our lives to God through Jesus…

The third pearl of wisdom I learned from the course textbook is the Holding Principle, which is essentially “Never act until you are sure that what you are about to do is not sin” (Adams, 1979 p. 31). Although it is a basic understanding to not act in sin, putting it into practice can be hard. Temptation is a very real tool the devil uses to ensnare Christians and non-Christians alike. It entangles people in webs of deception, lies, manipulation, and compromise. An example of this would be…

Robert Louis Wilken is the William R. Kenan Professor of the History of Christianity at the University of Virginia. He has written numerous works including The Christians as the Romans Saw Them and The Land Called Holy: Palestine in Christian History and Thought. In this particular work, Wilken set out to narrate the development of early Christian thought in the first centuries of the church with specific intentions to show how the Christian intellectual tradition came about, or as the author…

He taught kindness to animals, and said that an adulteress was forgiven her sin because, seeing a dog suffering from thirst, she tied her shoe to her garment and lowered it into a well, to draw up water for the dog. It was said that He loved cats and kept one Himself. In the Hadith it tells of a time when Muhammad cut off His own sleeve, rather than disturb the cat who was sleeping on it. “He was endlessly patient. The Qur’an enjoins patience in over seventy passages. It states: ‘How goodly…

Assisi explains it: a sister with whom we share our life and a beautiful mother who opens her arms to embrace us. The pope says that this sister is crying now to…

power.” Jesus replied. “But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem and into all Judaea and in Samaria, and unto the utmost parts of the Earth.” And while He had spoken these things, while they beheld, he was taken up; and a cloud received him out of their sight. And they looked steadfastly toward Heaven, as he went up; Behold two men stood by them in white apparel (angels). The angels asked the followers of Jesus…

development from two previous incarnations: the man with an ax, whom Tomas alleged to be the Cro-Magnon man; and Rama, "a symbol of civilized man"*, or man in his present state. In another development of Indian thought, the survivor learns to transcend his sufferings by engaging himself in long periods of introspective contemplation so as to break into a higher universe, free from the concerns of the flesh. In Palestine, Christianity's Jesus Christ addressed the same worldly worries in His…

follow and difficult to understand. With an allegory, the reader must not only read the picture painted on the page but then go another step and analyze what the picture means. This is much like the parables of Jesus which were not really very clear. Every time He finished one, the disciples had to ask what He meant. Now some pictures in Pilgrim’s Progress are easy to pick up on, such as Pilgrim’s burden falling off at the cross and rolling into the tomb. Others are more difficult and are…

The Soul of an Educator- Mr._________________ I wanted to send you one of my graduation announcements because you are one of the few teachers/mentors I had in my life who taught me something-that got me this far. I will NEVER, EVER forget the day in English class when you pulled out a map of the universe and gave a talk about how small our problems really are. That bit of information definitely saved me hundreds of times while at school. My personality and lifestyle has molded itself around…