Disciple

After Jesus preached to them, the disciples wanted to send them away so they could eat and rest, they were concerned with their personal well-being. However, Jesus had compassion on them and instructed the disciples to feed them, to which the disciples responded, we only have about five loaves and two fish for 5,000 people (Harrelson 1870). Then Jesus take the food, looked up toward heaven…

2016 where society is always demanding for tangible proof. These collection of people who want to believe in the resurrection but request tangible proof are sometimes referred to as “Doubting Thomas”; the disciple who would not believe that Christ was risen and had appeared before the disciples. Thomas boldly proclaims that he would not believe unless he could physically touch him and all the harm that had been done…

In order to appropriately answer this question, we must first look at the prerequisites for being termed a Theravada Buddhist or a disciple of Shintoism. While identifying the various aspects of either religion, we can make head-to-head arguments for and against their exclusivity. When considering the argument for the practice of both these religions at the same time, it must be understood that in order to fully devote one’s self to a religion that person cannot falter from the line of thought…

risen! In the gospel message of Easter, we see the Lord’s body still bearing the wounds made in His hands and side by the nails and the spear. But now, they are glorified as proof of God’s victory over death and sin. Jesus goes forth to meet His disciples and every man, woman, and child throughout the ages, including our own. He comes and shares with us His joy, His peace, and the Holy Spirit. He shares His very self “in the breaking…

gospels that essentially chronicle the life and ministry of Jesus Christ. There are several conflicting stories about the authorship of this gospel. One writer, Kenneth Barksdale, suggests that the author is the Apostle John, otherwise known as “the disciple whom Jesus loved” (1499). Barksdale rationalizes his assumption that John is the writer by many facts recorded in the Gospel, the most logical is the fact that although John was very prominent in the early church, he is not mentioned by…

Bible has Jesus Christ preparing for the Passover meal. He directed his disciples to go into the city and tell a specific man as Jesus has requested that “The Teacher says: My time has come and I will eat the Passover meal with my disciples at your house.” (Matthew 26:18). While Jesus and his twelve disciples are eating, he announces that one of the men sitting at the very same table will betray him. Each one of the disciples was worried if it would be him so they all asked, “Am I the one,…

alone (Hauerwas). God is always there for you throughout your journey in college. In order to be a successful college student and follower of Jesus Christ you need to be a disciple of Christ, now your calling, and set your limits. To succeed in college, you need to be a disciple of Christ. According to Dallas Willard, “To be a disciple of Jesus is, crucially, to be learning from Jesus how to do your job as Jesus himself would do it” (Willard 285). Willard is trying to get you to understand that…

In the second of this four-chapter farewell discourse, we find Jesus being the exclusive speaker. Jesus addresses two primary topics: disciple from being connected to the father, and tension with the world. Both sections have to deal with the disciples association with Jesus in particular – Jesus continues to recognize the importance of preparing the disciples for what is to come. 15:1-17 In John 2, we experienced Jesus being a source of life and celebration for the family in Cana (in his…

walls in Milan. In this painting, he displayed his well-known studies of human psychology. The Last Supper illustrated that Christ had just announced to his disciples that one of them will eventually betray him. If you get a chance to look at this painting look at it closely. Look at how Leonardo da Vinci gives major detail on how the disciples take the news that Christ just have…

with doubting his own faith. A prime example of this is the story of The Walking on the Water from the gospel of Matthew. In this passage Jesus sends the disciples out across the sea while He goes to pray up on the mountain. As the disciples sailed off, the boat got caught in a storm. In the middle of the night Jesus began to approach the disciples, and at first they did not believe that it was really Him. They said fearfully that it was not really Christ, but that it was a ghost. Peter then…