present moment is the freedom from stress it gives to fully appreciate each detail of life. Dwelling on the past will not bring joy to our present lives. When we reminisce, we are missing the current memories we could be creating. Then again, when we dwell on our past mistakes, we are constantly reminding…
draws the conclusion that man’s lack of focus for being revolves around the concept of time as humanity knows it. Man cannot simply be, like the rose, at every stage of its life. Instead, man settles for a constructed idea of time and continues to dwell in the past or look toward…
sincerity of heart, praising God and having favor with all the people. And the Lord was adding to their number day by day those who were being saved.” In other words, God has entrusted his ministries to be empowered by the Holy Spirit, that spirit should dwell on the inside of his chosen people, (Jn. 14:26, NASB). As God’s chosen people, we must seek to invest in God’s people to ensure growth and involvement in the ministries. Bonhoeffer writes, “We must be ready to allow ourselves to be…
Aquinas for Armchair Theologians examines the nature of evil in chapter 3, “Why Is There Evil? Do Humans Have Free Will?”. Aquinas answers the first question by stating, “…that God does not make evil. God only makes good. Evil, in a sense, does not exist at all- at least it is not a substance or a thing” (Renick, p.33). The author also uses the Daisy Theory and Hitler to make the claim “privation of the good” is evil. However, when looking at what the Bible has written about evil it states, “For…
Supreme Being. If anything, religion proclaims a certain magnitude of equality among all human beings as the same creation. In addition, Confucianism is not a religion because contrary to other religions which focus on the worship of God, it mainly dwells on human beings. As derived from its description, Confucianism is primarily about ethical teachings. These are directed towards mankind in an effort to help them lead a much more acceptable and fulfilling life. In Mencius a king is advised on…
Roberts writes that the Present Kingdom is when the prophesied child is born. Graeme Goldsworthy says in According to Plan, “The Gospel is the word about Jesus Christ and what he did for us in order to restore us to a right relationship with God” (Goldsworthy 73). This is it, this is what God has been promising. These are the words come into being. John 1:1-5, 9, says, “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things…
Blindside is based on a guy, michael oher (big mike) A homeless black teen. He’s been out of the school system for years.He has been living on the streets for most of his life because his mom is a drug addict and his father died from suicide. He then got enrolled into this christian school.It was an all white school so he felt uncomfortable. He didn’t talk, he was failing his classes but he was really good at sports. One day he was walking down the street in the dark, where he met leigh Anne and…
Money, Love, and Greed: Can Money Buy Happiness? “While money can't buy happiness, it certainly lets you choose your own form of misery.” ― Groucho Marx Many argue that money can offer many benefits to life and make it “worth living”. But can money truly buy the untouchable items in life like love, happiness, and acceptance? Every individual has a different definition of how to achieve happiness in life, but many individuals associate that happiness with affluence. Affluence may give an…
Suicide is not a joke. When you are surrounded in a world of unrealistic expectations and darkness, sometimes, or most times, it can be hard to find the light. My friend Leah was encumbered in this world and it was hard for her to see her place in it. She struggled with many aspects of life. Those both in and out of there reach of control. From boys to her brain, she felt that here was no solution to her inner conflict. The grams of weight on her shoulders became pounds; she was sinking…
The Wall in the Handmaid's Tale is built right next to the church where they are both as old as a hundred years or more. The wall has sentries that will rip through anyone that tries to climb over and barbed wire on top if anyone even gets close. However, there are bodies hanging on the wall by their necks and their hands tied behind them. Atwood writes, “Sometimes, they’ll be there for days, until there’s a new batch, so as many people as possible will have the chance to see them” (Atwood 32)…