Epistle

Summary In their book "Liberating Ministry from the Success Syndrome" authors Kent and Barbara Hughes offer insight to anyone currently involves with or contemplating involvement with church ministry. In the introduction, the husband and wife team tell a story of a pastor that gave into failure and left full-time ministry (Hughes 1987, 9-13). This confusion of success and failure in regards to ministry effects many every day. The team explains that they too almost fell victim to overwhelming…

I have chosen Paul’s First Letter to the Corinthians 13: 1-13 for my bible passage. In Paul’s day, Corinth was the largest and most influential city in southern Greece. Athens was considered the intellectual center of Greece, and Corinth was the commercial center. The city’s rise to prominence among the cities of Greece is attributed to its central location on the east-west route between Italy and Asia Minor. Corinth’s financial prosperity was the result of business activities, athletic…

Voices of Criticism The development of modern medical technology is increasingly impacting this strict dichotomy. cosmetic, application of assisted reproductive technology, artificial limbs, transgender, blurring the distinction between natural and artificial, man and machine, resulting in blurred personal identity. Descartes' dualism has become as the theoretical basis of patient materialization and reductionism. Mark Sullivan stated that Descartes' dualism such that split relationship between…

Huldrych (also Ulrich) Zwingli is arguably the least known of the three major reformers: Luther, Zwingli, and Calvin. However, according to some, it is Zwingli who is perhaps the true father of Reformed Protestant theology. Zwingli was responsible for the initiation of the Reformation in Switzerland and continued to remain one of the Reformation’s greatest leaders even after his death. Responsible for a vast amount of writings, Zwingli continues to influence theology to this day. While this…

1:3 DIVINE POWER: This is another key word of the epistle. It ties to 1:16 where the two major themes of the letter appear: the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. Paul identifies this as "the power of his resurrection" (Philippians. 3:10). It is a power which all true believers possess which enables them, if they choose to count on it, to do "all things through Christ who strengthens" (Philippians. 4:13). Thus any failure to live a godly life is due to our weakness or folly and not to…

During the first century, the monotheistic religion of Christianity began. The teachings, based on the Resurrection of Jesus Christ, spread throughout the empire, touching the outskirts of Palestine. Jesus preached in Israel during the time of Augustus, urging a purification of the Jewish religion that would free Israel and establish the kingdom of God on earth. He urged a moral code based on love, charity, and humility, and he asked the faithful to follow his lessons, abandoning worldly concern…

of your life and others’, being aware of your sins and trying to eliminate your bad passions, giving selflessly to others, spending time with and educating other Orthodox Christians, and reading and following the Scriptures, the Commandments, and Epistles” (Translating Orthodox Christian Ideals Into Daily Life). These ideals are meant to guide Orthodox Christians into keeping the ways that their founding fathers…

• It obviously does not do any good if we simply view the Bible as a text book. This is why we cannot refer it, sprinkle it, or concordance it. The Bible speaks in a manner of unfolding a grand drama. The Bible is sufficient and it speaks concerning the areas of our lives. Yet, because it doesn’t provide meticulous details for life, we must also excavate relevant applications from the truth hidden in the Bible, as the Bible provides general principles for the way of life. The Bible needs to be…

The idea of love has been very warped overtime. The many associations of the word have left many Americans searching for a nonbiased definition. The rise of black LGBT rights has caused many people to question their own definition of love, even going to the extent of redefining it. The black community has referred to the Bible as the standard of love. That love is often translated to hate when something goes against people’s beliefs. The weight of Black America’s hatred of the Black LGBT…

compassionate, and loving. When she died it just seemed like the world lost its allure and color. Then just in case I didn’t get the message, he reiterated it by printing the quote and hanging it in our living room. He didn’t stop there. Oh no, he wrote an epistle and sent it to his college friends! Then after that,as if I didn’t understand what he was putting across, he told me I wouldn’t be playing football. My mom had been my only freedom and my only fun. She was the one that gave me…