Evangelists

Falwell condemned homosexuality as forbidden by the Bible. Gay rights groups called Falwell an "agent of intolerance" and "the founder of the anti-gay industry" for statements he had made and for campaigning against LGBT rights. When comedian and actress Ellen DeGeneras came out as a lesbian, Falwell referred to her in a sermon as "Ellen DeGenerate". DeGeneres mocked him, saying, "Really, he called me that? Ellen DeGenerate? I've been getting that since the fourth grade. I guess I'm happy I…

A pastor and best-selling author’s End Times warning is featured this month at New York City’s Times Square to bring biblical encouragement amid the issues of terrorism, politics, and even America. The End Times warning seen at Times Square is an advertisement for David Jeremiah’s latest book titled “Is This The End? Signs of God’s Providence in a Disturbing New World.” The book asks if the end of America and the world are already near, The Christian Post details. On Tuesday, Jeremiah said the…

them, go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature”. What was Jesus saying and why is this verse in the bible taken so literally? In the world today we call it evangelism and many people are participating. The world has had great evangelists in its time such as billy graham who have made known what evangelism really means but people have their own views on what evangelism is depending on their own beliefs systems and religious views. I thought about evangelism from a person’s…

In Charles Kimball’s book When Religion Becomes Evil: Five Warning Signs. In the book Kimball starts off by asking the question is religion the problem? That question alone sets up the whole book it sets up the question at what point in history did we as people and a society come up with this idea that there is this higher being with infinite knowledge and ability? When did we as a society realize that we weren’t the rulers of the world? Kimball gives very detailed examples of Religion…

Christian Empire, the reforms of Diocletian were, Social reforms, Military, Executive, Political, Religious, and Toll. Diocletian’s reforms were expensive and required a predictable income. His reforms results were less than easy to anticipate. He made the Social Reforms in order to give the emperors respect and overcome again. The military reforms to liberate from field armies. He separated the civil leaders from the military leaders. What Diocletian tried to accomplish was that he supported…

In his article entitled “Internet Access Is Not a Human Right” published on the website of The New York Times on 4 January 2012, Vincent G. Cerf, a vice president and chief Internet evangelist for Google, presents his perspective on a controversial issue regarding access to the Internet. He argues that access to the Internet should not be accepted as a human right, “it’s just a tool to achieve those rights.” According to Internet World Stats (2014), over a third of the world’s population are…

In the city of Assisi, which lies at the edge of the Spoleto Valley, there was a man by the name of Francis, who from his most punctual years was raised by his folks glad for soul, as per the vanity of the world; and copying their pitiable life and propensities for quite a while, he turned out to be considerably more vain and pleased These are the pathetic conditions among which the man whom we worship today as a holy person, for he really is a holy person, lived in his childhood; and nearly up…

attacked them and pushed a great part of the Yoruba toward the south. In the late 1800s, the Yoruba fashioned an agreement with the Fulani and in 1901 they were colonized by the British. Due to their ill will with the Fulani who are the vast Islamic evangelists, a large portion of the Yoruba individuals don't hold to Islam, rather they deify the numerous…

The wind whistles. The owl hoots. The cricket chirps. The fan next to my bed spins on and on forever. While lying in my bed, I begin thinking about people I know and begin questioning why people talk the way they talk and act the way they act. Nevertheless, my perspective of several people, including relatives and friends, changed after reading your allegory because I began to notice that many people around me symbolize many characters in Christian’s life. Mr. Bunyan, your allegory changed my…

was simply what different Calvinists had been declaring for quite a long time that evil men and women were absolutely subordinate for salvation on the leniency of an immaculate, all-effective God. At the same time Whitefield and numerous American evangelists who excitedly imitated his style, displayed that message…