Evangelists

Theology Responses Question #1: What changes has the practice of ministry had on your interpretation of (a) the Lordship of Jesus Christ, and (b) the work of the Holy Spirit? Beside my grandmother, front pew on the preacher’s right, St. Mark’s United Methodist Church in Ocala, Florida (hereafter referred to as St. Mark’s). That’s where I began to confess the Lordship of Jesus. In the earliest formative years of my life, I stood with those precious folks and recited, “I believe in Jesus Christ…

Charlotte Bronte was the third young person to Patrick Bronte and Maria Bronte. In all he and his wife had six children with one of them was a kid and the others were young ladies. Their two eldest young ladies passed on in their girlhood yet the three surviving Bronte sisters specifically Charlotte, Emily and Anne grew up to wind up to end up incredible author. As Charlotte's father was not a rich man, it was her commitment to shoulder family commitments. It was at the age of thirty one that…

My personal response to the Egalitarian views of Linda Belleville and Craig Keener is varied. When reading and learning from Belleville I would go from understanding and personally align in thought, to feeling her view was somewhat stretching for me especially when other references were used outside of scripture. I was able to follow Keener closer, but this could be based on my up bringing in the evangelical church. It was very helpful to learn from Belleville the difference between…

I vividly remember the first time I got on my knees to pray. I was four-years-old, and I was with my mom. She taught me the Lord’s Prayer, and after that she told me to repeat these words: “Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep. And if I should die before I wake, I pray the Lord my soul to take” (Johnstone). The last part of the prayer is what my family always said which was “bless mommy and daddy, and everyone in the whole wide world. Amen.” Saying these prayers and going…

Life is an ongoing challenge and gift that was given to humanity; both a gift and a curse we must struggle through the turmoil of this world and try to find the brightside. We are shaped by experiences, molded by our emotions and surroundings until our final days. Orleana, a woman who grew up in the great depression in a little town called pearl, endured many trials and tribulations throughout her lifetime. The era in which she was brought up was one of great religious revival, and the…

First to arrive in the interior villages were the missionaries. “The missionaries had come to Umuofia. They had built their church there, won a handful of converts and were already sending evangelists to the surrounding towns and villages.” Mr. Kiaga was the first missionary Okonkwo encountered and he was regarded as as a man of great faith and he was thought of as being “harmless”. After him came Mr. Brown, Mr. Brown was the missionary stationed…

How are Millennials Different? The Collective Individual Millennials are different. They have been studied repeatedly by statisticians for their differences. Marketing companies have been trying to study them because they are going to overtake the Boomer generation in sheer purchasing power in the next couple of years. Millennials have a few core traits that are generally agreed upon; they are special, sheltered, confident, team oriented, conventional, pressured, and achieving. “They are also…

Serving our Persecuted Brothers and Sisters. Eliezer G. Mwankenja Messiah College Serving our Persecuted Brothers and Sisters. Before Jesus was crucified on the cross, he told his disciples that in this world they will have tribulation. Also, Jesus told his disciples that they do not belong to the world anymore because he chose them out of it. As a result, the world will hate them because they belong to him and because the world hated Jesus first. Furthermore, Jesus told his…

Though he came from humble beginnings, Johnny Cash, born J.R. Cash, rose above his many failures to become a true American success story and living legend. Johnny Cash once said, “You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don't try to forget the mistakes, but you don't dwell on it. You don't let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space.” Using this philosophy, Johnny Cash rose to become one of the greatest country music…

Essay 1: Many historians in opposition to the Christian Faith try to invalidate Catholicism by claiming that the Gospels are not historically reliable. This accusation is entirely false and can logically be disproven by using the five criteria for judging the historical reliability of documents. Is there eyewitness testimony? Where the documents written within living memory of the events? Do outside, unbiased, sources agree? Do the events relayed in the documents sound ridiculously untrue? And…