Evangelists

than creating free space for various faiths to express their faith. Maryland’s Toleration act criminalizes blasphemy; making it punishable by death. Punishments including fines were also outlined for various other crimes against the Apostles, the Evangelists, and the Virgin Mary. This shows that Catholicism was held in a superior position relative to other faiths. Notably, Maryland, unlike Pennsylvania that was formed as a solace of Quakers, was established as a home for persecuted Catholic…

2. Bible Intake For the Purpose of Godliness Key Idea Chapter 2 of Spiritual discipline provided clarity for why and how the Bible leads us to godliness. The chapter even exposed the practicality of how easy it is to consume God’s word from cover to cover if you wanted to do it in a year, or piece by piece. The final point that stuck out to me was the difference between reading over the word and studying the word. Key Quote Surely we only have to be realistic and honest with ourselves to know…

The NAE acknowledges the historian David Bebbington’s “quadrilateral” as the way to identify the four qualifying characteristics of an evangelical. The first characteristic is conversionism, or the belief that lives need to be transformed through a “born-again” experience and a life-long process of following Jesus. The second is Biblicism – a high regard for and obedience to the Bible as the ultimate authority. The third is crucicentrism, or a stress on the sacrifice of Jesus Christ on the cross…

The Second Great Awakening that swept across the United States in the 1800s, had a unifying effect on the nation; especially the inclusion of Black Americans and women in leadership. As Tindall and Shi comment, “[the revivals] bridged many social, economic, political, and even racial divisions. Women especially flocked to the rural revivals and sustained religious life on the frontier” (Tindall and Shi 387-388). The inclusion of Black Americans and women in the Second Great Awakening gave fuel…

The church is the group wherein God’s salvation from sin is found. It is the group that Jesus purchased with His own blood (Acts 20:28). Jesus is the head and director of this group, and He dictates what it may or may not do (Col. 1:18). Every immersed believer is admitted to this group, and once he or she becomes part of it, he or she remains there until he or she chooses otherwise. To Lutherans, the church is the assembly of all believers where the gospel is preached and the sacraments…

For some time now, I have been attending these events. These events have stirred something inside of me, and now I wish to invite you along to one of them! You might want to know how these events started and I can happily inform you of this. These events started through the American experiment, it was enhanced by political freedom and by the raise of nationalism. From this experiment then American culture rose, and among these things came religion. Religion made a comeback to people’s lives and…

he has for the poor and the downtrodden; and the need for social justice. The gospel of Luke depicts Jesus as a man with a heart of gold and focuses more on the compassion, healing and sacrifice Jesus had for those around him more than the other evangelists. Jesus was always reaching out to those at the bottom of the social ladder; the poor and gentiles (2:32; 3:23–38; 4:24–27; 7:1–10; 24:47), women, children and prostitutes (1:26–56; 2:36–38; 7:11–17, 36–50; 8:2, 42–48; 10:38–42; 21:1–4;…

North Carolina on November 7th, 1918 (britannica.com). His parents were strict Calvinists and the spark of his interest in theology and Christian thought came from when he was sixteen years old and attended a series of revival meetings, preached by evangelist, Mordecai Ham (britannica.com). Ham influenced Graham into pursuing learning more about the Gospel and led him want to teach the truth and revival of the Gospel like Ham was doing. Although young, these meetings and sermons spoke to Graham…

Book Burnings are known to happen from time to time over the course of history. Reason go from trying to erase an entire culture to just not believing in the writings. But, if someone told a group of people to jump off an airplane without a chute they wouldn’t, because they know they shouldn’t and there will be consequences. The seemingly non harmful action of destroying the writing of someone else affects us in more ways than we can count. Mass book burnings are due to the ignorance of citizens…

When I think about the meaning of community organizing, I recall a selective memory of my elementary school years. I recall being in Zamora, Michoacan and the teacher telling us that one of our classmate father just passed away. As I just want to point out that the elementary school was on the outskirts of Zamora, and everyone knew each others family. Personally, I knew the señor Francisco Peña but knew him as Don Pancho, he was the carnicero in the area of Valenica. Thus, as I heard the news,…