Fiery furnace

While sitting in a Birmingham jail, Martin Luther King Jr wrote to his fellow clergyman. Through this letter, King answered the clergyman's complaints of how the demonstration of nonviolent civil disobedience was unwise and untimely in Birmingham. King defended the actions of the protestors and himself by addressing the concerns of those clergymen. He attempted this task by using scripture, history, and appealing to the intellect of his audience. King disrupted societal norms by nonviolent…

One of the most critical professions, which deliver a wide variety of services to the community, is Social Work. It is a critical asset for all people, of all genders, ages, and ethnicities. Their main goal, however, is to help those in need and equality. Unlike most occupations, Social Work is more of like a lifestyle. The mission of this “lifestyle” is rooted in a set of six core values. First, A Social Worker’s primary goal is to help people in need and address social problems. These people…

“They will throw them into the blazing furnace, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.” Many people have heard these words uttered from Jesus himself in Matthew 13:42, however many different depictions of hell have been asserted. In Dante’s Inferno he travels through the depths of Hell and describes what exactly it will look like and feel like and ultimately be like. However is this depiction actually accurate? In multiple areas Dante’s inferno seems to build off the biblical…

little closer to the knowledge of a living and true God. For instance, at the turn of the 20th century, most of the world is living in a world that is unstable and brings the believers to personal troubles. Some of God’s people find themselves in a fiery furnace that leads them to a scrutiny that depicts the seven seals in the Book of Revelation as a true lesson of how to see and check human sin. The times puts them in a time of boundless persecution for both Jews and Christians alike. In fact,…

Isaiah 43:14-19 God’s Redemption Power There are times when we dwell on our past trials and tribulations, when such occurs God wants us to move forward and focus on him. I know we all can testify to some degree in our lives of the many trials we have all have come through in life. If had not been for the Lord who was on our side where would we be. It was God’s grace and his mercy that overshadowed our problems and his presence that guided us to our victories. We could not come this far without…

After reading The Tragedy of Macbeth by William Shakespeare, many people are left with unanswered questions about the two main characters, Macbeth and Lady Macbeth. What really provokes Lady Macbeth’s cruel actions? What is the relationship between Lady Macbeth and Macbeth? And lastly, is Macbeth really just a power-hungry, violent man? When one dissects the play scene by scene and analyzes every line, all of these questions are answered. In the play, Lady Macbeth’s actions are a result of a…

Nature’s Morality Embedded In Romanticism Since the beginning of creation man has always strived to learn more about himself and the world around him. One of the most prominent ways that man can connect with their inner self and find peace with the world around them, is to write and read different types of poetry. Starting from the streets of Athens with the philosophical and artistic minds of the Greeks, poetry quickly moved East, hastily engulfing the entire globe because of it’s ability to…

While Germany is a very pretty place. Germany is a tragic place as well. What comes to people’s minds when they hear the word Germany is to think of the Holocaust. Many people just know that Hitler killed a variety of people. However, that is not the whole story. He did not only kill people, but also he emotionally and physically hurt them. Hitler did not only kill Jewish people, but he also killed Soviet prisoners, gypsies, the mentally ill. The Jews were the only ones set out for total…

In a nationwide poll conducted by CNN and the Kaiser Family Foundation nearly half of Americans believe that racism is a huge problem in today’s society.(Shoichet, E. Catherine). Racial discrimination refers to the practice of treating people differently because of their ethnicity or skin color. Racism is a particular type of oppression that stems from the discrimination against an individual based on the concept that inherited characteristics, like darker skin, make them beneath their…

That’s what happened in the garden of Eden. But prior to this in-cident occurring Lucifer, was expelled or as we like to say kicked out of heaven because he wanted to be God. He was created by God and he wanted to be God to be worshipped as God was being worshipped by the angels he had created. But God is God and he will not share his glory with another. Earth became corrupt because of the pronouncement of God upon it. Man would now have to live by the sweat of his brow. No longer could he walk…