Everyone, including unbelievers, has his own mask which he makes and wears. This mask is used to cover up what is inside, sin. Even our appearances are used as masks. I believe this applies to not only believers. Another key theme in this book is grace in several of its different aspects. In April of 2016, I began working in the deli of a grocery store. I got to know my coworkers well for over four months. They all seemed to be doing well. Specifically, Marshall did his job well. He…
Tradition or Sacramental life is very important to the history of Christianity, In fact, Jesus is the focus of this tradition. Jesus came down from heaven to earth. Jesus was God transformed in the flesh (John 1:14 “And the word became flesh, and dwelt among us, and we saw His glory, glory as the only begotten from the Father full of grace and truth” (NASB). Jesus came and made the distinction between sacred and secular and between faith and work. This paper will discuss how a Sacramental…
raised me to worship one God. I still face the same experiences as Istak during his journey. Istak was “drawn to the Church, to seek not salvation but a future that was not limned by hunger” (José, 141). For me, I am drawn to the Church to seek for a healthy life and blessings. Istak and I pray for our wants and needs to be heard. We believe in God, who will grant us what we ask for. In other times, I am also drawn to the Church when I feel lost. I attend mass and hope that God has great plans…
But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses. You get the gest? Saints, we need to know more about God. We need to study the Bible. The period of examinations has just end and a lot of you were studying to get promoted to a new forms and many of us did it. This is done because we want to graduate with ‘subjects”…
wasn’t before or after and it wasn’t by something we did. It was all a free gift from God the Father. He offered up His One and Only Son as the perfect sacrificial Lamb for our justification. He did this that we might believe in Him and receive the eternal life that is offered as a gift for our faith. Now since the act of justification happened at the cross, it is up to us to reach out and grab it for ourselves. God is offering it up to anyone who will receive it. Meaning that as a person, we…
teachings of God failed to help a person in need, and the same with the Levite; but the Samaritan is more devout than any of the others. The next story of stewardship is the story of The Rich Man and Lazarus. The story is that Lazarus was a sore covered beggar who lived outside the gate of a rich man. The man didn’t help him, and when they both died, Lazarus was carried by angels to the side of Abraham while the rich man was with Hades and was in torment. When the rich man asked, “Father…
word of god says if you had heeded my commands, then you peace would flow like a river. He also states happy are ye that keep my commands. The essence of these words are simply foolishness to the unconverted heart. For those however; who have tasted and seen that god is good it is life unto them. There was a time in my life when i bought into the lies of the enemy. I saw god as being restrictive, his laws too rigid, and his entire government as a fun buster. I thought maybe that god needed…
that there is one God as written about in the Holy Bible, and that He is a triune being encompassing the Heavenly Father, the Holy Spirit, and the Son of God, Christ Jesus. I believe that Jesus was God in human form, and descended from Heaven to interact with humans and show His love for humanity, and took on each individual’s sins via death. Jesus’ crucifixion was most certainly real, and I believe is symbolic of dying to oneself, along with a Christian’s need to surrender to God.…
His apprehension was not with agendas, but with the ordinary men who the flocks would follow. The primary objective of Jesus ' plan was to recruit people who may bear witness of his life and continue to do his work after he returned to the Heavenly Father. These initially converts had little instantaneous effect on the spiritual life of that day, but their daily life, would have a large bearing thru eternity. Not one of the men Jesus chose appeared to be crucial people. They were not the elite…
Education is knowing God and His purpose for your life and then being able to follow His will in obedience. This definition was not an easy one to come up with, and to most it will not make sense. Education can be anything depending on what your world view is. I take a biblical stance in the way I view the world and everything in it. The secular world view sees a person’s education as how much a person is worth, or how successful that person is. The way you look at the world is the way you…