Isaiah

Why Are We Here? The overarching theme of the last five weeks is, simply put, the pursuit of business as a vocation is in no way essentially separate from or in conflict with living a Christ centered life. If we are clear and strong in our Christian faith, if our faith sincerely informs our behavior in all aspects of our life- then we can, and it is argued, should take stewardship of His people and His gifts in the business community in order to further His mission in the world. This is the very…

For the past 2000 years one of the most inspiring people who continues to influence generation after generation can be a very surprising to many people. He is the reason of many controversy around the world. He is the reason people lose their life for spreading his gospel thought the world each year. One may say Joe Christmas and Joe Christmas don’t share any similarities and are complete opposites, But the truth is Jesus Christ is no different from Joe Christmas. In William Faulkner's novel…

The Contrast of Community and Spiritual Formation in the Old and New Testament The biblical concept of community permeates the Scriptures whether we are discussing the Old Testament or the New Testament (Pettit 2008). From the beginning of creation, the idea of community has always been God’s idea. The first place in the context of the creation story where God declares “this is not good” is in reference to Adam when He says “It is not good for man to be alone” . We were created for fellowship…

traumatic happen to Manasseh when he was young that caused some rebellion against everything his father stood for? All of it just seems crazy to me and it does not make sense. Also, something Anderson said caused me to pause. I have never read much of Isaiah and his story in the Bible up to this point, but even I have heard the story of how he was sawn in half by Manasseh. According to Anderson, however, there is no hard biblical text that supports this story and that they only reason that…

2 Kings 2, 4-5, 9-11, 14:23-29, 16-17 – This portion of Scripture begins with the ascension of Elijah into heaven and his mantle falls to Elisha. Elisha, having already requested a double portion of the spirit that Elijah had, demonstrates that the spirit of YHWH is with him by performing various miracles. One of Elisha’s duties is fulfilling a charge from YHWH that was given to Elijah and that is the task of anointing Jehu as king over Israel. However, Elisha does not personally anoint Jehu,…

The purpose of the three synoptic Gospels Matthew, Mark and Luke is to show the different perspectives of Christ and to bring a new light to the different aspects of Christ with each writer’s take by emphasizing different parts and characteristics of Christ for each writer’s specific audience. An author’s writing is greatly influenced by the author’s personality, and the style of writing the Gospels is unique because each Gospel is written by a different writer. Matthew’s Gospel written by…

 The ancient manuscripts known as the Dead Sea Scrolls have been called by scientists “the greatest chirographic discovery of present times.” These scripts contain scrolls of the Torah and non-biblical texts, which are dated from 100 BC to 68 AD. The discovered writings are not original manuscripts, but copies produced by scribes. They are determined to be a thousand years older than the oldest attested traditional Hebrew text of the Torah, which make up the basis of the Old Testament…

Isaiah Mitchell Art 1: Prehistory- Medieval Ancient Egypt Artwork in the Ancient Egyptian time period reached a high level in painting and sculpture, and was both greatly stylized and symbolic. Their artwork was very conservative in style with a vivid representation of their economic status and beliefs. Much of their artwork was subjected around their belief in the concept of the human soul and commemorating their gods and kings. Most sculptures and body structures are idealized and look very…

capable to kill Grendel. He was below average size and had a disproportionate body. Nobody would look at him and think that he would be a monster killer, but he was. Nobody would look at Jesus and think he was the savior either. The Bible says in Isaiah 53:2, “He grew up before him like a tender shoot, and like a root out of dry ground. He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him, nothing in his appearance that we should desire him.” Jesus did not look like a savior and did not act…

himself reveals it to you, in which in this case Jesus kind of discreetly tells him again that he is (Divine) God. For only God can reveal his secrets to those who hear it and also for those who apply it. Also, Jesus quotes straight from the book of Isaiah 6:9 offering to his hearers that the time to dig deep and find the truth depends…