Lord's Prayer

Overcoming Reality Financial aid is a very large problem in modern society with kids who are striving to make it to college for further education. Said simply, college is expensive. This specifically depends on the type of college one chooses to attend. Often times, in state college is more affordable than out of state, because there is something called ‘in state tuition.’ This higher education tends to be very expensive for a plethora of reasons. The first major reason is the fact that…

As part of the infamous “swimming test,” accused witches were dragged to the nearest body of water, stripped to their undergarments, bound and then tossed in to to see if they would sink or float. Since witches were believed to have spurned the sacrament of baptism, it was thought that the water would reject their body and prevent them from submerging. According to this logic, an innocent person would sink like a stone, but a witch would simply bob on the surface. The victim typically had a rope…

The Westminster Confession of Faith and the Baptist Faith & Message 2000 are two documents that influenced the writing of this confession. Both of them give excellent summaries of the Church be, while also giving ample Scriptural support. One key biblical text to explain the Church doctrine is 1 Corinthians 12:12-31, which talks about the Church as a human body. All members of the Church, whether they believe they have a small role or a big role, play a part in God’s Church, whether they are a…

the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen, Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you,” Matthew 6:6. After telling of how you should pray in secret to your Father, he speaks of how you should pray and introduces the Lord’s Prayer. In the coming verses he speaks of fasting, adultery, and judging others. One of my favorite versus in the Bible happens to be in Matthew; Matthew 6:34 “Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each…

A ny argument against the existence of God invariably includes the argument that a good God would not let bad things happen to good people. Although this book is an attempt to use reason to reach agreements I am going to lean heavily on scripture with reason as a support for this chapter. The idea behind this is that God is under condemnation using this argument, and the accused have a right under the law to speak in their own self-defense. If we believe that scripture is God’s word, then God…

Requirement I. Lesson 1, Point III. The Acceptance of Personal Responsibility - Jude 16-25 The reason I chose this point is because of the truth in it. Before a person is saved, he/she must, by the truth of the Word and the conviction of the Holy Spirit, realize and admit and take personal responsibility for their sin. This same personal responsibility continues throughout the Christian's life. We must take responsibility for our actions. In the same way, If we are to develop a walk with God…

Margaret Walker’s “For My People” uses imagery to illustrate the possibility of an optimistic future for blacks in America; regardless of the adversity faced throughout the history of their existence in the United States. The poem is written in a free verse format with each stanza starting off with “for my people” alluding to blacks as the audience. The beginning of the poem reveals blacks in America as a group of people that survived a perilous time because they worked hard and latched on to…

kingdom. The hollow men are now curious about the other kingdom of death. They are wondering if the other people in this new kingdom also endure pain (Shmoop). He says that, “lips that kiss form prayers to broken stone” (Eliot 49-50). He is revealing to the readers that the hollow men pray, but their prayer are corrupted and wrong (Shmoop). They are corrupted in the sense that what they are praying for is wrong and self pleasing. The fourth section talks about “the hollow valley” (Eliot…

discussions. My third year, the Lord placed on my heart to initiate and start up a regular prayer meeting on the floor for the floor, campus, and the city. With my RA’s permission, Monday night 7-8pm became a time of prayer in the lobby of the floor. Many nights I would only have one or two fellow floor members show up and not even for the whole time. This did not stop me from having the regular time of prayer. In fact, on the nights when it was just me God would use to teach me that loving a…

It is made visible that Eliot’s use of literary allusion does not bring confusion to the responder as it provides meaning that is comprehensive to the human spirit. Eliot makes it clear that his focus of the industrial period is embedded in his literary allusion where he is not apologetic for as he aims to expose society’s lack of responsibility and draws attention to hope and salvation. He expresses the fragmentation of his world from the physical and emotional scars of World War I driving in…