Lord's Resistance Army

In 1991, Abu and 30 other young men were kidnapped from their homes in Kuiva, a village in eastern Sierra Leone. Hundreds of children including Abu were forced by the Liberian mastermind Charles Taylor to fight with the rebels. With all of the drugs and alcohol that they are forced to take, Abu can’t remembered the first time that he killed. Charles Taylor, then President of Liberia, was charged with 11 counts of war offenses and crimes against civilization for the help to launch the Sierra…

The Contemporary Child Solider Professor Anne Farina International Child Welfare George Warren Brown School of Social Work Washington University in Saint Louis Introduction In the contemporary battlefield of today, child soldiers are becoming normalized in the majority of conflicts. Motivations for child recruitment include children’s limited ability to assess risks, feelings of invulnerability, and shortsightedness. Child soldiers are more often killed or injured than adult…

story, Awil. “He was abandoned by his parents who fled to Yemen, he says, and joined a militia when he was about seven. (3)” He was stranded by the one set of people who were supposed to look after him, so he went looking for another family, and the army gladly took him in. What he wasn’t told was that he wouldn’t make much money, and won’t have any education to teach him wrong from right (Gettleman 3). They deserve…

Today individuals searching for assistance in Christian professional counseling are experiencing extraordinary sorrow and distress and are in search of spiritual guidance, psychotherapy, tutoring, recommendations, defining moment interventions, disturbance healing and other supportive interventions I am there for him or her. As a disciple of the Lord Jesus Christ, this future Christian Professional Counselor is called upon to answer back to clients seeking assistance and support thought the Lord…

Why Positive Thinking Did Not Work for Me Many people believe positive thinking will lead a person to a perfect life; however, it is not completely true as it has its pros and cons. The reason why is because people request for things that they really want without really putting much effort into it and expect everything to fall into place. Today, society has gotten to the point where they make demands to God, and keep waiting to attain the stuff they asked or prayed for. For example, last year…

Job 2:9 His wife said to him, “Are you still maintaining your integrity? Curse God and die!” As you can see even those closest to a believer can be more like enemeies than family or friends when it comes to our relationship with God. Tonight we will dive into our identity as members of the Christian family. We also will see why having ourselves rooted in that identity gives us both the command to love those outside of that family, and the power to correctly do so. In Pastor Timmothy Keller 's…

talks about how Jesus dedicates time to prayer. Now it came to pass in those days that He went out to the mountain to pray, and continued all night in prayer to God (Luke 6:12). Then in Luke 11 his disciple asked him to teach them to pray and the Lord’s Prayer is introduced to us. Later in Luke after Jesus teaches by parable He says, that men always ought to pray and not lose heart. (Luke…

King David understood the value of regular and faithful prayer to God. He realized that practicing this would keep his relationship with his Heavenly Father strong. New Testament believers have been afforded the luxury of being able to live according to Jesus’ example. Unlike King David of the Old Testament, New Testament believers have encouragement from both fellow believers in Christ and from Christ himself. The apostles showed in the book of Acts that they felt a healthy prayer life would…

The Sermon on the Mount is from Matthew chapters five thru seven. It describes how we should live our life in faith. How we should think, how we should speak and the actions we should take in our everyday lives. In this paper I will describe the differences between the Sermon on the Mount in Matthew versus Luke. As well as, the four main purposes the Sermon on the Mount as portrayed in the Gospel of Matthew. It was meant to; expose the people to their sin, guide the followers to Jesus,…

She always worry about her troubles and did not rely on God fully. On the other hand, R.C. McQuilkin states in his book, Our Lord’s Parables, “Mary has found the one thing necessary in life – quiet trust in the all-sufficient Savior and Lord.” And so when Jesus was praying in front of his disciples, one of them asked Him to teach them how to pray. He starts with the Lord’s Prayer. The first words were: “Our Father which art in heaven, hallowed be thy name, Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done.”…