Matthew Henson

For my final film, I watched a play called The Gospel Project. It was performed by Justin Poole and Jim Clemens. Since I saw this in February, I emailed Justin to ask him a few questions about the play. I first asked him how the play stick to the texts in the Gospels. He relied heavily on three versions: King James, New International Version, and New Living Translation. He said in his email that he took from these three versions because he wanted to take “words from a variety of these…

The Gospel of Matthew is considered as one of the most persuasive pieces of literature during the ancient times. It managed to persuade and convert many people into Christianity by depicting that Jesus is the Messiah. In the Gospel of Matthew, the author argues that Jesus’ ability to manipulate life and death establishes Jesus’ identity as the Son of God. Through a series of miracles that involves healing the sick and disabled, the revival of the dead and of Jesus’ own resurrection, the author…

Hate Crimes Prevention Act was passed by Congress on October 22, 2009 and was signed by president Obama on October 28, 2009. Basically 10 years after Matt’s death and his parent’s founding of the Matthew Shepard Foundation, they have changed the way the nation looks at hate crimes towards sexual orientation in order to have a better understanding for court cases (The United States Department of Justice). After hate crimes based on race, sexual orientation…

Luke paints a different portrait of Jesus unlike the other gospels. Luke put emphasis on Jesus being the Messiah from the David’s lineage. Throughout the Book of Luke, emphasis was put on Jesus being the Messiah to the entire world and not just to the Jews. This was very important because many of the stories, Jesus used people who were not Jews but Gentiles. The sermon in Luke 4, transfiguration, and Jesus’ Galilean ministry paint a unique portrait of Jesus. Each event builds up the…

The Gospel of Matthew has many interesting stories within it. Matthew is the first book in the transition from the Old Testament into the New Testament. Matthew starts off with the wonderful conception and birth of Jesus in Bethlehem. He writes, “Joseph son of David, do not be afraid to take Mary home as your wife, because what is conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit.” Matthew 1:20. He praises Joseph for not leaving Mary; he did as the angel of the Lord commanded and took Mary home as his…

Tajay Simon Rev. Dr. Joshua Hollmann FYS September 28, 2016 Who was Jesus according to Mark According to Mark Jesus was a man of the people the “Messiah”. Jesus is portrayed in Mark as extremely popular person with the people of Galilee, coming from Nazareth during his ministries and gospel. He is portrayed as a miracle worker, a healer, a feeder of the people and a great minister. He goes on to appoint twelve disciples to travel with him…

there were four Gospels written, they are Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John and they are found in that order in the Christian New Testament. These four Gospels reference the Hebrew Bible in several passages to show the legitimacy of Jesus as messiah. In delivering this message, the Gospels also explain Jesus as God’s son which causes quite a controversy to say the least. Jesus as messiah is still disputed almost 2,000 years later. The Gospel According to Matthew is strictly told from a Jewish…

Matthew, Luke and Mark: Proclaiming the Divinity of Jesus The beginning chapter of the Books of Matthew, Luke and Mark have a common underlying theme: the confirmation of Jesus Christ as the Messiah. These books serve to establish the New Testament’s claim that Jesus is the Savior that the Jewish people had long been awaiting for. Nevertheless, the individual approach that the said Books has opted to endeavor differs from one another; for Matthew it is through an extensive and detailed…

Luke is a historian of Jesus’s activity. A reader of Luke’s writings will experience techniques and principles mainly associated with historiography, such as: detailed chronology of events, terms consistent with their historical context, and careful research through eyewitness accounts and written sources. Mark adversely to Luke is the originator of the genre Luke is writing and one of Luke’s verifiable sources. Mark’s writings are symbolic of Apocalyptic Literature which means Mark’s depiction…

BOOK XX PRIESTHOOD – Jesus v Aaron Can we assess the relationship between the priesthoods of Jesus and Aaron? Sometimes Christians have compared both without realising that the Bible has not followed their assessment of both. Often people lock onto some OT expression about Aaron and then attempt to tie together Aaron’s priesthood and Jesus’ priesthood, without going to the only biblical source for Jesus’ priesthood. The following study is taken from the book of Hebrews, chapters 4, 5, 7, 8, 9…