Matthew McConaughey

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…

One of the most fundamental theological questions is the definition of discipleship. This essay will provide a summary of New Testament theology of discipleship and although drawing its subject matter from New Testament passages and theologian comment of these passages its intention is to focus not on the narrative regarding Jesus and his disciples but on the theology expressed by Jesus. Many scholars, such as Wilkins (2010: 159), believe that each Gospel gives a unique account of discipleship…

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…

During the miraculous works of Jesus in the Gospel of Mark, He tells the ones that He healed not to mention to anyone how exactly they were healed. He instead wants the ones He healed to go to the higher priest of their town and to just show that they were healed. This was Jesus’s way of trying to spread that there was a higher power above them, without having people think that he was the one who was to be considered God. It is made a point early in the gospel that even though most people…

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…

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…