Matthew Shepard

The Gospel of Luke is one of the four Gospels accepted as part of the canon of Scripture. This Gospel is the Gospel that focuses most on social justice and God’s mercy. His Gospel is also the only Gospel that contains the annunciation. Though Luke didn’t witness Jesus’s miracles personally he did sound research and his Gospel is just as accurate as the others. Luke wrote two books in the Bible, The Gospel of Luke and The Acts of the Apostles. He, himself was only present in The Acts of…

Essay 4 —“The Synoptic Gospels” The nature of the four Gospels When one opens the New Testament, he is introduced to four narratives which are concerned with the activity and teaching of Jesus of Christ. These records are Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. These four Gospels constitute a single literary genre and their central message is distinctive. Their content is similar, but their presentation of Jesus takes on a slightly different form. Each Gospel differs from the other. John is the most…

God to be the relationship of love we can have with God that will change our lives. He taught that God's’ love will heal us and make us whole again and that God even loves sinners. Jesus preached the Reign of God as he travelled with his apostles. Matthew and John were apostles and Luke and Mark were apostolic men. The second stage was when the Gospels were taught orally by his apostles and disciples for around 40 years. These people knew him or his apostles and Jesus’ teachings…

In the Bible, there are four gospels: Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. The Synoptic Gospels are the first three gospels, which are Matthew, Mark, and Luke (Edward, 1). The word “synoptic” means “to see together”. Even though there are additions and omissions, the material and the arrangement are the same in each of the three gospels. Each…

Transitions, influenced by interactions with others, enable a person to overcome obstacles that restrain them to transition. Billy Elliot, the film directed by Stephen Daldry, and Jennifer Niven’s novel Holding Up The Universe both explore transitions through defying social standards and acceptance. Billy Elliot explores transitions of Billy entering a world of ballet in the disapproving society of Durham during the Miners Strike. Holding Up The Universe explores the transition of Libby Strout,…

Let me tell you of another Parable of Jesus in the Book of Luke 12:13-15, The Parable of the Rich Fool; “Then one from the crowd said to Him, Teacher tell my brother to divide the inheritance with me. But He said to him, Man who made me a judge or an arbitrator over you? And he said to them, take heed and beware of covetousness, for one’s life does not consist in the abundance of the things he possesses.” Luke 12:16-21, Then He spoke a parable to them saying, “The ground of a certain Richman…

Review of Philip Yancey’s The Jesus I Never Knew In The Jesus I Never Knew, Philip Yancey’s unpretentious and unbiased examination of Jesus’ earthly walk, it is almost as if Mr. Yancey is interviewing Jesus himself. He candidly shares his personal doubts, fears and preconceptions from his own American twentieth century fundamental Christian upbringing, but attempts to set all that aside and look at the historical evidence available from several perspectives. With his unique journalistic…

Going to the Labor Day Race has become a tradition for My Papa to take us Grand boys to for the past 3 years, we have went to the race but it was in Atlanta this would be our first time at Darlington. When you walk into the gate you are filled with so much history. This track is an older track it has been around since 1950, that is when the first Labor Day race was scheduled at the raceway. Darlington Raceway’s historical importance, as the original paved superspeedway in NASCAR, is…

The movie, The Gospel of John, follows just one gospel: The Gospel of John. The Gospel of John (film) follows exactly what the scripture says. When I looked up the movie on Netflix, I found that there are also several versions of the movie to accompany different versions of the Bible, including the New International Version, and the New King James Version. However, even though the narration of the movie follows the scripture directly, there were some scenes that were added in. For example, John…

worker”. The son’s initial reaction to get his money and leaves depicts a lost sinner, but after he realizes he needs help and is is in trouble he becomes a repenting and remorseful sinner. The Prodigal Son can be closely related to a passage in Matthew 18. This comes from verses 12-14 and discusses a small parable about a lost sheep. The story states that if a shepherd has a hundred sheep, and he loses one, he will go out and search for the one missing sheep. If he finds the sheep, he will…