Matthew the Evangelist

Early Years of Freedom The state of New York, which had begun to negotiate the abolition of slavery in 1799, emancipated all slaves on July 4, 1827. The shift did not come soon enough for Truth. After John Dumont reneged on a promise to emancipate Truth in late 1826, she escaped to freedom with her infant daughter, Sophia. Her other daughter and son stayed behind. Shortly after her escape, Truth learned that her son Peter, then 5 years old, had been illegally sold to a man in Alabama. She took…

Matthew 6:33 says to seek the Lord first, and His righteousness and anything else a person needs the Lord will give to accomplish the need. Preparation begins with thinking about the congregation, praying and listening for a Word from the Holy Spirit. A…

Protestant Reformation Impact Throughout Christian history, the Catholic Church has always been distinguished for its religious and political domain on the people. However, in order to secure their domain, the church provides a means to buy people’s salvation from those who want to go to heaven, called the indulgences. Due to the Church’s corruption that this event generated, it was establish the Protestant Reformation, which is opposed to all kinds of acts against God’s words through scripture…

Philip the Apostle was one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus. Later Christian traditions describe Philip as the apostle who preached in Greece, Syria, and Phrygia. In the Roman Catholic Church, the feast day of Philip, along with that of James the Just, was traditionally observed on 1 May, the anniversary of the dedication of the church dedicated to them in Rome (now called the Church of the Twelve Apostles). The Eastern Orthodox Church celebrates Philip's feast day on 14 November. One of the…

My understanding of the Bible starts with Abram. He has a major stance in the bible and the stories that is in the bible. The bible has money stories that took place many of centuries ago, BC. What we would say today, the time before Christ. The bible is full of stories that changed people for life, spiritual belief, and physical and mental ways. This book is a very old book that relates to the problems we go through today. It just do notjust help with problems but also guide you through the…

way Dr. Heyward skillfully, with surgical sureness and skill of a forensic defender, dealt with the question of Christian baptism. His arguments are cogent and go directly to the question which makes them unanswerable particularly his argument on Matthew 28, Mark 16 and…

clearly gives six requirements for a church. The first of these requirements is that a minimum of two people meeting together in the name of Jesus can be considered a church. “For where two or three come together in my name, there am I with them (NIV, Matthew 18:20).” The second is given in I Corinthians 11:24 when Paul is telling the church at Corinth to celebrate communion in remembrance of the death of Jesus on the cross. The church must also be led by qualified elders. These qualifications…

My Testimony I have been living in Canada for about five years. I love Canada and its people. Canada is a multicultural country built by immigrants from different corners of the earth. These immigrants moved to Canada with their cultures and religions. The multiculturalism of Canada has actually made ministry work and spreading the gospel both easy and challenging from my personal experience. I meet people who have an open mind towards the gospel and others who do not want to even hear it at…

them, go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature”. What was Jesus saying and why is this verse in the bible taken so literally? In the world today we call it evangelism and many people are participating. The world has had great evangelists in its time such as billy graham who have made known what evangelism really means but people have their own views on what evangelism is depending on their own beliefs systems and religious views. I thought about evangelism from a person’s…

only found in two of the gospels. While Matthew and Luke are the only two gospels that contain the infancy narratives, they are a significant part in the story of Jesus. Matthew’s and Luke’s infancy narrative are both distinct, neither were a source for each other. While referred to as the infancy narratives they do not give us much from Jesus’ infancy and childhood. What the infancy narratives do answer is the question “Who is this Jesus of Nazareth?” Matthew was influenced by the Christian…