My God

to God and how spiritually you lived your life. When writing the spiritual autobiography if a journal has been kept it can help you to go back and remember points in your life where you may have been questioning your faith or relationship with God. Looking at the resources you have and the questions that are being asked will help you to make the process flow and produce a spiritual autobiography that will have…

New Eyes In a 2012 letter to my siblings, I informed them that I’d be hiking the 540 mile Camino de Santiago in the north of Spain because I needed to spend time talking to God. I’d lost my nineteen year old son and frankly, I needed some answers. If saints and mystics had heard His voice, then I most certainly deserved to. As I trudged up and down the French Pyrenees and through the eucalyptus forests on the Spanish mesa, I looked up and shouted at the top of my lungs, desperately needing to…

and it is. Killing is never good; however, God is justified and has good reasons for his actions. God kills the Egyptian firstborns to bring both Israel and Egypt to himself, to show mercy, and to keep his covenant with Abraham. Honestly,…

If this is indeed the case, are God and the Snake are working together or even the same being? God must be coordinating with the Snake in order to test Mankind’s obedience to Him. I came to this conclusion when after carefully reading the text, I could find no purpose for the tree other than to be a test for Mankind. Placing the tree in the center of the garden and calling it off limits is just asking Mankind to try it. After Mankind resisted the temptation, God needed another way to test…

word discipline with being a negative experience based on personal accounts. Failing to understand, in the process of becoming who God intended from birth, will take discipline in our own lives for us to change from who we were to whom we were intended to be. I myself rebelled against the idea of spiritual disciplines. Confession, tithing, and journaling have been part of my metamorphosis. These specific disciplines I have either been participating in, not realizing God’s hand was in it, or new…

The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate my understanding of how the Biblical text directly and/or indirectly relates to wealth, poverty, and economic justice. Starting with the second creation story found in the book of Genesis to Martin Luther King, Jr’s last sermon titled, The Drum Major Instinct, this paper will explore how the absence of loving self unselfishly fuels social and economic injustices that have plagued humanity since the fall of Adam and Eve. On January 6, 2018, a friend…

small and does not matter to us then it will not matter to God. God only wants gifts that matter to us. Giving a gift that matters to you has a bigger meaning to it than of one that does not. The second principle he tells us is that we determine the amount we give. While some believe it is only the set ten percent rule, Jeff explains how we should give freely. We should give as freely as we feel so it may be a more meaningful gift to God. God is not looking for the same gift from everyone.…

two religions at the end of the day – the religion of self, and the religion of God. Most religions in the world are centered on the selfishness of the individual; I want to be better, I want to be great, I want to make sure that no one is more deserving of heaven than I, etcetera. However, the remaining “religion of God” is about glorifying God, which is hard to do if one is trying to give all the glory to himself. My goal with this essay is simply to answer the question posed above as best I…

objective content of any thought, I cannot be deceived about the fact that I exist and that I seem to perceive objects with certain characteristics. 3. Since I only can be certain of the existence of myself insofar as I am thinking, I have knowledge of my existence only as a thinking thing (res cogitans). The Argument that the Mind is More Certainly known than the Body: 1. It is possible that all knowledge of external objects, including…

school, especially in a competitive and rigorous environment like Marymount, it is easy to lose faith in God and feel hopeless when life is chaotic with assignments, activities, and personal issues. My faith in God was first tested when my dad passed away in 2008. As a third grader, I had trouble understanding why God would allow my dad out of everyone to die from a rare cancer. I thought of my dad as my superhero, and I knew at a young age that he sacrificed all of his time and effort for…