Home is not a place, but a reality — a set of circumstances that one is born in. But for the nearly 1.5 million street children in Pakistan, the only home they know is cruel, crowded and concrete. ABSTRACT We see children roaming on streets every day, they usually sell flowers, cloth, copies, toys, polish boots, and some survive on begging. There are 1.2 million children on streets of Pakistan including all the major cities and urban centers. According to UNICEF Street children are children…
Welcome Today we are going to be looking at just how much Jesus loves us and as you can tell by almost everything around you we are going to be using the movie Finding Nemo as an illustration. We have four major points today and to help you understand I put together little clips of the movie just in case you don’t remember or you haven’t watched it. The first part: Disobedience Clip 1 As you saw in the clip Nemo had been told not to swim beyond the reef but he didn’t listen.…
The theory suggests that audience are passive and cannot resist the media message. Walter Lippman (1922) -through what was later termed the Agenda Setting theory by Max McCombs and Donald Shaw- observed that people see a world shaped primarily by the media. During the world war, Harold Lasswell proposed the theory of propaganda and noted how people whose world is shaped by the media become victims of propagandist messages which influences audiences’ behaviour prominently. The media message can…
1.4. The ‘Theology of Encounter’ according to Pope Francis Christians should develop a ‘theology of encounter’. They can encounter God in the world specifically in the celebration of the Holy Eucharist, and in other sacraments, in scripture, in the created universe, and in the community in which they live. My focus here is to encounter God in the sacrament of Matrimony. The word ‘encounter’ is a favorite word of Pope Francis. He used 32 times in his apostolic exhortation, “the Joy of the…
One of the key figures in church history is John Calvin. John Calvin is someone who radically changed the early Christian Church. Similar to Luther, Calvin was someone who drove the Reformation forward. Calvin however had slightly different beliefs from Luther, especially when it came to the sacraments. This paper will explore who John Calvin was, how he differed from Luther, and what his main teachings were. The doctrine of Calvinism helped shape the early church, and is still held true by…
To begin with, in Joel 2:32, Joel prophecizes that the Lord will offer salvation to all mankind. Most people believe that the book of Joel was written by Joel. However, not much is known about Joel except for the fact that he was the son of Pethuel. The book of Joel was written around 830 B.C. (Savelle). Joel was ministering as a prophet during the time of king Joash, the son of Ahaziah. Joash, who became the king of Judah at the age of seven, ruled Judea for approximately 40 years. In addition,…
Throughout the book, “Restoring All Things” by Warren Cole Smith, and John Stonestreet address many relevant cultural topics in America, and how Christians are striving to not only preach the good news of the Lord, but also live out their faith. As the title suggests, restoration a common theme found throughout every chapter of the book. Smith and Stonestreet communicate stories of individuals that have become active members in their communities to help renew and restore what has been previously…
There is a strong Judeo-Christian principle of ‘love your enemy’. Not sure why God wanted to teach “His people” to do such a thing, but that question is redundant to the faithful. He is God and I am not. American values have often imitated the Judeo-Christian heritage that formed most, the majority, of the founding fathers and mother’s beliefs in the 18th century. As the civilization worked through this process it had to sometimes kill the enemy before they could historically love them…
An Infernal Predicament Many people are intimidated by hell, yet Dante uncovers the after life, as he perceives it to be. Dante’s Inferno is an interpretation in guiding one through the importance of fulfilling a morally virtuous, Christian-belief enduring lifespan. Circle I, Limbo, is a valley filled with souls who allegedly never did anything morally wrong, but were not baptized and therefore not allowed into heaven. Dante’s beliefs in Inferno upon salvation, the afterlife and sinful nature…
President John F. Kennedy's Speech As the United States was emerging from recession, President John F. Kennedy held a news conference to articulate the involvement of steel corporations and their effect on stable prices and wages. As stated by Kennedy, citizens of America were told they have a right to expect “a higher sense of business responsibility” (103-105) for their country. To enhance his ideas for America’s steel prices, Kennedy uses a variety of rhetorical strategies including:…