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God has created everything in best state of all but few of His creations leaves us wordless. But out of all His creations, the best of all are the humans whom he has blessed with senses and above all ability to talk. He created them with sense and ability to have their own opinion and debate over different matters. God has not just given them the ability to speak but also to use their brain and that human did and is doing till to date. They have done a lot of inventions and therefore improved…

A final reason is that, Abraham used honesty to face challenges. Firstly, Abraham Lincoln had a reputation of being honest. For example, Reference.com, online source, cites that Abraham Lincoln was commonly known as “Honest Abe” because he was not afraid to Abraham Lincoln’s Grit “You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong,” quote by Abraham Lincoln. Grit is using perseverance, passion and courage to face life’s difficult challenges. Abraham Lincoln was our 16th president of the…

“When I discover who I am, I’ll be free.” (Ralph Ellison) Many people struggle to find their way in their lives. In Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe writes about how Nwoye finds his way in life by converting to Christianity. On his journey to finding his way, he goes through some identity changes. Achebe writes about Nwoye’s identity shift when he converts religions. Because of this, he becomes an independent and strong man. Due to the introduction of Western ideas, Nwoye relinquishes his…

“Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.”(-Maria Robinson). However, in modern society, lots of people insisted their tradition and put great amount of efforts to hold on their past. The story “The Lottery” takes place in a small town where villagers stone someone to death for good crops. This is a long standing tradition that has been going on for generations. Shirely Jackson presented the theme tradition to state how people are…

Los Vendidos The play written by Luis Valdez, Los Vendidos, an interpretation of how American people see Mexican Americans is played through a drama. A secretary from Governor Reagan, Miss Jimenez, comes to a shop in hopes of finding a Mexican to bring to a gathering to create diversity in the crowd. The “shop” owner, Honest Sancho, is a business man trying to sell these Mexican Americans. Miss Jimenez is looking for a Mexican who is perfect. While Sancho is trying to help find the perfect…

In studying the beginning section of Grudem's Systematic Theology, he discusses the four characteristics of Scripture and the doctrine of Revelation. The chapter on authority begins with asking the question "How do we know that the Bible is God's Word and which writings actually belong in the Bible?' This is an intriguing question, and I took the approach of asking an individual this question. Her response was, "I don't know, but I trust that what I am reading the Bible that the contents are…

Summarizing my own spiritual journey in relation to Hagberg and Guelich (2005) text seems to be a struggle for me. The journey has also include my thoughts, on what it would be like to counsel someone else that is in a different stage of faith than, myself. My faith journey will be divided into four stages. Stage 1: A mother’s love. Born into a lower middle class family, with both my parents, growing up in a very conservative and traditional household, we were all Southern…

Do you really know what Christian Character is? Chrsitian Character is your commitment to Christ himself. Your time and effort is so worth having good Christian character, and being able to shine the love of Christ through yourself. You should be in love with Christ and want to grow as a person. If you are saying you follow Christ are your actions showing that you do? Are you spending time growing and reading your bible everyday like you should be. You might be wondering know what are some…

Pre-Meditated Karma- Similarly, a righteous man while performing oblations if contemplates over the helpless spirits and selflessly offers prayers for them then that is pre-meditated karma. Desired Karma- If any karma is done with a desire of acquiring a particular status or object then that is desired karma. But let us look at the vast scope of earning virtue every day, while performing our daily oblatory- offering for the forefathers one could also dedicate some of those oblations for the…

Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths. Be not wise in thine own eyes: fear the Lord, and depart from evil. Proverbs 3:5-7 After I posted a status on my Facebook page several friends messaged me and asked, "How do I put my trust in God? What precisely should I do?" (I posted the Facebook status in question at the end of this blog) I found the verses above to be a great "teaching…