Parable of the Lost Sheep

In the parable of the lost sheep, the shepherd loses one sheep out of his flock of 100. Jesus shares with the disciple’s about how even the one sheep mattered like the rest. This basically translates to the idea that everyone has value, everyone within Christ, is a part of His family. God sees us as worthy; he sees significance…

In M14, I highlight the fact that he recovered himself and his children. It is the image of the shepherd who leaves ninety-nine sheep and go to find the one who is lost, and he finds it, his joy is greater. In this case, Henry recovered his children, his joy is greater, and he feels more complete. God was the one who moved Henry to do that. God was his example to do so. Therefore, my operative theology…

There was a time when I thought going to church was boring. I didn’t like the thought of waking up early or singing Christian songs once we got to church. It wasn’t my cup of tea. I thought that going to church was pointless. Sometimes I either played on my phone or just fell asleep at church during the service because it never crossed my mind that God was watching. I would always find an excuse to tell my mom so I didn’t have to go to church. It was either I’m too tired, or a I don’t feel like…

On the other hand, Luke refute the idea delivered in Matthew that Jesus only save the Jews. As an evidence, Luke didn’t include the word in Matthew saying that, “Do not go among the Gentiles or enter any town of the Samaritans. Go gather to the lost sheep of Israel.” (Matthew 10:5-6) Furthermore, Luke added words indicating that sometimes Gentiles were saved, but Israel was not saved. Jesus told the story that “Yet Elijah was not sent to any of them, but to a widow in Zarephath in the region go…

In the words of Robert Krapohl, a Baylor University Librarian, “no scriptural doctrine has proved more difficult for Christians to defend in the modern era than the traditional notion of hell.” While this issue at one time was cut and dry, it now is one of the most widely debated and misunderstood doctrines in the church today. This doctrine affects most “major doctrines of the Christian faith, not just the area of eschatology,” but throughout all aspects of Christian life. This asks not only…

Balancing Ethical Issues in Group Counseling While ethical guidelines are established within most counseling associations, these codes do not provide rigid procedures in the event that an ethical dilemma should occur. In their research on competing values within the area of ethics in counseling, Samuel Knapp and Leon Vandencreek (2007) observe that situations occur in which neither laws nor ethical guidelines provide a clear-cut solution to these dilemmas. For example, a recent stroke victim…

fell in line with whatever the head of the family said for it was like the gospel. Introduction (Antithesis): Stories explain what natural words cannot, stories have power, they teach, motivate, and sometimes inspire the listeners. Jesus spoke in parables and sometimes told…

Although the Canterbury tales is a satiric story about pilgrims, each character presents personality traits, appearances and tales that do not fit them in to absolute good or evil. However, instead of leaving the sinful characters to only be defined by their evil deeds, Chaucer manages to rationalize their deed to be a result of their nature. Giving them more of an amplified version of evil characteristics every human beings possesses. Through this rationale, Chaucer was able to show that no…

The Gospel according to Matthew was written because his community was suffering from an identity crisis. Mathews Gospel deals with two important concerns to his community; the first is the destruction of the temple and the loss of their land. The destruction of the temple and loss of their land happened to Matthews’s community in 70 AD. In addition, Matthew community expelled from their Synagogue caused a further identity crisis within the community. The temple and the land were two major…

The Sermon on the Mount teachings are one of the most known teachings of Jesus to his disciples and followers. They represent what it is to be a Christian back then and even now. The way Christians live and the way they represent God has not changed and it shows that if you live the way God wants you to and bless people in your ways you will be blessed and greater rewards are waiting for you. Matthew 5:1-12 states, When Jesus saw the crowds, he went up on a hill and sat down. His followers…