Paul Revere's Ride

WORLDVIEW 1. Paul spent much of his missionary time teaching Jesus’s word. Paul often refers to himself as a salve of God, and with this he brings the true meaning of Jesus’s message to us on many instructional levels. His instruction is from everything to creation to marriage, justification and salvation. Our biblical worldview is constructed according to the Book of Romans, to view our death, judgement, our soul and all of human kind. Creation: Paul challenges his…

The emotional state is a tricky business because it’s like a complex abstract puzzle with limited pieces that can only be solved by perceptions of sight and sound. We’ve spent centuries trying to understand emotions but it can’t be accurately explained since each person experiences and feels their emotions differently than the next person. Even though emotions can’t precisely be defined, there are clues, or puzzle pieces if you will, that indicate a person’s emotional state. These puzzle pieces…

According to Paul Ekman, Ph.D., emotions is what unifies all of humankind, also, that all individuals have the same emotions. There is evidence that there are about six or seven types of emotions. But what are the characteristics of emotions? Paul Ekman informs us that one of the first characteristics of an emotion it that it’s unbidden. Unbidden is arising without conscious effort, we don’t choose to have an emotion. For example, we don’t get to say, “alright now I’m going to be happy”. But…

Due to Paul and Barnabas’ first extremely successful missions trip, there arose a problem within the growing church regarding the varying beliefs of the Gentiles’ acceptance into the church (Wilcox, 2014). Although Paul believed that they Gentiles acceptance of God’s salvation was enough to join the church, certain Jews believed that there were others stipulations that they should follow. These terms were circumcision, kosher dietary restrictions, and significantly stricter sexual restrictions…

Paul establishes all of his churches based in towns deemed to be Gentile and eventually converts them to Christianity. Paul writes "When I began to speak, the Holy Spirit fell on them, just as the Spirit fell on us in the beginning”, referring to the Gentiles receiving God’s word just as anyone else in the Christian…

The book that I have chosen for my book review is entitled, The First Urban Christians: The Social World of the Apostle Paul, written by Wayne A. Meeks. The book is an account of what it was like to be a Christian in a Pauline church living in the first century. The book draws upon archaeological biblical and non-biblical literary sources to back up its claims. Since the author is a professor at Yale University, it is written in a scholarly manner and relies on up to date history and…

St Paul St Paul, originally named Saul, was born in Tarsus, Cilicia and grew up in Jerusalem, where he studied the Hebrew Scriptures under Gamaliel (a leading authority in the Jewish religious establishment). Being raised as a Pharisaic Jew, during his early life he was a Pharisee - a group of Jewish people who controlled the law. Saul did not believe in Jesus as the Messiah and thought all these messages about him was rubbish so in his early life, he was a persecutor of the church and also a…

Grudem’s argument is that these scripture texts show that apostles were foundational to the church structure. Thirdly, Grudem stated that Paul was the last apostle (1Cor. 15:3-9). A confirmation to be an apostle is to see the risen Lord, and Paul was the last apostle – as he was the last to witness to the resurrection. So Grudem identifies the twelve apostles plus Paul, James and Barnabas, and might be Androncus and Junias of Rom. 16:17. Finally, he argued that the tense ‘gave’ used in…

Do you have what it takes to be in the NBA? Standards are very high! Did you know players on average are getting smaller, but are actually jumping higher and farther. The NBA playing style has changed in many ways. One reason is that point guards are playing different than they used to, and they are becoming the center point of offenses. Also, the NBA has thrived on shooting three pointers. There even is talk about adding a four point line. Today, big men play different and are less physical…

religious traditions. Paul set up his tent making shop in one of the back streets of Corinth were he could converse with people as they passed. That way he could spread the word of God to people of all different cultures and backgrounds. During the second journey Paul travelled by boat preaching to everyone in Corinth. Pauls message was if you stayed with god and believed he would take care of you. Corinth is a significant location in the life of the early church because Paul overcame opposition…