Pentecost

human society. Gods “oneness” brings us to unity and His “three-ness” affirms our uniqueness and diversity. An example of diversity in the Bible is language. Language diversity started in the time of the Babel tower, and it also occurred during the Pentecost day. Using the three perspectives to make sense of past experiences of people from a different…

Outline of Sacramental Narratio Baptism Name: Abeer Aman Introduction: Baptism is the first Sacrament of initiation and opens doors to the other sacraments. It is through Baptism that a living person enters into divine life. As CCC#1213 explains that this sacrament is a doorway where a person enters life in the Spirit (vitae spiritualis ianua). It enables a person to exit sin and enter the grace of divine life, hence, incorporating in the faith community as a Church and becoming followers of…

1. The inception of the Antioch church (11:19-21). We come now to a major turning point in the book of Acts. In Acts 1:8 Jesus commissioned His disciples to be His witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea, and in all Samaria, and even to the remotest part of the earth. We have seen how the gospel spread throughout Jerusalem, Judea, and Samaria and now to the Gentile world. As we look at the inception of the Antioch church I want us to observe three sub points in this first heading. I. The…

As the people of God, a person of faith, and part of a community parish called and committed to serve and speak for those who may be voiceless, who need a vision of hope, who need the way, the truth, and the life to conquer and have victory this day and always in and through Christ. You and I are most privileged just like the apostle Paul and others to be heralds, helpers, and herders leading one another to search, to seek, and see Jesus active, abiding, and abundant in all things of heaven and…

Dwight Pentecost writes in Things to Come: A Study in Biblical Eschatology, that Justin believed that premillennialism was the benchmark for the ideal orthodoxy. Justin writes, “I pointed out to you that some who are called Christians, but are godless, impious…

fictitious character, Andreas, who is from Sepphoris during the first century. Andreas is introduced as he is being interrogated by the Romans. Here it begins to detail some of his life, as it comes out he deals in fruit and grain, was in Jerusalem for Pentecost, and that his father is a Decurion. As the interrogation continues the romans do not believe that he was not demonstrating because he was in the crowd. This leads to his imprisonment, where he was not fed or able to wash. Pilate has a…

Two perceptions, one meaning Cranach’s Wittenberg Altarpiece The majestic art piece “The Wittenberg Altarpiece” was painted by Lucas Cranach in 1547. This altarpiece is the focal point of the City Church in Wittenberg, on it we can appreciate the importance of how worship was sensed during those days. At the same time, the altarpiece also works as a religious type of publicity since we can identify a clear illustration of the effects of the Reformation on Northern European art. Martin Luther…

In the Middle Ages, books, and verbal stories, were typically didactic in some way whether they were religious or secular. These sources give modern readers and historians’ insight into gender roles and ideals in the middle ages. The Book of the City of Ladies and the Poem of El Cid both inform the medieval readers of the ideal behavior for the respective sexes through references and archetypes. Christine de Pizan instructs women to be more pious, good daughters and wives and to behave like the…

perform miracles, and another (person) the ability to prophesy’. Giving ‘another’ person, a man or a woman, the ability to prophesy fulfills what the prophet Joel wrote; ‘Your sons and daughters will prophesy’. The Bible records ‘On the day of Pentecost all the believers were meeting together in one place.’ The Holy Spirit came down on them and ‘… everyone present was filled with the Holy Spirit …’ (Acts chapter 2 verses 1 & 4). All the believers were there and without exception, everyone…

Christian-to-Christ relationship, Christian-to-God relationship, how to worship, what to believe, what to tolerate, manner of living. When one is baptized, he is added to the Lord 's church, the church of Christ, just as the Christians were added on the day of Pentecost (Acts 2:47). When one is baptized in the Lord’s church, it is at that point that he becomes a child of…