Promised Land

Have You Ever Stood On Holy Ground? This past Sunday our pastor preached a sermon and mentioned this thought toward the beginning. Since then I haven’t been able to stop thinking about it. Both Joshua and Moses encountered God in awesome ways. When they did they were told to remove their sandals because the ground they were standing on was “holy ground”. But what made that ground holy? Was it holy before this encounter? Or did it become holy only because of this encounter? Is the ground still…

Leviticus The book in the Pentateuch that I choose to write on is Leviticus. This is the third book of the Bible in the Old Testament, and was originally called the Third Book of Moses. It is easy to assume that the genre for book of Leviticus to be law, but it is in fact a book detailing the history of the Israelites the first year after the exodus. The authorship for this book is not specifically named but is strongly inferred to be Moses, due to the original title and the fact that…

include some very exiting Bible passages. There is a lot of action and a lot of plot. However, with all this action there comes a lot of bloodshed. The Lord hardens Pharaoh’s heart so that he does not let the people of Israel go to claim the land the Lord has promised to them. The Lord sends ten plagues to Egypt to show his power. The last one is the slaying of the firstborns’ of the Egyptians. At first glance, this seems like an absolutely atrocious act and it is. Killing is never good;…

even those that are characterized by wickedness. One of prophetic community’s dangers is to limit God by developing a superiority complex. We don’t get to define how God will use our voice to bring change. God has promised to be with us, provide for us, be our security, be he has not promised His presence for a people unwilling to listen and obey His…

The turtle is one of the very first symbols presented to the reader in the book. Steinbeck describes the turtles hardships to crossing the highway, ranging from the highway itself, to the drivers on it. After being knocked off the highway, the turtle is flipped over onto its shell, but eventually recovers and attempts to cross the highway again. The turtle in this case is symbolizing the tenant farmers and their journey West. There are many hardships that the turtle faces, ranging from small…

Joyce Carol Oates is known for writing demented stories about adolescent girls craving attention from the opposite sex and trying and failing to find their path in life. Her most popular story with that such plot is “Where Are You Going? Where Have You Been?” In this story, a fifteen-year-old girl named Connie who, like every teenage girl, loves spending weekend nights in town and attention from the opposite sex. However, her innocence and vulnerability eventually lead her into the trap of a…

The Wilderness “For the poor shall never cease out of the land: therefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt open thine hand wide unto thy brother, to thy poor, and to thy needy, in thy land” (Deuteronomy 15:11). Biblical scripture itself does not omit poverty from its pages. Messages of the vulnerable and poor are interwoven to express how pervasive their plight has been and will be in society. Religion assumes a righteous and perfect image outlined by preachers and painted by its followers.…

Throughout this semester, many important topics have been covered. Each of these topics are crucial to a believer's faith, however there are some that stand out in my mind as being most important. All of these topics I had somewhat of an understanding before taking the class, but I have grown in my knowledge and would consider them to be the most important things I have further learned through this course. The topics are: God’s chief end is to glorify Himself, God is faithful, and…

Basically, I have chosen to go back to school because I can‘t make it in this world without it. No one takes you serious unless you have a degree to back up everything you already know. its probably the only way to get recognized for your talent. I am trying to get my degree to prove that I am as smart and as worthy as anyone else is. I can do great things and be an effective leader. Mid Term Essay I am writing this paper for revenge! This is for anybody who has ever been passed over for a…

Search of The Promised Land In Search of The Promised Land is a book that follows the lives of the Thomas-Rapier family, a slave-ish family in the nineteenth and twentieth century. It is able to depict the experiences of the family and showcase the “slavery situation” in the antebellum and Civil War era. With increasing tension between whites and blacks, major gray areas between freedom and slavery, varying opinions on slavery from the North and the South; In Search of the Promised Land gives…