Religious conversion

Studying Scripture is a tentpole in Christian Discipline. The Bible is one of the truest ways in which God has chosen to reveal himself to his people. It reveals his character. It shows us how to live, as Jesus said, “ A life to the fullest.” It is not a dead book of works and laws. Scripture is living, life changing and takes a lifetime to enjoy. As students of scripture we need to have an understanding of scriptures authority, inerrancy and how it was written to us. The Bible has complete…

America’s Religious Intolerance “The greatest problem in the world today is intolerance. Everyone is so intolerant of each other,” by Princess Diana. The story of how the United States came to be is a well known story among many Americans. As history tells, many Anti-Federalists did not want to accept the US Constitution because it lacked a list of rights, which protected the people from a powerful government. Therefore, the Bill of Rights were formulated. The first amendment addresses the…

Leadership and the quality of leaders is something that needs transforming in these present days, and the best transformation would be the result of a genuine meeting with the living and loving God. It takes real men to be willing and prepared to undergo that type of profound change and for it to be shown openly! Of course, if it is genuine and real it cannot be hidden. Over these past weeks I have been reading and studying this crucial topic of spiritual revival and renewal in the light of…

School vouchers give taxes to private schools, which include religious schools. In many states’ constitution it is stated that no taxes can go to religious schools. One of these states is Colorado, “the state's Supreme Court ruled against the district's voucher program, which was passed in 2011, saying it violated a plank of the State Constitution that explicitly…

How important is the body to religious practice? Scholars have debated this issue for centuries. The autobiographies of Linda Hogan and Etty Hillesum tackle this issue. Their writing shows that the body is an essential part of religious experience. Hogan’s and Hillesum’s writing shows that the body is important because it holds memory, contains traces of ancestors, is an expression of emotion and desire, and it allows us to perform sacred acts. Linda Hogan talks about the importance of the body…

All throughout history, religion has been a driving force creating and developing nations. For some, the spread of religion was passed from person to person on peaceful terms, but for others, military expansion broadened the civilization’s religious boarders rapidly. Early Muslims participated in Jihad to spread Islam to foreign territories and unite the community. Similarly, Christians engaged in combative behavior to recover the Holy City and purge the land of Muslims and Jews. Although…

How We Got The Bible by Neil R. Lightfoot was an excellent introduction to the process by which the Bible has come down to us. Certainly a most important book for preachers and teachers but just as important for Christians in general. We all should have, at least, a basic understanding of how we got the Bible. This book is more than just a simple discussion of how God inspired the authors to write down his words. It's a deeper discussion of the many different processes involved through history…

In the essay The Child’s Need for Magic by Bruno Bettleheim, we begin to understand the importance of fairytales and myths and why it is important for children to experience both fairytales and myths as they grow into young adults. In this excerpt, Bettleheim explains the difference between myths and fairytales, the difference between the Bible and fairytales and why is it important to experience fairytales during your childhood. The Webster dictionary tells us myths are any invented stories,…

The Bible is arguably the most influential book of all time. It has been attributed with impacting the lives of untold millions of people and has been claimed as the impetus behind many of the Western World’s upheavals. Martin Luther’s thesis was founded on the book; pilgrims set sail to find a place where they could follow their own interpretations of it. Missionaries travel the world bringing its words, along with the culture of those missionaries to the most remote corners of civilization,…

When imagining what the future may look like, for many the Bible is the last place they would look. Yet for many Christians it has always been the first and foremost source of vital information. Why is this still the case after more than two thousand years? After the age of enlightenment and the subsequent ages of Post Modernism, Post Christianity and Post Truth? Are we so far advanced that reading such an outdated piece of literature could be relegated to the library section of folktales and…