Salvation Run

Introduction As I was deciding upon a topic to write for my counseling thesis, I asked my elders at my church about what would be a pertinent topic that would apply to the needs of the church. They responded by saying the majority of their counseling is in regards to relationship, and one in particular: adult-children and their relationship with their parents. Their answer somewhat surprised me, but as I stuck with this topic I began to realize how this problem was something that has affected…

should be living witnesses.” Those were two sentences I heard on the drive to the restaurant with a christian family friend. This family friend seemed to genuinely care about the lost people of this world, and more importantly the condition of their salvation. Or at least I thought so. Upon arriving to the restaurant, just as we were beginning to eat, a “gay looking” man simply minding his own business passed by our table to join his friends. Immediately once he left ear shot, my family friend…

sermon. This conception was derived from Aristotle and Luther’s influence it again began to be used both in preaching and in the interpretation of the scripture. His textual exposition is an exemplary model to the evangelical preachers. He has connected the homiletical explanation of scripture to scripture’s own central message. And he addressed it sharply to mankind. The contribution of John Calvin: Calvin was influenced by humanists. Calvin’s doctrine of preaching was not matching with…

Often in sermons pastors persuade their audience to behave in a spiritual or moral fashion. Such is the case in "the sinners of an angry god" by Edwards, Jonathan where he educate the sinners that god can destroy sinners with ease if they do not repent. Edwards wanted to impact his audience by appealing to their fears, pity, and vanity. Edwards had a tremendous impact on his puritan audience because of his use of cautionary tone, clear imagery, and symbolic figurative language. To begin, the…

Decisions are something every human makes every day whether they are forced or made by one’s own self. At every moment, humans make decisions based on what they think is the best choice or what will have the best outcome. People make choices based on the events going on around them. There are different motivators for their decision. In Jonathan Edwards, “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”, he uses God’s wrath as a motivator to make people convert to Puritinism. Fear motivates us to do things…

Puritan Text Comparison The Puritans have very religious views about God. For instance, Anne Bradstreet talks about her sorrows after her house burns down and thanks God for the gift she was given in “Here Follow Verses upon the Burning of Our House”. Meanwhile, Jonathan Edwards talks about God being angry with them and sending them to hell when they die because of their wickedness in “From Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”. Both talk about God but in different opinions. Anne Bradstreet is…

anything because they have been considered as inferiors hence very important position, decisions, education, leadership roles who were not offered to them. Angela of Foligno was one of the women that through St. Francis the Lord used to minister salvation to people and really became a blessing to the women in her writing through St. Francis she has to…

In "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God," Jonathan Edwards states that a sinner without the help of God is pathetic and doomed for eternity. Edwards demonstrates this idea with the use of imagery, metaphors, and personification. Edwards conveys imagery by creating a scene in which the listener can feel the vulnerability through the speech. Edwards preaches, "Your wickedness makes you heavy as lead... if God should let you, you would immediately sink and plunge in the bottomless gulf... all…

By definition, religion is the belief in and worship of a superhuman controlling power. Oftentimes, religious beliefs are inherited or developed later in life. These beliefs can also be derived from experiencing or being exposed to suffering. Human suffering, without a doubt, summons to contest different religious beliefs of each individual. In The Plague, Albert Camus draws attention to the absurdity of religion through the beliefs of Father Paneloux, Dr. Rieux, and Tarrou. Camus initially…

described in the Book of Mormon; I can’t imagine what a test of faith it would have been for Alma and Amulek to not take action to prevent it. The fact that they stayed their hands is one of the strongest testimonies of the perfection of the plan of salvation that I know of, because the only way they possibly could have is through knowing that the martyred were truly being received unto God in glory. Alma’s explanation in verse 10 is crucial to LDS doctrine, because it provides an explanation…