Sermon on the Mount

Each day people are confronted with having to solve an ethical dilemma. Some decisions are easier to make than other. How we make our decision is based on our worldview. Throughout this essay, I will be focusing on an ethical dilemma about abortion in a Christian worldview understanding, when being told your unborn child has Down syndrome. 1. Ethical Dilemma Susan and her significant other have tried for years to have a child. After finally get pregnant, blood work indicated that the child has…

The Holy Land, bore the impression of Jesus’ life; Bethlehem, Nazareth, the Jordan River, the Temple Mount, and the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, which encompassed the places of Jesus’ crucifixion, burial and resurrection. The significance of Bernard’s, In the Praise of the Knighthood, was allowing the Templars to understand the full meaning of their position…

Opening Prayer: Lord, we give you praise and thanks for this day, for your accompaniment throughout it as we encountered graces and trials, both beckoning us to draw us closer. We ask that you send your Holy Spirit down upon me as an instrument of your love and Word. May you reveal the hunger within each of us and satisfy it. As we pray together, "Bless us, O Lord, and these, Thy gifts, which we are about to receive from Thy bounty. Through Christ, our Lord. Amen. And bless the cook!"…

If the ancient philosopher, Epicurus, gave the Sermon on the Mount, found in the New Testament, he would say: “Blessed are those who are untroubled and unperturbed, for they shall find serenity.” His enthusiastic follower, Lucretius, used his superb poetical gifts to draw his readers into the desire-reducing materialism of Epicureanism. He challenged others to live their lives by cultivating a balanced, peaceful way of being. Lucretius believed the attainment of this peace of mind was through a…

(Kant & Abbott 2008).” This definition was applied to perhaps Kant’s most famous work, the categorical imperative. This principle as least gives mankind a way to treat each other that is borrowed from the Bible, where Jesus says during his sermon on the mount, “Do to others as you would have them do to you (2004).” Kant looked to replace and reframe this idea for his time, and it still a good policy to apply to life…

Ibrahim Danladi Mission Shaped Church Reverend Richard Wurmbrand was also known as the "Voice of the Underground Church" or "Iron Curtain St. Paul" was a Romania Minister whose desire to share the gospel of Jesus to his oppressors the Communist landed him fourteen years of torture and imprisonment which he miraculously survived. Rev. Richard arduous story as a prisoner of Jesus has been an inspiration to many including myself and his appeal to believers around the world to support the mission…

Jesus’ ethics and morals are still crystallised for Christians today by a virtue of the gospel of Matthew, along with the other synoptic gospels, revealing a deeper understating of the portrayal of Jesus. Mathew’s Gospel is written to mainly satisfy the Jewish beliefs, this may differ to the other synoptic gospels as they all had a specific structure and style of writing to portray Jesus depending on their audience and time. Matthew’s representations of Jesus as being a teacher, a fulfiller of…

treat other people as we would like them to treat us. This is the message that Jesus Christ taught. Furthermore, he also taught that you should generously offer help to others, be pure in heart and be merciful amongst many other things in the Sermon on the Mount in Matthew 5:3-11. The Bible also instructs in Leviticus 19:18 that “Thou shalt not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people, but thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.” Christians must act as God’s…

Can the Christian faith be seen as a contributor to more peaceful environment? With that question in mind, I’m articulating some of the important resources for creating and sustaining the culture of peace by eradicating violence. I am not, however, trying to argue that Christianity doesn’t endorse violence or at least historically, less associated with violence than any other religions in the world. This argument is neither necessary or relevant to my point. Arguments about religion, God and…

equality. In the New Testament this belief is expressed when it is stated that when you help even “the least of these my brethren” you have helped Jesus (A Christian View). Jesus also preached love, modesty and generosity. For example, in his Sermon on the Mount he proclaimed, “But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven; for he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and…