Sermon on the Plain

The day I knew that Alexis Smith was going to be one of my favorite people was the same day I saw her rip off her stockings. The sun was hung high on that summer day when I saw Alexis tearing at her stockings. We were both there for a mutual friend’s birthday party and even though the party was outside, most of the partygoers were found indoors trying to fan themselves with whatever they could. I remember that even before Alexis had arrived I had already begun to sweat through my shirt. The…

The pastor repeated the same sermons every year, the children’s program was evidently declining, and none of us felt like we had belonged. We had heard of many people who had started attending another church in our area. My parents decided to visit one Wednesday evening, the day after…

When an orphan girl is placed into the home of unloving relatives, most would argue that the child would be negatively affected by her experience. However, this is not the case for Jane, the protagonist of Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre. The story begins in Jane’s childhood while she is living with the Reed family, her aunt and cousins. Her family treated her just as a servant would be treated, thus Jane felt like she did not belong. The novel follows Jane through her life as she goes to school,…

He tried to convert his subjects to Christianity through Christian governors, in the provinces, by letters and sermons, by rewarding towns for converting temples into churches, and by conforming to Christian worship.[28] The state was no longer in control, the church now had their hearts and minds and gradually winning the moral allegiance of the people. There were…

be dissuaded from marriage. About a month after the wedding, John made a peculiar comment concerning marriage that characterized his own ignorance toward the subject: “I cannot understand how a Methodist preacher can answer it to God to preach one sermon or travel one day less in a married than in a single state.” This is a foreshadowing of the marital struggles John experienced, as he clearly did not understand the…

The devil is always roaming the world to tempt us and to sabotage our faith in God, but God uses multiple tests to develop our faith in Him. We as a human being must be tested by faith for God to trust us with His word. False faith fails at times of us being tested in our trial, but crazy faith helps us to grow and mature in areas to edify God 's Kingdom. Faith clarifies why God authorized the three "black" Hebrew men who names were, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego to be tested by their faith.…

The history of St. Augustine of Hippo is often limited to his profoundly popular work, the Confessions. This is precisely why James J. O’Donnell wrote his biography on the life of Saint Augustine. The thesis of this work is to delve beyond the legend, and expounds upon the daily life and public actions of Augustine. James J. O’Donnell surely has the credentials to write on this topic, given that he based this book on the corse that he taught at Yale University, which is also the university from…

The Holy Quran is a compilation of the verbal revelations given to the HolyProphet Muhammad (saw) over a period of twenty three years. The Holy Quran is the Holy Book or the Scriptures of the Muslims. It lays down for them the law and commandments, codes for their social and moral behaviour, and contains a comprehensive religious philosophy. The language of the Quran is Arabic. Besides its proper name, the Quran is also known by the following names:alKitabThe Book;alFurqan (The Discrimination):…

Man can be sustained by faith in God and prayer alone. This is a profound statement that is reverberated throughout the Bible. Paul writes in 2 Corinthians 5:7 that, “We live by faith, not by sight.” George Müller adopted this principle and made an incredible impact on the lives of thousands of orphans in England and millions of people across the world. He devoted his life to the will of God and relied solely on prayer and faith for the sustainment of his family and the orphans under his care.…

This paper investigates the issue of syntactic deviation: word order (fronting, postponement, and discontinuity) from stylistic point of view. The construction here exemplified by clauses in T.S Eliot’s poem “The Waste Land”. Biber et al (1999:900) pointed out; “fronting has to do with placing core elements which tend to appear after the verb in pre-verbal position”. The purpose of the study is to examine obligatory adjunct, optional adjunct, and direct object and object complement fronting…