Sermon

As the title conveys, the poem focuses on a sermon given before the Civil War. The preacher, a slave in “An Ante-Bellum Sermon,” is tasked with communicating a sermon that will be both riveting to the attending slaves and cautioning to the present slave masters. He does this by preaching the story of Moses and how Moses kept the hope for God to rescue him…

Over the past two years I’ve learned a significant amount of things regarding my faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. I’ve learned that, at times, my faith wasn’t strong enough; that I needed to pray to Jesus for help to increase my faith, and also the magnitude of faith when it pertains to Christianity. In his document, Discipleship and the Cross, Dietrich Bonhoeffer examines the Christian faith in this aspect. He goes on then to offer a detailed description of what he believes it one’s faith…

Erin Tevnan The Beatitudes G Morality The Beatitudes were giving by Jesus on how to live life happily. The one Beatitude I find most appealing is “Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.” Being meek is being patient, not easily angered and not thinking of yourself too highly. They would make sure people knew what they were doing for God. God is looking for us to do these things without putting on a show for others but doing it just for God, not for approval or…

Dietrich Bonhoeffer lived a life that was fully dedicated to God. He was born into a religious family and decided at an early age that he was going to share the gospel with everyone he possibly could by becoming a pastor. Bonhoeffer went to seminary for a few years and then ran the Confessing Church- which pledged it’s allegiance to Jesus Christ first, not the government. The church was unfortunately shut down by the Nazi government. Later in his life Bonhoeffer was arrested and hanged for his…

The Sermon on the Mount centrally speaks about Jesus’s exposition of the law and its application that leads to transformation of the inward person reflected in the outer works of man. In these chapters Jesus seeks to remind the people of the intent of the Law of God and also to empower them to keep it. The main point of the law is found in chapter 5: 48, “Be ye therefore perfect as your Father which is in heaven is perfect”. This perfection is the fulfillment of the verses in Deuteronomy 6:5 and…

Homiletical Idea and Sermon The definition of homiletics in reference to ministry is clearly defined as the “art of preparing sermons and preaching,” the gospel of Jesus Christ. The art of a sermon is showing or practicing a God given talent or gift before believers of God’s word. In the natural, homiletical idea can be viewed as method of brainstorming to convey God’s word to His people. Unfortunately, God is all spiritual, therefore, any method of preaching or teaching should be approached…

INTRODUCTION - Sermon series: How the church works o Last week we looked at the sacrifice of submission o This week we are looking at the sacrifice of praise  Three points: Foundation of praise; nature of praise and the right to praise 1. The foundation of Praise (v8-12) • The foundation of praise is the human heart • If the heart has had an encounter with God it results in praise • If the heart is sure and stable and secure it results in praise 1.1 The enemy of our heart: diverse and various…

The author Samson Occom was the first Native American author to publish his works in English. Today, He is considered the father of modern Native American literature. Occom wrote the first Indian autobiography and made it a genre. His hymns and sermons were influenced by his religious life. Also, Occom wrote his works due to Christianity, betrayal, and inequality. Samson Occom was born in 1723 at Mohegan near New London, Connecticut. He has little communication with the colonists for fifteen…

Introduction Within the context of this passage we are faced with the dichotomous pull of the glorious in-breaking kingdom of heaven, where Jesus proclaims the character of kingdom dweller, and the brokenness of the present world, where sin still besets men and women. Perhaps the listeners of the day, as we do today, sat and pondered, “Am I in the kingdom of heaven or am I out?” Scot McKnight rightly identifies that the Beatitudes are a sweeping “manifesto of a kingdom way of life.” In…

Life Together offers a fresh and faithful vision for the life of discipleship in community. The introduction tells us that this book is a recording of Bonhoeffer’s learning’s from an experiment that took place in Finkenwalde, Germany (now Poland). From 1935 to 1937 Dietrich Bonhoeffer served as pastor, administrator, and teacher at an underground seminary there. He insisted that if seminarians were to learn about and lead within the Christian community, they must also enter into and learn the…