Seven gifts of the Holy Spirit

one retire when there is no biblical precedent for retirement? Some of the most faithful work recorded in Holy Scripture was undertaken by people called by God in their senior years, not to mention the conception of babies for God’s special purposes! Shirley says she has no sense of calling for a Sarah experience! Together we have eighty-four years of pastoral experience with complementing gifts that have allowed us to share in a wide range of ministries. Each parish has called us into a…

In addition as we learned in class, even though there are other forms of ritual healing in the Christian faith recognized by the Church as valid, including the recognition of people with the gift of healing. Is important to distinguish the difference between this practice of praying in group and the Sacrament of the anointing of the sick that is the official Sacrament of the Church. More importantly, we need to recognize that in all cases…

stone, you vow to become like Abraham, the upright friend of Allah, who was uncompromising in his conviction of Tawhid [8]. Sa’y Sa’y literally means to strive, to make an effort to reach an aim. Running between the mountains – Safa and Marwa – seven times, you act like Hagar, the mother of infant Ishmael. After Abraham left her and their son, near the valley of Mecca, Hagar had no food, no water, no shelter, neither for herself nor for her child, but only uncompromising, relentless faith that…

to Noah, 'Go into the ark, you and your whole family, because I have found you righteous in this generation. Take with you seven pairs of every kind of clean animal, a male and its mate, and one pair of every kind of unclean animal, a male and its mate, and also seven pairs of every kind of bird, male and female, to keep their various kinds alive throughout the earth. Seven days from now I will send rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights, and I will wipe from the face of the earth…

May 1st. On this day, people celebrate the workers, and business are closed on this day. Africa Day is celebrated on May 25th. On this holiday, people celebrate the spirit and energy of Africa. People celebrate with games, music, food, and dances. Corpus Christi is celebrated on May 30th, and it is the Christian celebration for the Holy Communion. President's Day is on June 5th, and it is the birthday of President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo. Armed Forces Day, which is on August 3rd, honors…

Hrotsvitha wrote liturgical plays that were never performed on stage and became the first medieval woman to write about female spirituality. The main themes Hrotsvit emphasized her writing on was the virginity of woman. In her plays, “Hrotsvit constructs a world in which women’s chastity and asceticism become sources of power and direct links to God and Christ in which male lust is the fault of men, which is seen as un-Christlike” (Wetmore 18). Gallicanus is a satire that focuses on male lust…

after the Great Schism which occurred in 1054, causing the religion to have three main branches, Roman Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy and Protestant. Catholics look to God as the central deity in the form of a Trinity - the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. Contemplation in Catholicism has a repetitious mention goal of allowing the adherents to acquire a connection with God, with the focal point being Jesus. It is believed a metaphorical sacrifice of oneself can lead to reaching…

Students are constantly asking the question, “Why do we have to learn this?” As Christian educators it is important that we are always ready to give an answer to this most important question. Perhaps the best answer is found in Isaiah 40:26 which says, “Lift up your eyes on high, and behold who hath created these things, that bringeth out their host by number: he calleth them all by names by the greatness of his might, for that he is strong in power; not one faileth.” Or we can look at Hosea who…

the bible says in Titus 3:4-5 “But when the goodness and loving kindness of God our Savior appeared, he saved us, not because of works done by us in righteousness, but according to his own mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit” (ESV). Honestly I didn’t have a solid idea about how I felt about Christianity going into middle school and early high school. I had been through a lot, and I felt as if God was just sitting there laughing at my pain. Unbeknownst to me that…

we must understand the original meaning of the Greek word for impossible which is ἀδύνατος. This Greek term is used ten times in the New Testament, four of which are found in Hebrews. In the NIV New Testament, ἀδύνατος is translated as “impossible” seven times, once as “weak”, once as “powerless” and once as “who was”. “The word ‘impossible’ is taken by some to mean something which can be achieved by God but not by man.” One example of this would be causing a camel to pass through the eye of a…