Spiritual gifts

Many times when we see someone succeeding in their leisure activity we say that they have a gift or talent for it. That is where this is coming from. Dancing wasn’t something I was taught to love or forced to become great at, it was something that in doing it, I naturally fell in love with and just felt internally right. While I am dancing, there…

That is a lot of money for a one to two week trip! Some people think that money could be spent in more stewardly ways. They are wrong. Short-term mission trips are worthwhile when humbly and intentionally designed to accomplish the three goals of spiritual formation, character development, and completion of a…

perhaps he was.” (145) The complementarian view is that women were not appointed as apostles. As the early church begins, scripture displays the Holy Spirit coming and dwelling in all believers, male and female. Both male and female receive the gift of prophecy. Women again are seen leading in multiple ways including helping the poor and evangelizing. Priscilla and Aquila are even mentioned taking into their home a young adult man, Apollos, and teaching him in the area of religious…

In 1 Corinthians, Paul addresses several of the problems and issues going on in the church in Corinth. In chapter 11, Paul writes about head coverings, specifically the distinction of head covering between men and women, and the Lord’s Supper. In the next chapter, Paul makes a switch from writing about the church itself and instead focuses on the individual members and their contributions to the church as a whole. Chapter 13 discusses the misconceptions and confusion the Corinthians have about…

“Life is a series of decisions. It doesn’t simply happen by chance” (Ingle 5). In this paper I will talk about my gifts and abilities, my passions and values, my experiences, my calling, and my personality. I believe that my calling is to become an elementary school teacher. God has combined my passion for kids and my passion for making learning fun into an actual career. I believe teachers are so undervalued because if you really think about it they are the ones that are molding the minds of…

argues three points in details: tongues, prophecy, and healing. The author proceeds to differentiate between modern tongues with speaking in tongues of the New Testament. “The gifts of the Spirit are all prophetic, wisdom, revelation guidance, and oracular speech (including tongues)” Turner said that a Christian obtains those gifts even when they do not belong to a Pentecostal charismatic group. In addition, God is giving them direction to his children through prophecy. Turner talked about First…

that person to water, nurture, and care for those seeds or plants for it to grow and yield crop. The Spirit gives each person unique, beautiful gifts, but those gifts can shrivel and be lifeless if not used. It is up to us, those who have received the gifts to cultivate and care for them, allowing them to grow and be used to “feed the world” in a spiritual sense. We do this “feeding” by sharing the yield of our fruits and giving to others the products of our…

Unlike Western art during this time, African art was a functional part of African culture, everyday life, and traditional festivals. All art forms helped knit together members of the society. Africans used masks in order to symbolize the spirits, in their religious rituals. The enormous, sometimes scary mask gave control to the "spirits" which helped to maintain authority. The masks symbolized power, strength, and courage. They were often stylized with horns and tall heads, but most of them had…

willing to work with and learn from Christians of other denominations. They believe in bringing their intellect to their faith. They value both passion and experience. This combination of reason and experience-the intellectual pursuit ofGod with spiritual fervor and passion-is part of the basic makeup of Methodism. Wesley added experience to the Anglicans'…

spent countless hours daily praying and I knew god wanted me to become a priest. I then took action and and took any opportunity to help others and do my calling. I wanted use my gifts to help and heal others. Since I am soon to be confirmed what gift of the holy spirit helped you the most in your life? The gift of understanding, since I was not allowed to receive holy orders I had to understand that this is what the people were taught it is not their entire fault. I also had to…