Spiritual gifts

Nirmala would retreat from daily activities and spend her time in spiritual ecstasy. Soon she was noticed by people as an extraordinary spiritual person. Her husband believed that his wife was an incarnation of a goddess. She bgan to be called Anandmayi Ma. In 1926, she stopped being a wife and began travelling all around India. By this time, she’d stopped eating and had to be fed by her devotees. It is said that there was a spiritual aura around her.…

Lukewarm Christian: God’s View and His Advice Lukewarm Christian is someone who loves the Lord with a partial heart, and gives the other part of the heart to worldliness. The love for sins and things of the world (invented by Satan) is called worldliness. First John Chapter 2 verse 15 says: “Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.” The word “lukewarm Christian” refers to someone with an unstable identity in the presence…

cover three points from the Academy Oath: To live always with honor and integrity, to strive for wisdom in our pursuit of knowledge, and to serve and stand for those in need. These points are the building blocks to a successful academic, social, and spiritual life at the Academy. My first point is: To live always with honor and integrity. Living with honor is a key aspect as a CBA man. At this point, I…

Many of us have different beliefs. Some of us consider our self a spiritual person rather than practice a religion. In the Buddhism teaches you to focus on enlightenment wheater than a connection with God. Buddha never considered himself a god, and believed in no personal God,as seen in Christianity. Christian belief is we serve one God, who sent his only son to walk among the people to teach and heal. "Everyman", is a modern abridged drama translated by Hans P. Guth. It reminds people…

Christ’s oblation is the perfect example par excellance of how humanity is called to submit in imitation of Jesus to the will of God the Father. These two actions, as O’Neil astutely writes, “are two sides of one reality: God gives the gift of love; man [, in response to the gift,] loves and submits to God by a completely free act.” (O’Neil pg. 8) For humanity to complete its new exodus or pilgrimage to the heavenly Jerusalem, people must be baptized into the body of Christ, and then they need…

utterly unable to choose to follow God, refrain from evil, or accept the gift of salvation as it is offered. • Dr. J. P. Moreland’s “empty self” syndrome says that man has a set of values, motives, and habits of thought, feelings, and behaviors that pervert and eliminates the life of the mind and make maturation in the way of Christ extremely difficult. He gives seven traits that undermine intellectual growth and spiritual development. • In the psychological dimension, the Freudian theory of…

My Vision for my Life What is vision? Vision means the ability to perceive something not actuality visible (Webster dictionary). What does it mean to have a vision? Vision is like having a spiritual rudder that guides us in life; it give us a sense of direction so we do not wander (Sharp 18; Holmes 6). It also motivates us because “The greater the goal, the more sacrifice a person is willing to endure to achieve their plan” (Holmes 7). A vision is having a goal set and aiming or striving to…

praying, we are establishing a special relationship with God. According to Dan Hayes, prayer is a weapon of spiritual warfare. Truth to the matter is, we all have battles individually and it does not only limit to what we see. Sometimes there are times in our lives that we are really tempted to do wrong, and what do we do? We pray because we want to be guided to what is right. It is a spiritual battle. In one ear you are whispered to do good and the other ear the other way around. It takes…

called Abrahamic religions. Judeo-Christian is a term for Jewish converted to Christianity. The Christian Old Testament is a Jewish scripture and it is used to teach the moral and spiritual material, which is very similar to the Islamic moral teaching. The advocates of the “Abrahamic religion” movement consider it as a spiritual bond between everyone, Jews, Christians and Muslims (Hughes,…

It smelled smokey, but not in a cigarette in a dive bar kind of way, more of a spiritual guidance kind of smokey. I sat on a bench looking over the Buddha and thinking about my life. It was spectacular to just sit and become part of my surroundings. Although this Temple was not active, I felt what it resembled. After about an hour I…