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In the world we live in we can lose sight very easily of what is the most important, which is the spiritual disciplines the Lord has given us for victorious living in Christ. Pastor Jack Hayford invites us to rediscover the power and the blessing that come from such disciplines such as Committing to Hearing His Voice, Living in the Power of Baptism, Resources of the Lord’s Table, Spirit of Forgiveness, Feeding on God 's Word, Maintain Integrity of the Heart, Abiding in the Fullness of…

In “Revelation,” Flannery O’Connor demonstrates to readers how God works in mysterious ways to show people exactly what they need to know exactly when they need to know it. O’Connor uses symbolism, dramatic ironies, and descriptive language to convey the type of revelation that Mrs. Turpin experienced in the story. Through an unconventional process, she has a transformative revelation that changes the way she looks at her own life, looks at the people in her life, and looks at God’s presence in…

Group #2 6/7/17 Bewley, Tyler Gaydarzhi, Mark Guerrero, Judeashia Jordan, Justin Lomas, Isabella Martin, Christopher Morton, Josh Moua, Amy Stewart, Peter In what specific ways does Augustine see God working in ways he cannot understand? Discuss several examples, referring to specific passages in the text. In Augustine’s Confessions, all throughout the books, Augustine is talking to God. The books are about different times in his life from childhood to the death of his mother when he…

Introduction The Christology of Calvin follows Chalcedonian definition which affirms that each of the two natures of Christ “retains its distinctive nature unimpaired, and yet these two natures constitute one Christ.” The two distinct and indivisible natures unite within the person of Christ and work together as the person of the mediator without losing any property of each one. Nevertheless, Christ’s saving work is only received through faith which is the work of the Holy Spirit. The Holy…

Smart discusses the telling of how family secrets is tied into the workings of family memories and that the stories people tell has a lot to do with how the family narrates its story. It explores contradictions and provides us with a view of how that can shape a person’s view of an important figure in their life. In "Blankets," Thompson portrays his childhood, initial love, and adulthood in a Christian family, which has many different scenes where we see Craig grow and we see him doing a lot of…

Everyone, including unbelievers, has his own mask which he makes and wears. This mask is used to cover up what is inside, sin. Even our appearances are used as masks. I believe this applies to not only believers. Another key theme in this book is grace in several of its different aspects. In April of 2016, I began working in the deli of a grocery store. I got to know my coworkers well for over four months. They all seemed to be doing well. Specifically, Marshall did his job well. He…

Nguyen 1 Randy Nguyen Brother Owen J. Sadlier, OSF. Logic 12/15/17 In the world we live in there are reasons for everything, and we all have a certain type of faith that we believe in within ourselves. Reason can be best understood with principles such as intellectual, moral, religious and practical inquiry. Faith is very comprehensible by reason, and they are both are like the sources of authority upon the beliefs we believe in such as the Christian faith. People who are believers…

Religion is a word and feeling that is left up to the person to interpret. Even though there are countless closed-minded people that feel as if religion and the highest power can only be felt in one way and should only be expressed in the way that everyone else expresses it, there are innuerable ways for one religion to be felt and told. From the writers of Basavanna, Mahadeviyakka, and Augustine, it is shown that the same religion worshiping the same God can be told and represented in three…

Saint Augustine and Thomas Aquinas are most prominently known for their discussions of God and the happy life. For them, God is related to a happy life but that happy life is vastly different for them both. In this essay, I’ll discuss Augustine and Aquinas’s view on the happy life but specifically the role of friendship in achieving happiness. I will focus on Augustine’s De Beata Vita (DBV) and City of God (COG) and Aquinas’s Summa Theologicae (SV). First, I will discuss Augustines view of the…

In the introduction to Two Sisters in the Spirit, Hans Urs von Balthasar wrote: “the Church has received the promise of objective sanctity… that her divine mission is guaranteed until the end of time. But this in no way eliminates the obligatory vocation to subjective and personal sanctity, which is indeed the ultimate reason for her whole institutional and objective side.” This paper will delve into how Balthasar and Victoria Harrison, the author of “Personal Identity and Integration: Von…