Essay On Wayman

In Edith Wharton’s The Other Two, Waythorn, a successful businessman, marries Alice Haskett, a cosmopolitan woman who has married twice before. Having just married Alice, Waythorn initially is ecstatic and excited about the prospect of creating a new, personal relationship with Alice, a woman he feels he understands and knows well. As the story progresses, Waythorn starts to realize that his relationship with Alice is not as clearly defined as he once thought, a revelation largely recognized because of Alice’s two ex-husbands: Varrick and Haskett. Hawthorne, who initially questioned their potentially disruptive role in Alice and his marriage, negates all of the initial doubts he had relating to them and their visits to his residence. However,

Chrisleine Temple is an eighteen-year-old student at Williams College from Sierra Leone. Before coming to Williamstown, she participated in Pentecostal services with her family every Sunday morning “unless on her death bed” and attended a Jesuit preparatory school. Asked about the presence of a God in her life, she told this story:

The author Langston Hughes reminisces about when his Aunt took him to church when he was thirteen years old; ‘Every night for weeks there had been much preaching, singing praying, shouting, and some very hard sinners had been brought to Jesus’(1059). At the end of revival the children were asked to approach the ‘mourners’ bench ‘To be saved!’ Langston’s Aunt told him about how when you were saved ‘something happened to you inside.’ (1059) So Mr. Hughes went to the bench with the fellow children in the church, the preacher preached, hymns were sung they keep saying ‘wont’ you come, Young lambs to Jesus?’ One by one the children rose to Jesus. Leaving Langston Hughes and another boy Westley; the boy Westley got tired of sitting on the bench he stood up to be saved. Langston Hughes sat there waiting for Jesus he too grew tired of sitting on the bench and he figured that Jesus didn’t smite Westley for lying; so he stood up.

A spiritual revival broke out in his parish. There were six sudden conversations in December. By spring, there were at least thirty a week.

To some, God is a figure as warm and loving as a father. To others however, with every fiber of His being, God hates us and will send us to Hell on a whim. Jonathan Edwards’ purpose in giving the sermon “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” was

About The Book What does the worst day of your life look like? Many of us wonder, and few experience it, but I did. What happens when a pastor’s healthy wife suddenly dies in childbirth? Does his faith help remove the sting of his loss? Does he endure moments

The first Great Awakening, forerunner to the American Revolution and Protestant missionary expansion, After his first graduation, Edwards went on to continue his studies in theology and prepare for a life in ministry. Equally as successful with Edwards’s educational climb was his anointment in his pastoral call. Though he often questioned the sovereignty doctrine of God from an early age, his search for meaning and truth came about during his personal testimony of conversion when, at the age of seventeen he read 1 Timothy 1:17. It was then when he finally connected with the one and only true God that his life changed for the duration. It was this pivotal moment that marked his conversion and led to what would become the fervent, heart-felt preaching style that characterized his sermons and brought conviction to the hearts of the parishioners who heard him.

Whether spending glorious days on Key Biscayne in Florida or walking miles on the Vero Beach shore, I slowly began to sense God’s presence. Surrounded by curving palms, the alabaster beaches of Key Biscayne are paradise and when the tide is out you can walk forever stopping to cool in the dips created by the pull of the ocean current. One year in Florida, sitting in the shallow water of the Gulf of Mexico, and kneading for seashells, I discovered bone white sand dollars. Holding them briefly and gently setting them down, we observed as they slid under the sand. It was in these places that I would walk and cry, sit and weep, talking to a God that I finally understood love me. I found healing and peace and God restored my

Tim Reed, a Michigan native, grew up in a Christian home. As the son of a pastor, he gained a great amount of Bible knowledge throughout his adolescent years. Despite the knowledge he acquired, Reed’s faith was not personal until he was thirteen years old. He received his BA from Cornerstone University, then earned his Master’s in Church Ministries. He and his wife, Dixie, have a son and a daughter, Tara and Timothy. Pastor Reed’s greatest accomplishments in life are being a good father to his two children and being a

In high school he joined the basketball team, but he also played football so it was a tough schedule. He decided that his basketball was more important. He left the football team for basketball. He led his team to the championships.

Mary C. Neal’s To Heaven and Back explores the many miracles that Mary has found in her life. Whether it be by fish leading Neal and her scuba instructor out of a cave when they had low oxygen to staying alive when the passenger carriage of her car separated from the front during a car accident, Neal has watched God work miracles in her life at every turn. Her optimism in full-heartedly putting her faith in the Lord is both inspiring and concerning as she lives for signs of direction. Neal’s concrete statements on God’s role in the world and her role in the world struck a chord with me, especially as she started to unravel why she was in the world.

Stir Us Up, O Lord One hot summer day while walking in a small park in Minnesota, I came across a tiny stream running out of the bank of a hill. It was no wider than my foot. As I stirred up the sand from the stream bed with my toes, the thought ran through my head as to how far that grain of sand would travel if it never settled. What a surprise to come around the bend and see the answer to my question carved into an ornate wooden sign :”You are standing at the headwater of the mighty Mississippi River.” The potential distance that tiny grain of sand could travel was unfathomable. Jesus also said on one occasion, “If you have faith the size of a grain of mustard seed, you can move a mountain.” (Matt. 17:20ff) In my years, I have witnessed how a word of encouragement backed by simple actions of love and affirmation can stir up a chain of events spurred on by God’s blessing.

As a young child, we are told many stories from people we love and believe in. The young boy in “Salvation” was told from his Auntie that he would see the light, see and

Osorto 14 Introduction Engaging in spiritual practices is part of our Christian story, practices are “those cooperative human activities through which we, as individuals and as communities, grow and develop in moral character and substance.”[footnoteRef:1] Through these various practices, we grow in our faith and understanding of God in the world, in community and our lives. At the crossroads of our Christian practices, we see that "God is the agency who makes the story and who is revealed through the story…God is revealed to its hearers as a present reality in the contemporary telling and hearing.”[footnoteRef:2] Over the course of several weeks, a group of three met on a weekly basis to discern how God was speaking into our lives through

Jeanne’s thirty year old son, my cousin, Walter, had a terrible accident and was in a coma for ten days on full life support. The doctors basically told her she needed to make the decision to take her only son off life support because they had never seen anybody recover from the excessive amount of brain damage he suffered from. Walter was not a Christian, but that did not stop my aunt from praying for him continuously. She informed the doctors that they were going to see something unbelievable and they did. As Walter deified all odds and began to recover my aunt transformed her life so she could transform his. She left her life in Maryland and moved to Denver to help Walter through his months of recovery, and she started a revival in his life. She showed him Jesus and preformed one selfless act after another all in obedience to God, where she truly displayed what it means to be a revivalist. This story is an example of opportunities everybody has in their lives to live out the meaning of being a