God And The Potter Of Our Lives

In the book "Every Good Endeavor,” chapter three talks a lot about the purpose of work and the reason for work. God is such an incredible God capable of anything and everything. He has the perfect capabilities to give us whatever we need, whenever we need it. It states in the book, God could have easily named all of the animals but He gave Adam that specific task in Genesis. The Lord definitely doesn't need our help but He wants our help. God could easily have made everything in the earth and give us exactly what we need but he loves us too much. Abba Father has specific tasks for us on this earth to help us. What kind of Father would someone be if he let his children sit around and be lazy? Just like an earthly Father, He knows we will not

Who I chose to write my character study paper over was Job and his life influenced by god’s grace, mercy, and evilness. The dominant theme of Job is the difficulty of understanding why God the creator of everything can allow good people and followers of his to suffer. In Job he is trying a way to justify God’s actions. The poetry in Job is a true dialogue, for the characters develop ideas and unique personalities throughout the course of their responses. The Book of Job is one of the most celebrated pieces of biblical literature, not only because it explores some of the most profound questions humans ask about their lives, also because it is extremely well written.

As a reflection of the significance of the item learned God is at the beginning, for our Christian faith and Christian life, how we live makes a difference in what God will do in the end.

Chapters 3 and 4 of Tim Keller's Every Good Endeavor expanded vastly on the idea of work and the way God sees it as well as it's purposes. Chapter 3 begins with Keller describing to us our greatest work given to us by God namely our call to "fill the Earth and subdue it”. He expands on this idea of "subduing” the Earth by explaining it as more of a cultivation process. This idea makes the task itself more of a caretakers responsibility rather than a conquerors territory. We are God's representatives called to follow His pattern of development by fulfilling our individual callings. Keller also includes that we are called to creativity just as God called Adam to come up with names for the animals he wants us to create just like Him. and again

“It seems that much more likely that human thought is not God’s but God-kindled”(44). Lewis explained before that God can interfere in the physical world and that it may interrupt the usual course of nature all the while of asserting self-consistency. Humans may decide for themselves what they eat for breakfast on a day-to-day basis, but in the big scheme of things it is actually God who makes their decisions for them. “to realize for the first time how majestically indifferent most reality is to man, and who perhaps abandons his religion on that account, may at that moment be having his first genuinely religious experience”(81).God allows humans to make their own decisions, but by making their ultimate ones He is able to guide them back to

When is passing judgment on others wrong? If we keep it to ourselves and do not speak it

Humans through-out life will have thoughts and experiences that may take their judgment away from what their chosen God guided them to do. For example, in the Christian religion suicide is frowned upon by God. However, many faithful Christians have experienced things in their life that troubled and shook their faith in God to fix their problems to the point of going against him and taking their own life. There is also people that will defend their God’s beliefs with all of their ability; even when they feel no one else is on their side. For example, same sex marriage was legalized all across America. However, according to the Christian religion that is a sin in the eyes of God and it is people that voice their beliefs and feel that they are

Chapter 5 describes Genesis, how by Adam and Eve's decision to eat the fruit from the tree of knowledge of good and evil. All of what God created was then infected by sin. Causing nothing He created to work "as it should. Sin leads to the disintegration of every area of life" (Keller 85). Genius describes how God created humans for work, but not since sin has been entangled to every single area of life. We are "suffering the natural consequences of working against" our design, (Keller 86), or "painful toil" (Genesis 3:17). We often experience feeling of fulfilment for a short moment and then it seems to all fall apart. This is "because of a lack of ability and because of resistance in the environment around us." (Keller 90). But as Timothy Keller states, he is "grateful to God for the glimpses He's given" for these glimpses are how " work was intended to be" (92) as should we be grateful as well.

n Timothy Keller's book Every good Endeavor he explains the concept of aligning your personal work, calling, or vocation with God's. In the first chapter Keller starts it off by describing the "Design of Work” as the chapter's title mentions. Using scripture straight from the book of Genesis he points out that work was one of the first things that God put in place when he created mankind and creation. Much of what Keller is trying to communicate simply points to the idea that man was made to work. One particular instance where Keller points to this is when he says, "it is part of the blessedness of the garden of God.” He is explaining that work was not intended to apart of the punishment for sin, but rather that work was in place before sin

This Sunday we will wrap up a sermon series called “Storyline” in which we have explored how the narrative of our lives intersects with God’s story and helps to move the plot along. You can get caught up on the entire series here.

Personification, penetrates the pages of Harry Potter. There are many examples of objects coming to life in ways that seem mundane to the average witch or wizard, such as the self-washing dishes in the Weasly home (CS 34). There are also personified objects that are shocking to those in the Wizarding world, like the Whomping Willow. By far the most interesting use of personification would be the sorting hat. The hat alone is responsible for placing each student in their respective houses.

"Judge not, that ye be not judged. For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged; and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again."(Matthew Ch.7)

God’s role in the Bible is characterized in several different ways, with dramatically competing attributes. He takes on many functions and, as literary characters are, he is dynamic and changes over time. The portrayal of God is unique in separate books throughout the Bible. This flexibility of role and character is exemplified by the discrepancy in the depiction of God in the book of Genesis in comparison to the depiction of God in the book of Job. On the larger scale, God creates with intention in Genesis in contrast to destroying without reason in Job. However, as the scale gets smaller, God’s creative authority can be seen in both books, yet this creative authority is manifested in entirely distinctive manners. In Genesis, God as

Through out history, as man progressed from a primitive animal to a "human being" capable of thought and reason, mankind has had to throw questions about the meaning of our own existence to ourselves. Out of those trail of thoughts appeared religion, art, and philosophy, the fundamental process of questioning about existence. Who we are, how we came to be, where we are going, what the most ideal state is....... All these questions had to be asked and if not given a definite answer, then at least given some idea as to how to begin to search for, as humans probed deeper and deeper into the riddle that we were all born into.

As stated by William Blackstone, man is considered to be a creature that "must necessarily be subject to the laws of his creator, for he is entirely a dependent being. [A]s man depends absolutely upon his maker for everything, it is necessary that he should in all points conform to his maker 's will (Brauch). In other words, God’s creation should be directed by the will of God our creator. Blackstone suggests that the law of nature relevant to God has full reliance on God. "For as God, when he created matter, and endued it with a principle of mobility, established certain rules for the perpetual direction of that motion; so when he created man and endued him freewill to conduct himself in all parts of life, he laid