Praise, Worship, Singing to God... Christian music is a way to talk to our God. It can be rap, pop, country Or just about any genre. Christian music can get you in your feels or get you pumped up. Like I believe that Christian music is the best music because it is clean, it is real, and because it brings us closer to God.
Today’s church is facing new challenges that require new approaches in Christian Ministry. Pastors must be agile to successfully respond to the changing needs of their congregations. For example, large groups such as the baby boomers and millennials are driving trends that are stretching yesterday’s norms. Additionally, desegregation is increasing in our congregations aided by the baby boomers who sought to champion diversity and by millennials who regard it as normal (Rainer III). These influences are complex, and the research demonstrates that there are three major trends that require attention to maintain relevance. Therefore, the current professional influences in
To be a knight means that you have been assigned by a king or any other political, or religious leader, in our case the most high king, our lord Jesus Christ, to do a service. Our king, Jesus Christ, has called us, the knights of the Kingdom, to, “Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit (Matt. 28:19).” This is our mission as Christians, no matter what denomination you are, you have been called by God to spread the gospel.
The Coronation Gospel created in the 800 in the Frankish empire is an object looks incredibly impressive when it is seen at the Kumsthistorishches Museum in Vienna. The Gospel’s cover is made up of gold leaf covered with semi-precious stones. If you were do look at it’s interior it has a wide range of golden illumination and text. The Coronation Gospels is beautiful treasure on the surface. But what the gospel represents is more impressive then mere appearances. The Coronation Gospel represents the large scale cultural project that was happening underneath Charlemagne’s rule. This project is often referred to as the Carolingian renaissance. Carolingian renaissance is defined as a cultural movement that sought to be a “rebirth” of roman and ancient cultural styles. This included changes within art, architecture
The day I became a believer, I was in middle school and attending summer camp at Hume Lake. I had always been a “good kid” and part of a church going family. Yet, I did not know the Lord for myself. I’ll never forget the speaker we had at camp. Chris Simning had many physical ailments that caused him to experience pain and suffering for much of his life. I could relate instantly to what he shared. He was now passionate for Jesus, who carried him through these terrible experiences. I realized then I was a sinner in need of a Savior and only Jesus could save me from myself. I took refuge in the promise found in John 6:47 that says, “Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever believes has eternal life.” I, too, desired to be saved and to follow God with all of my
They brought me into an office at work and began to convey that Jesus was calling me to Salvation. I had known this all along because His voice kept tugging on me, it was a loud thundering voice, but a still small voice of calmness and love that completely overcame me and changed me. These two men where the conduit that help me accept it in my Heart as soon as they spoke it to me. I begin to see the fullness of God in my Heart and remember feeling a peace over my life. The lack of confidence was no longer resonating in me, the anger I carried for my Father was gone. It was an excitement not of myself but what God had done for me. My salvation happen right on time, as I was a young soldier married with three small children, and I was not feeling worthy of being a father or husband. No longer hearing that I can’t but I can, I leaped with joy and my life was forever
The four Gospels all tell the same story, but they differ in the small details and the way in which the story is told. The “Gospel Authors” spent much of their time with Jesus and I’m sure the events they witnessed were truly remarkable. These Apostles did have flashbulb memories, which are memories of exciting or shocking events that can be clearly remembered, but they also had much more going on. To remember the events that happened and record them for Scripture, the authors had to encode, store, and retrieve these memories. Encoding would be when the Apostles are first experiencing the event. Their brains are taking in information and processing them in unique ways. They then stored these memories in order to retrieve them later. Finally,
The Gospels, are possibly one of the most sacred, and the most divine things we have in this world. For it is through the Gospels that God speaks and reveals his truth to us. However the Gospels were not always accessible as they are in today’s world, in fact there was a time that they didn’t exist. It is believed the first Gospel to be wrote was Luke, somewhere around the year 70. The other Gospels were started shortly after sometime in the 80’s. All together there are a total of four Gospels that are in the Roman Catholic Bible. There names are as followed, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, in that order they are found in the Bible. These Gospel writers are believed to be what could be described as God’s pen and ink. These
The Christian Gospel is a scandal to the man encompassed in relativism and his sophistication because the Christian Gospel does the one thing that man most hopes to avoid. It awakens him for his self-imposed slumber to the reality of his fallenness and rebellion and calls him to reject autonomy / self-government and submit to God through repentance and faith in Jesus Christ. We additionally live in an age of pluralism: a belief arrangement that puts an end to truth by uttering everything to be true. Do you understand what I am saying? After everything is true – after contradictory statements that are diametrically challenged, after both of them are labelled as true – you have the death of truth. It could be tough for Contemporary Christians
Countless people regard the disciples as some of the most devout followers of Jesus, as they were the first and the chosen ones. Followers of Christ use the disciples as models of faith, and attempt to share the messages of the Gospels in the same way the twelve did. What modern Christians fail to emphasize, however, is that the disciples doubted and denied Jesus. Although the disciples spread Jesus’ message after Jesus’ death, during Jesus’ lifetime, they were not always the perfect models of faith that they are portrayed as today.
Mark’s gospel begins with Jesus’ ministry, leads up to, and ends with His crucifixion. The gospel stresses the importance of Jesus’ divinity and discipleship. There are different examples throughout the gospel of this. Discipleship is shown on Mark’s gospel when Jesus first calls his disciples to repent and believe. In chapter two verses twelve to seventeen Jesus calls sinners to repentance when he has supper with tax collectors. This calls the sinners to follow Him. The best example of discipleship is in chapter eight verse thirty-four when Jesus says take up your cross and follow me. He is asking people to live as He does and commit their whole lives to Him even if it means dying in order to deliver God’s message. He says whoever loses their
During my time at USD I have taken a few classes pertaining to the Christian community. While they all stressed the importance of Jesus; it never really explained in detail his influence upon the Christian church. I was born and raised in Atlanta, which you know is the bible belt. Growing up in rural Atlanta I attended a Baptist Church at least three times a week. While I learned about God through my personal reading and interpretation, my pastor taught a different explanation. He constructed a God that was feared in both the Old and New Testament beside a Jesus that was loving and caring. Pastors in my community would talk about Gods purposeful mishaps and mistakes while highlighting Jesus’s perfection. Even as an adult you see the Church
The different views within the modern church regarding the Gifts of the Holy Spirit can be discussed in four categories. Cessationism, Pentecostal, Charismatic, and Third Wave. Cessationism is a belief that there are no longer any gifts of the Holy Spirit. All of the Gifts of the Holy Spirit were given to man and used within the first century church. The subsequential beliefs directly oppose cessationism.
This is a great verse of Scripture to lift the heart in praise and worship of God the Father, Jesus Christ, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. It make me think of the Triune Godhead, and how it is for our benefit that God sent Jesus to atone for our sins, break down the barrio that separates us from Him, not only did Jesus Christ carry out the mission that God ordained; He sent the Holy Spirit to keep us, guide us in all that Jesus had taught, and that God’s will be done.
When we speak of the cross of Christ and the death that He accomplished on Golgotha, many of us look or focus at the physical beatings, whips, humiliation, and death that Jesus had suffered on the cross. However, although the physical death of Jesus was a necessity the essence of it all was what happened spiritually. Because God is holy, He demonstrates His holiness on the cross of Christ by opposing with divine wrath against which the sin that He hates through propitiation.