One day I happened to attend in a gospel meeting, a pastor had come there to preach. He preached from John 3: 16, God so loved the world…Everlasting life. The word touched me and thought Jesus is the real God who died for me and if I believe in him then he will give me the eternal life and peace in mind. Then there was altar call and I went to the front and repeated the prayer with the pastor and received Jesus as my personal Lord and
One is a good person. One is not. In B. De Las Casas ( 1474 - 1566 ) and John Smith ( 1580 - 1631 ) respective autobiographies “Relation” and “General History.” They wrote about their adventures and treatment of the Indians at Hispanola, while Smith wrote about his adventures in Virginia. De Las Casas was a better human being than John Smith, But Smith was a better explorer.
Architecture has always been adapting, revisiting and appropriating what has been done before, looking back to precedents to find new inspirations. Despite new technology and pop-culture, history dictates symbolism and formalistic appeal even if we are unaware of it. We grow up associating certain symbols and imagery to its connotated meaning, for example, when we see a cross we immediately think of Christianity. Because of that, churches nowadays continue to look back to ancient Christian structure to draw long-established design elements and symbols and Sacred Heart Church is no exception. Firstly, I will describe the physical elements of the Sacred Heart church. Afterwards, I will compare and analyze the similarities and differences between this church and pre-modern Christian architecture.
I am the minority of the usual church; typically I am one of four white people who attend the 8am service. I first went with a friend’s family after she had pass away. I was never nervous about going to a predominantly African American church. Everyone welcomed me. The family I went with had me stand up when they called for new people to the church. It then took me 30 extra minutes to get out of the church because everyone gave me a hug. Going into part two of this project I was actually very nervous about going to the Korean church. I think being by myself had a lot to do with it along with not know the language. I was very nervous about not understanding anything that was going on. Additionally I was worried they would not want me there.
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
In my experience at first progressive Baptist Church I was very much out of my comfort zone because not only did I not feel as welcomed but it was a little awkward because of all the looks I was receiving. I felt I was not dressed as they were and felt as if I didn't fit in and right away I just didn't feel appropriate with my attire. While I was there I actually had people wanting to shake hands and asking me questions about me coming and there was one man who just stared at me and so it was uncomfortable and didn't know how to react. While I was there I started to notice that there is a little difference from the church I go to and the music was way different as well, everyone will talk back with amen or thank you Jesus. The difference
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
evangelical churches have had the largest growth. There are a number of reasons for the growth of evangelical churches in the last two decades of the twentieth century. First, Catholics were often targets of government repression for their "subversive" involvement in base Christian communities, while evangelicals were safe from government repression. Second, the evangelical emphasis on personal conversion is considered apolitical. Finally, small evangelical churches provide their members with a strong sense of community and family. During my whole life, my family and religion are the only ones that have helped me the most. My family have always encourage me in all types of situations and also religious because only God could guide me when I
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 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,
They had a social gospel which responded to problems in industrial society which fought for justice and an end to poverty. Women were educated and some even went to college. We know most women were teachers or nurses. They had reforming cities that had safe house's that were in poor neighborhoods and they could stay in these houses to learn about the area, have meetings and get free health care. They also had hull houses which were the second owned resident the government passed to better construction safety laws. There was an antibiotic saloon league that made a lot of kids and the wives go into poverty because of men drinking too much. They had democratizing trends that were initiated the referendum which allowed citizens control over the
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.
Christian Church, and the way men and women worship in a Christian Church. He is called by
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.
Upon going to my first summer church camps, I finally had the opportunity to decide what this whole "Church" and "Jesus" thing meant to me and how I could apply this knowledge into my life. It was not until one of the worship nights, that I understood what every Christian around me felt. The Holy Spirit was alive inside of me! It wasn't long after
China has had the new population control for almost 36 years, composed by the one-child policy and prohibited excess reproduction. The birth control plan has received praise on reducing the population, but also received criticism over the late 20th century. In 1979, couples were forced to pledge not to give second birth or bear any more children (Feng, 2014). From 1979 to 2015, while the population growth rate has reduced substantially, this implementation has been tremendously restructured how Chinese families value family structure, child preferences, marriage, parenting, living arrangements, and eldercare. This one child policy has transformed into a problematic system for the Chinese family to maintain their traditional value, and also introduced new problems to the family.