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Young Augustine weeps for the woman who dies for her love, as an older Augustine weeps over his complete ignorance and incontinence. Young Augustine is ignorant of the presence of God in his life, and is compelled not to weep for his own spiritual distance from God, but instead for a tragedy that, in the mind of the older Augustine, is incomparable to the tragedy of being without God. The older Augustine is compelled by his advanced knowledge of the Lord’s proximity to lament his previous lack of control over his habits, proclaiming “I had no love for you and ‘committed fornication against you’ (Ps. 72:27); and in my fornications, I heard all round me the cries ‘Well done, well done’ (Ps. 34:21; 39:16) … I abandoned you to pursue the lowest things of your creation.” (Conf. 16). This reveals that Young Augustine lives an entirely habitual life, never thinking of God or his importance, instead concerned with material and worldly concerns such as reputation and honor. This state of pure habit does not leave space for Young Augustine to have continence, and leaves him to act out his life according to passion and emotions.

My personal faith grows daily by my choice to follow my love and savior, Jesus, every day I wake up. It was by no accident that God showed me Liberty University, and has now become a top option in my choices of colleges. I believe in the deep mission Liberty University has to develop Christ-centered believers because it is the same mission I strive to live out daily in my walk as a follower of Christ. My season of life will not always be the same as someone else's, but I pray that what I have walked through and what God taught me in those seasons can give perspective to others. I have grown up always knowing God but not until my sophomore year in high school did I truly start to live that out. I took two opportunities in the past two years

In recent days I had the opportunity to go back to North Carolina for a few short days. There, with a heavy heart from a loss in the family, I had nothing else to look towards. I’ve always heard of individuals finding peace, faith, blessings, and love of Christ from attending church. I’ve never been a person who put their faith into a higher power. As I was growing up my parents never wanted to force me into any religion without me knowing everything about it and choosing which route to take on my own. As the years treaded on, I never bothered myself to learn about the many different religions and what each stands for. So I used this opportunity as mine to attend church for the very first time. I attended the Roman Catholic services held

Dr. W. H. King, III and First Lady Shemika King and the entire Greater New Hope Missionary Baptist Church wish to express or warmest and sincere appreciation to each of guest, Dr. William Randall and the St, Matthew Baptist Church Family of Hitchcock, TX , Dr. Patrick Caballero of True Living Word Church Family of LaMarque and Pastor Thomas Wilson, the Meadowbrook Baptist Church Family of Houston, TX, Mayor of Dickinson Julie Master, DMA Vice President Amos C. Sowell and Deacon Donald Hill.

On Friday, June 5th, Megan Crews and I attended a community support group meeting at New Horizon Church of Christ. This meeting was a for teens and young adults that were experiencing issues of emotional abuse, substance abuse, sexual abuse, depression, co-dependency, and anything else that was causing them struggles. The Landing (what this group is called), is a daughter program of Celebrate Recovery, which has been helping people in different communities for 20 years. This collection of groups is faith based and helps the whole family, not just the individual experiencing the problem. It is set up as a fifty-two week program, based on principles that Jesus shared in the Sermon on the Mount. They use a 12-step program model using Jesus Christ as their focus and not psychological theory. There are over 20,000 programs in churches around the world. The programs have also had great success being used in the prison system. Since the beginning of these programs, many people have found peace and healing from their issues, hurts, and habits.

Transitioning from my denominational church of the Baptis faith, to the Church of Christ was

The Good Will Church, their primary goals of the planned confirmative evaluation is implement skills and standards in the Christian Education ministry. In the Christian Education program, the teachers are not properly trained to study Scripture and evaluate lessons based on pre-develop curriculum, and to prepare their own lesson plans. The adult teachers are volunteers only and they are intrinsic motivated to show their creativity and being enthusing in teaching of the bible among the youth and adults.

In 2006, Love Center Family Church (LCFC) was birthed out of the vision of Pastor Joseph Hill. He along with his wife created LCFC to “Reach out to others with God’s love.” LCFC operates as a 501c3 company and is guided by the regulations that govern non-profit organizations. Love Center Family Church is led by the founding pastor and the decisions are made by the board of directors. The church is a storefront church located in Suffolk, VA and since its start Love Center Family Church has grown from 10 members to over 250. The church offers various ministries within the church such as the Men’s, Women’s and Children’s ministries but also reach out to the community through their outreach ministry. While the church is still relatively small

Throughout my life I have been to three Churches. My family has found a Church that made us feel at home and we have been going there since I was eight. Now that I am at Indiana Wesleyan I have had to find another church to attend. My home Church which is named New Beginnings, are the teachings that I have shaped my faith into what it is today. The River, which I go to at school, has added to some of my beliefs. Our Church has a strong focus on the core doctrines of Christianity and the members of our congregation are encouraged to practice and live out these doctrines on a daily basis. New Beginnings is committed to the truths of the Nicene Creed and we are in full agreement with this doctrine.

With the University of the Incarnate Word being a religious school with a strong religious background it was really no surprise to me that I would have to take two religious classes. Taking Religious Quest right after taking a Philosophy class has been quite mind altering to say the least. Thinking about all the different aspects of the universe, and trying to figure out the truth is something that I don’t think we as humanity will ever know the answer to. This is where religion fits in for me. It’s not our job to figure it all out, if we live by faith and treat others as we expect to be treated I believe it will all work its way out in the end. Like I mentioned in my autobiography in week one, I was raised Methodist. It was actually me that got my parents into religion at all. We used to go to church for the big events like Easter and Christmas. I ended up finding out when I was about seven years old that my mother felt badly for never getting me baptized as a child. When I overheard her talking about it one day I said to her “so why don’t we just do it know?” She started to tear up a little but said “okay.” Once I was baptized our family as a whole went to church almost every Sunday from that point on. There was a huge transformation in both my mother and father. It was amazing and I’ve never regretted it for a moment. This experience is very important to me, and really helped set the stage for what religion means to me.

The Light House Christian Ministries is a Christ-centered non-profit ministry. They serve all their neighbors in need by providing educational services, food services, resale shop, benevolence ministries and medical ministries. Lighthouse Christian Ministries is a non-denominational Christian Outreach dedicated to assisting their neighbors in need. They are dedicated to serving each individual with respect and love, through Christ. The Light House uses the resale shop to fund the overhead expenses of the ministry. It also receives contributions from individuals, churches, and private grants to fund the programs and services offered to the community. We will identify how the Light House views, and address the

I grew up in a family devoted to the Roman Catholic (RC) faith. We, my brothers and sisters, have taught and disciplined in this faith to become good Christians. My family faithfully come to church every Sunday, followed the RC customs and traditions, prayed the rosary every night, and served in the church by joining the choir and other church activities. We have taught that by serving God this way, we could merit eternal life from Him.

He could not yet speak and pale with jealousy and bitterness, glared at his brother sharing his mother’s milk”. (Book 1. pg. 9). It is this kind of sin that is deep-rooted in mankind’s core and thus the unexplained attraction of man to sin. Augustine believes through the power of God he was able to point out the unique characteristics of sinfulness in mankind and concludes that it is indeed it is without a doubt that traits of temptation to sin is within humans even as early as birth and carries on into infancy, but as we leave infancy we build on the deep-rooted traits to commit more sin. In the Confessions Augustine says, “So ‘I acknowledge you, Lord of heaven and earth’ (Matt.11:25), articulating my praise to you for my beginnings and my infancy which I do not recall. You have also given mankind the capacity to understand oneself by analogy of others, and to believe much about oneself on the authority of weak women. Even at that time I had existence and life, and already at the last stage of my infant speechlessness I was searching out signs by which I made my thoughts known to others. Where can a living being such as an infant come from if not from you, God? Or can anyone become the

This week in class we discussed in Chapters 1 and 2 of Confessions by Saint Augustine and how Augustine analyzes sin in the stage of development of infancy and adolescence, how it corresponds to an infant's and adolescents faith. During his schooling at Thagaste it lead him to reflect in human origin, will and desire, language and memory. The characteristics of sin in infancy is represented by greediness, jealousy, and selfishness. Infants tend to have a dependence in daily routines or activities on those caring for them. The hope for this inability at this stage of development is that God will come and change this idea that infants have. Infants days consist of play which leads to a diversion of their faith. When they mature, they will posses

Since the day I was born my parents took my sister and me to church ever Sunday. I grew up in a loving Christian home and was encouraged at an age where I could fully understand, to purse a relationship with Jesus. I accepted Christ into my heart when I was in the second grade and was baptized in the fourth grade at age 10. Growing up I have always been super involved in Church. I have a heart for people and love serving. Since 3rd grade until now, my senior year of high school I have been on the leadership team with my youth group. I can not imagine my life without Jesus as the center. I have been pushed to step out of my comfort zone and because of that I have grown in several different ways. For example, I am an extrovert and enjoy getting new people, but never liked public speaking as I felt nervous and intimidated. By the many adult leaders, and pastors coming along side of me and encouraging me to step of on my comfort zone I now highly enjoy speaking and spreading the truth about The Lord in big groups of people. I am so thankful for the many God loving people that have come in my life and helped stretch me. Jesus is my entire life and I am nothing without him.