My Family Are Having A Wonderful Christmas Season !

In chapter one, Arthurs pointed that God is the “great communicator” who communicated with variety. Variety is found throughout the word of God. Because God is a great communicator who used variety, preachers should preach with variety. Jesus used all kinds of form style, and genres of preaching. He knew how to get people attention. Preaching with variety helps the text to come alive. “Jesus used anecdotes, stories, paradoxes, contradictions, humor, irony, questions, and answers” (pg. 21), so we can too. Not only did Jesus used parables, objects, monologue and dialogue, but he used parables and symbols.

            Christianity also holds a set of specific genres, another of Swales’ classification of a discourse community. One of Christianity’s most important genre is the Bible, the Christian scriptures, consisting of the 66 books of the Old and New Testaments. Although sermons are also considered a distinct genre of Christianity, they are drawn from the Bible to be preach by the pastor every Sunday. Songs and parables, a simple story used to illustrate a moral or spiritual lesson, are also considered as genres within the Christian discourse

After reading this book , I mostly thought about how I first integrated my faith with my personal relationships. I have been Christian for a couple of years now, but every person I get close to or friend I have are not all Christian. Therefore, I had to learn how to not let their habits influence me with what I do and say. I have friends that smoke, get drunk, curse, and many other things that I find not to be Christian behavior. These were once things that I also had taken part in, so continuing our friendship and letting go of bad habits was a struggle for me. Integrating my new life with my old life was changeling because I was always told that your are the company that you keep. I had to make sure I didn’t get myself into situations that could hurt me in the long run. I was set on continuing the friendship I had and remaining a Christian as well. I can remember the first time my faith was tested. It was around five months after I changed my life around. I was invited to go out to the movies and out to eat with a big group of friends. Being that it was only a dinner and a movie, I assumed it would be okay. The night started off really well, we went to see a really great

The Posionwood Bible, by Barbara Kingsolver, tells the story of the Price Family. Nathan Price, the father, makes the decision to move his family in the 1960’s from America to the Congo to be missionaries. Kingsolver’s novel centers on providing the female members a chance to speak for themselves and tell their own stories. Rachel, the oldest daughter is materialistic and egotistical. In The Posionwood Bible, Rachel Price manipulates diction, tone, and selection of detail to fashion her hackneyed teenager voice, which leads to her becoming a paragon of America’s ideology throughout the book.

Uses of simile in this book creates a persuasive text. In the beginning of chapter six, “The New Testament”, James says, “the only in sight, butchering the lovely hymns with a singing voice that sounded like a cross between a cold engine trying to crank on an October morning

This book is about a girl named Maria who is helping her mother cook at Christmastime, She is helping her make Tamales. Maria felt so grown up while she was helping her mother, When she walks away for a minute, Maria decides she wants to try on her mother’s wedding ring that she had laying on the table. She puts it on her thumb, and when her mother returns, she quickly begins to help once again. Once family arrived at their house, Maria was playing with her cousins Dolores, Teresa, and Danny. She looked down at her thumb where she had recently put the ring, and realized that it wasn't there. Maria told her cousins what had happened, and they all went down to the tamales. There were so many of them, but she knew that the ring had to be

After we sat down and chilled. The title was “Believe”. Jaden and I shook our heads as if you were saying yes and said ok in a confused voice. What the picture she put in our heads is that image if you were a tree you need to dig your roots in the soil so if a storm comes you can stay on to him if he was the soil. I took lots of notes about the sermon. The main key thing was about how we need to believe in him and trust in him when we are going through something rough times, and we need to take his hand and go through this journey with him instead of

Especially in a dry season, it was refreshing to take a step back and see the faithfulness of the Lord. I was challenged, when I was reading that Wilkerson sold his television set and began spending those two hours in prayer instead, to increase my prayer life as well. I was challenged, when I was reading that the students began thanking and praising God in the chapel for providing the $15,000 that they needed that afternoon even though they had not received the money, to praise God in my life even when things may not make sense. This book challenged my mindset of reaching the lost because I tend to avoid people that struggle with drug addiction, violence and gang activity instead of having a deep desire to point them to

This chapter really helped open my eyes in a unique way. For years I have worked with children and whenever I would pick up a book most kids would moan and groan. But what I noticed is that by half of the book students are at the edge of their seats, and excitedly respond to my questions. In my mind it never crossed it to think about how babies respond to be nurtured. Like most humans I enjoy watching other people, or being aware of my surroundings you could call it. But I remember one instance of a mother and her child shopping in the grocery store. The child clearly was not able to talk back to the mother because it was too young. The mom however talked to the baby the entire time. Discussing what they were there to get, what colors

Jesus’ use of parables was to fulfill Old Testament prophecy; Psalm 78:2, “I will open my mouth in parables, I will utter hidden things, things from of old-” (NIV). Additionally, Jesus used parables to teach the truth, basic moral, and spiritual principles using simple down to earth stories to reveal the message of the kingdom of heaven. The kingdom of heaven was the heartbeat of Jesus teachings; often his parables began with: the kingdom of God is like…. Jesus used parables to teach not of an earthly kingdom of God but of a spiritual kingdom, and those who chose to accept God’s kingdom would inherit eternal life. It is important to remember, that Jesus used parables not to replace to doctrine but to illustrate and confirm doctrine teachings.

So we bought the book and then we went home. So I read my book on the way home. And then I play with nephew and my brother a little. After that my nephew, sister, and brother-in-law left. And I told my Mother about them and she said they sounded cool. So I am going to put it on my Christmas list.

In all his teaching to the crowds Jesus spoke in parables; in fact he never spoke to them without a parable. This was to fulfill the prophecy of Isaiah: I will open my mouth in parables;

As the holiday season comes to a close, we are reminded of the birth of Jesus Christ. This Theology project is about comparing a song of my choosing, with the narratives of Matthew and Luke. The messages that the Infancy Narrations of Matthew and Luke portray to us is one of hope and salvation. body to save us all. We must aspire to keep Christ in Christmas, by being generous and giving to everyone around us.

The direct teachings of Jesus give instructions of how to live as Christians and the Parables were used in the Gospel to immediately confront us with a truth and evoke a change. (Fee & Stuart,2003, p. 152). The five major discourses of Matthew’s Gospel are centred around five lengthy Sermons using parables to make a point and call the people to make a change.

‘It is meant to make people think – even think furiously – and to issue in decision and action’ (Hunter 1976, 13) ‘And sometimes such vivid analogies so catch the public mind that they pass into public parlance’ (Etchells 1998, 1) It is no wonder that the reason people still like to use stories to illustrate teaching today is because of these facts. Etchells in particular brings out a very interesting point in that Jesus would surely have wanted his teaching to reach more than just the people directly listening. Stories are easy for people to both remember and remember accurately, making it more likely for his teaching to spread even before it became codified. We can learn greatly from this. If we really want our listeners to engage with the Gospel we need to preach it to them in a way that will help them engage. Telling those parables that force them to think for themselves and remember what they have been taught will help to carry the message of the teacher back into the listeners’ daily lives, rather than just hearing the message and