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    Dwight Moody Research Paper Dwight Lyman Moody was an american author, pastor, and a big part of the baptist church movement in the 19th century. Moody has written over 100 books on living a christian life, salvation, and commentaries on the bible. Moody played a big part in the conversion to Christianity during the civil war, lots of these men found hope in the religion and gave them peace while in battle. He also helped the people of Chicago come together after The Great Chicago fire. The Christian

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    nonexistent city. After arriving in Tennessee, my parents were very adamant about getting plugged into a church. I was raised in church but up until then, I went because I was told to. Usually I had to count ceiling lights or people in pews to keep from falling asleep during sermons. We attended countless services, but it wasn’t until one special Sunday that we found Sand Ridge Baptist Church. Unbeknownst to me, it would change my life.

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    four members of the KKK planted a minimum of 15 sticks of dynamite under the steps of the 16th Street Baptist church, close to the basement. At 10:22 a.m. the 16th Street Baptist Church received a phone call from an anonymous man who simply said “Three minutes,” before hanging up. Less than a minute of the call, the bombs exploded as there were five children present within the basement of the church. Out of the 5 children who were in the basement 4 of them died from the explosion 14 year old Addie

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    The morning of Sunday, 15th September, 1963 a church bombing occurred in Birmingham, Alabama. Just three weeks before the church bombing, Martin Luther King Jr. gave his “I have a Dream” speech. At 10:22am at the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church a bomb went off. The bomb was placed under the steps. When the bomb went off it took the rear of the building. The bomb killed four girls, their names were Denise McNair, Addie Mae Collins, Carole Robertson and Cynthia Wesley. Denise McNair was eleven and

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    appropriating the Christian faith for myself did not begin until middle school. As a child, my family moved churches and traditions every few years. My family first attended a Baptist Church, then moved to a United Methodist Church, and finally settled in a non-denominational Pentecostal Church. It was while we were attending this church that I had the most significant experience of my life to date. While I was attending a youth conference, the pastor began giving altar calls for different groups of people

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    On Sunday, September 24, I visited Champion Forest Baptist Church to observe one of their classes. This class consisted of 3 to 4 year olds. Their overall goal for the program was to honor parents and respect others according to the bible in which they follow. They want children to learn manners and since they are within the church, they use the bible as a reference. I was told that the children learn best by having short lessons and interactive activities. By the end of the year, they would like

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    Critical Analysis and Strategy for Friendship Baptist Church The Non-profit has been in existence for 43 years. It was organized in response to a rift between the original organization and some of its members. Over the years, the organization has not been able to adapt and develop sufficient training and development within the new organization to foster growth and maturity in members or develop capable leaders from within the organization. The morale and level of viable activity has experienced times

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    dealt with the First Amendment and what it protects. A congregation of the Westboro Baptist Church was protesting Matthew Snyder’s funeral and caused the family a lot of emotional distress. Matthew Snyder was a former Marine who died while serving a tour in Iraq. The protestors were holding up signs that said, “Semper Fi fags, God Hates the USA, Thank God for IEDS.” (Lee Epstein, Pgs 469-72). The Westboro Baptist church has picketed many military funerals. They resent that the military will allow homosexuals

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    If one reads this manual, especially how the Baptists base their doctrine, one would see that the Westboro Baptist Church is wrong in many aspects, to such extent that they should not be called Baptists. The Westboro Baptist Church’s main purpose is to promote hate; hate towards America, towards the world, and towards anybody who lives in this world and accepts homosexuality, or “fags”

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    “The Most Hated Family in America,” is a 2007 BBC documentary film by Louis Theroux, who followed members of the Westboro Baptist Church, in Topeka, Kansas, in order to document their outrageous and controversial views. Theroux spent three weeks with the Phelps family, descendants of Fred Phelps, who founded the Westboro Baptist Church in 1955. Members of the Westboro Baptist Church strongly believe that soldiers killed in combat, are God’s punishment for homosexuality and the increased support and

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