Holy Saturday

Going to great lengths to recover what was lost and then celebrating its recovery seems to be the common theme of several of the parables. The parable of the prodigal son has three main characters, the kind and forgiving father who remains the same throughout the parable is a picture of God and Jesus. The younger son symbolizes sinners and the older brother bring the religious leaders and the Pharisees. It started off focusing the younger son who got the share of the property. “The younger son insults

Work: “Of Plymouth Plantation” Author: William Bradford Significance: Bradford is describing an example of providence, which is basically the idea that divine intervention naturally guides the world. In this case, a young man who acted pretentious was stricken with disease by a divine power, and Bradford relates the power of divinity to that of committed sin, and the results of such wrongdoing. Work: “Letter of Discovery” Author: Christopher Columbus Significance: Columbus chose to honor Christ

succinct interpretation of the significance of Holy Spirit according to Lukan theology. He examines both the Spirit’s activity in Luke-Acts and the implications of the Gift of the Spirit in empowering, equipping, and commissioning of God’s people for service. The text is separated into six sections covering “the Holy Spirit in Luke-Acts”, “the Holy Spirit in the Old Testament”, “the Holy Spirit in the Gospel of Luke”, “The Holy Spirit at Pentecost”, “The Holy Spirit in the Acts of the Apostles” and the

“In Memoriam,” is a poem that describes the journey of Alfred, Lord Tennyson, his growing Christian faith, and his experiences after the passing of his dear friend Arthur Hallam. Although throughout the memoriam, Tennyson is submerged in deep sorrow and constantly faced with questions and challenges through every bit of the mourning process, Tennyson slowly becomes a faithful and strong believing Christian who is filled with hope and Gods love. Tennyson slowly but surely comes to believe that God

Since 1998, the Cobb County Planning Commission has opened its meetings with prayers by volunteer clergy persons on a rotating basis. Id. at 1268. During the years of 2003-2004, the Planning Commission employed a deputy clerk to invite the clergy members of the county to pray at their monthly meetings using the yellow pages, the internet, and business cards. Id. at 1268. The deputy clerk was also responsible for composing a list that categorizes the clergy members who responded by denomination

The Hillsong Church represents the diversity of modern Christianity, especially within the Protestant traditions. I was raised as a Christian, and my spiritual beliefs correspond with mainstream Protestant Christianity. However, I am not a member of the Hillsong Church. The church I am a member of, loosely, is unrelated to and totally different from the Hillsong Chuch. Our church is Unitarian, and not evangelical. Raised without a clear sense of denominational identity, I would not even know how

Over the course of the thirteen Pauline epistles, the author (presumably Paul) instructs his readers regarding not only the proper functioning of a marriage and family, but he also uses the concept and codes of familial life to describe the duties and experiences of a Christian. Thus, one cannot consider the epistles' teachings on marriage and the family without considering how these descriptions of the family are integrated into the larger ideological framework produced by the letters, and as such

Una, the True Church The Faerie Queene is an important romantic epic that more than being just poetry, represents the protestant imagery in terms of kinds of individual virtue , the forces of temptation and human weaknesses to which the greatest of persons can succumb and, of course, the humanist ideals of its time. His author, Edmund Spenser, makes use of biblical and classic allegories to tell his story, that more than have been a religious writing, the poem’s purpose was to educate, to turn

No other could justify, sanctify, and redeem us; for, he was the perfect lamb. He was holy and blameless in the sight of God. Only through his stripes could we be healed. “All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.” –Isaiah 53:6 Yes, Jesus is a father

In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us through wordless groans. And he who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for God's people in accordance with the will of God. (Romans 8:26-27) 1. Grasp the text in their town. Paul's epistle to Romans encourages his audience to pray incessantly. His focus in this passage is on God's ability to lift up the suffering via