The Cost of Discipleship

Jean Donovan On April 10, 1953, Patricia and Raymond Donovan bore a daughter, Jean, who would grow up to serve as one of the most famous female American Missionaries to grace the modern world. Jean was second in birth order to her brother, Michael, who would later inspire her in her divine missionary work. The Donovan family resided in upper middle-class Westport, Connecticut where her father provided a comfortable life as an engineer at Sikorsky Aircraft Division for United Technologies (IRTF).

Introduction One reason “the swans are not silent” is that they all knew “the roots of endurance.” Charles Simeon (1759-1836) endured as a faithful, evangelical, Anglican vicar for fifty-four years in one parish through opposition so severe that his “pewholding” parishioners boycotted his services during the first twelve years. William Wilberforce (1759-1833) endured as a faithful evangelical member of the British House of Commons, battling relentlessly for thirty years for the first triumph over the

Flores 1 Francisca Flores Dr. Lind Creative Writing 3/0916 What makes me, ME? I was an ordinary girl , I wasn’t a troublemaker if you will , I was quite and shy girl , but at the end of the day, I felt an emptiness within myself , I was just tired of following the beat of the world. All my life Ive been living in a valley in a valley baca place (valley of weeping) . I just didn 't felt at home. Several times I can say that my sleep was gone and my heart was full of sorrow , I dread the pain that

Comparing the Secular Humanist, Machiavelli and the Religious Humanist, Erasmus One can often identify a person's political, religious or cultural orientation by his or her reaction to certain words. A case in point is the expression "secular humanism." For religious conservatives those words sum up much of what is wrong with contemporary society. Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary gives several definitions for humanism, a word which made its appearance in 1832. The first is "a devotion

There are several assumptions with which I will begin prior to discussing my confession. The first assumption is that Jesus, who was crucified, is Lord and that God has raised him from the dead. A second assumption is that apart from the first assumption, any and all other aspects of my confession could be flawed or wrong. My beliefs about the nature of Scripture, God, Creation, Humanity and Sin, Jesus Christ, Salvation, Holy Spirit, and the Church, though related to the centrality of the gospel

I. BACKGROUND OF THE BOOK Title: Attitudes that Attract Success Data of Publication: Originally published in the USA by Regal Books, a division of Gospel Light Publications, Inc. Ventura, CA 93006. All rights reserved. Published (2005) in the Philippines by OMF Literature Inc. 776 Boni Avenue Mandaluyong City, Metro Manila www.OMFLit.com Reprinted --- 2005, 2006 ISBN 971-511-899-2 About the Author: Dr. Wayne Cordeiro is senior pastor of New Hope Christian Fellowship in Honolulu, one of the nation’s

Exegetical Paper Isaiah 58:3-10 “True Fasting” Billy Sanderson: Cohort Q TS 516 Christian Social Ethics April 26, 2015 Exegesis Of Isaiah 58:3-10 We have distorted our view of relationship with God in regards to fasting and this passage rightly addresses this dilemma. Our Christian culture has tragically turned fasting from a submission and obedience to God’s intimate calling in ones life, to a simple hunger strike, which is simply nothing more than trying to get God to stoop

with wise counsel, we tend to answer with an open mind and with a clear heart. Paul was not a disciple who walked directly with Jesus. He was called to be an apostle who Jesus walked with to direct his people to trust, love, and obey him at all cost. Furthermore, he was two different men with the same name, with two different spirits, headed in two different directions, after two different goals. While using this in a paradoxical sense, the two are one in the same. The first Paul, who was

WHY GAY MARRIAGE IS WRONG Advocates of homosexual practice often argue that “gay marriage,” or at least homosexual civil unions, will reduce promiscuity and promote fidelity among homosexual persons. Such an argument overlooks two key points. “Gay Marriage” as a Contradiction in Terms First, legal and ecclesiastical embrace of homosexual unions is more likely to undermine the institution of marriage and produce other negative effects than it is to make fidelity and longevity the

The Elizabethan Age is the time period associated with the reign of Queen Elizabeth I (1558–1603) and is often considered to be a golden age in English history. It was an age considered to be the height of the English Renaissance, and saw the full flowering of English literature and English poetry. In Elizabethan theater, William Shakespeare, among others, composed and staged plays in a variety of settings that broke away from England's past style of plays. It was an age of expansion and exploration