Category: Theology
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How Can We as Christians Aid Lonely People?
Let’s talk about millennials (which includes me). We are the foremost generation exposed from juvenile to the postmodern worldview of standards, understandings, and detestations. Justice, for example, is defined as acceptance in which moral values have misplaced objectivity to the individual and reserved agreement. We live in a biosphere where community has been forgone to…
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Where are We Sightless and Culturally Conceding Today?
The slavery disaster that arose in the churches in the 1830s has a thought-provoking posture on the human error of reading Scripture. Southern supporters of slavery fortified the idea that slave-holding was biblically necessary and numerous in the North saw it as completely unjustified and conflicting with the Bible. Yet others in the North saw…
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By What Means Did This Occur? The Most Christians Nation in the World is Progressively Becoming one of the Furthermost Secular.
The colonial era of American history was a far more biblically sophisticated and knowledgeable world than ours today. While several did not hold Christian faith, they were formed and existed within its value system. The colonial-era birthed the national tenet of “God Bless America”, moments of silence, and “In God We Trust”. Yet our era…
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Martin Luther: Passion, Abilities, and Circumstances
I chose to write about Martin Luther for this blog because he was successful, due to his passion, abilities to execute and the circumstances he was granted to make it possible for his passion to come to fruition. This spells a person who made an impact on this world. Passion Martin Luther was born of…
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The Quest for A Life That Is Spiritual
The story of the quest for a life that is spiritual begins when mankind is created by God. “Then God said, ‘Let us make man in our image, after our likeness’…So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.” (Genesis 1:26-27, ESV)…
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Spiritual Discipline
Over the summer, I was challenged to engage in a daily spiritual discipline for two consecutive weeks, keeping a personal journal of the process. I chose the spiritual discipline of journaling at least one prayer every day for two weeks. Journaling my prayers is something I have always wanted to do consistently. I have done…
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The Flesh, Legalism, and the Holy Spirit
(1) How does the Flesh influence a Christian’s pursuit of holiness and how can the Christian minimize the influence of the Flesh? The Flesh influences a Christian’s pursuit of holiness because the flesh works directly in opposition to holiness. The Flesh is a set of sinful passions inside of us that is in direct opposition…
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Key Terms of Pauline Presentation the Flesh and the Holy Spirit
The ethical concept of the flesh –set of sinful and selfish passions inside of us, in opposition of the law, the Spirit, and where God wants to take us. Filling of the Spirit –the ministry of the Holy Spirit whereby, in response to the believer’s continued yieldedness, He controls and empowers the believer for sanctification…
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Paraphrase of Romans 6:1-14
Using my definitions from my last post, I have written a paraphrased translation of Romans 6:1-14. Original text: What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound? By no means! How can we who died to sin still live in it? Do you not know that all of us…
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Key Terms in Romans 6:1-14
Next, I would like to take a look at Romans 6:1-14. This is a vital passage that describes our new identity in Christ. To start with, I would like to identify some key terms used by Paul in this passage of Scripture and define them. Romans 6:1-14: What shall we say then? Are we to…
Surrendered and Free 