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- 831: What is a Gospel?
- ... news of the kingdom includes a call to repentance (Mt. 4:17; Mk 1:15)"(McKenzie 320). It presents Jesus as the Messiah and Savior. The writers of these books are Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. These four Gospels were written down to preserve the sayings and works of Jesus for future generations. They were all written a little later after Jesus' death, probably before A. D. 100. Each gospel was ... are alike in many ways. For example, in each Jesus is the central figure. Matthew, Mark, and Luke are called the Synoptic gospels. The word "synoptic" means "giving a common view" of the gospel story. John is independent in his choice of material. He focuses on the theme of the eternal life through the faith in Christ. Each of the Gospels are equally historical. The gospel of Mark stresses the human side of Jesus. Matthew has been called an expanded edition of Mark. Luke shows a more literary and more historical product, while John shows a decided development beyond the type established in Mark. For years after Jesus' death, the gospel story was an oral tradition, but once the gospel story began to be written down, oral tradition ...
- 832: Charles Dickens
- ... if you read my essay. This will be a discussion on the famous author Charles Dickens and his life. The great author Charles Dickens was born on February 7, 1812, he was the son of John and Elizabeth Dickens. Charles Dickens father, John Dickens, was a clerk in a Navy pay office. John was very bad with finances so he was put in jail because of his debt. Charles' whole family joined his father in jail and Charles was stuck working for Warrens Blacking Factory. After his ...
- 833: Pride In The Crucible
- ... to the main characters. Every single move they do, every single word they say and every single thought they have is made in function of what people would think. Accused from witchcraft, the main character, John Proctor, lose all he has because of his pride. The destiny have not be so good either for Giles Corey . His pride for is family may have stood in front of the law and the ... gains from this is weight on his mind and a white name. As you may have notice, pride is one of the most important theme in The Crucible. The main character of the play is John Proctor. Back in time, he had an affair with Abigail Williams and what seemed to be some kind of little detail ends up being the main cause of the accusation charged against his wife, Elizabeth ... sleep with really desires him and after she got involved in a witchcraft trial, she tells the court that Elizabeth Proctor tried her power on her. She thought that his wife would be hang, so John would come back in her arms. The pride of John Proctor is shown in the novel by the way he tries not to tell what happened between Abigail and he. He keeps it for ...
- 834: Book Report on Jack London's "Call of the Wild"
- ... position. Then a member of the triad that owned came over and tried to get him up with a club. He beat him until he was one more hit away from death. Thankfully; a man, John came to Buck's aid and said, "If you hit that dog one more time, I'll kill you." The two men then began to fight and Buck was left behind to be cared for and brought back to health by John Thornton. As Buck's love for John grew it felt great for me. This was the first time that Buck had ever loved anyone. When Buck was able to pull a twelve-hundred pound sled that was frozen in the snow ...
- 835: Barnabas
- ... Saul," indicates the pre-eminence. It was "Barnabas and Saul" who carried relief funds from Antioch to the famine- stricken Jerusalem (Acts 11:30). Barnabas was commissioned by the Antioch church, along with Saul and John Mark, to undertake the missionary journey which led them to Cyprus and later to the provinces of the mainland. While on the island of Cyprus, two major changes occur, Saul is now called Paul and ... relative standing of the two men in Jerusalem. The separation of Barnabas from Paul and their divergent missionary activity began in Antioch after the Jerusalem conference. The issue which Luke gives was the taking of John Mark on another journey (Acts 15:36). John Mark's defection at Cyprus (Acts 13:13) seemed to Paul to be sufficient grounds for dropping him from the party. Barnabas was extremely devoted to John Mark because they were cousins (Col 4: ...
- 836: Jesus
- ... shall save his people from their sins" (Matthew 1:21). Jesus said, "I am come in my Father's name," and, "The Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost,...the Father will send in my name" (John 5:43; 14:26). Thus by baptizing in the name of Jesus, we honor the Godhead. "For in him dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead bodily" (Colossians 2:9). Luke 24:45-47 records ... carried out the Lord's commission. As Jesus said in prayer, "I have manifested thy name unto the men [the apostles] which thou gavest me out of the world...and they have kept thy word" (John 17:6). The Samaritans, who were not Jews, were also baptized in the name of Jesus. Then Philip went down to the city of Samaria, and preached Christ unto them.... But when they believed Philip ... the Lord Jesus" (Acts 8:5, 12, 16). Let us see how Paul, the apostle to the Gentiles, baptized. He went to Ephesus many years after the Day of Pentecost and found some disciples of John the Baptist there. "He said unto them, Have ye received the Holy Ghost since ye believed? And they said unto him, We have not so much as heard whether there be any Holy Ghost. ...
- 837: The Crucible - Struggles in the Play
- ... the basis for the trials. It is Abigail's and all the other girls' need to be free and act like teenagers. The second is the result of the corruption of the trials. It is John Proctor's fight to convince the townspeople that the accused women are not witches (especially his wife), and that it is Abigail who should be killed instead. In Puritan society, the role of the child ... be falsely accused by their neighbors as a method of revenge, and as an outlet for their maliciousness. When Abigail uses this case to attack Rebecca Nurse, one of the best Puritans in the Salem, John Proctor begins his efforts to stop the injustice. This increases when Elizabeth Proctor is tried and sentenced to death. This is John Proctor's struggle. He must fight to save his wife, his community and eventually himself. In addition, he also has to convince the leaders of Salem that they are mistaken in believing in Abigail. ...
- 838: Spy Games - Creative Essay
- ... had no problem coming up with a new alias" I asked. Everyone nodded in agreement. From there we went about the table saying who we now were and what our profession was. My alias was John Inglis, and I went to one of the local high schools. As a part time job I supposedly worked for McDonald's. Everybody's main story was that they went to high school. It helps ... lefty. Intelligence officers notice everything. Well, at least we had that in common. "Officer Lublanski?" I asked as I approached her desk. "Yes" she replied. "What can I do for you?" "Hi, my name is John Inglis" I began, giving her my alias rather than my real name. "I was hoping you could give me some information on a friend of mine. Her parents seem to have reported her missing to ... six of us clasped in the furniture she had set about her living room. In a few minutes she was on her way back over. "Ok, a squad car is on its way over. Now, John do you care to tell me what this is all about?" With the mention of the name John, looked at me. They never ever though I'd actually give a false name to a ...
- 839: The Church Is Foundation In Christ
- ... generated into Christ. The chain, beginning with Christ, is one we are all part of by virtue of us being generated into Christ by the "redemptive" chain furthered by the first witnesses: Mary, Peter, and John. Christ, as Incarnate, offers himself to all by virtue of his surrender on the Cross where he died so that our sins could be forgiven. Thus redemption is a service inherent in the powers bestowed ... by Christ and by means of partaking in the Sacraments we continue the tradition which has been carried on for nearly two thousand years. This tradition has remained "divinized" in: the "humanity of mary, Peter, John, and the other apostles and after their death, in the humanity of Those whose existence they had meanwhile drawn into the divine Contagion, 'generating them in Christ' as Paul puts it (1 Cor. 4:15 ... they are handed into our hands as gifts to be handed on. This is what we really mean by'tradition' (Figures of the Church p. 193). The eyes of the first witnesses, Mary, Peter, and John, are constantly returned to by Balthasar in order to understand the Incarnation. He describes their relationship with Christ as "paradigmatic" and "efficacious." Paradigmatic in the sense that their relations would be prototypical not only ...
- 840: Jane Eyre: Jane's Love For Rochester
- ... where she meets, Rochester, the owner of the mansion, and her true love. When she learns of a dark secret he has been keeping, she flees to another part of England where she meets St. John, a man who she does find good looking, but doesn't like his personality. From here she returns to Thornfield where she marries Rochester. If Jane had gone through her life looking for beauty instead ... thinker than to have beautiful features and an abundance of money. It is this attitude of Jane's that allows her to make the right decisions. Jane does not fall in love and marry St. John for even though is more handsome than Rochester and she is attracted to him, he does not have the same intellect. "He was young-perhaps from twenty-eight to thirty-tall, slender; his face riveted the eye; it was like a Greek face, very pure in outline." St.John has beautiful features, but he cannot communicate with and talk at the same intellectual level with Jane as can Rochester. "...there was another barrier to friendship with him: he seemed of a reserved, an ...
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