They collected money for the Romans. ... They also weren't allowed to take bread, beggars bag, and money. ... The gospel says in chapter 8-33,36, "for who ever wants to save his own line life will lose it; but whoever loses his life for me and for the gospel will save it" meaning if any body dies for Jesus, they will be saving their own life from here on, but if someone wants to save his own life and dies will lose his life from here after. ... Mother Teresa tried to social and political justice for the people of India but as again it is a third world country, it doesn't have enough ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Elisha, a "saved" adolescent who John admires very much, combines a strong spiritual devotion to God's ways with righteous action. ... While married, he has an illegitimate son with another woman, then sends her and her son up North using money he steals from his wife. ... "I mean beautiful girls, and when you got so much power that they don't tempt you then you know you saved sure enough." ...

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In order to play here you need to be saved and accept Jesus into your heart,"" she said sternly, though unsure of how I would respond. ... "She's going to save me tomorrow."" My mother laughed out loud and said, "Save you? ... "Mom, how come you don't save my friends?... There is money involved in every facet, ranging from the fee for the annulment of a marriage to the weekly collections at mass. ...

• Word Count: 1785
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• Grade Level: High School

The way they were built and have lasted for centuries is an indication of how well they were built and the money the Church had to invest in these buildings. ... This, in turn, saved them a massive amount of money, and made it far wealthier than any king of England at this time. ...

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The main difference in religious thought was that of the idea of grace, being saved. The Puritans believed that grace was given by God and that one could not tell if they were saved, it was a predestined order of God. They believed that if you were saved you tended to do good acts and if not you tended to do those things that were more loathsome. ... The Puritans found that a lot of money could be made in this. ...

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Dhammapada 15.4 Jesus: "Those who want to save their life will lose it, and those who lose their life for my sake will save it." ... Udanavarga 27.1 Jesus: If you wish to be perfect, go, sell your possessions, and give the money to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. ...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Levi was a tax collector who often stole or kept money for himself. ... Jesus looked at him and said, "Receive thy site, thy faith has saved thee." ... Jesus commanded the spirit to leave, and the spirit left the young boy, who was saved. ... and in that instant her spirit came back to her, she was saved. ...

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Augustine attempts to heal himself by filling his void with other mortal things, such as conversation and money, which seems harmless or even admirable. ... Augustine needed hope that there was a better life out there because he was going "more and more into sins which could bear no fruit save sorrows" (1009). ...

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I was just recently saved and baptized so this Christian thing was a fairly new concept for me. ... For example, some people worship money, bands, people, personal possessions and even other god's. ...

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He shows doubt and disagreement with the summoner, whose job it is to collect money from parishioners and make them repent for their sins. ... Most of these summoners kept the money they were given. ... If one wanted to be saved, he or she had to follow their religious leaders without question or disagreement. ...

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His family had money because his he owned a business. ... His plan of being the knight who saved the day did not work out. ... He did not have nay money for supplies and he was so devoted to listening to God's message that he steels from his father to buy work supplies. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

So I'll say my bit about missions and then lets get some money so we can all feel okay. Missions is so much more than just giving people money (which we don't do a very good job of anyway). ... Back to Romans 10 a. 10.13 - Paul quotes Joel 2.32, "Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved."" ...

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And so the father gave to him his living, and the boy left with his pockets full of money "which he did not earn with work that he'd done himself. ... The money he had in his pocket was there because he had a very generous father. ... So now here is this boy unable to feed himself because he lacks the money and is now feeding pigs. ... Many would say that this young boy was a sinner, and is going to be saved. ... When this boy got to the far country and was out there throwing his money around, he was still a son. ...

• Word Count: 3350
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• Grade Level: High School

The younger brother sold all his land for money, left the country, and then blew all his money in wild living. ... This story goes along with Jason Campbell's hero myth in that the younger brother leaves home, he has his trials where he goes and squanders all of his money leaving him with nothing, he realizes what he has done and that he must return home if he wants to survive. When he returns home his father saves and accepts him back into the family. ... His younger son sold his entire amount that his dad gave him for money, than left the family to go to a distant country, washed away ...

• Word Count: 1841
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

God works hard to try to save others from their sin but he can't always be there so he gives you the choice to do good for yourself and other to make his work load smaller. ... Explicit content is bad because people are paying money to see a sacred ceremony that is only shared between married couples and being perverted. There are also science fiction movies, that people are paying money to see, which should be band. ... If you stop buying movies and music from the actors and singers, you will put them out of money. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Transplant surgery could causes a trade in human organs and so many poor people may be tempted to sell their organs for money and the people who trade the organs could exploit the poor and allowing this to go would be immoral. ... In the Qur"an it states that the human body should not be used for material purposes, you could not therefore have a transplant to save someone's life. ... In the Qur"an there is a principle called the "law of necessity" this states that it is ok to break the law in order to save someone's life. ...

• Word Count: 1728
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• Grade Level: High School

Religion itself to day is seen as a joke especially with the televised religion that just takes money out of your pocket. ... "From the everyday believers have testimonies and stories of "healed bodies and minds, ships coming in, prospering businesses, saved marriages--in short, a life where the shadows flee away," as defined by Leonard I. ... I just thought if you were saved then you were going to heaven. ...

• Word Count: 1583
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New Covenant Baptist Church (NCBC) is an urban church with an average attendance of 140 per week. The pastor is about to start his fifth (5) month, after serving his previous church for seven (7) years. He has learned a few things at his previous church that will definitely be helpful at NCBC. With ...

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It is commonly held by some that Mary was a prostitute, and this would mean that she probably had some money. ... When people get truly saved, they follow and become disciples. ... She has given all her money, her time, her emotions and her life. ...

• Word Count: 1729
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In this story, I've got a feeling of sadness because the rich man chose to keep his money than followed what Jesus told him to do, that he should give away his riches to the needy and poor and learn to carry his cross. ... God who surrenders his life for us to be save from sins that we've made? ...

• Word Count: 1004
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"[Katerina] will borrow a little money somewhere and set up a boarding school for the daughters of gentlemen and begin a new splendid life"" (252). ... As all of her prospects disappoint her, Katerina descends into insanity and succumbs to her illness because the hope she sought could not save her. ...

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On June 19th, 1834 Charles Haddon Spurgeon was born. He was born in Kelvedon, Essex. His father was twenty-four years old. He was a clerk in a coal yard and also a minister. His name was John Spurgeon. His mother was nineteen when he was born and her name was Eliza Jarvis. She gave birth to nineteen...

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America was founded by men in search of power and money who used their religious beliefs, predominantly Protestant Christian, as an excuse for their brutality. ... They believed in pre-destination yet still worked very hard to save the "heathens" from eternal darkness. ...

• Word Count: 1331
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Father Drumont was seen as a benevolent person who has come with the message of Christ to save the "pagans-, but only the women (mostly from polygamy household) and the children are interested. ... Surely the Christian church was the most powerful and wealthy of all religions, however what made it think that they had the right to go against the most basic and true teachings of the church for money? ...

• Word Count: 999
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Just as Jesus differentiates Himself and His followers from the moneychangers in the temple, Santiago fishes differently than the other fishermen, whom he regards as pragmatic, practical materialists who "used buoys as floats for their lines and had motorboats, bought when the shark livers had brought much money" (pages 29-30). ... While Santiago is doing all this to bring back an enormous fish, Christ completes his mission in order to save humanity. ...

• Word Count: 1677
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School