Without these three basic guides, examples, and knowledgeable encounters that are provided, biblical leadership would be only as effective as secular leadership styles are without the supernatural influence of God through their personal lives and into the lives of those they lead. ... The biblical leader understands that there is a higher accountability to God because of the values of the lives and souls the leader is impacting both here on earth and for the future. ... Jesus stated in reply to one of Thomas' inquiries for leadership in John 14:6-7 answering, "I am the way and the t...

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There is a gold cross that is brought in every traditional service and placed in a holder in the center of the stage on a wooden table, signifying Christ in the center of our lives. ... The senior minister gives the sermons where he teaches using scripture, real life stories, and inspirational messages and also myths that a large society might believe in to keep hope (Kottak). The sermon that the senior minister gave when I was attendance was about the use of friends and family in our lives to keep us motivated and help us on our spiritual journey to become closer to our Father in Heaven. .....

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Therefore, Stanton emphasizes that the Roman Catholic Church degrade women today in various spheres including "social life, the state and in the church ". Thus, this paper argues persuasively that the hierarchical structure of the Roman Catholic Church negatively impacts the lives of women. ... The Roman church had political power to rule and influence every arena of people's lives. ... She stresses that Beatriz, a gravely ill Salvadoran woman is being denied a therapeutic abortion of a foetus missing its brain in order to save her life. ... Thus, their lives are run by others. ...

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At one end people base their lives on the elements of their faith as rules to be followed with clear and fixed boundaries. ... Religion is a part of individual life but also of group dynamics, and includes patterns of behavior, language and thought. ... Essentially to be a Hindu today is to believe in the Hindu way of life and to follow it to the best of ones ability which is assisted through formalized norms. ... Until that day Christians believe that the Spirit of God lives in them, and guides and strengthens them in their pilgrimage on earth. ... As demonstrated by comparing formal and s...

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Religion is a part of many Americans lives. It is a part of many people across the world's lives, but it is a bigger part of some people's lives then others. ... Some people's religions guide there lives more so then others. ... In all of these religions the members are not allowed to seek professional medical treatment even for life threatening diseases, or circumstances such as cancer, appendicitis, car accidents, etc. ... If there is no threat to life, or potential for serious impairment, then the parents rights to refuse must be respected and the child left untreated and in ...

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Pastoral Communication is the sharing our deepening of this Spirit to the lives of people. ... Our life complete docility to the Spirit so that Holy Spirit can guide us and we do God's will. ... We live in God and God lives in us. ... The experience of creating community of parish in prayer, Eucharist and sacramental life, in Bible sharing and common life experience nourishes and gives strength, especially in difficult communication situation. ... We first foremost, an inner attitude and habit which is formed through a deep spiritual life. ...

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Holding true to the descriptions of the afterlife in the bibe, Conservative protestants believe that everyone has eternal life, and God created Heaven and Hell as places for people to spend the rest of their lives after death and judgment. ... The Bible is seen as authoritative; it is believed to give a consistent vision throughout of life after death. ... Borrowing some ideas from the Zoroastrian religion, some later Jewish writers saw the faithful being resurrected and leading long lives in a purified earth before dying a second time. ... They view the concept of an eternal punishment for ...

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It also mentions how God quickened life and everything that is moved which is an abstract of how God created living creature in the bible. ... Grendel's mother lives in a dark and hidden, "hole" (cavern) and "hollow place which denotes the hell where Devil lives. ... Beowulf is demonstrated as an honor to his race as Christ was demonstrated as Christian messiah who came to give up his life to safe his people. ... The inducing part of the story was the death of Jesus Christ, who voluntarily gave up his life to his hater in order to save his people life whose has been predominated by devil...

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The meaning of the sacrament of baptism to the Catholic Church is as follows: It signifies and actually brings about death to sin and entry into the life of the Most Holy Trinity through configuration to the Paschal mystery of Christ. ... For Methodists, the Holiness Conference of North America in particular the act of baptism represents the death of one's sin and a rebirth into the Christian way of life. ... (Catechism of the Catholic Church, Paragraph 1295) In the Methodist church there is no need for an initiation in which a spiritual seal is placed upon a person, because it is the bel...

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Yancey decides to reexamine these traditional views after he encountered some confusing experiences of the imagery that was portrayed as Jesus throughout his life. ... Over time Yancey came to believe the Beatitudes were proved true in everyday life; as proof he offers stories of people who have found satisfaction in lives of quiet sacrifice for others. Yancey has synthesized a personal response to the theological difficulties of the sermon from the Russian novelists Leo Tolstoy and Fyodor Dostoevski, whose lives and novels represent respectively the struggle for perfection and hope for redemp...

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Most Christians don't live that life but the bible says that as long as you accept gods grace you can be saved. ... Christianity teaches us that faith and community bring us together to learn about Jesus and how to live a life of righteousness (supernatural life). ... Living the supernatural life is what Christians strive to do on a daily basis. If one accepts Gods grace then they will know what God wants from them in life and how to get there. Tradition is engrained in the lives of every Christian in the world, from attending church on Sundays to how Christians celebrate Easter or Chr...

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A wedding banquet during this time period was a joyous occasion, with great importance placed on the lives of the betrothed. ... Using a wedding banquet as the setting for this parable allows people to apply the message of God to their everyday lives. ... Therefore, the invited that declined became careless with the things of God and were too distracted by the superficial aspect of their lives to take the time to recognize and appreciate offering of the King of Heaven. ... Additionally, verses 11-14 are only contained in the Gospel of Matthew, who commonly "presents Jesus's life in the co...

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Christians are depicted as blindly believing that they are guaranteed a better life after they die based solely on the fact that they believe in Jesus Christ. ... In Camus's novel, Christians are presented as using their faith as a crutch on which they rely with no other explanation for their belief other than the fact that without it, their lives would be meaningless, similar to that of Meursault. ... The magistrate's only response is, ""Do you want my life to be meaningless?"" ...

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Secular humanism is not a religion, but a way of thinking and living and its aim is for you personally to bring out the best in yourself and other people so that you can live a happy life. Secular humanists also believe that we personally are in charge of and are responsible for what happens in our own lives and we must not rely on a God to help us or tell us what to do. ... It told them everything that they needed to know about the purpose and meaning of life. ... The Secular humanist notion that there is no god is a problem for these groups as they strongly believe in a world that has a c...

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Indians and other Chinese thought of death as either a period of time before one was born into his or her next life or a definitive resting place/peace, referred to as Moksha or Nirvana. ... All of these different societies were able to use religion as a way to better some men/women's lives and make others harder and more difficult. ... Promise of moving up in life only came from the prospect of reincarnation into a higher caste. ... Religion is viewed different ways by many: a blessing, a curse on humanity, the reason for life, the reason for war, but there are a couple things that a...

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Ecclesial ministers participate in the parish life and they may lead as a principal, a youth ministry leader or even as a director of liturgy. ... They must also possess a true respect and concern for others and must also always use Jesus, his life and the Church's teachings. ... Spiritual formation's main goal is to induce "true hunger for holiness, desire for union with the Father through Christ in the Spirit, daily growing in the love of God and neighbor in life and ministry.... The spiritual formation that ministers need promotes their conversation with God and focus on God ...

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Our curriculum and campus life are designed to nurture the whole person: body, mind and soul. ... From these beliefs arise the convictions that those who teach and learn are called to be coworkers with Christ in subjecting all cultural activities to the reign of God, and that genuine education must involve the whole person as a thinking, feeling, and believing creature We seek to graduate students who are well equipped to bring the discipline of rigorous academic work into their chosen vocations and the practice of Christ-like service toward others into their personal and public lives Students...

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The teaching that life is a gift from god is also taken into account when Christians talk about abortion. "The lord gave and the lord takes away" this quote highlights the belief that god is the giver of life and that life is sacred, and issues such as abortion take away from gods sovereignty. ... Christians believe that euthanasia contradicts the ethical teaching of the sanctity of life as it is central to their faith that all life is sacred and purposeful. Christians argue that humans are made in the image of God and turn to scripture to support this argument "none of us lives...

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Go Tell it on the Mountain raises many important issues concerning the purpose and function of religion and faith in God as it pertains to an individual's life and the community one lives in. ... "That long road, her life, which she had followed for sixty groaning years, had led her at last to her mothers starting place, the altar of the Lord. ... However, as she prays, Florence reveals that she has led a very difficult and unfulfilling life that has left her emotionally scarred, insecure, and without hope. ... The result of Florence's childhood and much of her life is depressio...

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(Reiter, 2001) Connecting more intensely with the sacred during a pilgrimage to Jerusalem, adherents of Judaism and Christianity can experience a transformation such that on their return home their relationship with God and their experience of faith has more meaning in their everyday and ordinary lives. ... In essence, Kaddish affirms God's justice and speaks of the value of life. ... The Psalms often begin with a description of despair and then conclude with hope and joy – often expressed to protect and heal.Tehillim demonstrates how profoundly one's relationship to the Alm...

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Alluding to her incarnation as God, the grandmother lives in the attic of blue walls and "stars of silver" where from an elevated position she is able to see all, which is comparable to the sky which Christians describe God to reside (MacDonald 94). ... Believers in Him are able to see and accept Him as their own truth, thus making them visible in their lives. ... In the Christian theology, it is believed that baptism cleanses the soul of sin, giving the soul new life and salvation through submersion in water. ...

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One holds that religion is a "way of life woven around people's ultimate concerns." ... Buddhism preaches a life of moderation, neither too far in the material world nor too far in the practice of asceticism. ... In it, the central character Siddhartha oscillates through the 2 extremes of life in the physical world. ... In the end, he finds consolation as a simple ferry boatman, living his life by a river. ... The end goal of Buddhism is to reach Nirvana by following the path and eventually ending the cycle of reincarnation by releasing all the karma accumulated through lives both past an...

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Production is the basis of history, which in turn is the basis for intellectual and cultural life. ... Kierkegaard thought that the reason for the alienation is in the middle-class society, in the complacency of the bourgeois with their comfortable lives and their smug, self-satisfied "religious" attitudes, concerned only about piety and respectability and incapable of gathering the passion required for a genuine leap of faith. ... The first one is the aesthetic, which is a life by whim or impulse, seeking only pleasure. ... According to him these two ways of choosing lead to alienation of the...

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Enlightenment intellectuals sought to provide, in a sense, eternal life through progress of science and technology. Benjamin Franklin wrote, "All diseases may by sure means be prevented or cured, not excepting even that of old age, and our lives lengthened at pleasure even beyond the antediluvian standard" (XIII). ... Life, then, became, as Adam Smith described it, "a race for wealth and honors and preferments" (XVII). ... A worldview, he says, help us to "determine values, held up to interpret the world around us, and in general function as a guide to life" (9). ... I feel that God wants ...

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Tillich not only states that the Bible should remain a priority in ones life in Christ, but it should also be "studied critically, with the detached tools of scholarship" (Fackre 73). ... Thus we are left continually unknowing what God has working in our lives. ...

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