... leave Israel (2:13), informs him to bring his family back to the promised land (2:20), and advised to take his family to Galilee to live in peace (2:22). This difference of to whom the annunciation is given in Matthew deems Joseph the hero of the story. Matthew depicts Joseph as "a very sensitive Jewish ... as the rest of the Gospel. The story is made up of sections that are easy to pick out from one another. The narrative acts as a separate story in itself. When it ends, the remainder of the Gospel begins as if nothing appeared before it (Brown: Messiah 49). If the narrative was taken ...

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... after getting his freedom. I"m sure he would try by every means to stay away. There was a recent article in the newspaper which reminded me of how we should choose to separate ourselves from sin and live unto God. Aron Ralston survived five days in Blue John Canyon, Utah. While maneuvering between a 3 foot slot canyon, a 1000 pound boulder broke loose and smashed ... . He demonstrates that he is a child of God by his holy living (Romans 6:21, 22). As the Holy Spirit works in his life, He brings forth fruit of "love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness- (Galatians 5:22-25). Instead of s...

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• Grade Level: High School

... religion are Jesus Christ, the Savior. Most Christians believe in a trinity, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. They are three separate beings but they form a single unified deity. After the execution of Jesus, the disciples spread across the world and taught Christianity. Christianity spread to ... Personally, I take religion with a grain of salt. In most instances, religion unites people and gives them a sense of belonging, a sense of peace with the world. It is only those situations in which someone twists the purpose of religion and causes destruction with their twisted versio...

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... son. He even went so far as to name his son, "Rahula" or "fetter" (this all in his life before his search for peace). The chains that bore him together in his present life would be broken and so he went on in his journey to attain enlightenment or Nirvana ... the other hand are formerly Christian Americans who have converted to Buddhism, who are looking for an American Buddhist identity, and who thus want to separate Buddhism from its Asian cultural roots This movement had developed the same spiritual independence in regard to Buddhist (male-dominated) institutions that Christian women h...

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... shepherding role is oversight, and this is literally what the word bishop means in the Bible. It is very safe to say that a words pastor and overseer (bishop) are not separate offices. Peter writes, "Shepherd the flock of God serving as overseers" (I Pet. 5:2). But might there be a difference between elders and pastors? The apostle Paul writes in Eph. 4:11, "And He ... still left wounded from our life in the flesh, what did Christ suffer for? "He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities; the chastisement of our peace was upon Him, and by His stripes we are h...

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... , and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus. Isaiah 53:5,6 But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon Him; and with His stripes we are healed. All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the Lord hath ... not be a saint? I started seeing that a man was deciding this and that it was not God. I now know that a saint is someone that is (according to Young's concordance) set apart, separate, holy. I am a saint. When I was considering my divorce, I was told by the pr...

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