It can be said that in God’s eyes‚ Christians are only dirty glasses which are stained inside and out with their own sin. These glasses were once clean‚ not plagued with stains. Now the glasses bear with them these ugly stains‚ the stains of sin and wrongdoing. The dirty glasses had to accept their punishment for becoming dirty‚ and the punishment was being destroyed by a hammer. The hammer is God’s instrument against sinners. As the hammer made its decent on the glass‚ a pan covered the glass and
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MICRO PRESENTATION TOPICS 1 Excellence is not an accomplishment‚ its a never ending process 39 What is meant to be‚ will always find a way 2 The pursuit of happiness 40 Its not the load that breaks you down. It is the way you carry it 3 The difference between a leader and boss 41 When all is said and done there is more said than done 3 The difference between a leader and boss 41 When all is said and done there is more said than done 4 Corporate social responsibility 42 Your focus determines
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Christ and Culture‚ authored by H. Richard Niebuhr in 1951‚ is a book which discusses how a Church or a Christian is to interact with ones culture. Niebuhr systematically answers this question by placing the church into the following five categories they have utilized through history to answer this question: "Christ against culture‚" "the Christ of culture‚" "Christ above culture (Christ synthesizing with culture)‚" "Christ and culture in paradox‚" and "Christ the transformer of culture." Reading
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religious especially about Christian. Simultaneously‚ there are many paintings draw on Jesus Christ and related to his birth‚ crucifixion and resurrection. An Italian painter who call Giotto di Bondone creates the art work call “The Crucifixion” at 1312. He is one of the famous contributor to the art works at the period of Renaissance. The another art works would be discussing in this paper is call “The Yellow Christ” which painted by Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin at 1889. Paul Gauguin is a French artist paint
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the life of Jesus Christ‚ is Giulio Cesare Procaccini’s The Scourging of Christ. In this piece‚ Procaccini’s masterful use of light and shadows in a technique called chiaroscuro dramatically portray the torturing of Christ‚ and it is this very application of chiaroscuro that immediately caught my eye. Through his masterful rendition of value‚ Procaccini successfully evoked within me a crushing sensation of agony. While I did not initially realize that the piece was one of Christ‚ research enabled
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King of Kings and The Life and Passion of Jesus Christ. The emphasis of the Jesus story is no longer on the performance of the text as accurately as possible but perhaps the meaning behind the biblical texts. While wacky to some‚ Godspell does
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evident mistrust of religion‚ not necessarily towards religion itself but particularly towards those individuals who use religion as a cloak to conceal their true duplicitous and oppressive nature. In arguably he’s most controversial poem‚ Goodbye Christ; Langston Hughes takes on the role of a disillusioned Christian and repudiates the doctrines set forth in America‚ which was supposedly a Christian country. After his visit to the Soviet Union in 1932‚ Langston Hughes experienced the mechanisms of
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In many literary stories‚ the protagonist is portrayed as a Christ figure. Such is the case in Idylls of the King‚ written by Lord Alfred Tennyson. The protagonist‚ Arthur‚ is portrayed as a Christ figure in three ways: as a king who desires law and order‚ as a king with questioned paternity‚ and as a king who was betrayed. Throughout Arthur’s life‚ he exemplified characteristics that are very similar to Christ‚ one of these being the desire for law and order. Arthur established order by defeating
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Christology AB1979 Why is the study of the person of Christ important? No one is more important than Jesus Christ. Christ is the main person throughout history that the true believer finds it necessary to study. We must truly know the meaning of Christ’s life to find and fulfill the real purpose of life. Lessons learned from studying the life of Jesus Christ is that He is God’s true Son. Because of this we are to obey Christ‚ since Christ has all authority in Heaven and on earth. Further‚ we
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Living as Those Made Alive in Christ You have been raised with Christ‚ set your hearts on things above‚ where Christ is‚ seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds on things above‚ not on earthly things. For you died‚ and your life is now hidden with Christ in God. . Put to death‚ therefore‚ whatever belongs to your earthly nature: sexual immorality‚ impurity‚ lust‚ evil desires and greed‚ which is idolatry. You used to walk in these ways‚ in the life you once lived. But now you must also
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