DISCIPLESHIFT: JOURNAL 14- I like the analogy he makes about the baseball pitcher. You can get a shot of cortisone to reduce swelling‚ but it will not deal with the deeper issue at heart. In the church‚ we must understand that change will never be fast‚ but it will be worth it. 20- “About one in four people living together outside marriage call themselves evangelicals” What?!? 24- “The solution to our ineffectiveness as churches is to train people to be spiritually mature‚ fully devoted followers
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The baby is not an inert or passive being‚ but a “creative” individual‚ actively struggling to grow and learn. There is an unconscious urge‚ a life force or horme that works untiringly‚ but this work of the child cannot achieve perfect development if the conditions are not right.” Discuss a perfect prepared environment‚ stimulating his needs for emotional‚ intellectual stimulation‚ hygienic precaution and his physical growth. “There is a play of instincts within a child not only with respect
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"Another parable put He forth unto them‚ saying‚ The kingdom of heaven is like to a grain of mustard-seed‚ which a man took‚ and sowed in His field: Which‚ indeed‚ is the least of all seeds; but when it is grown‚ it is the greatest among herbs‚ and becometh a tree‚ so that the birds of the air come and lodge in the branches thereof" (vv. 31‚ 32). It should be evident to all‚ that our understanding of this parable hinges upon a correct interpretation of its three central figures: the mustard-seed
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our context‚ a mentor is a wise‚ trusted and dedicated tutor. In our context‚ a mentor is a wise‚ trusted and dedicated tutor‚ who will guide a child through the experiences of life‚ inculcate right values and reproduce wisdom‚ uprightness‚ and godliness in the resultant adults. Obviously‚ a clear requirement of a good mentor is that he or she must have the right the values and all traits and abilities sought to be inculcated in a child. As the saying goes “you cannot give what you do not have”
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Achebe claims that art reflects the totality of one’s life. The next tattoo depicts the importance of kola nuts in Ibo life with the bese saka‚ or “sack of kola nuts‚” signifying wealth‚ and the adinkrahene‚ “the chief of adinkra symbols‚” to demonstrate the strength of the kola nut in Ibo culture (“Adinkra Index”). The symbolism reigns true as a character in Things Fall Apart says “‘He who brings kola brings life’” (Achebe 6). Next‚ the goat is a facet the Ibo people cherish. Things Fall Apart reveals
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In a book written by urban legend specialist Jan Brunvand‚ “The Vanishing Hitchhiker‚” there is a trilling chapter about the theme of contamination in different urban legends. Whether it is about food or body contamination‚ those legends of contagion have been in place for quite some time‚ but not always exactly in the same form. The way those legends are infiltrated in our culture can tell us a lot about their importance and their evolution. The two legends “Alligators in the sewers” and “Spider
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The good life is a condition in which a person will be the most happy. Both Plato and Aristotle see the good life as the state in which a person exhibits total virtue. Plato reasons that a person will exhibit total virtue when his desires have been extinguished‚ while Aristotle believes the perfect state will bring forth the virtue in men. Plato argues that the good life springs from love because through love‚ men can rid themselves of desires. That is not to say that every loving relationship creates
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1b) The three examples of sympathy and no sympathy in Beowulf‚ the first of Beowulf telling his very boastful story‚ one of Grendel origins and the third of feeling sympathy for Grendel because of his origins. The first is when the reader is supposed to not feel sympathy for Beowulf when he boasts about his adventure at sea "...I was the strongest swimmer of all. / …. Each of us swam holding a sword‚ / a naked‚ hard- proofed blade for protection/ against the whale- beast. /.... pinned fast/ and swathed
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would be an example of God’s almightiness. Also‚ there is a conflict between Annie Dillard’s illusion of God‚ since her thoughts are not united in this topic and reader could get easily confused‚ whether she is devout or skeptical about God. In the next paragraph I would like to focus on Dillard’s use of the words God and god. Annie Dillard often uses the word God
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Are we really a vain society? Do we really have a more-than-normal pride in our appearance? To answer that‚ you’d have to define normal. There’s nothing wrong with being vain‚ as long as we don’t get carried away with it. We just want to look good to look our best. And people have been working hard at looking their best for centuries. And that’s why cosmetics has such a long history. We’d like to take you through the history of cosmetics here; and let’s just see how similar we are to people living
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