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    1. To whom is the sermon addressed? The Congregation that he is preaching to. 2. According to Edwards‚ why is God wrathful? People are sinners‚ wicked‚ and his wrath is infinite and inevitable. 3. Reread the sixth paragraph. What people‚ according to Edwards‚ are not in the hands of this angry God? How is this state achieved? We are all sinners no matter what we believe or practice. It is God who keeps us from destruction and that has nothing to do with anything that we think prevents it. 4.

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    Unethical Charity in Missouri On a Saturday morning while running errands usually one might notice a few men collecting money at the corner of any two busy intersections. People give the sticky change that has been laying in their car baking for three months‚ to the organization. Little do they know that the money they worked hard to scrape from the bottom of the ashtray in twenty seconds while at a stoplight is not going where they think. A recent investigation found that a firm run by Missouri

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    Actions are intrinsically wrong or right regardless of the state of affairs that action brings about. The end does not justify the means Emphasis on actions‚ not situations Begins with basic question of our purpose in life- the readings from pope john paul Teleological- From “telos” or “end” an emphasis on the end or “object” of two things -Human life in General and each individual act -Begins with actions‚ not consequenses -Some actions can be judged intrinsically evil regardless of the situation

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    17th century St. Louise de Merillac Sisters of Charity • 1633 - The founding of the Sisters (or Daughters) of Charity‚ Servants of the Sick Poor by Sts. Vincent de Paul and Louise de Merillac. The community would not remain in a convent‚ but would nurse the poor in their homes‚ "having no monastery but the homes of the sick‚ their cell a hired room‚ their chapel the parish church‚ their enclosure the streets of the city or wards of the hospital." [1] • 1640 - The Sisters assume charge

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    In it Jesus refocuses our attention. It’s about putting God on the throne‚ admiting his rule and authority. The model prayer has three emphasis according to Myron S. Augsburger‚ (1) the honor that is given to God through our worship‚ (2) our dependence upon God makes us humble and (3) the hope that we have under the lordship of God ( Augsburger M. S. 1982‚ p.87). The prayer brings us back to a God-centered life instead of a self –centered life. It’s about honoring God‚ depending

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    Matthew 5-7 is commonly known as the Sermon on the Mount. Jesus’s teachings in this passage are often times known as the ethics of the kingdom of God. One particular aspect that separates Jesus’s teachings from all other religious teaching is that it focuses on the inward condition of the heart‚ rather than just outward actions. This is one of the main reasons that the Pharisees did not like Jesus’s teachings. He constantly rebuked their hard-heartedness‚ and in the Sermon on the Mount the Pharisees’ attitudes

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    Seventeenth-century sermon techniques in Benjamin Franklin’s "Way to Wealth" communicate his secular eighteenth-century principles. First‚ Franklin’s structure contains a text‚ a doctrine section‚ and an application section as a Puritan sermon would. Franklin addresses a question concerning the financial problems of the day‚ and he takes his text from “Poor Richard’s Almanac.” Based on the issue raised concerning finances‚ Franklin formulates the thesis that the tax commissioners are unable to ease

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    T.S. Eliot "The Fire Sermon" An analysis of the poem focusing on the elements of nature Joachim TRAUN 0004165 301/341 "It is just a piece of rhythmical grumbling" (T.S. Eliot on "The Waste Land") Table of contents page 1. Introduction 4 2. T.S. Eliot- a brief biography 4 3. The fire sermon 5 3.1 Structure 6 3.2 Intertextuality 6 3.3 Interpretation 8 3.3.1 Water 8 3.3.2 City 11 3.3.3 Fusion 13 4. Conclusion 14 Bibliography 1. Introduction There are not many poems

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    Abstract This paper discusses John Kotter’s Eight-Stage Change Model and how it can be used as a guide when implementing change within an organization. The roles of various stakeholders including senior and emerging leaders‚ managers and employees throughout the eight stages are defined. In addition‚ factors which can contribute to a failed organization change initiative are discussed. Transforming an organization from a sub-optimizing enterprise of independently functioning departments to

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    Essay on Charity begins at home Subrat Mangaraj Charity is something more than mere kindness. It is not a beggar’s dole that we offer and then pass on and forget. It is not mere composition based on feeling of superiority‚ as though conferring some favour. It means tolerance. Compassion‚ a patient sympathy for the failings and errors of others‚ is large-hearted concession to the weakness. It is the spontaneous overflow of our sense of humanism. It tells: "Be to their virtues very kind; be to

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