The origins of Three Kings Day started in the Eastern Christian churches. It was for the Feast of Epiphany also known as "The Adoration of the Magi" or "The Manifestation of God" after twelve Days before Christmas ends. January 6 is a date that Christians fixed for their feast early in their history...
A Persecuted Name: Faulkner's Jesus and Jesus of Nazareth When thinking about history, most people can conjure up some knowledge about the history of Black Americans and Jesus of Nazareth. Manual labor under harsh conditions and a controlled living in society are two ideas that most people ass...
A HEART THAT MOVES GOD - MARY MAGDELENE Mary Magdalen has always been a predominant and fascinating figure for Christianity. But who was she really? The Gnostics hailed her as the companion of the Savior and the woman He loved most. Early Christian writers called her the Bride of Christ and th...
Cause and Effect Society is always changing, we keep moving towards a world where hard task are easier to accomplish. For instance, communication is not a problem any more; cellular phones, internet, and all the technology involved are making our lives effortless. However, they are consuming a big...
From the moment one reads the opening lines of John's Gospel they realize that it is much different than the other Synoptics. While the three Synoptics give remarkably similar accounts of their subject's life, John creates a portrait of Jesus that differs in both outline and content from the other ...
John 3:16- An Exegetical Study John 3:16- "For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life."" (NIV) John 3:16 is possibly the most well known, and most memorized verse of the Bible. However, it is unlik...
"And the Holy Ghost descended in a bodily shape like a dove upon him, and a voice came from heaven, which said, Thou art my beloved Son; in thee I am well pleased." (Luke 3:22) The Christian faith revolves around the idea of The Holy Trinity, which is the belief in the union of the Father, Son, and ...
Author's Footnote All praises belongs to Allaah alone, the Most Gracious and the Most Merciful. I bear witness that there is no god but Allaah alone, the Exalted, and Muhammad is a slave and a Messenger of Allaah, a human just like us, the seal of the long series of Prophethood whom God sent to guid...
The Gospels, written by believing Christians, are confessions of faith in Christ crucified and risen. The Gospels are sermons meant to stir up faith in the living Christ. The Gospels were written to persuade men of all times and places to believe that Christ died in order to destroy all death, and...
