Demographics were done as far back as when Jesus was born. ... We would start with planning an event that would attract people to come, a musical with groups for all ages that people would love to come and hear. ... The website should encourage people to come and visit and inform the congregation of things going on with the church. ... Next, the Sunday School team, Worship team and Assimilation team will be training to handle the influx of those whom we hope to see come back after the event. ... As part of the training process we will be going on what we call a "Field Trip". ...

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If you want to know the truth, he is afraid to go home. He should not have been afraid, but he was afraid to go home. ... Many would say that this young boy was a sinner, and is going to be saved. ... He finally realized what it was that he was doing, what it was that he had come from and what he had sunk to. ... Because you see a son of the father will never be happy or fulfilled until he is brought back into fellowship with him. ...

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What comes to mind first? ... I can't come up with a concrete reason for why this is so, considering that there is an enormous variety between cultures, but an opinion is that we don't place a strong emphasis on religion today. ... It is true that myself, and most others directly around me are Christian, but this fact goes for all religions. ... My heart goes out to those attempting to worship in China, while having to do so in private. ... One of the first reasons for getting Muslims to go to China was for trade reasons. ...

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I hope to show many of the individual beliefs that are held by the different denominations, and to go back to the Bible and show what it has to say concerning baptism. ... If we go back to the original Greek we find several words used for baptism, baptizing, and baptized. ... Here we have our requirements for baptism as laid out by the Bible: 1) You must repent of your sins 2) You must be immersed in water 3) You must come to be baptize...

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So much shame and objectification comes from this type of pressure. ... So, she comes into a class room full of girls and says, 'Hey girls, I am putting this bag of Hershey's kissed on this desk over in the corner, do not look at it. ... So the girls feel shameful and go cover up, problem solved. ... This is not, however, due to just Catholic teachings on this but a culmination of diluted ideas dating back to Egyptian times about sex. ... Teens are not getting married and should be unaffected, if going along with Catholicism. ...

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Darwin showed that scientific observations collect facts and through these facts we can learn things about how the past was, and therefore learn more about what is to come. ... Tennyson loves to write poetically about nature and goes back and forth on the idea that nature has a rebirth every spring and that the universe is slowly dying. ... "She1 cries, "A thousand types are gone:/ I care for nothing, all shall go." ... If you are good then before people thought they would go to heaven. ... (Tennyson section 106.32) Tennyson theorizes that faith may be one strength that humans have to survive ...

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The phrase is defined as a messenger or angel of Satan.18 The connotation of this phrase brings us back into ambiguity. ... He continues to boast by comparing himself to them and saying each time he is more, yet again he goes back to talking about how he was weak, which is one of the ve...

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At a very young age, I was taught how to make the sign of the cross, I was given a kiddie book about the Life of Saints and a sort of children's bible and that going to Mass every Sunday was a requirement. ... Religion to an innocent girl back then meant that following what it preaches can make you a good and happy person. ... Its fall, basing from the records of history, can be traced backed into two major factors; the disunity of the patricians and their gluttonous pursuance of self ambition and the countless enemies of the empire gnawing at their doorsteps. ... It is a scene where many...

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The evidence of this comes with the story's inattention to male and female relationships as anything more than superficial. ... And then with good cheer to the chapel he goes."2 The only relationship that truly matters is the one that he will develop with himself. ... " The action of the story comes to a halt as the narrator stresses the importance of Gawain's shield and what it symbolizes: "It is a symbol that Solomon designed long ago 
As an emblem of fidelity, and justly so; 

Therefore it suits this knight and his shining arms, For always faithful in five ways, an...

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At his day thou shalt give him his hire, neither shall the sun go sown upon it; for he is poor, and setteth his heart upon it. ... d) 5:6 They condemn and kill the just person, making the oppressors murderers by killing the poor who has no strength left to fight back. ...

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(John 1:12, 13, ESV) "No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him. ... (John 6:44, NRSV) "And he said, For this reason I have told you that no one can come to me unless it is granted him by the Father." ... The second assumption goes hand-in-hand with the first: if Scripture is our only standard for all that we believe and do, finite human reason is not, and cannot be, the final arbiter of revealed truth. ... According to Sproul (1986), "To say that God foreordains all that comes to pass is simply to say that God is sovereign over his entire creation. If something co...

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Marty then goes on to mention that at this point in American history, no person as received such a profound visit from God, nonetheless answers on salvation or the heavens, until Joseph Smith was the one and only singular person to (Marty, page 202). ... The people in which Whitefield motivated were those of various religious denominations, which goes to prove that he was speaking from a true and emotional-filled standpoint. 3. ... While referring back to this group, Marty tends to use his references with those of the devil, or boycotting governmental laws or restrictions. ...

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What Buddhism offers is a way to escape this meaningless merry-go-round. ... Probably these are very ancient, predating the Buddhist mission to Korea, but for centuries they have been interpreted as reminders of the Buddha-to-come. ... Hence, men can have hope because "ta-tung" will come on earth in the last days. ...

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The Word says to always "Love your enemies", In comparison to the message the world sends, God is not considered when it comes to war and conflict. ... This is can be traced back in biblical history where it is seen that Jesus spent more of his time with his enemies than his friends. ... Klassen provides an example of this thirst for vengeance when he quotes Agamemnon stating, "No; we are not going to leave a single one of them alive, down to the babies in their mothers" wombs- not even they must live. ...

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Linguistic Breakdown The English word "gospel" comes from the Anglo-Saxon "god-spell" meaning "God story"# or "good story." ... In fact, Barclay says that "it is when we come to the New Testament that euangelion becomes a tremendous word... Or perhaps it comes from the connection between a teacher and his pay. ...

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One such argument comes to mind; eternal security. ... In Jeremiah, the Lord makes this clear as he states, "I will make an everlasting covenant with (my people), never to draw back from doing good to them; and I will put the fear of me in their hearts, so that they may not turn from me" (Jer. 32:40). ... This argument mainly comes from one with an Arminian viewpoint; as a Calvinist has a different view on free will altogether. ...

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After a while, many of them gather at the temple and go to drag Paul out. ... His plan was to bring back all of the writers of the letters that he might run into along the way, so that they may be punished for their beliefs. ... The Lord told Ananias to go to the house of Judas where Saul was staying. ... He then told them how he planned to go to Damascus to do just that, but then the Lord spoke to him along the way. ...

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Atheists deny that life will continue for any.6 Even many holding more orthodox views back away from an acceptance of an eternity of punishment.7 Berkhof speaks to this very issue of eternality when he states that the "eternity of the future punishment deserves more special consideration, however, because it is frequently denied. ... "13 Pinnock takes the position that suffering will finally come to an end.14 This view of Annihilationism is held more strongly within liberal Christianity, while evangelical Christians argue for a more biblical defense of the doctrine of hell. ...

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These families' circle of acquaintances consists mainly of persons from the church and it is not unheard of that the families send their children to Sunday school before the actual worship session, then send them to youth group on Wednesdays and the adults themselves go to bible studies on Monday evenings, often hosted by one of the church members. ... How can this personal experience be put into context when it comes to in what ways American concepts of freedom has changed over time? ... The very language of the Constitution and Bill of Rights suggest that, though created with Christi...

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I shall defend one particular interpretation of the theory-an interpretation advocated by very many of the church Fathers, especially second century Fathers, as well as by Augustine and Aquinas.It may help clarify matters if I first provide a brief map of where we will be going in this paper. ... Thus Irenaeus says: "Our survival forever comes from His gre atness, not from our nature." 2It would be interesting to discuss this option further, and especially to ask why so many recent and contemporary Christian theologians are drawn toward it, how they might distinguish " spiritual resurrection ...

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