One may rely on fate to help them succeed in life and to help them find true love. ... Dogma is subsequently buttressed with more dogma, attention is not focussed on testing applications of the original affirmation. ... In other words, without the knowledge that full faith must be a self-directed psychological force, concentrated by one's own independent affirmation of truth and one's own efforts to test it in action, religions must appeal chiefly to the psychic aspect of man's nature. ...

• Word Count: 2561
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

I have opportunities to receive and give love, listen to others, smile, laugh, accomplish something that were previously a challenge for me and ultimately become a more proficient person. ... This is a powerful explanation of what Christ saw in His children, whom he loved. ...

• Word Count: 3373
• Approx Pages: 13
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The vaquero lifestyle (showed by his father) expresses the values of independence, freedom, and mobility, all of which are apparent in his love of the llano. ... However, Ultima helps him appreciate the beauty of the plains that his father loves so much. ... The dream also reveals Antonio's awareness that the people he loves can sin despite his attempts to save them. ... Cico's moral order does not condemn Narciso's love of alcohol; instead he has the ability to see beyond the blinders of social prejudice to see the good in Narciso's magic, just as Antonio does with Ultima....

• Word Count: 3136
• Approx Pages: 13
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Understanding the Christian Doctrines of Divine Sovereignty, Predestination, And Free Will for Counseling "For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may not perish but may have eternal life." ... (John 6:65, ESV) "We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, who are called according to his purpose. ... (Romans 8:28-30, NRSV) "The Lord is not slow about his promise, as some think of slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance." (2 Peter 3:9, ES...

• Word Count: 5514
• Approx Pages: 22
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Faith is not just a word. It is so complicated that it took an entire chapter to describe it and still even now the word is used so flippantly. According to God, faith is the "assurance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen." A good illustration for faith is a flashback to "Adventures...

• Word Count: 3094
• Approx Pages: 12
• Grade Level: High School