People may think I had no choice in becoming a Christian since I born and raised in a Christian family. It is true that I accepted the fact that I was sent to this world as His beloved daughter and as a disciple without doubt as I acknowledged myself as a daughter of my physical parents. Having parents that serve God as other missionaries would do and living in spiritually healthy environment made everything too easy for me to become a Christian. However, there have been special leads of the Lord and my unshakable obedient to those callings to truly become a committed Christian as right now.
As He wanted me to make an arbitrary decision to follow His name, He taught me the meaning of being His child and the life as a follower of Jesus Christ throughout my life. The oldest memory of His strong engagement to teach me about this happened when I was five. In my fifth summer, I was tormented by a deep pity and sadness for ourselves that must die because of our sin. I was ashamed of myself and hated my weak knees that cannot get away from the dark; I was really afraid of dying because of m...
There are several aspects to consider when exploring the Christian worldview. There are many facets or denominations and they each have their own distinct beliefs and practices, but they all share the same fundamental beliefs. In this Paper we will explore the character of God, His creation, humanity and its nature, Jesus’ significance to the world, and the restoration of humanity, as well as my beliefs and the way that I interact with Christianity and my personal worldview.
To be completely transparent I don’t think that prior to this year I’ve lived in true communion with God. I compartmentalized my life in many ways, and I did not put one hundred percent of my life on the altar. The past few months and especially this book have shown me the attitudes, the compromises, the hurts, the habits, and the many other things in my life that have been displeasing to God. The things that have grieved His heart and broken the communion.
Early one morning, in 2007, I heard God 's voice while I was praying for me at my church. I immediately answered God with a sob, “Yes, I will. I will start!” That was because I obviously understood what this voice meant. God wanted me to start worship service for infants and toddlers. At that time, in my church, a worship service for infants and toddlers was not set up. Moms could not attend worship service because of their little babies and were getting tired out their life without worship. God kept giving me a burden in the Holy Spirit to set up worship service for them. However, I was too selfish to obey God. To tell the truth, I turned my face from that burden. I wanted to go to main sanctuary as soon as possible because my daughter was almost ready to join in pre-k worship service. However, the sudden voice of God changed my life. I started to “Start!” I set up worship service unofficially, and started to worship with 3 toddlers first. Their moms finally could go to worship God. After one year, I became a director of toddlers’ Sunday school for under 3-year-old from 2008 to
Fifth grade will go down in history as my worst year in school, but definitely the most beneficial. From sixth grade on, I receive nearly all A’s in my course. The occasional high B haunted me on rare occasions, but for the most part I worked to the best of my ability to achieve my goals. Throughout the years after middle school I began to realize that school was not what defined me. I had leaned so heavily on the praise I received from getting A’s that I began to think it was my doing and not the Lord’s. As a follower of Christ, I find that I cannot succeed in what God wants me to without utilizing the strength He has given me. When I do decide to walk a different path, I am constantly reminded of the incredibly weak and depressing sinner I am without Christ. While Mrs. Sera is the one who pushed me to want to reach my full academic potential, Christ is the One I utilize in achieving this. Of course there are days where I am tired, busy, and just plain lazy, but my God is stronger, more attentive, and more active than I will ever be. With a passion to become a fully-devoted Spirit-empowered Christ follower, I know that Christ can and will achieve the academic success He desires for
When I was 11 years old, I gave my life to Christ. My generous soul had been apparent to others at my Christian Academy, so me not being saved was a shock to many. As I stood with my
Jesus is Lord because he reunites all creation to God, but Jesus accomplished this mighty task by coming to be with us in our brokenness.16 I visited a woman in intensive care repeatedly over the entire summer. She had a chronic and likely terminal lung disease, and during every visit she would yell, plead, and bargain with God for healing. On one visit, I ask...
As I consider the various lessons that I have comprehended in this course further advances my calling to be an observer for the Lord. I acknowledge that an unadulterated life focused in a steady love of the Lord and a reliable sharing of my constant faith is important to satisfy the Great Commission and the Great Commandment. I have understood that my reverential life, the act of sharing my faith and administering to the lost has melted away and is conflicting.
My role as a Catholic came with intense internal strife, as I grew older, especially in my teenage years. I began to resist going to church with my family, which led to conflict with my parents. I had already completed my first communion and was baptized at a young age but I did not want to complete confirmation. I felt that I should not commit myself to a religion that I did not fully believe in and if I did I would be living a lie. It was a hard decision to make because it disappointed my parents, but I don’t regret my decision and have spent the last several years exploring other
Throughout this course we have discussed through the scriptures ways of helping our students learn and grow in God’s word. It is our duty to model God’s lessons in our daily lives and in our
Although I was born in the church, our faith didn’t seem a priority for my family at first. When I was very young, about five or six, my parents filed for divorce, and my mother received custody of my siblings and I. I knew of Jesus back then, but going to church was rare, if ever.
...ut like the Apostle Paul he had endurance and tenacity. In this students experience, I have lost all family because of my beliefs. But, what has been gained by far outweighs the loss. Jesus told His disciples to let the dead bury their dead and come and follow Him. That is the course this student has chosen to take. Like Athanasius, this student has now taken the course of defending my God to the people bound by deceit.
When our son Andrew was a baby, an accident changed us. I was home alone with our sweet baby boy and our two young daughters. While I was in the kitchen, unbeknownst to me, our Andrew fell into a bathtub of hot water. I sensed an urgent tap on my shoulder and ran in haste to check on him. By the time I reached him, he was underwater, not breathing. I desperately pulled him out of the bath. With my blue, swollen, lifeless baby in my arms, I looked into the image of Divine Mercy hanging above our bathtub -- the blood and water flowing forth from Jesus -- and put my complete trust in Him. In a bargain with God (I now know that He doesn’t work this way), I implored, “God, if you save my baby, I will give my entire life to you and I pray that my son - my sweet boy - will do the same!” It was in that exact room that Andrew had been born underwater- just a few, short months earlier. I was facing the possibility of losing my precious boy….in that same place, where in such joy and trust, he came into this world. After my cry out to Our God, I began CPR on him and did so with faith for 25 minutes while awaiting the arrival of the ambulance. All the while…I attempted to console our frightened young daughters. After 30 minutes, just as the paramedics entered through the doorway of our home, Andrew began breathing on his own. Thanks be to God!
As being a child of God I realize that circumstances and difficult situations will sometimes occur. Nevertheless, my beliefs and understanding of God’s word and as continuously keeps me focus on walking by faith and not by sight. During my early experiences of learning about God’s word, I have come to realize that God allows us to go through trying times to help remind us of who he really is. Obstacles and unforeseen situations led me to sharing my trails I order to help others that may encounter similar experiences. Knowing that the bible is a 100% truth, I can spread his word with
In his book Knowing Jesus Through the Old Testament, Christopher J. H. Wright sets out to introduce the importance of understanding Jesus and how Jesus found his identity, the goal of his own mission, and interpreted the Old Testament. The author’s intent is to show Christians who Jesus really was, by shedding some light on the father from early Hebrew scripture. Wright argues that Jesus is the fulfillment through the Old Testament. And gave validity to the events leading to the New Testament. Chris Wright was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland in 1947, the son of missionary parents, and nurtured as an Irish Presbyterian. After university in Cambridge, he started his career as a schoolteacher in Grosvenor High School, Belfast. Today he is the International Director of the Langham Partnership International. Dr. Wright is also the author of other books such as Knowing God the Father Through the Old Testament (IVP Academic, 2007), Knowing the Holy Spirit Through the Old Testament (IVP Academic, 2006).
...rd was trying to tell me this. It was during this time I heard the word ‘seek first the kingdom’. As I heard this word, I cried out to God for the first time in my life to remember me. It was here I made a vow to the Lord in the faith that I would find remembrance. As I made this vow and fulfilled it, the Lord opened doors that I can truly say would not have been opened if I didn’t respond to the word to ‘seek first the kingdom’. Out of this time, the Lord blessed me financially, led me to buy a home and healed my anxious heart. It was here that I began to find testimony before God through offering. This is something I am still finding to this day.