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Good (News) Friday

17 May 2010

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I want to share with everyone this absolutely amazing week I just had. Actually, it was mostly just Friday that was so amazing. It was on Friday that things began to come together. Things I had been struggling with and stressing about. (I know it’s a longish post, but I didn’t want to split it [...]

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A God Moment

7 April 2010

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Sometimes it amazes me how God just shows up and works in my life. At times like that I just sit in awe, amazed at his awesome glory. Yesterday sucked. I received a B on my term paper in my History of Christianity class, and it may as well have been an F, I was [...]

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A Brief Exegetical Study of the Lord’s Prayer

18 March 2010

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The question that must be asked is why a seemingly innocuous prayer regarding bread functions as the pinnacle in the central pericope of the Sermon on the Mount.[1] Few prayers have had such an impact on the world as the Lord’s Prayer. Also known as the Our Father, or Pater Noster, these few short verses [...]

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An Introduction to the Seven Catholic Sacraments

11 March 2010

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Sacraments are a frequently misunderstood subject to Protestants and Catholics alike. According to the Canon Code of Law 840, sacraments are: …signs and means by which faith is expressed and strengthened, worship is rendered to God and the sanctification of human kind is effected, and they thus contribute in the highest degree to the establishment, [...]

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What is Just to you, may not be Just to me

4 March 2010

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On Monday I had a reading response due, in which we picked something from the chapter that interested us and wrote a bit on it. What stuck out to me in the reading was the justification for war. The people of Israel thought they were justified in conquering the land of Canaan, which was promised [...]

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Great Emergence Book Review Graded

1 March 2010

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Back at the beginning of February I posted my book review of Phyllis Tickle’s, The Great Emergence. I got it back on Thursday and received a 13.5 out of 15. Now, that’s a decent mark. It’s an A, which was deserved, but there are absolutely no comments given throughout the paper, which made me kind [...]

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A Different Way of Reading Scripture

11 February 2010

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I was contemplating on my last post about how the Benedictine monks would read scripture, and it spawned a whole lot more words, so I’ve rewritten, and added to it… ———————————– In my history class last week, we were studying the Benedictine Order, and I was struck by how they read scripture in Mass or [...]

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How the Benedictian Order Reads Scripture

11 February 2010

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In my history class last week, we were studying the Benedictian Order, and how they read scripture in Mass or Liturgies. When reading scripture aloud, there is no animation or expression, as that would imply interpretation, and why should you be imposing your interpretation of scripture on those listening? I kind of like this idea. [...]

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Learning to Write

2 February 2010

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—Sunday— Who would have thought the hardest part of writing would be not going OVER the required word count? I need to get better at this whole writing thing. I have a 1000-1200 word book review to write, 60% of which has to be the summary. So I start by writing a summary outline which [...]

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The Great Emergence Book Review

1 February 2010

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Phyllis Tickle, The Great Emergence: How Christianity is Changing and Why (Baker Publishing Group, 2008), 172pp. Reviewed by Mr. Storage January 31, 2010 A major shift in North American Christianity is currently taking place, with the advent of the emergent or emerging church. In The Great Emergence, Tickle provides a history of this phenomenon, explaining [...]

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