...The Apostle Matthew- Matthew was one of the twelve disciples, a saint, an apostle, and an evangelist. He is even believed to be the creator of the Gospel of Matthew. However, not much is known about him and he is actually only mentioned five times in the New Testament. But from those five times, a lot is revealed about him. Matthew was born in Galilee and his father was named Alphaeus. He was a tax-collector in Capharnaum who collected taxes for King Herod. When Jesus calls Matthew to follow him and to be his disciple, he does immediately. He also gives a feast in Jesus’ honor. The guests of the feast were his friends, such as other tax collectors and sinners. The last times Matthew is mentioned in the New Testament are in lists of the apostles, where he is either seventh or eighth in the order. After Jesus died, rose, and ascended, Matthew is said to have preached the Gospel for about fifteen years. Then, Matthew went east to continue trying to be an evangelist. Sadly soon after he went east, like most of the apostles, Matthew was martyred. There are many different stories of his Martyrdom, and it is not known whether he was burned, stoned, or beheaded. Matthew’s has two symbols. One symbol is a money sack and account books to show his old life as a tax collector. The other symbol is an angel above or behind him to indicate his new life as a messenger of Jesus. Today, in the West, Matthew’s feast day is celebrated on September 21st and in the East it is celebrated on...
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...Prayer Matthew 6: 9-13 Passage Matthew 6: 9-13 9Pray then like this: Our Father who art in heaven, Hallowed by thy name. 10Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. 11Give us this day our daily bread; 12And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors. 13And lead us into temptation, But deliver us from evil Introduction Matthew 6:9-13 is commonly referred as the “Lord’s Prayer”. In this paragraph, Jesus presented a pattern of prayer to the disciples, thus suggesting the manner in which God should be addressed and the petition we are entitled to present to Him. What is it about this paper that intrigues so many people to dig into the meaning of it? It is interesting to see from the verses above that Jesus’ prayer puts God in the first place. The first half of the prayer focuses exclusively on God and His agenda as believers adore, worship, and submit to His will before they introduce their own personal petitions. The second half of the prayer focuses on how should disciple invite God to their daily life and live upon God’s continuous spiritual provision. Even with the second half where their wills are introduced, God still takes dominant position in the relationship. The discipleship of the followers thus is being presented through day-to-day prayers. Socio-Historical Background To fully understand the meaning of the text, the first thing to do is to step back to examine the society where the text was written, back...
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...Rick Morris Liberty University – Seminary NBST 520-B02 Discussion Board Post Forum 1 1. Give the evidence to support Luke as author of Acts. How could Luke become aware of privileged information such as found in Acts 23:25–30, 25:14–22, and 26:30–32? How important are the "we" passages in Acts to determining authorship? John A. Battle, Th.D., provided insight to the authorship of Act stating that there is external and internal evidence to support Luke, the Physician as the author. The external evidence can be seen in the writings of Paul found in Colossians, Philemon and 2 Timothy, according to Battle who shares Henry Cadbury’s quote from his article titled “The Tradition.” Church tradition is external evidence that has been supported by Irenaeus, Clement of Alexandria, Eusebius and Jerome. An interesting fact that Battle brings up is the earliest copies of Luke’s Gospel has the title Kata Loukan, “According to Luke.” Battle goes further to provide internal evidence and references work by John C. Hawkins, Horae Synopticae. A point that supports the authorship of Luke is found in the “we sections.” Part of the understanding of the we sections can be attributed to being a companion of Paul. The author of Acts is using we to reference the work and witness of himself and Paul, Acts 16:10, 20:5-21:18 and 27:1-28:16. Perhaps one of the most compelling is the demonstration of linguistics and order. W.K. Hobart wrote, The Medical Language of St. Luke, and compared...
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...Sources[edit] The main source is Origen in his Against Celsus where he criticises Celsus' selective use of the text.[1] he has chosen one that is worthless, which although it could be of some help to the simple-minded multitude in respect of their faith, certainly could not impress the more intelligent, saying: "I know a work of this sort a Controversy between one Papiscus and Jason..." ... Nevertheless, I could wish that everyone who hears Celsus' clever rhetoric asserting that the book entitled 'A Controversy between Jason and Papiscus about Christ' deserves not laughter but hatred, were to take the little book into his hands and have the patience and endurance to give attention to its contents. .... In it a Christian is described as disputing with a Jew from the Jewish scriptures and as showing that the prophecies about the Messiah fit Jesus; and the reply with which the other man opposes the argument is at least neither vulgar nor unsuitable to the character of a Jew. (Contra Celsum 4:52)[2] Origen's lukewarm defence of the text, his mention of the vigorous reply of Papiscus, and the Dialogue's use by Celsus, may explain the subsequent non-survival of the text. The loss of the document removes a potentially significant record of a 2nd-century Jewish Christian's arguments before later theological developments in the Christian church. Jerome mentions the Dialogue twice. In Commentary on Galatians, in connection with he who is hanged on a tree is accursed of God (Commentary...
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...Understanding the author of Acts is very important. It gives us a better understanding of the book, the genre in which the book was written in and also the time period and who the book was addressed to. Many believe the author of the book of Acts had written one complete volume of work that was broken into 2 different parts. The book of Acts is the fifth book of the New Testament. It traces the Growth of the early church. It begins with the ascension of Jesus and concludes with Paul in Rome during his first imprisonment. Though the book of Luke and the Acts of the Apostle are very similar, the author does not name himself in either book. Neither Luke or Acts allows us to determine directly or in directly who the Author is.( Kummel) But Fernando also says “Stylistically and Structurally the Gospel of Luke and the Acts of the Apostle are so closely related that they have to be assigned to the same author. (pp.21) There is very little doubt that the Book of Acts and the Gospel of Luke come from the same author but the debate is about who that author is. While the writer of Luke and Acts is anonymous, there is evidence the points to the authorship of these books. Fernando states “The external evidence available for the authorship of Acts, gleaned from the writings of the church in the first few centuries, is unanimous that the author was Luke. When we look at the internal evidence, it points toward the author’s identity. Once readers assume Luke and Acts come from...
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...Leadership & Paul Andrew Damazio. Paul. 1. Don’t let surrounding circumstances dictate personal perspective. 2. Ministry is hard DON’T GIVE UP. 3. Be ok with divine interruptions. 4. ALWAYS be pastoring someone below you. * Only reason Timothy was a massive character was because of Paul. * See in other people what they can become NOT who they are. 5. You have to be ok with divine assignment. * You cannot be whoever you want to be. * Success is doing what you were supposed to do. * Successful is doing the best with what God have given you. 6. Paul was into restoring relationships. * We must know how to restore lost and broken relationships. * Letters to Timothy possibly could have been for John Mark BUT He bailed on Paul. * In the End Paul wanted to restore his relationship with John Mark. Grab my books and letters and bring John Mark. How to build and relate to teams Andrew Damazio, Dylan Jones, Ashish Joy Building teams is not enough we need to nurture them. Reasons why certain church leaders don’t build teams. * Because they are insecure. * Because they don’t value others gifts. If you wanna be honest with yourself, ask a student what they think of your youth ministry. * Prideful, want to take all the credit. How to build teams: * Before you go after a person, you have to know what you want. * You have to be personable. * Never make a position public. People do not respond...
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...From your reading of the case describe the issue(s) or problem(s) which should be the focus of your case analysis. 1. Lack of reasonable and logical financial result: Ignore fixed and variable cost, ignore case mix and thus transfer pricing of $7,906 might not be reliable and accurate which is shown in Exhibit 4. 2. High transfer price of 14% (($1,204-$1,059)/($1,059) x 100%) increases lead to goal incongruence (Exhibit 6): Under the full charge method of transfer pricing, the St. Luke Hospital would charge the HMO $1204 (Case Mix B), the same as for other third party payers. The hospital operation managers would benefit from $1,204,000 in increased revenues as beds are filled by the HMO patient, but the HMO manager would be foolish to accept St Luke Hospital rate when his/her performance appraisal is based on profit. Thus, the corporation (Mansfield Memorial Hospital and Lakeview Medical Centre) may stand to lose the improved occupancy and increase revenue to its hospital from its HMO due to the incongruence in objectives. 3. Bonus incentives: - Two way communication lacking between managers regarding the bonus system. - Budgeting linked to bonus system profiting (inaccurate results has affected transfer prices. - The Chief Financial Officer is reactive to the problems faced by the bonus system. 4. Internal Management: - Lack of accountability and responsibility over profit & expense centers - Lack of control measurement and adequate human resource...
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...Good Morning (afternoon) teachers and fellow students. My name is ________ and I am in grade 8. I have been a student at St. Luke’s for 10 years. St. Luke’s is a great school. The teachers are always there for us and the students are the best. When I started at this school, I was four and I couldn’t read or write and didn’t know what to expect. Now I want to give something back to our school. We are lucky to be students at St.Luke’s. While at St. Luke’s, I have participated in many school activities. These include sport teams such as volleyball, basketball and intramural soccer. I have also been a member of the Green team for _____years, and I attend church regularly at St. Luke’s Parish. I am a very strong, committed and dedicated student. I am very well organized and work hard at everything I do. I am very proud to be a student at St. Luke’s and would like to become more involved. So, why do I want to be a part of Student Council? First of all, I want to make a difference. I want to help make kids look forward to coming to school by planning some fun events for all of us so that our memories at St. Luke’s will be great. I would also like to make St. Luke’s more environmentally friendly. Some ideas would be to have more litter-less lunch days and also to plant more trees or even a garden at our school. We could even make announcements to remind the students of how to save the environment even at home. I also think it would be a great idea to have more intramural...
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...BADMINTON A Researched Presented to Mrs. Mary Grace Apdua and Mr. John Mark Barri B.E.S.T. College of Polomolok Valencia Site Polomolok, South Cotabato In partial fulfillment of the requirements for English and SPeech IV By: John Rhey F. Waje 2015 Acknowledgement For every hardship and endeavor there will be a success in the final journey. This study is indeed fulfilling and tedious with the help, support, inspiration, care, and love showed by the following individuals and friends. The tasks at hand lighten and become manageable. Hope in my heart sparks for I know I am blessed with their presence and guidance. The researcher would like to express his sincere gratitude and appreciation to those people who are in one way or another had contributed their ideas, collaborative efforts and time to make this term paper a possible one. First and foremost, to Almighty Father who gave him wisdom and guided him with his Divine Intervention of his Holy Spirit. To teacher Mary Grace Apdua and teacher John Mark Barri, adviser of this research work, who presented a very worthwhile requirement to let the learner’s potentials be honed. Your advice and guidance had made this study a meaningful experience. To Mr. and Mrs. Waje, parents of the researcher who provided the financial and moral support in order to give him the enthusiasm and interest to pursue this research work. To his Classmates and peers...
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...CASE STUDY – EFFECTIVE SELECTION The conman of St Luke’s Hospital “Sydney’s Anglican establishment has been scandalised by the discovery that the man chosen to run its prestigious St Luke’s hospital complex for the past year led a double life. John Frederick Bundy hoodwinked the 13 member hospital Board – which includes some of the most prominent names in Sydney medicine and business – into believing that he was a successful businessman, a university graduate, CPA and a man with a stable family life. In fact, none of this was true, and when the Board belatedly found out who the real John Bundy was, he resigned on the spot. The bespectacled, apparently respectable 45-year-old businessman who entrusted with the care of the 200-odd patients at St Luke’s in Potts Point and its adjacent nursing home turned out to be a man with a history of business failure, a high-living pilot and part-time racing car driver who was two-timing his wife in Melbourne with a mistress. Not only that, a routine check with a credit agency would have revealed that Bundy and his legal wife had court judgements for more than $6000 worth of debts outstanding against them, some involving the operation of a business in the Melbourne suburb of Hawthorn, known as the Hotham City Diner and Bar, and others relating to his red-striped Beechcraft Duke, a six-seater twin-engine executive plane. When Bundy told the Board in 1990 that he had ‘an impressive background in general management’ he...
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...Running head: FAITH INTEGRATION PAPER 1 Mathew 5:44 Patrick Fries ASB 1098 – BIL 102 March 3, 2012 I have read and understand the plagiarism policy as outlined in the syllabus and the sections in the Student Catalog relating to the IWU Honesty/Cheating Policy. By affixing this statement to the title page of my paper, I certify that I have not cheated or plagiarized in the process of completing this assignment. If it is found that cheating and/or plagiarism did take place in the writing of this paper, I understand the possible consequences of the act/s, which could include expulsion from Indiana Wesleyan University. Mathew 5:44 2 Few tasks an person faces are more emotionally or mentally challenging than that of managing conflict. And yet, conflict is a fact of life in this world, so it’s crucial that all people learn how to manage it with an eye toward positive closure. Over the course of a lifetime, every eperson will have countless opportunities to work with others through relational, philosophical and methodological differences. On occasion those differences may lead to personal strife, and the person’s opponent may appear to be an enemy. At such times the words of Jesus in his Sermon on the Mount will take on added significance: “But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good...
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...My Friend Luke Fernando Sorrentino Translated by Gustavo Artiles and Alex Patterson I have a friend who must be the sweetest, shyest person in the world. His name is brittle and ancient (Luke), his age modestly intermediate (forty). He is rather short and skinny, has a thin moustache and even thinner hair on his head. Since his vision is not perfect, he wears glasses: they are small, round and frame-less. In order not to inconvenience anyone, he always walks sideways. Instead of saying 'Excuse me', he prefers to glide by one side. If the gap is so narrow that it will not allow him to pass, Luke waits patiently until the obstruction -- be it animate or inanimate, rational or irrational -- moves by itself. Stray dogs and cats panic him, and in order to avoid them he constantly crosses from one side to of the road to another. He speaks with a very thin, subtle voice, so inaudible that it is hard to tell if he is speaking at all. He has never interrupted anybody. On the other hand, he can never manage more than two words without somebody interrupting him. This does not seem to irritate him; in fact, he actually appears happy to have been able to utter those two words. My friend Luke has been married for years. His wife is a thin, choleric, nervous woman who, as well as having an unbearably shrill voice, strong lungs, a finely drawn nose and a viperous tongue suffers from an uncontrollable temper and the personality of a lion tamer. Luke -- you have...
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...form criticism, its main concern is to discover the contributions which the evangelists themselves have made to the Gospel tradition. Norman Perrin in his book What is Redaction Criticism? states, “The prime requisite for redaction criticism is the ability to trace the form and content of material used by the author concerned or in some way to determine the nature and extent of his activity in collecting and creating, as well as in arranging, editing, and composing.” The emergence of redaction criticism was anticipated long ago by New Testament scholarship in both Germany...
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...in sheep clothing, but inwardly they are evening wolves” Matthew 7:15 Billy Graham a superstar preacher had an average early life and his childhood strongly influenced him to become an evangelist. He travels the globe and preached to millions of people throughout a live audience, television and radio broadcast more than anyone else in history. Bill Graham was born November 7, 1918 in Charlotte, North Carolina. He was the first of four children raised on his family’s dairy farm. His parents were strict Calvinists, so he set to his spiritual path. Right after College, Bill married Ruth McCue Bell in 1943 and raised five children. All his children were raise in evangelist. Ruth was a stay home Mom, in which raised all the children while Graham travel the world preaching the good news. Graham is a lovable and respectable husband and father. His image throughout his family and friends has been with loyalty and devotion. At an early teenager life, Graham had a very strong and profound spiritual path. His childhood strongly influenced him to become an evangelist. He made a personal commitment to Christ when for the first time he encounter a traveling evangelist ministry visiting charlotte for a series of revival meeting, during the fall of 1934. He emerge as a rising young evangelist when began preaching throughout the U.S. and in Europe. Graham was list by the Gallup organization as the “Ten Most Admired Men in the World”. Bill Graham has written 18 books, all of...
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...voice. And so there are many aspects of this book that can be thoroughly discussed but on my essay I’ll take time to discuss some that really touched my spirit. Evangelist Roberts talks about God’s nature being like us in that we were designed with a need to communicate, hear, and speak, simply because we were designed and created in His glorious image, (Genesis 1: 26-28). Evangelist Robert talks about God hearing as well as He talks, (Jeremiah 33: 3). It was of his personal opinion and I agree that God speaks to everyone that believes in Him and even some people who don’t. Evangelist Robert’s personal experience with the voice of God was outstanding He had heard the voice of the most high more than 40 times, and when asked about if he was sure that it was God’s voice he had no doubt or uncertainty about the matter, He says that when he acted on God’s voice there were always living proofs or miraculous signs to accompany them. Whenever God’s sends us on a mission he always supplies with divine provision. When talking about here the voice of God people...
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