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Book Review: God is Not Great by Christopher Hitchens
As part of our required reading, we were asked to read anti-theist Christopher Hitchen’s book God is Not Great. I had a hard time reading this book for many reasons. Here is my review of the book: In God’s not Great, Hitchens set out by giving us four irreducible objections to religious faith. This objection…
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Why Homiletics is Important?
I used enthusiastically to listen to him preach to the people, not with the intention which I ought to have had, but as if testing out his oratorical skill to see whether his fluency was better or inferior than it was reported to be… I was not interested in learning what he was talking about.…
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Mark 9:2-13 The Transfiguration
Mark 9:2-13 2 And after six days Jesus took with him Peter and James and John, and led them up a high mountain by themselves. And he was transfigured before them, 3 and his clothes became radiant, intensely white, as no one on earth could bleach them.4 And there appeared to them Elijah with Moses, and they were talking with Jesus.5 And Peter…
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Mark 8:31-38: How Things Ought to Be
Mark 8:31-38 31 He then began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests and the teachers of the law, and that he must be killed and after three days rise again. 32 He spoke plainly about this, and Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him. 33 But when Jesus…
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Mark 8:27-30 Who Do You Say I am?
Mark 8:27-30 27 Jesus and his disciples went on to the villages around Caesarea Philippi. On the way he asked them, “Who do people say I am?”28 They replied, “Some say John the Baptist; others say Elijah; and still others, one of the prophets.” 29 “But what about you?” he asked. “Who do you say I am?”Peter answered, “You are the Messiah.”30 Jesus warned them…