The Christian Coalition of America is a non-profit organization that is a United States Christian advocacy group that serves Christian families and their values. The Christian Coalition’s main goals are to represent the pro-family values in state legislature and congress, train leaders for effective social and political action, inform pro-family voters, and protest anti-Christian bigotry. History: After Pat Robertson failed to get the party nomination during his campaign in 1989, he used his funds to begin Americans for Robertson, which was later given the name Christian Coalition.…
Engaging God’s World by Cornelius Platinga deals with how a Christian education plays a vital role in both spiritual and intellectual development. The book goes through the core beliefs of Christianity and as the book goes through these core beliefs, it elaborates on them in a way that would allow the reader to be able to comprehend them in a clearer light. Chapter one is entitled longing and hope. Platinga opens up talking about every human being has experienced a form of longing at some point. Platinga notes that most of the things that we long for are only temporary things.…
“Teaching faith to assist the “salvation” process is a lofty ideal for schools”; this is one of the main statements of Teaching Faith in the Twenty First Century: Pointers for Christian Schools, by its author Barry Hill (pg. 18). In this article, Hill attempts firstly to describe faith itself by unraveling the etymology and historic definitions of the word faith. The definitions that the author uses are referrals from several 20-century writers, as well as from seven different languages at distinct historical timespans. Based on the most common definitions of faith, Hill constructs and displays nine different aspects of faith and later what he calls the six “faces of faith in schools” (pg. 21).…
In Kingdom Triangle, J.P. Moreland brings forth sobering yet very prevalent issues that have arisen within the western world. Moreland brings forth the issues of naturalism, and postmodern relativism with the downfall of authentic drama and couples it with biblical evidence and truth to chart the way out of the crisis of the modern day age. These thin worldviews (worldviews that seem to have value but after investigation will lead to an empty life) are a fuel on the fire that is the empty self and the epidemic that is depression today. Through repairing the mind, soul, and spirits power the current generation can be set on a track that will not lead to a greater empty-self epidemic then there already is. Through thin worldviews,…
The Essentials of the Gospel The contains of this paper will outline the basic foundation of the Christian Worldview. In addition, it will explain my personal beliefs of Christian worldview. Man’s disconnection from God was inevitable because the nature of man is imperfect.…
Leaving one’s problems to God to deal with will eventually show a person that the faith is real. After a long life of hard situations a rough events, Lewis has gone through a lot. His experiences have lead him into deep thought about the Christian Faith, making his writing in his book Mere Christianity very detailed and in depth. He goes from basic ideas to how they correspond to Christianity. Lewis talks about how a person’s idea or right and wrong are different and that there are different meaning to the word ‘right’ depending on the person.…
The video, Doing the Right Thing group Bible study by Charles Colson, Brit Hume, reminded me how morally and spiritually bankrupt our society has become. Greed and corruption run rampant among our business, schools, government, homes, and sadly, even our schools. Pride and greed tend to work together in the lives of many people, leading to divorce, neglect, addictions, theft, and many other immoral actions. Chuck Colson gave an excellent explanation of self-righteousness when he stated, “self-righteousness is the belief that you are so good that you can’t be compromised” (Colson, 2012).…
WHAT IS A CHRISTIAN LIFE COACH? First of all, let's look at what the term Life Coach means. A Life Coach is a professional trained in effective listening, asking, and hearing between words spoken. A Life Coach seeks to be non-judgmental and walks beside you as a support, accountability partner and encourager.…
Practicing Christian Doctrine expresses that the human nature is made up of…
Cohen, A. B., & Rozin, P. (2001). Religion and the morality of mentality. Journal of personality and social psychology, 81(4), 697. Dye, M. H., Aday, R. H., Farney, L., & Raley, J. (2014).…
People in life who believe in God often base their lives around his existence. Their morals might be based on what God, or their religious text says, rather than their own logical and rational brain. As religion and God have gained popularity over the centuries, this idea of morals lying in God’s…
Psychology and Christianity are two topics that are continually discussed and debated upon, especially in regards to the aspect of integration. Since psychology is known for being an extremely secular field of study, many people believe that it cannot be integrated with the religion of Christianity. However, psychology and Christianity can be successfully integrated. The act of integration has a great amount of importance in regards to psychology, psychological issues, and the Christian faith. The integration model that will be taken in order to attain a holistic understanding of this particular psychological issue will be the Allies model.…
Emily Neighbors Professor Williams Foundations of Christian Thought 4/11/16 Christian Worldview The Christian worldview is a complex, yet simple one. If a believer were asked the question of, “What is Christianity?” it could merely be put that it is the acceptance that God is Jesus Christ in human form. He came down to the earth, showed us the correct way of life, and experienced an immeasurable amount of pain and death to save humankind from their sins, and that if one faithfully believes this and lives according to His instructions, then you are saved, forgiven of any sin, and will receive Heaven for all eternity upon death or His second coming.…
Regardless of what term an individual use, the important factor is the development of a person’s spiritual disposition. This paper will seek to explore the theological component of spiritual formation…
The first chapter of the book focuses on people’s thoughts and perceptions on the idea of integrating psychology and theology. One of the main points discussed in this chapter was how Christians view the integration of these two disciplines. The said that Christians are often hesitant to use psychology, because they fear that if they turn to psychology for help, then they are saying that the…