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[i]Words can’t go far enough to describe him.
He’s like fire and ice and rage. He’s like the night and the day, and the storm and the heart of the sun. He is ancient and forever. He burns at the center of time and he can see the turn of the universe.
And...he's wonderful.
He came to our planet as one of us. He walked among us, breathed our air, cried our tears, felt our joys and knew our fragile hopes and dreams. He reached into our dark and troubled world and healed our sickness, our blindness, our brokenness; and everywhere he traveled, lives were changed. He had no home and there was no one else like him. He never stopped, never stayed, never asked to be thanked. And when he saw we needed a savior, without one complaint, he took every wound, sorrow, regret and crime upon himself so that we wouldn’t have to. For us, he fought Death itself...and won.
My life was nothing until I met him. He took me away, kindled a fire inside me and showed me a better way to live. He gave me a new joy and a new purpose; a reason to hope in the midst of despair and laugh in the face of danger.
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Opinion by
_lina_
posted
1 year ago
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I'm taking a history course this year, and I was supposed to write an essay on the reasons for success of Christianity. Enjoy!
Today, Christianity is one of the most wide-spread religions of the world. But its history is filled with bloodshed and violence; early Christians had to endure horrific punishments for their faith. There are many stories of martyrs being stoned to death; of Christians’ bodies being used as torches to light Roman feasts; of people being crucified, sometimes upside-down, simply because they refused to renounce Jesus Christ as their saviour. In the midst of such persecution, one would assume that such a relatively new faith would simply be exterminated. So how did Christianity survive as a religion, when so many other cults of the time did not?
Probably the greatest reason for the spread of Christianity was its appeal to the masses. Most of the early Christian converts were originally Gentiles, not reformed Jews. Though Christianity began as a small sect of Judaism, it wasn’t until Gentiles were allowed to convert that Christianity became so widespread. This was because many Gentiles, though not fully accepting of the...
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Article by
harold
posted
9 months ago
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I thought I'd take a little while to share a bit about Lent this year. This account was last updated on 3 April 2009.
I've never observed Lent before this year. There is a feeling of "us and them" between Protestants and Catholics in general, and many Protestants view Lent as a Catholic Church thing. But after I read about Lent some years ago, the idea has been in the back of my mind as a discipline to draw me closer to God.
The idea of Lent is to endure privation of some sort - usually food - in order to stress our reliance and dependence on God, just as Jesus did in his 40 days in the desert, where he was wholly dependent on the Lord for food and water. When Lent started in the 4th century, the big extravagance for people in Europe was eating meat - that was a luxury item, and a matter of pride for those who could afford to regularly put meat on the table. People observing Lent were called to fast, eating only one meal a day, at evening (probably around tea time), and that meal could not contain any meat.
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