“From Jesus to Christ: The First Christians” tells the epic story of the rise of Christianity. The four hours explore the life and death of Jesus, and the men and women whose belief, conviction, and martyrdom created the religion we now know as Christianity.

One of the largest mass extinctions of the earth’s history is underway, this time without the traditional meteor, volcano eruptions, or other apocalyptic signs of the end of the world.

Essay One: Identify and discuss one significant problem or issue in contemporary culture that concerns you: some of the dimensions of this issue, why it matters to you, and what possible solutions you or others might propose to deal with it.

One of the largest mass extinctions of the earth’s history is underway, this time without the traditional meteor, volcano eruptions, or other apocalyptic signs of the end of the world. This time, the large-scale destruction of the world’s biodiversity is wrought by the hands of earth’s greatest creatures – human beings. Quite interestingly enough, humans are the most intelligent creatures on the planet, and yet are the biggest environmental problem that the earth is facing today.

Content Source: Bukisa – Mass Extinction of Earth\’s History

Foundations21 was devised by Tony Bradley, who approached BRF in September 2000 with the idea of a multimedia web-based discipleship resource. Since then a team of people – in Abingdon, Oxford, Birmingham, and Bangalore, India – have been involved in bringing Foundations21 to life. As far as we know it’s the first of its kind, anywhere in the world.

Foundations21 was first launched in July 2006 on a paid-subscription basis and has gradually built up a loyal core group of users for whom it has become a significant resource for their Christian journey.

However, it has become clear that the prevailing view about the Internet is that content should be free, and although many people have expressed admiration and respect for Foundations21 and for what it provides, its subscription basis is regarded as an obstacle to it being taken up and used more widely by individuals, churches and Christian organisations.

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About the program

Foundations21 provides a wealth of resources for discipleship and lifelong Christian learning. Its learning environment comprises twelve Rooms, each of which focuses on a single theme.

Within each Room are four Pathways which reflect four different learning styles. When you start Foundations21, you can take the Gospel Learning Style Quiz to find out which of the pathways is most likely to suit the way you like to learn.

There are three different Levels within each pathway: the first explores the essentials, the second looks deeper, and the third goes further still, allowing you to study the themes in greater detail.

Each Level contains two Waymarkers (a Waymarker is a series of pages for you to explore) with content to read, video to watch, web links to explore, and assignments to complete. Each time you complete an assignment it is saved to your online Journal, so you have a record of your journey through Foundations21. The email facility enables you to keep in touch with others if you wish, and to share your insights, questions and reflections with them.

Foundations21 includes a library of additional resources where you can check out information, put it in context and discover who, what, when and why! A Cyclopedia and a Timewall combine to answer the questions you might want to ask about the history, people and key beliefs of Christians down the ages. The Foundations21 website itself has more than 3,500 pages, with content drawn from a range of authors, organisations and publishers, and including more than four hours of original video and more than 7,500 weblinks.

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Course Description

There is one thing I can be sure of: I am going to die. But what am I to make of that fact? This course will examine a number of issues that arise once we begin to reflect on our mortality. The possibility that death may not actually be the end is considered. Are we, in some sense, immortal? Would immortality be desirable? Also a clearer notion of what it is to die is examined. What does it mean to say that a person has died? What kind of fact is that? And, finally, different attitudes to death are evaluated. Is death an evil? How? Why? Is suicide morally permissible? Is it rational? How should the knowledge that I am going to die affect the way I live my life?

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How To Create The Life You Can Be Proud Of by Enigma Valdez The attitude of mind depends upon what you think. Therefore, the secret of all achievements, accomplishments, and power depends on our method of thinking. We must “be” before we can “do”, and we can “do” only to the limits, which we “are”, and what we “are” depends on what we think.

There is no hiding the fact that the whole world is experiencing the most serious financial meltdown, probably since the depression of the 1930’s. This meltdown is destroying jobs and creating a whole lot of distress.

It’s also destroying savings and wealth. No country will escape the effects of this meltdown.

We all like to believe that we are capable of and continually engage in the act of thinking for ourselves. Is this really true? How many of our thoughts are really are own? Are we really, truly original in our thinking? How much are we utilizing our God given right, our Constitutionally guaranteed right to freedom of thought? Bottom line, these are the only actual freedoms we have. Why am I asking what may seem to be non-sensical questions? Let’s take a look at the answers together.

A Sure Fire Form Of Self Motivation by donyates

Put it into writing.

Psychologists have long found that not only do all ideas increase in strength through repeated reading and listening but also by validating each thought in writing. The written word seems to solidify the idea into a particular choice. Once a choice has been identified as valid, then the process of activation can proceed.

Because of our ability to transfer ideas into writing, we are able to apply an additional force for steering toward brighter horizons. Reading and listening are input senses while writing is an output sense. You own any and everything you write. The words become a visual record of your thoughts which transfers thought into a workable solution that can be communicated to others.

Why is it so Important to Live in the Now by Willie Horton

I was recently asked why authors such as Ekhart Tolle, Deepak Chopra and Tony deMello (and myself for that matter) place so much emphasis on the present moment. My reader also asked me to explain why living in the past or future can be so detrimental – and that’s where this article starts!

How to Become Regular in Your Yoga Practice by Dada Vedaprajinananda

People come to yoga looking for various things: peace of mind, stress reduction, improved concentration, and weight loss. Yoga can help you to accomplish all of this, but “yoga works, if you work!” You have to do the practices on a regular basis in order to get the results.

If you have bought some books on yoga and meditation, don’t let them gather dust while you sit around thinking that maybe one day you are going to practice. If you have purchased my electronic book, don’t let it gather “electronic dust.”