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    direction of Kenya. BACKGROUND INFORMATION Kenya is a country that resides on the east coast of Africa bordering the Indian Ocean, with Nairobi as its capital and largest city. Kenya’s elevation begins at sea level and rises to almost 5,200 meters to Mount Kenya. Natural resources consist of salt, gemstones, zinc, limestone, and wildlife (cia.gov/keny, n.d). Many countries and people groups have controlled

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    Since their creation, humans have sought to find meaning from the mundane existence of mortality. This quest for answers has motivated many to seek out the divine and sacred spaces forged by the divine. Biblical scholar and historian Mircea Eliade argues that, “man becomes aware of the sacred because it manifests itself [and] to designate the act of manifestations of the sacred [is the] proposed term hierophany” (Eliade 1959: 11). In other words, a hierophany exists when the divine chooses to reveal

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    Many factors contributed to the bottlenecks between Camp Four and the summit, including: The fact that no Sherpas left ahead of the climbers to fix ropes to aid in climbing above the Balcony, which left the climbers waiting while Beidleman, a guide, fixed the ropes; the Taiwanese team, who were climbing very slowly and all together, making it impossible to pass them, therefore creating delays for the climbers behind them; and the fact that once the ascent had begun, Hall’s Sherpas were not eager

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    Moses and The Mount Sinai

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    people out of the camp to meet with God, and they stood at the foot of the mountain. Now Mount Sinai was completely in smoke, because the Lord descended upon it in fire. Its smoke ascended like the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mountain quaked greatly. And when the blast of the trumpet sounded long and became louder and louder, Moses spoke, and God answered him by voice. Then the Lord came down upon Mount Sinai, on the top of the mountain. And the Lord called Moses to the top of the mountain,

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    Christ in Discipleship

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    Christ In Discipleship DSMN 500: Discipleship Ministries March 27, 2014 The definition of a disciple is “One who accepts and assists in spreading the doctrines of another, as one of the twelve in the inner circle of Christ 's followers according to the Gospel accounts.” Discipleship means nothing without Christ being the central focus. It is crucial that Christ be the central focal point for all Christian discipleship. There are

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    Faith Integration Jaelynne (Loft) Allen Azusa Pacific University Faith Integration According to William Hasker, “[Faith] integration is concerned with integral relationships between faith and knowledge, the relationships which inherently exist between the content of the faith and the subject-matter of this or that discipline; such connections do not have to be invented or manufactured. But they do need to be ascertained and developed; unless this is done faith and knowledge may appear

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    Have you ever climbed out of your comfort zone? How was the experience? These questions floated through my head when I was asked by a few friends to join them on an adventure to hike Mount Minsi, a mountain located on Delaware water gap in Pennsylvania. Although the mountain was tall, the harder obstacle for me to climb was entering nature. It’s not that I was ever afraid or disliked bugs, wild animals, plants, and other aspects of nature, but that I hadn’t experienced that type of environment in

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    them” (15 Things). About five thousand to eight thousand prints were made but it is speculated that only a few hundreds of The Great Wave remain. The painting actually inspired music like Debussy’s La Mer. In Hokusai’s The Great Wave off Kanagawa, Mount Fuji can be seen in

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    The right part is covered with many of ritual performances for the statues of the deceased represented in ten registers Porter, B. and Moss, R. (1960), Vol. 1, P.1, Oxford, p. 214 (no. 19, 20). in order to give the deceased statue or mummy the power of a living person like opening of the mouth ritual that is represented in the fourth register before the statue of the deceased. Muhammed, M. A. (1966), The Development of the Funerary Believes and Practices Displayed in the Private Tombs of the New

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    Mount Vesuvius is a volcano close to the Bay of Naples in Italy. This volcano is classed as a stratovolcano, this is because its eruptions usually involve explosive eruptions and pyroclastic flows. It has erupted more than 50 times. Mount Vesuvius is most famous for its eruption that took place in the year 79 A.D. This eruption was the destruction of Pompeii and other surrounding cities, like Herculaneum. This eruption had buried the ancient roman city, known as Pompeii under a blanket of volcanic

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