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PRECEPTS: How to Apply the Bible to yourself

The PRECEPTS acrostic provides a good way to apply a Bible passage to oneself. Ask yourself the following eight questions represented by the acrostic. Prayer to pray? Does the text give me something to pray for? Am I exhorted to pray? Reason to praise? Is there...

Connecting Clauses with Conjunctions vs. Conjunctive Adverbs

by Kinglove | General

The following is from http://www2.estrellamountain.edu/faculty/stonebrink/ESL032/conjunction2/conjunction2.html A. Coordinating Conjunctions Location of a coordinating conjunction 1. Don’t use a coordinating conjunction (for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so) at the...

Categories of Prepositions

by Kinglove | WORDS AND GRAMMAR

https://www.thefreedictionary.com/Categories-of-Prepositions.htm Most prepositions have multiple usages and meanings. Generally speaking, prepositions can be divided into eight categories: time, place, direction or movement, agency, instrument or device, reason or...

A Writer Weaves his Content by putting things in Relation with each other to form Structure

by Kinglove | General

A writer, and speaker alike, weaves his piece. He weaves thoughts into sentences and paragraphs and connects them into a beautiful unity. He uses connectives to connect groups of words (clauses) to form sentences and to connect those sentences to create paragraphs....

Three Types of Objects: Direct Objects, Indirect Objects, and Objects of Prepositions

by Kinglove | WORDS AND GRAMMAR

A direct object is a person or thing that directly receives (or is affected by) the action of the verb. For example, in “Jesus healed him,” Jesus is the subject and “him” is the direct object. The indirect object is “the person (or thing) who receives the direct...

7 Basic Steps to Successful Fasting and Prayer

by Kinglove | PRAYER

Dr. Bill Bright I believe the power of fasting as it relates to prayer is the spiritual atomic bomb that our Lord has given us to destroy the strongholds of evil and usher in a great revival and spiritual harvest around the world. Increasingly I have been gripped with...

Run-in Quotations in Turabian Format

by Dr. Kenneth Acha, MD, DMin. | Turabian and Chicago Format

“When beginning to quote a source from somewhere in the sentence other than the first word, as a general rule, introduce the quote with “that”. For example, Paul explained that “your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit” (1 Cor 6:19b). “When beginning to...

What is a premise?

by Kinglove | General

The following is from: https://www.thoughtco.com/premise-argument-1691662 A premise is a proposition upon which an argument is based or from which a conclusion is drawn. Put another way, a premise includes the reasons and evidence behind a conclusion, says Study.com....

Components of an art work: Subject Matter, Form, and Content

by Kinglove | General

A) From Augusta College The following content (as is) is from an Augustana College page: http://augustana.net/users/arwalters/design/components.htm Components of an art work Subject the depicted object(s) Form visual organization Content impact or meaning Works of art...

When You Should Cite A Source

by Dr. Kenneth Acha, MD, DMin. | Turabian and Chicago Format

The following is from Turabian, 9th Edition, as is. “15.2.1 Situations Requiring Citations Chapter 7, particularly 7.9, discusses in depth when you should cite materials from other sources. Briefly, you should always provide a citation in the following...