salvation

Salvation means eternal life and the forgiveness of sins. Calvinism believes that through salvation we will be born again and keep following God in order to have our judgment day and go to heaven. Our salvation is assured because Jesus gave up his life for the forgiveness of sins.

predestination

Predestination is the belief that God has already decided what will happen in our lives before we are even born. It is the idea that all decisions made by man were actually made by God and that we have no way of changing what will happen in our lives. The other part of predestination is that no matter what we do in our lives our afterlives will be determined without us being able to do anything about it.

Minister

In the protestant church a minister is someone that is set apart from the rest of the congregation and is the pastor. The pastor is the individual that gives the sermon and teaches the others the beliefs of a religion. To become a minister you have to attend seminary and find a strong belief and God, the bible and a religion.

Lent

Lent is the forty day period that lasts from Ash Wednesday,the seventh wednesday before Easter, to Easter sunday. The six sundays leading up to easter are excluded from the period of lent because Christ rose on a sunday and it would therefore be inappropriate to fast and regret sin. Lent represents the time that Jesus spent in the desert being tempted by satan. It is a period of repentence and fasting. However,The fasting has relaxed throughout time.

http://www.kencollins.com/holy-04.htm

Communion

In the christian church, communion is the forgiveness of sins by the passing of bread and wine. The bread symbolizes the body of christ and the wine symbolizes the blood of christ given for all people.

http://christianity.about.com/od/faqhelpdesk/f/whatiscommunion.htm

John Calvin

John Calvin was a french theologian that was raised in a wealthy catholic family. He later became protestant because of frienships formed in college. He became a large part of the protestant reformation when he developped the way of thinking known as Calvinism. Calvinism is the belief that there is one God that rules over all other things.

Baptist

Baptists are a branch off of protestantism formed mainly to seperate from the Church of England. They are different than most other forms of christianity in that they do not believe in baptising children at birth but instead wait until the person can understand the conditions of being a member of the baptist church. The beliefs of the baptist church are basically the same as most other christian faiths in that there is one God, Jesus is the son of God and the Bible is the holy book.

http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02278a.htm