Pastor

Life Stages & Timeline A Jewish Rabbi once described to me how the Jewish people navigate through life. He said that contrary to Greek forward navigation, Jews navigate similar to someone rowing a rowboat. They use the path of where they have been to help direct where they are going. He explained to me that where a person has been is as important as where they are and where they are going. I believe that as this is true for life, it is also true for one 's leadership journey. Along with…

the Spirit. This third person of the Trinity, is affirmed in the Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed, as the one who “proceeds from the Father and the Son; who with the Father and the Son together is worshiped and glorified.” The years I have served as pastor have deepened my conception of the work of the Holy Spirit in the arenas of personal faith, the community of believers, and responsible living in the world. Before we are even aware, God is initiating a relationship with us through the Holy…

I was raised to be catholic which as you may know is a strict, and structured type of mass. Their practices in mass is exactly the same way each Sunday you attend, the only thing that usually differs is the subject of which the mass has been planned around. That is why I chose to go to a non denominational church for my church visit reflection. This is because these two religions are extremely different, and a couple of my friends on the soccer team go there for church each Sunday. The church I…

of exoneration of the accused. Also, to further understand that there were many causes to their afflictions. A time when misfortunes were blamed or otherwise not fully accepted as anything other than the will of God because of one’s sin’s. As the Pastor of the town had to say “Therefore, as in duty as a church of Christ are deeply bound to protest against it as most directly contrary to the…

My personal response to the Egalitarian views of Linda Belleville and Craig Keener is varied. When reading and learning from Belleville I would go from understanding and personally align in thought, to feeling her view was somewhat stretching for me especially when other references were used outside of scripture. I was able to follow Keener closer, but this could be based on my up bringing in the evangelical church. It was very helpful to learn from Belleville the difference between…

Remember that story from the bible about Adam and Eve and the evil snake? The basic overview of the story is when God first created the heavens and the earth, he also created the first humans, Adam and Eve. God gave them a set of rules to live by and one of the rules was to not eat the fruit of one specific tree because it was holy. Adam was laying under the tree one day and a snake slithers beside him. The snake is the devil in snake-form. To finish the story, the snake convinces Adam to eat…

“The word euthanasia comes from Greek (eu, “well” or “good” – Thanatos; “death”)”. There are three different types of euthanasia which include voluntary, non-voluntary, or involuntary. The difference between the three are voluntary is legal in some countries, non-voluntary is illegal in all countries, and involuntary is usually considered murder. “Euthanasia research is in contemporary the most active in bioethics, as of 2006. In some countries there is a divisive public controversy over the…

One truth in my own life I have become very well acquainted with is that it is through the struggles and trial that the Lord often does His greatest work. Throughout my life, as a child growing up in ministry, I have had to learn the struggles of being raised as a pastor’s child. In this journey not only have I faced many challenges; I learned what it meant to be truly set free and make Jesus my Lord, not just my Savior. I have been able to receive His calling on my life through these struggles…

grandmother didn’t believe in the Nazi’s way of life. This shows that Bruno could of spoken up and take less of a punishment and the Grandmother has given Bruno to think that what the Nazi’s are doing to the Jewish people are bad. In “First they came…” Pastor Martin Niemoller didn’t speak up because he didn’t care for the others but when there was no one left, he became the victim and died. It is important to talk about this subject because when we learn about this, we have the knowledge of not…

My project consisted of attending a worship service different than that my own. I chose to follow a friend to a non-denominational sect of religion at a local church called, Iglesia Cristiana Misericordia in Laredo, Texas. This opportunity was chosen because I had made a promise to my friend to at least attend one service to see the differences between the traditional Roman Catholic services compared to this non-denominational service. At the very beginning I was rather apprehensive because of…