Pastor

Everybody has a past that shapes and molds the person they are today. A person’s culture, family life, friends, and social status are some of the determining factors that assist in shaping them. My best friend Shalom has been raised in a drastically different way than me and this has shaped her views of how society works. However, even with these differences we still hold similar values and remain close friends. Ever since I can remember I have been raised in an Authoritarian…

gospel music which is more up to beat , but this didn’t really bother me because I knew that the common denominator was giving the lord praise he deserved and he didn’t care about how the music was arranged or being performed. Next it was time for the pastor to preach his sermon that was entitled “Lean not unto Thine own Understanding Part 5”. What I took from his message is that there is a spiritual drought going on in society and churches are practicing the word of God less, therefore we as…

witnessed in Marion holds positive and negative experiences. My parents who met in Marion to begin their life together are buried in Marion marking the ending of their life on earth. During the death and dying experience of our parents, the local pastor was more than a key, he was essential through it all. The ministry of sincere caring and empathizing gave assurance, especially as our Mother transitioned that "though she died, yet shall she live." The human body met the cessation of life, but…

Demon to Angel, or at Least Trying to Be Dimas Salaberrios was not always a man of God, in fact, he was quite the opposite. His is a terrifying story about the evil that truly exists in and beyond our world. The co-pastor of Infinity Bible Church in the Bronx is also the president of Concert of Prayer Greater New York, but not long ago he was preying on the people of New York not praying for them. Like Nicky Cruz in the 1970s, Salaberrios found himself in the streets of New York fighting to…

saves the day. Trey helped me get through that rough time. Trey and I began to talk about my future and what I would like to be. I told Trey “ I would like to be a youth pastor or a head pastor at a church”. Trey and I had the same plan. Trey pushed me to try to step out and lead. In eighth grade Trey became the head youth pastor of CO2 . That is when I started to put everything Trey has said to me into play in my life. In ninth grade was my fourth year going to church camp. My ninth grade…

lecture. This was proportional to one of the themes highlighted in the handout that stated “within the body of Christ, there is no ultimate distinction between giver and receiver, healthy and sick, pastor and layperson, caregiver and patient.” This reminded of me Dr. Fowler’s perspective that as pastors who are the sheep, are not above the other, because all are members of the body of Christ. What hold us same our baptism.…

sessions. Billy is seeking counsel because he desires help with his sexual attraction to men. He is seeking an answer to a situation he does not understand. For example, Billy does not want to have sexual desires for the opposite sex. He being a youth Pastor, knows it will be difficult to minister with the youth having sexual urges for the opposite sex. Billy being a Christian needs…

According to Forbes Magazine, millennial is a term first coined in 1991 by Neil Howe and William Strauss to describe the group born after Generation X, with birth years ranging from the early 1980’s to the early 2000’s. Millennials are a big topic amongst church researchers and thought leaders. Seemingly elusive, are millennials really as hard to reach as all the media suggests? Barna, a company specializing in research to analyze trends in faith and culture, has a whole section on research for…

actions. The film did show dialogue between the victim and the offender. One of the victim’s was a youth pastor. He got a chance to sit with Darius to hear his side of the story on why he committed the crime. Darius also got a chance to hear the pastor’s side of the story. The pastor went in dialogue about that tragic day, and how he ended up at the bank at the time of the crime. The pastor also went in dialogue about how he felt after, and if he has forgiven Darius. Darius also reached out to…

Jonathan Edwards was born in 1703 and lived till 1758. Jonathan was raised in the Puritan belief and from a young age was very devoted to his faith. At the age of 13 young Edwards was trained to be a pastor for the Church of … As a pastor Edwards was one of the most passionate and powerful of any pastor to ever read a sermon. He had a very strict religious belief and was very passionate about his Puritan practices. Edwards believed that every man falls short of God’s grace and had to repent…