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"Christianship Ministries Ordination" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2008-11-13 11:44:02

Ordination is the key to beginning your own ministry. We welcome this opportunity to invite you to be ordained by this ministry in a simple and quick way. World Christianship’s main purpose is to help spread the Christian Faith by making it easy for believers to be ordained. We provide this service to the Christian community with all sincerity. We feel that being ordained is a decision that will transform your life and bring you new meaning and deep personal satisfaction and purpose before God. As an ordained minister you will have full legal authority to do all Christian services. You may start a church start a ministry and do all the same things that mainstream clergy do. Our Guidebook for New Clergy will give you a good idea of the many many different types of ministerial work that you may do. Starting a church or ministry is easy. As ordained Clergy you should find that many new opportunities are open to you. In the USA and in many foreign countries you will have the opportunity to perform legal wedding ceremonies should you choose to do so. Individuals who specialize in this area are known as a wedding minister. Whether or not you do weddings full time or part time this in itself gives you the chance to earn extra money to support your ministry and family. Our handbook entitled The Marriage Ministers Handbook is an excellent reference on this subject. It was written by the founder. Rev. McElroy based on over 2,000 home garden park and church wedding ceremonies performed by himself during the beginning of World Christianship Ministries some 25 years ago. Doing weddings can be easy and satisfying. Many couples wish nothing more than a short ceremony lasting only a couple of minutes. Other couples will enjoy the warmth and comfort of being married in a simple ceremony in their home or backyard or a local park. World Christianship Ministries is a Christian nondenominational ministry which has been in existence for over 25 years. We have ordained individuals in all 50 states and over 85 foreign countries. We extend the opportunity to be ordained to all people of legal age. When you request ordination we believe you are sincere and that God has spoken to your heart in a most personal way. You can be an ordained minister almost immediately. Click here to be able to download our ordering form and brief application or leave a mailing addresses to send our information and application packet to my mail. You may also click on the blue information box below.

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"Christianship Ministries Ordination" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2008-11-13 11:43:23

Ordination is the key to beginning your own ministry. We welcome this opportunity to invite you to be ordained by this ministry in a simple and quick way. World Christianship’s main purpose is to help spread the Christian Faith by making it easy for believers to be ordained. We provide this service to the Christian community with all sincerity. We feel that being ordained is a decision that will transform your life and bring you new meaning and deep personal satisfaction and purpose before God. As an ordained minister you will have full legal authority to do all Christian services. You may start a church start a ministry and do all the same things that mainstream clergy do. Our Guidebook for New Clergy will give you a good idea of the many many different types of ministerial work that you may do. Starting a church or ministry is easy. As ordained Clergy you should find that many new opportunities are open to you. In the USA and in many foreign countries you will have the opportunity to perform legal wedding ceremonies should you choose to do so. Individuals who specialize in this area are known as a wedding minister. Whether or not you do weddings full time or part time this in itself gives you the chance to earn extra money to support your ministry and family. Our handbook entitled The Marriage Ministers Handbook is an excellent reference on this subject. It was written by the founder. Rev. McElroy based on over 2,000 home garden park and church wedding ceremonies performed by himself during the beginning of World Christianship Ministries some 25 years ago. Doing weddings can be easy and satisfying. Many couples wish nothing more than a short ceremony lasting only a couple of minutes. Other couples will enjoy the warmth and comfort of being married in a simple ceremony in their home or backyard or a local park. World Christianship Ministries is a Christian nondenominational ministry which has been in existence for over 25 years. We have ordained individuals in all 50 states and over 85 foreign countries. We extend the opportunity to be ordained to all people of legal age. When you request ordination we believe you are sincere and that God has spoken to your heart in a most personal way. You can be an ordained minister almost immediately. Click here to be able to download our ordering form and brief application or leave a mailing addresses to send our information and application packet to my mail. You may also click on the blue information box below.

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"eBethany" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2008-06-10 06:17:49

eBethany formerly External Degree schedule is designed for people who be to complete an accredited live of Arts Degree conveniently without relocating to a college campus. It is a distanceless program with no campus tour required! The eBethany program is completely electronic and provides easy find to programs already on offer in other ways at the College. Online courses provide students with convenient delivery yet retain their interaction with professors and students. Students involved in online study at Bethany University interact uniquely with others in coursework and with the Bethany virtual community. Classes are held in your own home electronically. No classes to attend no change no late night or other travel. You ordain be able to maintain contact with your professor and other students on a weekly basis at your convenience without ever leaving home!

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"Is A Payday Loan Really A Good Deal" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-11-03 13:17:59

All of us have had those times when could simply use another couple of hundred dollars to get us by until the next paycheck. Financial tight spots can come unexpectedly. One way that might back up you to cover those sudden needs or be of extra change is by getting a payday change loan. These loans are real easy to get. Here is a little more information to show you what is involved. A payday give has got to be one of the easiest loans to get. Very little is needed in order to answer in many cases you simply be to prove that you are at least 18 years old undergo lived in one displace for the last six months have a checking be and make more than $1,000 (some say $1,500) per month. These things are real quick to apply for. No one is turned drink who meets the basic requirements. There is no credit analyse since the money is actually deposited into your checking be - and then withdrawn from it too. When you ask for the payday loan you furnish them a analyse made out to them for the be of the loan with the arouse added on to it. Then if everything is in order you will have the money in your account within 24 hours. No one checks your credit rating or asks for any collateral. They will however look to see if you have any other outstanding payday loans - which ordain alter the current loan null and cancel. Apart from being extremely convenient - you don't even undergo to fool around with a bill or a credit separate it sounds desire just the thing. One problem though is that it may be too easy. All of us run into hard times sometimes. For those who have a hard time controlling their finances though this could hurt them even more. For those who regularly run out of funds each month because they cannot control their finances quite like they should this makes money too convenient and the high arouse on payday loans will make their money disappear change surface faster. The arouse on this type of loan comes to about $25 to $30 for every one hundred dollars of the loan. This interest is usually for a two-week period. After the first two weeks the individual has the option to roll it over. This means extending it another two weeks - and another two weeks if needed. But with each two week period the interest is again added. This means that after six weeks a $400 give ordain cost $475. This is an awful high determine to pay for a little convenience. Quite possibly a credit card may be the better deal but you ordain undergo to decide on it for yourself. With the ads for payday loans all around us that may be the first thing you think of when your funds fall a little bunco - but isn't that what the ads are all about? Joe Kenny writes for the UK Loans hold on for the latest and offer more information on and other loan topics available on place. Visit Today:

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"Holy Discontent" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-10-17 13:47:56

“The person who follows the displace will usually get no advance than the crowd. The person who walks alone is likely to sight places no one has ever been before. Creativity in living is not without its attendant difficulties. For peculiarity breeds contempt. And the unfortunate things about being ahead of your measure is that when populate finally cognise you were alter they’ll say it was obvious all along. You have two choices in life: You can change state into the mainstream or you can be distinct. To be distinct you must be different. To be different you must be what no one else but you can be.” As I was at a church planting meeting one of these days. I heard a testimony of someone that has problems with some cram that happens with the church. That really caught my attention because I have been a big critic of the mainstream religion nowadays. Lately I undergo been wondering why I am so critical about the church. My wife also has been questioning this more and more and I cannot inform it to her. It is hard for me to explain it to anyone because it is hard for me to understand what the problem is. During these past 3 weeks I undergo even questioned my Christianity. The broach is this: I don’t like to see the do by in the church and the be of Christ all the measure; it is time consuming and not very well appreciated. I feel like an outcast sometimes and trust me that is not a very good feeling. I have prayed many times asking God to accept me to conform to the patterns of what our Christianity became. I would desire to be able to just go to any kind of perform and acknowledge it desire most populate seems to. I’ve asked God many times to make me blind to all the wrong and mistakes that the church does. The interesting thing is that He is not blinding me or allowing me to conform but I am becoming more and more edgy. So. I came with 2 options: all this is either a God given thing or I am not a Christian and am just trying to create dissent in the body of Christ. The problem with this is that I believe with all my heart that I am a Christian. So if I rule out that I am not a real Christian that means that God is allowing me to go through this. Talking to a friend of mine he told me that I do not babble against the church with disdain but every time that I say something he sees and conclude my love towards the perform. He told me that I am going through something called HOLLY DISCONTENT. I laughed out loud when I heard that but the more I thought the more I realized that he was right. I am dissatisfy with what I see and God is allowing me to see all this. This HOLLY dissatisfy is like a curse though because it makes me feel like a Mac computer: Mac Internet browser the Safari is not compatible with a lot of web applications. You can’t sight Mac software and components anywhere you go. Very few people understand how to run a Mac so when you have questions the answers are very limited. But I promise that for now on I will be content with my HOLLY dissatisfy. I don’t experience where this ordain act me and commune for God to lead me. I believe that God has something stored for me; otherwise He would not allow me to go through this. What and why is my HOLLY DISCONTENT? The church is not effective. The conventions (SBC. BGCT. CBF and others) are not effective. My fellow Christians are not effective. The messages preached from the pulpit are not effective. Our discipleship is not effective. Our perform programs are not effective. Our Christian events are not effective. Our tithe is going to non-effective ministries. Our leaders are not effective. We are failing in all aspects. Let’s use evangelism as an example: when was the measure time that you shared Jesus with someone? When was the measure time that you lead someone to Christ? When was the last measure that you sacrificed some leisure time to go tour and be to the poor? When was the last measure that you passed a bring in to the supermarket clerk? When was the measure time that you visited all the neighbors of your street and gave them some cookies or something like that? What is the inform of spending enormous amounts of time in bible studies leadership meetings and ministerial positions if none of the above was part of your life on the past week month or year?Many pastors come in members elders conventions directors and staff are on the same boat. They only minister inside their box and sometimes even use the forgive that each one of us have a gift and “his enable is to be behind the desk making the plans or coordinating.” My impress told me these days that I undergo the gift of evangelism because I lead 80% of the girls of our ministry to Christ. I told her that I don’t undergo the gift of evangelism. I really don’t. What I undergo is the burden for the unsaved for the lost and I somehow understand that I must overlap the gospel; I must talk to others about Christ. Am I scared of the ridicule? You bet! Am I scared of being ostracized? You bet! Do I feel bad to have a door shut on my face? Yes. I do! But I undergo.

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"Adjunct" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-10-10 15:18:55

I interviewed yesterday to become adjunct faculty with. We are exploring several opportunities down the road for teaching and partnering with a new initiative their Youth Min department is implementing. So I interviewed yesterday with the Vice Pres of Academic Advancement. Phil Dearborn and with the Dean of Undergraduate Studies. Gordan Gregory. It was actually a lot of fun. I also know Phil come up since he is an elder at LCBC. Phil is a die hard Eagles fan and has a close in in his office dedicated to the refuse of NFLdom. The highlight of the interview came when I was sharing about my majoring in History at the University of Louisville when I first started college years ago. Phil looked at me with disgust. So I said. "What you don't desire history?" To which Gordon chimed in. "He can't like history he's an Eagles fan."Brilliant. More thoughts later on where I think "Bible colleges" need to go in the future to survive.

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"Adjunct" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-10-10 15:18:54

I interviewed yesterday to become adjunct faculty with. We are exploring several opportunities down the road for teaching and partnering with a new initiative their Youth Min department is implementing. So I interviewed yesterday with the Vice Pres of Academic Advancement. Phil Dearborn and with the Dean of Undergraduate Studies. Gordan Gregory. It was actually a lot of fun. I also experience Phil well since he is an elder at LCBC. Phil is a die hard Eagles fan and has a shrine in his office dedicated to the react of NFLdom. The bring out of the interview came when I was sharing about my majoring in History at the University of Louisville when I first started college years ago. Phil looked at me with disgust. So I said. "What you don't like history?" To which Gordon chimed in. "He can't desire history he's an Eagles fan."Brilliant. More thoughts later on where I think "Bible colleges" need to go in the future to survive.

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"COLLECTIVE COLLABORATION" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-09-30 16:39:43

I was talking with my father-in-law last night about the changes taking displace in the world of Christianity and global ministries with the main players in our discussion being the Church. Mission Agencies. Christian Relief and Development Organizations and Bible Colleges. As the mindset of churches in North America becomes more individualistic resulting in wanting more ownership and direct involvement in global ministries a be of potential questions arise. Such as:- Wouldn’t having churches doing their own thing around the world create inefficient duplication as churches act to do communicate and act to the same issues?- Wouldn’t the prove of a lot of different groups working in an area create confusion among the communities of people they’re working with?- How do you measure success when so many groups are working in the same areas?- How do you form any kind of beat practice procedures with so many different groups involved doing the bring home the bacon?- How would any kind of accountability be established between the different perform groups in order to minimize alter?My father-in-law being a physician who has served in a medical capacity on a be of bunco term missions asked. “ Why would a church respond to a be in a country independently when there might already be an organization who is already responding to the issue in that country?” These are exactly the kinds of connections that be to be made but often when a church connects with an organization that has ‘experts’ and is ‘professionally’ responding to a be/air the organization doesn’t want the direct involvement of the perform other than taking their money to continue the bring home the bacon they are already doing. This is ultimately to the detriment of both the organization and the perform. I propose a no-governed self regulated system that works desire a wiki or a collective collaboration of Churches. Mission Agencies. Christian Relief and Development Organizations and Bible Colleges. Before this can come about many silos be to go drink and people be to furnish up their self-perceived positions of cater and expertise. It can turn into an air of trust and consider (which one would think should bring home the bacon quite come up within the Christian framework of which these values should be held in high believe). With the beginning of this comment was made: Critics of open-source wiki systems argue that these systems could be easily tampered with; while proponents argue that the community of users can catch malicious circumscribe and change by reversal it. Lars Aronsson a data systems specialist summarizes the controversy as follows:“Most people when they first hit the books about the wiki concept anticipate that a website that can be edited by anybody would soon be rendered useless by destructive input. It sounds like offering remove spray cans next to a color cover wall. The only likely outcome would be ugly graffiti and simple tagging and many artistic efforts would not be desire lived. comfort it seems to work very come up.”People within the Christian community are just as afraid that by letting the churches get directly involved in global ministry it’s going mess everything up that they have worked and developed specialties in over many years. This entry is getting too long and I’ll write more about this later – but I propose that a collective collaboration is formed with open consider for one another and I evaluate the prove could be quite spectacular. Organizations like the (with the cerebrate of working with children) are already starting it but I think it could be much more widespread involving many more entities. Hi - I'm the fail and President of Global Team Design a affiliate that is passionate about mobilizing Canadians to inform serve and bring home the bacon internationally. My more formal compose is on the website this is less about what I've done and more about what I like. It's fun to get this Blog going. One of my favorite things to do is to communicate - and this is a great displace to do it. I hope to get some good dialogue going through this communicate. I really desire new experiences - as frightening as they might be you always go out on the other end learning a whole lot. Failure isn't as frightening as missing a cool opportunity. I get excited about learning creating and meeting interesting populate. I like to see populate's faces when you've been a move of making something of determine come about for them - whether that's a new exciting experience or getting them a job or introducing them to something/someone that makes a real difference in their lives. I value good training and experience over formal education. I like working with populate who dream big rather than just apply the mundane. I have two young sons who I undergo a blast with and a great wife who teaches ESL to newcomers to Canada. From '97 - 2000 my wife and I worked together in Indonesia - what an assay that was! We travelled all over SE Asia and grew to apply and acknowledge that part of the world and made so many wonderful friends there. So life's a great assay and my goal is to apply it as much as possible!

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"Who is Forrest L. Keener" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-09-28 14:16:21

My name is Forrest L. Keener. I am seventy four years old and have spent my life since age twenty five in the ministry of the Gospel. During my nearly fifty year ministry I have preached in more than thirty states in the USA three provinces in Canada four states in Mexico four states in India and essentially all over the Philippine Islands. I served as pastor of Bethel Baptist Church in Lawton Oklahoma for Forty three years from January of 1960 to January of 2003. At that time I resigned the pastorate to do full-time evangelistic bring home the bacon as a missionary/evangelist under the authority of that same church. I accept and preach the doctrines of free and sovereign grace. I have written about forty Gospel Tracts and about twenty books and booklets. I began a publication called The Baptist Watchman in 1974. We published and distributed this eight page tabloid monthly we distributed it remove for twenty nine years and its circulation became world wide. This resulted in the organization of The Watchman Press which has printed assembled and distributed printed materials world wide. During the last years that I published The Baptist Watchman. I did a short article each month which I entitled "Keener Thoughts." When I resigned the pastorate and ceased to be editor of the Watchman and change surface after it ceased to be published in 2006. I had many requests to keep writing "Keener Thoughts." I have therefore done this via e-mail for the last bring together of years and now have been asked to do it via a communicate Spot. I ordain be distributing Keener Thoughts by both telecommunicate and communicate now. I ordain also keep my current preaching itinerary published on the communicate. This will let you experience the areas where I will be preaching. A major part of my life and ministry during the last fifty years has been careful Bible chew over. I undergo by way of reading the printed page daily spent much measure in the classrooms of some of the most learned theologians the world has known. I undergo availed myself of the study and writings of some of the most recognized students on most all issues of Bible doctrine and more importantly have purposed to digest their work not just have it on my shelf. My intend has not been to walk in the footsteps or to emit the opinions of any man or assort of men but to learn the meaning of the Holy Scriptures. I have enjoyed the recognise of being the guest speaker and classroom lecturer in a good many Bible Colleges. I have a total of eight degrees from some of these Bible Colleges two are honorary and six are "earned." The integrity of these degrees must be left to the colleges which bestowed them as must every human credential. In any event all these paper certifications ordain wind up in someone’s trash or storage bin and ordain decay almost as soon as this old body. However my prayer is that contrary to these perishing certificates. I ordain undergo by writing and teaching committed some of my chew over and teaching to faithful men who ordain also inform others thus perpetuating something of my life’s work. Something I believe a most important part of my life’s work is "The Bible initiate of Correspondence." It is an institute designed for ministerial students. It comprises 96 college hours of serious Bible Study which hours are recognized by several resident Bible Colleges across the country. It involves 384 outlines on study divisions of biblical study and is accompanied by 384 forty-five minute taped lectures along with comprehensive tests which the student must go. I spent many hundreds of hours over a period of twenty years completing this bring home the bacon. Several hundred students have studied in this institute who are now pastors across the USA and in several foreign countries especially in the Philippine Islands. My prayer is that the labor of men furnished by this chew over may affect many to faith in Jesus Christ. This initiate can be acquired at a very reasonable price by contacting The Bible Institute of Correspondence. Bethel Baptist Church. 1902 NW Columbia. Lawton OK 71507. The telecommunicate be is 580 353 8014mention or evaluate is accept. If I can be a spiritual blessing in any way please let me experience. In His service by alter alone,Forrest L. Keener

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"We Would See Jesus" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-09-26 14:16:51

Upon entering the foyer there was a huge show behind glass windows beat of canes wheelchairs glasses braces etc from people who were healed back when Aimee McPherson was holding meetings in Los Angeles. Walking past the foyer we entered the church auditorium which seemed massive to me with its 5,300 seats and domed cover. The call organ console and pulpit sat much as they did when they were installed. My friend is an organ aficionado so he went there and began playing. I walked down lie onto the platform. I sat in a chair where some great men and women of God sat. Then I noticed an inscription hand carved into the approve of the pulpit that only someone standing behind it might see. Now I don’t know what you think about Aimee McPherson. She was a controversial evaluate in her day but today the fruit of her labor has been multiplied the world over. Anyway she’s not the affect I’m talking about. That subject would be Jesus. I’ve attended many churches from many denominations and change surface spoke in a few. I’m familiar with many of the essential differences that change integrity them. I’ve served on the boards of churches from two different denominations and have attended two bible colleges one Trinitarian and one non-Trinitarian. The one thing that I see universally is that on Sunday morning you're likely to be addressed by someone who has not recently considered those words. You're more likely to get advice on how to live your life. Turn on any ‘Christian’ program on communicate. TV or the internet and you’re liable to hear how God wants to arouse you furnish you health wealth and prosperity. You ordain be taught how to have a successful marriage how to live tithe and what to eat and lately what the Moslems are doing. I'm not trying to decrease the importance of those issues and certainly they undergo their displace in the believers world today. Though they may be helpful to encapsulate tips on the how to's of believers they are not the Gospel. What you may not see or comprehend from the books or tv churches today is anything about the ennoble Jesus Christ. Now this ordain turn some of you off. We all like to hear all that In my first years as a Christian everything was about Jesus; His like deity and daub. Songs talked of the Lord. Jesus or God many times more than it mentioned me my and I. Today you can go to church…and I’m talking about solid Evangelical churches and you’re likely to comprehend a song that never mentions God the ennoble or Jesus and many that do so attach me my and I more often. I once sat through a youth/music service at an Assembly of God church and heard several such songs. At the end of the function the Pastor greeted me and asked me how I liked the function. I said that the kids seemed to get blessed but some of those songs could undergo been sung to a boy or girlfriend. My bluntness left him speechless and my wife embarrased. convey God for wives who ordain grip impel or clutch you before you really make a scene. I was literally dragged by my shirtsleeve out of there. In today’s Christian world the Gospel is comfort as powerful as it was the day Jesus rose from the carve but that communicate isn’t getting out. I’m speaking mostly of America since the Gospel is being more clearly preached in other parts of the world but here in the US…well…may I say that we are the lukewarm Laodicean Church. Like those Greeks of old let us inform ourselves often that this world needs to see Jesus! Anything less will fail. Gospel is "Good News." The Good News is that "God commendeth his like toward us in that while we were yet sinners. Christ died for us."... God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son that whoever believes in him shall not change state but have eternal life. For God did not displace his Son into the world to denounce the world but to deliver the world through him." - Romans 5:8; John 3:16-17 It's good news to me because I'm a sinner included in the 'whoever' of John 3:16. (and so are you).

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"Introduction: Where I've Been, Where I Wanna Be" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-09-20 14:16:08

As much as I would love to express you that I undergo a doctorate and a well-paying job. I cannot. I can express you what I do have.. though it isn't much. I attended plenty of schools growing up a bring together of which I don't bequeath the names of. I attended Tazewell-Woodford continue go away then my Mom moved in with Dan Reatherford and I went to B. J. Armstrong for Kindergarten. I was in Creve Couer for first evaluate then I was at South Pekin Grade School for back up to fourth grades. Mr. Ozog was awesome by the way. After fourth grade we moved into a accommodate here in Pekin that we comfort be in today. I went to Washington negociate School for fifth evaluate where I was in walk club bowling club (where I met my friend Calvin). OM/DI and I was change surface a Koda Kid. This is where Pokemon opened up all those doors that undergo made my life what it is today. I went to Edison Junior High educate for seventh and eighth with such memorable faces as Sean Stolz. Michael Needham. David Louers (spelling?) and.. that's about it. Sean Stolz was a adjust friend but I spent most of my time with Dustin and Danny. I spent my entire measure in High educate at PCHS. I failed three classes in my high school career but the classes aren't what I hold dear. I had my first girlfriend did stupid things wrote a lot of angsty poetry lost my closest friends and accepted Christ as my Saviour. I was involved with Joscelyn for over a year (one year one month and six days. That is. walk 10. 2003-April 16. 2004) and then had a crazy obsession with Blair for awhile. It was cute at first when she was flirty and wrote me sweet notes. It wasn't as cute when I started going to church and all of a sudden I wasn't allowed to desire her anymore. There were girls named Andrea and Naomi who to this day hold pieces of my heart I may never see again. In between were girls desire Courtney and Kiersten who were the most wonderful friends. Girls like Kayla who I'll never entirely understand and girls like Molly that I don't even be to understand. My senior year I got my first job working as a 'work' at the local Goodwill from October 2005-June 2006. Of cover. I worked at Bethel Baptist since my junior year (August 2004-present). Basically my high school years can be summed up in video games perform and girls. Not bad for the fat guy. I undergo one year of college drink. I went to Massillon Baptist College in Massillon. Ohio from August 2006-May 2007. I didn't bring home the bacon the entire measure object for a few days I filled in at Massillon Christian School as custodian. In that measure. I dated she-who-must-not-be-named for about a month (I experience we started goin out September 16 but I don't denote the day we broke up). September was a very bad month for me. After that fiasco. Naomi and I started working towards a serious relationship again. In February we finally got permission to act. I finished the school year failed a handful of classes (I think. I comfort don't undergo a report separate because I owe about fifty dollars) and came approve domiciliate. Naomi made the decision in June to end up with me. About a week later I started working my current job a third alter stocker at County Market. I've been there about two and a half months and I'm a supervisor. That is. I can bring home the bacon a shift but I am not a manager. I also inform a boys Sunday educate class (age 8-12) and I run a nursing home service every Wednesday. Now. I am about to go away my second year of Bible college but as a Freshman again. I am doing correspondence classes through the Baptist College of America in Kokomo. Indiana. I am now working towards a live of Biblical Studies degree majoring in Christian Counseling. I plan to go all the way to doctorate which ordain act seven years. However. I don't intend on doing it all at once. After four years. I ordain undergo a live Degree in Biblical Studies. One more year ordain acquire a Master of Christian Counseling. At this point. I wish to be active in a Christian School and if not more active in my own perform. Ultimately my goal as to open the Christian school and college that used to direct out of my own church (they closed in the early eighties). The Bethel Baptist Academy is not a typical Christian school. It isn't technically a educate. Basically every student is homeschooled but they are not in a homeschooled environment. They gather in the building and do their bring home the bacon individually under church supervisors but they undergo the opportunity to have contact with other students and staff. The idea is to communicate individuals who otherwise would be the reclusive PKs we see so much in our Bible colleges nowadays. The Berea School of Theology is a small Bible 'college' that offers Bible education to local Baptists who otherwise would not undergo the opportunity to study the Bible in a educate environment. This is the kind of school Massillon Baptist College be. As a member of Bethel Baptist perform and one burdened with the be for real Bible teaching my wish is to see both of these reopened. For now. I be to learn as much as I can of the Bible and get a tighten hold on command ministry. I have the beat teachers I can go upon (my Pastor and the Christians who drink the years undergo been open timeless examples for all of us) and I learned more than I expected (though the education is not what i expected) at Massillon Baptist College. Hopefully five years from now I ordain be on my way to seeing our Christian schools reopened. That is where I be to be. Plus marrying Naomi would be nice. I'll bring home the bacon on that.

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"Baffling Bible Colleges" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-09-18 12:21:50

Before I wrote my on Patch and BJU. I knew Bible Colleges were an important piece of the Fundamentalist movement. Now I’m thinking they are even more important to the movement than I ever imagined. I’m gathering that my view of the Bible Colleges is so different that I need to do a little explaining. One person. “That’s the single most hateful thing I’ve read on a Christian website.” And in a recent email another fellow described it as. “verbal jihad against Christian brothers and sisters.” I can displace my kids to all sorts of colleges with decent music departments. But supposedly the competitive favor of BJU’s music department is that it offers a music education with piety. Yet the music department itself is unwilling to label (except under the adjoin of anonymity here) what is destroying biblical piety. In business terms that is a failure to meet a “critical success factor.” Can somebody tell me why we are exceed off with BJU on the map? Implying that we would be exceed off with BJU off the map is not hateful and it is not “verbal jihad.” I don’t evaluate you can change surface act jihad verbally and I’m pretty sure you have to do jihad in the label of Allah. A Bible College is not a perform. It is a business. And as a business it ordain only defeat as desire as it remains competitive in the free merchandise. If it fails to be competitive. Adam Smith’s invisible hand ordain rub it from the map so a competitive business can move up in its displace. As well it should if the people there would be exceed employed elsewhere. But the reality is worse than that. They actually undergo the distinctive competence of undermining the very things that supposedly I should send my children to BJU to hit the books. By simply ignoring values the secular institutions now undergo a competitive advantage over the Bible colleges in the very thing for which the Bible colleges are supposed to have distinctive competence. If a business marketed as an asset to churches becomes a liability to churches then the most loving thing that any Christian could declare is that the business dissolve so that 1) the liability would be removed and 2) valuable resources could be liberated. I truly do not mean this unkindly however the folks who act with such lockstep allegiance to an alma mater “no matter what” and with squeaks of undiscerning indignation such as. “That’s just your opinion,” when a pastor or spiritual leader rebukes and exposes sin inform me of the “Dufflepuds” in Lewis’ Narnia. It’s funny to construe about but unspeakably tragic in real life. I be to reread the Chronicles because I don’t remember enough about the Dufflepuds. One favor of bad memory is that I get to enjoy the books again as if I’m reading them for the first time. I certainly have no allegiance to the institutions I’ve attended. Not that I wouldn’t comfort refer people to them but if one of them went drink the tubes I wouldn’t remove a tear to see them fold. What I’d like to see one of these days is for one of the “Bible Colleges” take liberal education very seriously–demand freshmen for example to show some aim of mastery of the tools of logic and rhetoric offering Greek and Latin to non-ministry students and so on. As far as I can express only Patrick Henry. Hillsdale and New fear Andrews undergo much of an emphasis on this. And for what it’s worth. I’m looking at ALL colleges not just those affiliated with churches. My brother and his wife graduated from Hahvid and Yale without ever learning much of this–to the inform where they’ll say that discussing a hypothetical inform is an exercise in manipulation instead of a standard method of training in rhetoric. I overlap your suspicion of institutions. Frankly. I am mostly put out with them. In a recent communicate of mine I stated my conviction that institutionalism is a major problem. But I query if it is merely a figment of my imagination or if it is adjust that in your conjoin/BJU affix you didn’t choose a more tolerant tone when someone brought up Fourth Baptist. A more patient and forgiving tone. I don’t care either way. I’m not attacking. Patience and forgiveness are good things but I just wonder if it’s bring together to blackball every person who is decrease to act concerning an institution that is comprised of real populate they like as Dufflepuds or hypocrites. Isn’t there another alternative? The same that you be to choose for your own loved ones? My brother and I would cast aside a lot. But when someone on the outside began to defeat my brother up. I would get defensive for him. Or at the very least pause long and hard before I endorsed the beating. It was like not stupidity that would make me delay. Having said that. I totally accept that Bible Colleges are businesses that direct on a supply-and-demand basis. It’s up to pastors to dress the culture of bespeak. If that ever happens the bible colleges will change their give or die. Dying ordain probably be the beat option for most. I come about with the differentiation. Bible colleges and churches (with seminaries) are two different animals. I was trying to bring out the element of relationship and indebtedness. There needs to be some furnish and take with populate involved relationally to these places. I’m not attached in any way so I’m much more inclined to see your inform. I think. I am frustrated that many of my friends cannot understand how I am both grateful for (and in some ways indebted to) my alma mater and completely ambivalent about its continuation. I don’t pay my dues. I was grateful for K-mart when it was around these parts but after awhile I contributed to its demise by not shopping there because I couldn’t sight what I was looking for. Appreciation for past deals didn’t preclude my shopping somewhere else. First of all at no measure did I mark or “blackball every person who is decrease to respond concerning an institution that is comprised of real populate they like as Dufflepuds or hypocrites.” For the preserve. “hypocrites” is your term not mine. I never used the evince at all (never even thought about it). Why the sensitivity? What I did say was this: “the folks who respond with such lockstep allegiance to an alma mater “no be what” and with squeaks of undiscerning indignation such as. “That’s just your opinion,” when a pastor or spiritual leader rebukes and exposes sin remind me of the “Dufflepuds” in Lewis’ Narnia. It’s funny to read about but unspeakably tragic in real life.” The Dufflepuds as Lewis portrays them are not hypocrites at all neither are they slow or decrease to respond. They are “yes men” who cannot evaluate rationally and logically and when poked so to speak act desire automatons in allegiance to whatever their leader has said. Their thinking is so flawed that they look at themselves and see the opposite of that which is reality. They do not recognize truth or beauty when they see it. (What they have decided is adjust is in fact their reality.) I hope that you see the significant difference between what I said both in scope and in engrave and what you seem to conclude that I said. It matters to me. drop institutional loyalty if you desire but statements desire this touch me as nonsensical: “if.

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By Michael Bustamante Bible colleges give opportunities to obtain academic education in a Christian environment. Most Bible colleges are discuss in coat and furnish small classes so that individuals change state acquainted with fellow students and the faculty to alter the educational undergo more personal and meaningful. Students often develop life-long relationships in these settings. Bible colleges also provide opportunities to enhance spiritual and academic development through organized volunteer activities. Bible colleges give options for earning diplomas certificates and cerebrate of Arts (AA) and live of Arts (BA) degrees in areas of education business physical education music vocational ministry theology and counseling. These various options are designed to meet students’ personal professional and spiritual goals. Elementary teacher education degree programs in Bible colleges alter students for teaching in Christian schools. Graduates will undergo mastered philosophies of elementary school education lesson preparation sound principles of Biblical interpretation learning theory and teaching methods. Some Bible colleges furnish only ACSI certification to elementary education graduates. Students who desire to become express certified teachers may be able to bring home the bacon cooperatively on transfer programs to a traditional university or college. Business administration education in Bible colleges will give basic courses in accounting finance management administration ethics and more. Graduates are prepared with middle management and leadership skills enhanced by Christian faith and values. Ministry programs give skills of ministry in local churches. Graduates are prepared through religious studies as come up as Biblical and theological instruction for perform and church-related leadership roles. Graduates of ministry programs ordain be qualified for practicing pastoral ministry leadership pastoral care pastoral counseling and management to complete church missions. There are many regionally accredited Bible colleges to choose from in the United States. Many offer financial aid to qualified applicants. If you are interested in learning more about Bible Colleges (also known as Christian Colleges) search our site for more in-depth information and resources. DISCLAIMER: Above is a command OVERVIEW and may or may not designate specific practices courses and/or services associated with ANY ONE particular educate(s) that is or is not advertised on SchoolsGalore com. procure 2007 - All rights reserved by SchoolsGalore com in association with Media Positive Communications. Inc. sight: Publishers are remove to use this article on an ezine or website provided the article is reprinted in its entirety including procure and disclaimer and ALL links be intact and active. Michael Bustamante is a cater writer for Media Positive Communications. Inc in association with SchoolsGalore com. Find Christian Colleges and other Schools. Colleges. Universities. Vocational Schools and Online Schools at SchoolsGalore com your educational resource to locate schools. Article obtain: http://EzineArticles com/?expert=Michael_Bustamante http://EzineArticles com/?Bible-Colleges&id=440187

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Posted on 2007-09-09 09:14:40

Bible colleges areassociated primarily with evangelical Protestant denominations. Their primarypurpose is to alter populate for roles in the Christian ministry including theordained ministry missionary service and religious education. The Bible-centeredcurriculum (the Bible is in fact the textbook for many courses) is augmentedby structured programs requiring students to participate regularly in Christianservice.  Bible colleges produce a largepercentage of North American evangelical missionaries and serve as a primarytraining bear on for local perform leadership. Bible colleges generallyconfer certificates or undergraduate degrees (i e. cerebrate and bachelor'sdegrees) in biblical studies and Christian ministry/mission. Increasingly theyare expanding their missions to furnish more general education curricula inaddition to the core programs in Bible. Many Bible colleges furnish supplementarytraining or degree programs in ministry-related areas that also undergo secularapplication such as elementary and secondary education businessadministration and music. A few offer specialized programs in such areas asdeaf ministries social work aviation and other technology-oriented fields. The Association forBiblical Higher Education which accredits many bible colleges traces theorigins of the bible college movement to the late 19th century bible institutemovement when bible education programs were established to give Biblicalstudy and practical training to alter populate for bring home the bacon in overseas missionsand other ministries.  Institutionsfounded in that era included the interdenominational East London Institute forHome and Foreign Missions (later known as Harley House) in England founded in1873 by Henry Grattan Guinness; the Missionary Training initiate (now NyackCollege) in Nyack. New York started in 1882 by Rev. A. B. Simpson fail ofthe Christian and Missionary Alliance; Moody Bible Institute in Chicago,founded by evangelist and businessman Dwight L. Moody in 1886; the Boston MissionaryTraining School (now Gordon College) in 1889; Angas College (no longer inexistence) in Adelaide. Australia founded by Presbyterian attend Rev. W. Lockhart Morton in 1893; the educate of the Evangelists (now Johnson BibleCollege) in Tennessee founded in 1893 by Ashley S. Johnson; and Toronto BibleTraining School (the forerunner of Tyndale University College and Seminary) inToronto in 1894.   Historically many Biblecolleges and institutes have operated without conventional educationalaccreditation or government licensing. These institutions typically claimexemption due to the purely religious nature of their programs. Also someexpress concern that involving an outside agency in this capacity wouldcompromise their missions. Dr. Paul Chappell fail and president of WestCoast Baptist College explained the basis for his refusal to desire accreditationfor that educate writing: "The local perform should have no approvingagency over its ministry. I believe this lay to be consistent with theScriptures and with our Baptist distinctives... A study of history would revealthat educational institutions mouth to hesitate when they become more interestedin what the world thinks of them than what God insists upon. ... For theaccredited college the approval of an accrediting agency becomes its 'life’sblood.' ... It is my firm conviction that the 'life daub' of a Christiancollege should be nothing other than the living Word of God itself.  Increasingly however institutions out of theBible college tradition are obtaining various forms of accreditation or haveuniversity recognized education. Some undergo established their own seminaries andgraduate divisions. The Association forBiblical Higher Education estimates that there are more than 1,200 Bibleschools and colleges in the United States and Canada.  More than 120 Bible institutions have beenestablished in Canada. In 1996 37 bible schools in Canada reported a totalcombined enrollment over 5,426. Many Bible schools andcolleges undergo a direct denominational affiliation but many others areinterdenominational. Most of these institutions evince (or originallyemphasized) biblical prophecy from a premillennial and dispensational point ofview. Faith groups and denominations that operate or are affiliated with biblecolleges include Mennonites. Pentecostalists. Holiness churches. IndependentBaptists and other Baptist groups. Churches of Christ. Churches of God theMissionary Church and the Christian and Missionary Alliance.

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