No I am not died, just lazy!

Good day my fair friends!  I send greets and more importantly prayers to those who read my posts.  I appreciate all of you and hope that someday we may have these conversations in person.  Who knows maybe I will marry one of you……..oh wait I am already married to one of you………which one could it be!!!???? 

So we begin with the story of me since we last met.  I have began to minister to the teens at church as part of my ministrial prep. It has been going great and I appreciate them all very much.  The thing that has changed the most is that I went into the process thinking, “hummm, what can I learn from this to help me be an all around minister in the church?”  That I have found out is not the true reason for this process.  My job as a pastor in the Christian church (Which I became when God called me to ministry) is to minister to the needs of the church.  So teens are where its at.  I have a gift to minister to the young people around me.  Now my call is not to full time youth ministry.  I dont feel that call but if God needs the gifts and abilities to minister to teens.  Well get along little doggie I shall minister.  I hope that make sense.  Well all that said.  I meet with my mentor through this process we were discussing my discouragement with the process and basically this whole process is mans way of making sure you are called.  I need to show through my fruits that I am called to minister full time in the Free Methodist Church.  When you receive a call to full time ministry from the Lord from that point on you are viewed in His mind as a pastor to His people.  So in your everyday life as you go through the process you are a pastor to everyone around you.  So basically I am going full force at ministering to the teens and young adults for the Lord and doing what He would have me do. 

Ok sorry to get on a soapbox there for a second but that is what has been happen in my ministry life.  Personally I am trying to be the husband that God called me to be 6 years ago.  I fail often but God has provided a woman of God to help me through the process of marriage.  I try to be a better man daily and i try not to beat her as much……haha…….No really I try to be the man of God that she expects of me.  It is a process and i will get there someday but with God’s directing and my obedience I can be the man I know I can be. 

Well in closing God bless all of you and my prayer is that through these post I can help you to live to your God given potential in all you do.  God Bless

My little thoughts for today!

I must first apologize for the delay in writing anything on my blog in awhile.  My Laptop has been OOS (out of service for those who…..you get the point) for the past few weeks which means all I can do is use the one at work. My wonderful wife was more then generous in allowing me to fix it. 

Well things have been good in the world of Michael.  Back in June I became a Local Ministerial Candidate in the Free Methodist Church. You are saying to yourself “A what!!??”  This is the first step in the process to ordination.  I must spend approximately a year heading and being involved in various ministries in the church.  Its a time to evaluate my call and iron out the details of where exactly my call is for (Senior, Associate, Youth, etc.) After this time I will take it to the next level which is becoming a conference minister.  This is the step right before ordination.  Its a lot of “hoops” to jump through but I suppose if this is where God is leading I shall follow.  My frustration level is high.  I shall push through it though. 

So I think to myself, “What is wrong with you??”  I have nothing to show for myself.  I am basically a 28yo no body.  I know this is a harsh judgement on myself but the feelings don’t lie.  The one “adult” accomplishment I have is getting married. Which i am very thankful for.  I think she is a keeper.  I have spoken to a few people about this and it comes out that I am just slow.  Yes, i rode the short bus these past few years.  I do have one thing that i will be posting in my office and in other places were I may find it hard to push through (No Erik not while meeting with “Johnie”.)  As i am writing about this I think of the story of the tortoise and the hare.  Yeah I know its overused but its true.  A dear friend of mine told me that its not a race and i couldn’t agree more.  The hare started out fast but eventually the tortoise catches up and ultimately pass up the hare.  Heck I am only 28 yo.  Take for instance the pharmacist that i am working with tonight.  He is in his late 50′s and has only been a pharmacist for maybe 5-6 years.  So I close this post with saying I will get there eventually.  God at my side I can push through to be the man he wants me to be. 

Discrimination!!!! I tell you i am not going to put up with it!!

We all have had days like this…..

Did God really mean it when He said……..

This is a statement and question I have personally always asked myself.  God gave many people the ideas to put down on paper so that one day we as Christians could read this book we call the Bible.  Is this book just another “DiVince Code” that just hasnt gone away yet? Is it just another one of those fads that will eventually just pass on like so many other books?  Well we all know that answer to this question, no!  There is not a shot that this book is anything but the God lead/breathed word.  I have been talking to my wife recently about the D-Code and she has enlightened me to the general content of the book.  Have you ever thought that the reactions to this book are actually pretty simalur to that of the people who first seen the scriptures?  I am not sure about that. I have decided to try something alittle different with the post and I would like to see what happens.  I am going to post a question and I would like everyone who reads it to give me a well thought out reaction to that question.  If you would rather not thats ok too.  So here it goes.

If a lost book from Mary the Mother of Jesus was found what do you think would be in it? 

i knew it!!!

 

This is just funny

So whatelse can I do?

How many of us have thought to ourselves this same question?  We sometimes think we are at a lose for words or activities to do but in fact if we just push forward these are the times that God speaks to us most deeply. I sit here and I think there isnt really anything else I can do in preparation for my future ministry when in fact this is the prime time for my God to form me and mold me to the leader He wants so badly for me to be. I view even this Blog as a ministry of mine. Those who read it, though few now, i hope and pray will take my bits of information about struggles and victories and learn from them. So always remember, The end of a matter is better than its beginning, and patience is better than pride. Ecclesiastes 7:8

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Now if i can only find where the socks went from the dryer!!

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