...Comfort Zone IceBreaker Game What is the comfort zone? Your comfort zone is any type of behavior that keeps you at a steadily low anxiety level. Jonah 1-4 The Calling Jonah was a faithful servant of God, living among his own people and sharing God’s words for them. Then God suddenly asks him to do something that was a little outside the norm. God calls Jonah to go to Ninevah to tell them that God will destroy the city if they don’t turn their ways Often times we are told to do things we don’t want to do as teens i.e chores, homework, work, talk in front of people * Running Away from God As soon as he heard what God wanted him to do, Jonah got on the first boat to Tarnish, which is the complete opposite direction hoping to run away from God because it was out of his comfort zone How many times have we tried running away from our calling because were scared of what the outcome will be. The unknown is scary!! What if we get made fun of? What is we fail? What if we don’t say the right things? Ninevah was the capital city of Assyria and was renowned as one of the most cruel and brutal nations in the ancient world. They thought nothing of burying their enemies alive, skinning them alive, or impaling them on sharp poles under the hot sun until they died of sunburn and exposure. Furthermore, Jonah’s message was not to be one of “God’s Love”, but of “God’s Judgement.” Its one thing to...
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...around Lake Moultrie. Lakeside Community Church was a massive church that had expanded—with parking of course—onto seven acres. Thank God it didn’t have a school, otherwise I’d probably be living there. The interior had a color palette of earth tones. The carpet was a color that hid dirt well and the wall colors complemented it. As you walked in, there was a reception area with donuts and coffee along with racks of cd’s from recent sermons. The sanctuary was offset from the entrance and when you walked in it was big enough that it echoed if there weren’t enough people in there. Alex surprised me as he took my hand and held it as we...
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...dad always told me when it came to priorities, that it was always supposed to be God, family, then everything else. Now that I do have girlfriend, whom I am happily in a very serious relationship with, my dad says my priorities should be: 1st God, 2nd my girlfriend and family, 3rd should be whatever else I value. This reflects the balance that pastors must deal with on a daily basis, how to deal with a ministry while maintaining a healthy family life. My dad taught me exactly what pastors must do when they prioritize, to put God as number one, then focus on your family, and finally the church ministry. Keeping Priorities In Check There have been many cases where the pastor puts the ministry as number one on their list, then God, and then their families. An instance would be that they feel that God gave them their calling, they follow it, but they forget to keep a daily devotional life with the One who gave them the calling. But this isn’t the correct way to set one’s priorities. Although a pastor may justify himself in that the ministry was his calling, I don’t believe that is the way God called us to conduct our lives. Yes, saving lives and bringing people over to Christ is a very important issue, and a noble cause, but what good is it to win the whole world yet loses one’s sole? A better example would be, to win the whole but lose one’s family. Some people may even put God number one, ministry number two, and family at third place. This is probably the...
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...years of making mistakes that he was forcing a vocation upon himself instead of listening to his true voice. He explains from a young age we are taught by the parents, teachers, and other adults in our lives to listen to them, and not taught to listen to ourselves. Palmer (2000) states that “before you tell your life what you intend to do with it, listen for what it intends to do with you. Before you tell your life what truths and values you have decided to live up to, let your life tell you what truths you embody, what values you represent (p.3). Palmer continues the exploration with a poem which sheds light on the amount of time it takes to chisel away the defenses and find our true self. He learned from the church that to find his calling...
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...time at Pepperdine, you will also be challenged to ask questions that go deeper than just what your major or your occupation will be. Sometimes it is not easy to understand the nature of a "vocation". We know the word means "calling", but how does God call someone to ministry? We generally do not hear a distinctly audible call to go to work for the Lord, at least, not directly from the Lord. We do hear the anxieties of our fellow man. We hear them wondering where priests and religious will come from in the future because so few young people are following those vocations today. We hear them hoping and praying that someone from the parish will step forward to do the work of Christ. How do we know if God is calling us? How do we know what our vocation is? How can we listen to God? Many people are confused about their vocation. There are some people who have chosen a more difficult vocation. They chose to always follow God. They help us find our vocation in life. They have been helping people for many generations. They are our religious brothers and sisters. For many years’ people have ignored and listened to God. Some people chose to ignore God because they think that their path will be less difficult. We sometimes forget God and we fail to hear him. God is always trying to help us but how can you help someone if they aren’t...
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...Cold Calling Success Student Name BUS642: Business Research Methods & Tools Instructor Name Date Submitted Cold Calling Success Many industries rely on cold calling in one form or another in order to secure new leads to potential customers. It is a relatively cheap way to introduce a product or service to those who are looking for a type of product, or those who may be in need of that service. It is critical that callers be upbeat and understand each person they contact should get the same enthusiasm and personal attention as the first call of the day. Cold calling is most often successful when the people making the calls have a solid understanding of the companies they represent, the products and services they are offering those they contact, and are well versed in adapting their scripts on a case by case basis. Background Information Cold calling has always been an inexpensive way of reaching out to potential customers in order to persuade them to purchase a good or service from a business. Companies frequently buy lead lists, which include the contact information for potential customers and may be tailored to the needs of the company. For example, a pest control company may purchase a list of names and information about people who have just purchased a home. These people have been prescreened to potentially need such a service, so they are a god solid foundation for cold calling. A cold calling strategy is more than just picking up the phone and speaking...
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...process easier. His constant message throughout the book asks, “Is the life I am living the same as the life that wants to live in me?” I personally found this book challenging and it made me think about my vocation as a minister as a whole. I know God has called me to the ministry, but I am still working through the fine-tuning of that calling. In other words, is God calling me to work as a pastor, missionary, youth minister, teacher, or a music worship leader? My seminary experience is helping me figure this out. However, I feel I am called to all of the above in some capacity. Regardless, of the vocational outcome the only thing I can control today is my relationship with God. I appreciate the words Palmer uses to address this and I feel it resonates my own identity. God asks us to only honor our created nature, which means our limits as well as potentials (Palmer 50). My first year of seminary has afforded me to explore what my limits are. It is obvious that I cannot do everything like I Smith 2 used to do when I was younger. Even then, I only thought I could do everything. However, I am in the process of learning what my potentials are. How am I learning this? My nature is finally matched with Gods nature and my vocation is as well. In conclusion, I enjoyed the clear honest approach that Palmer uses and the challenges he brings to the table. I hope to spend more time...
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...Mendanbar’s sword is missing?! In the fiction book entitled, Calling on Dragons, by Patricia C. Wrede, Morwen and her friends, Telemain, Cimorene, Brandel, Killer, Scorn, and Trouble go on an adventure through and beyond the Enchanted Forest to find Mendanbar’s, the King of the Enchanted Forest’s, sword. They find that the sword is missing when they first go to figure out what caused Killer, a rabbit, to turn into a seven foot, eleven inch, blue donkey with large wings. When they found that Killer had eaten a clover patch that had been invaded by wizards, they decided to inform the King and Queen about it. Starting from the beginning, knock! Knock! Knock! Morwen encounters a visitor. It was Chairwitch Archaniz. She came to tell her about the complaints the Deadly Nightshade Gardening Club has been getting...
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...canvas ® PayForMe ™ Mobile Collect Call Application Calling collect has been one of the key services in the wireline networks. It has allowed operators to generate additional revenues and has enabled subscribers to connect to friends and family from public locations, especially in an emergency. Canvas® PayForMe™, Mobile Collect Call Application, brings the same functionality to wireless operators. The Canvas® brand covers multiple solutions with key components that are optimal for future growth in the evolving next generation networks. Each Canvas product offers not only a point solution, but also reusable building blocks that seamlessly integrate with other Canvas products as well as with Telenity partner solutions. Canvas PayForMe is a member of the Canvas Value Added Services portfolio. It is a network based value added service solution that enables wireless carriers to target end-users like the youth market, low budget and prepaid subscribers and enterprises. It allows mobile subscribers to make collect calls without the involvement of an operator through a simple USSD message or a voice call. The benefits of Canvas PayForMe include the following: Convenience of Placing a Call Without Available Credits Canvas PayForMe application offers pre-paid subscribers a peace of mind that, in case of a personal emergency, they can reverse the charges even if the pre-paid account is depleted. Similarly, parents can feel safe about setting spending limits on their teenagers' mobile...
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...Nexogy offers a range of market solutions to our clients, serving markets from residential customers to sophisticated business customers with reliable full-featured VoIP applications Our Hosted IP Telephony Services primarlily consist of: • • • IP Centrex/ IP PBX Hosted Business Business Trunking Enhanced Residential IP Centrex / IP PBX • Bring the power of a corporate PBX to enterprise customers who will no longer have to invest in PBX equipment or its maintenance • Works with analog phones as well as with IP Phones • Offer traditional PBX functionality plus a wide range of value added services not economically feasible with traditional solutions • Centralize communications services (National and International Long Distance, Local Calling, Local Phone Service, Hosted PBX) on a single bill IP Centrex Features 976/900 Block Abbreviated 2-digit dialing Anonymous Call Rejection Billing Codes Call Forward All Calls Call Forward Busy Call Forward No Answer Call Return Call Trace Call Waiting Call Waiting/ID Manager Caller ID Caller ID Block Classes of Service Direct Inward Dial (DID) Do Not Disturb Flexible Auto-Attendant Flexible Numbering Plan Forward to Voice Mail Group Pickup Hold Hold Music Hunt Groups Multi-call Park N-way Conference Off-Premises Stations Park & Park Pickup Permanent Per Call Block Priority Call Queues Redial Remote Call Forward to DID Selective Call Forward Selective Call Rejection Speed Dial TAPI Dialing Support Transfer, Blind & Guided Transfer to...
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...their children, and the hearts of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the land with a curse. SOME OF YOU READING THIS ARE BEING CALLED BY GOD I also saw a wall holding back this enormous flood of souls. They are being held back, waiting. There are people out there, reading this right now, who God is calling. He is calling them to break down the wall. People who have always thought, not me I'm too shy. Not me I don't have the right personality. Moses was like that. HE IS GIVING YOU IDEAS--EVEN RIGHT NOW The Lord is giving these people ideas, God inspired ideas that will reach masses of people. The ideas may seem small, but they are not small. There are people who will live their lives through, and take their last breath, having never uttered the idea that God put on their heart. They will stand before their God and be made aware of what He had entrusted them and they hid it because they were afraid. Now is the time to stand up to the spirit of fear that speaks to you in the first person. "I'm just", "I couldn't", "How could I"?, "but I" Those are not your own thoughts, but those of the enemy of all righteousness. OTHERS ARE INTERCESSORS--BUT THERE IS MORE There are others in the body of Christ, reading this right now, who are intercessors. Because they have been faithful, God is calling them into more....
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...Upon completing the course of biblical foundations, it has widened my understandings of biblical knowledge and has given me incite on what God expects of us, what he has planned for us and how we need to act on his word to acheave our salvation. By taking this course, I have been able to open my mind to exploring new concepts and theories from creationism to the theories of evolution and intelligent design concepts , I have been able to gain comprehension of biblical passages through critical thinking and analyzition of passages with deep meaningful messages. I have also been able to take my first step into starting my path to soul searching as well as becoming closer with our lord and savior. By reviewing the meta-narrative of the bible I have been able to more closely and attentively delve into the would of Christianity. This has propelled my thought process as to better analyze each passage and thus creating a better understanding what what was being proclaimed in the biblical scriptures. Before starting this class I would read the scriptures and have a vague understanding of the message hidden in the words. After reviewing all of the video lectures and hearing what the professor has had to say about the meanings of each passage, I have been able to redirect my though process to that of biblical understanding. Recalling week one of our biblical passage analysis, after reading the given passage I received and comprehended very little information on the passage. I began to...
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...The story of Moses traces its root back in the time when God appeared to Abraham and spoke to him about the things that will happen to the people of Israel; He told Abraham how they will be mistreated and enslaved for about 400 years and yet will bring them back to their own land with great possession and victory. Accordingly, Abraham's grandson Jacob married two wives; Leah and Rachel. Leah was unloved by Jacob as a result was mistreated by her younger sister. Leah's outcry reached the Lord's ears and he responded by giving her a child which she named Levi. The way the child was named was unique and prophetic. Leah unaware prophesied to the child's true future identity by proclaiming that Jacob will now love and come close...
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...Throughout my life I have found that it has gotten much easier for me to follow my calling that God has given me, but to be completely honest this was not always the case. If the Lord was to give you a dream showing you your future would you believe it, or would you pass it off as just another dream? This was the question I needed discernment and wisdom to answer as I was not sure at one point in time in my life. We will examine the book of Genesis and take a walk-through Joseph’s calling as we examine our own lives and calling from the Lord. After reading Genesis 37:1-36, the circumstances that led to Joseph brothers’ treatment of him were very noticeable throughout these scriptures. One key factor of the treatment was the fact that Joseph...
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...the youth ministry, the women ministry, evangelism ministry, and the loss prevention ministry. I feel that my ministries are the ministries destined for me, because I served effectively on all of them and I love during so. Being able to give back and to helping other to come to Christ is what a good servant of God should be able to do: not just quoting scriptures but actually being out there getting down and dirty with the lost ones .Helping them to find what they have been seeking for in their lives and how they can reach out to God. Going to the nursing homes, the women shelter and youth group homes spreading the word to the women and men in there that feel that their love ones have walked off and forgotten them. In the women shelter who never knew Jesus as their personal Lord an Savoir, but knew drugs, sex and other things that was keeping them from getting closer to God. In the women shelter who never knew Jesus as their personal Lord an Savoir, but knew drugs, sex and other things that was keeping them from getting closer to God. Youth, who that have be abused and abandon: not train or taught who God was. After taking this class I am sure that these are my calling .Being in your class has given me a love for what I am doing for the Lord and makes my heart burn to have in personal meet you. Thank you. PART TWO; Spiritual Gifts: Showing mercy and Serving were my strength: Prophesy was my weakness. Serving is my strongest I feel, because in the past weeks of this class...
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