Am I Called to be a Pastor?

I am a pastor. This morning I found a good webpage http://imperfectpastor.wordpress.com/ . It´s great someone is thinking of us imperfect pastors!

You think you are called to be a pastor or full-time minister of the Gospel of Jesus Christ? Here is a self-check you might wish to use to help you assess whether or not you are qualified or called to ministry.

There are a lot of questions about

• Personal life
  Family life
• Church life
• Life in God´s World

If you are a pastor or want to be a pastor this text will be helpful. Some questions are hard. Finally only reason to be a pastor is that God calls sinners and imperfect people to be pastors.

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Living Orthodoxy - Alive Church - beautiful photos!

This blog that made me feel good! I appreciate and love you, Orthodox Christians!

http://02varvara.wordpress.com

What is Living Orthodoxy? Look at the images… look at these lovely people… THAT’S the Living and Alive Church. That’s Truth…

Christ is risen from the dead… you can see it reflected in their faces, can’t you?

Read entire text here  - and watch beautiful photos from Orthodox Service!

Thanks for this post!

Created for eternity - I was made for another world

I found a blog text for today:
http://lauraslink.wordpress.com/

Upon returning home, I came across a quote from CS Lewis that perfectly articulates my thoughts today. It is the following from CS Lewis: “If I have a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the explanation is-I was made for another world.”

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Our daily bread

My second day!

Today I found http://chrischur.blogspot.com/ -blog.

David's desire was right when he wrote in Psalm 119:15 "I will meditate on Your precepts, and contemplate Your ways." That's the way to treat God's Word, to take time to mull it over.

Let's not come to the Bible as if we were going to an express buffet. Only meditating on God's Word will we get the most value for our spiritual well-being. - C.P Hia

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Thank you for reminding the importance of meditating of God´s Word.

Joshua 1:8
Do not let this Book of the Law depart from your mouth; meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do everything written in it. Then you will be prosperous and successful.

Psalm 1:1-3
Blessed is the man
who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked
or stand in the way of sinners
or sit in the seat of mockers.

But his delight is in the law of the LORD,
and on his law he meditates day and night.

He is like a tree planted by streams of water,
which yields its fruit in season
and whose leaf does not wither.
Whatever he does prospers.

Jesus is not just moral example (1)

First blog quote in my brand new blog is: http://friarminor.blogspot.com/


Jesus Christ is not just moral example

"We do not become humble and godly because we follow the example of Christ in the simple sense of moral example. We become humble and godly because we consent to have our own personalities transformed by and into the charity and humility of Christ. We are not just following an example; we are allowing the Exemplar Himself to become our own new and renovated selves. This is what it means to be baptized into the death of Christ, and to become his Body in the Eucharist.

It is precisely this theologically dense sense of Christ-ianity that I don't always hear in preaching or conversation. It's too bad; because this is the real good news. If the main thing is my having to imitate a Christ who is separate from ourselves, we are doomed. That's not good news, given my sins. We try to be godly not in order to achieve a salvation that is available to the good, but instead as an act of thanksgiving for a salvation already accomplished for the sake of the evil.

If our sense of our relationship to Jesus Christ is only one of moral example, then we have forgotten what Incarnation and Sacraments even mean. "

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Thank you friarminor! God bless you!