Jacob : A Friend That I Have Known Only For The Last Half Of My Friend Jacob

Jacob, a simple name, is easy to say, easy to spell, and easy to remember. Jacob comes from the Hebrew origin, “Supplanter”. Supplanter means one who follows another’s heel. My name fits me. To me, Jacob means someone who is smart, funny, and outgoing. I am very smart, at least I think so. In real life, I am not that funny, but some people think that I am funny. I am sometimes outgoing because if I really want to be someone’s friend I just go up and ask. But I love my name. My dad wanted me to be Rocco, but my mom wouldn’t allow it. On the day of my birth, my dad was going to change it. Birth certificate in hand, he was going to change my name to Rocco, but my mom would dislike the name and dislike my dad even more, so he kept it. But I do love my name. My son’s middle name would be Jacob if I even have a son. Jacob is a good name. It fits who I am.

Alex Thompson is a Freshman Business Administration major who also runs both cross country and track here at William Woods. Besides being a National qualifier in Cross Country in his first ever collegiate season, Alex is a very interesting character whenever it comes to his worldview. He is the type of guy that lives life to the fullest and always has a smile on his face and enjoys everything he does. Alex comes from a “very religious” Catholic background, as he informed me. He informed me that he is a confirmed Catholic, been baptized, partaken in Communion, and he has also went through Reconciliation. Alex did not go into all of the details and steps of Catholicism but he did include a large portion of information on how he lives his life and his key values. Although Alex could be described as a “wild child” there is another side of him that he shared with me.

D. Jakes grew up in South Charleston and West Virginia with his family. In his neighborhood he was joked on as to be the “Bible Boy”. He was given this name because he would mock his churches clergy and preach to and imaginary congregation while holding a Bible. At 10 years old, his father was diagnosed kidney disease. Jakes cared for him. Jakes obtained a GED certificate. But despite his shortcomings in high school, Jakes went on to earn a bachelor’s and master’s degree as well as a doctorate in Theology. Jakes said he was called to ministry at 17 years old. He began preaching the gospel while studying at West Virginia State University. He became a part-time music director for the Baptist church he grew up in. Jakes ministry appeals to people because he addresses their physical and emotional

Mr. Jacob had a dream one night which revolved around a step ladder in which he just would take one step after another. Flowing the dream he came across our pamphlet displaying or support network that was set in place to honor dreamers. “I know I was on my way to seeing a better future for my children and a stronger family unit with the guidance I received from CFC, Mr.

Hey Kathleen, I really enjoyed reading your thread, especially when you talk about being born in a Jehovah’s witness family. I can only imagine how confused you were when you got older, and realized that you were not being taught about the real Christ. How did that make you feel? Where you angry, confused, let down or did you just embrace it for what is was? People reject the gospel all the time based on beliefs of what they are taught growing up, such as yourself. When you are born into a certain religion you grow up knowing only that religion. When we are confronted about another God we automatically reject it. Not because we want to, but because of the fear of the unknown. Sharing the love of Christ is what someone did to address your objections,

He grew up in a solid Christian home. His father and mother both instilled in him the Bible and faith in Jesus Christ. His father instilled in him the deeper spiritual knowledge and discerning the Holy Spirit. As a result, he manifested advanced apperception as compared to his peers. His parents were assiduous in relation to serving others and living the faith despite poverty. He expended his youth helping his parents accommodating others. Relating to his conversion experience, he would state he said the sinner’s prayer at a youth rally. However, he envisaged sometimes around 11 years old he privately and alone without an altar call he confessed Christ as his Lord and Savior. To him, Christianity esteemed itself all his life, so accepting Jesus was a natural progression.

Recently I was contacted by a good friend of several years who had stopped coming to church about a year or so ago, When Jeffrey contacted me I was initially very happy to hear from him, as the conversation progressed I noticed something about him had changed. I then enquired if he had started attending church again and to my relief he said he had I asked him where he was fellowshipping he responded that he was now a member of the Jehovah Witnesses, I was stunned. Jeffrey then asked me how I was doing in my walk I told him I was fellowshipping with other Christians. He then asked if we could make a time to catch up so he could show me what he had found that had brought him to join the Jehovah Witnesses, he wanted to share this truth with

However, in the case of James, it is unsure why it became James, rather than Jacob. One may conjecture that James was already a common name in England as was the King who commissioned the translation, but it is still perplexing as to why Jacob was deliberately changed to James. Was Jacob too Jewish for them or was there an attempt at Christianize him or make him appear as a Gentile? Why are other modern translations unwilling to change it to Jacob or even Yaakov?

After our initial session I decide to use a cognitive approach with John, specifically, I will use the Seven column technique, which will allow us to explore John’s maladaptive thoughts more in depth (Garzon, 2005). We begin with the situation column. In this we write “no response on job application.” In the next column I have John rate his feelings of uselessness, hopelessness, and discouragement, which he rates at 90, 90, and 80 percent, respectively. In the beliefs column we write “they know I will suck at the job” and for the evidence for beliefs, “it has been three weeks, that is plenty of time to look over an application.” In the next column, the evidence against beliefs, we ask two questions, “Can you think of a passage from the Bible that you might find encouraging?” and “how might your fellow church members describe something about your nature that you find difficult to see on your own? (Garzon, 2005).” Next, we examine alternative beliefs such as, there was an overabundance of applications and they just have not gotten to yours yet and God will lead me if I just trust that He has my best interest in

Our Ethnography Research is how student’s religious views affect their political views from a standpoint of three different religions. Since we live in a college town, we decided the appropriate demographic should be a college student between the age of 18 and 21. I got to interview a close friend of mine, Danny. Danny is a sophomore at Oregon State University and he describes himself as a Seventh Day Adventist, which is a smaller branch of Christianity and as a Democrat. I got to ask him many questions that one would not usually get asked, which made the interview fairly difficult, but I got to meet an entirely new friend.

I never realized how much my Uncle jake meant to me and my family till August 17, 2017.

Being the son and a brother of preachers, he hasn’t always been the type of person to go “running to church.” But he has realized that there is a higher purpose and some greater being that is directly his steps. He is not a ‘religious’ person per say because “those people follow old traditions that have no real meaning.” As a rational thinker, he depends on knowing how to read the Word and ask God for clarity in all his situations.

On Monday, September 14, my partner and I set out to find someone that was “Not our Type”. When I first heard about the assignment I was extremely nervous for what would lie ahead. I’m not a very talkative person and hardly ever just have random conversations with people that I don’t know. I knew that this assignment would certainly get me out of my comfort zone, and cause me to really branch out. A huge part of talking to others about Christ is to just start up a simple conversation to work off of. It can become even more difficult when someone has a different background or separate moral values. I was by no means looking forward to the awkwardness that would possibly lie ahead, we decided that the best place to start would be Walmart since people are there 24/7. We walked in at around 9 p.m. and started our search. After about 20 minutes we finally decided to make our move on someone. We walked up to a young man that looked to be in high school and began our conversation.

Fadi, his wife Justine and Marsha and I are in a small group made up of Uganda participants and their friends. We have been meeting for a year and a half. Some are Christians and some are not. Fadi was the driving force behind the group. This semester, for the first time, we are studying a book of the bible. To counterbalance the scary?! leap into talking about God and religion, Fadi and his friend Desmond decided to brew cider and we named the group InCider Mark. In the process of preparing for the group, Fadi had an encounter with God, "I was on my knees for an hour last weekend bottling cider. And then I started to think about why I’m

A young international student walked onto a secular Florida college campus ready to start his medical studies. Being an international student meant he had to take an English class. Little did he know a required English class would change the purpose of his life. The teacher of that class was committed to discipleship as defined and shown in the Bible. Having permission to use the Bible as the textbook the teacher taught his students the Word of God. The student did not immediately respond to the things being taught, though he excelled in his English studies. He came to the States with the purpose of learning English and medicine. However he left having learned English, certified as a Registered Nurse and following Jesus Christ as his Lord