Reflection Paper Glst 200

August 28, 2017, the first day of my fresh and scary journey. My first day as a Colorado Christian University student, English composition online is my first class. Part of me is ready; part of me is ready to throw in the towel. I hadn’t even had a chance to turn a paper in, and the first assignment, a 5-paragraph essay had me thinking “you’re a crazy person for going back to school, it’s been 11 years since you had to write a paper. What are you thinking?” I told myself its 5 weeks (later I would realize actually 6) you can make it 5 weeks! Although I knew writing wouldn’t be my easiest subject, I knew I had to try my hardest. This class was condensed and hard, but effective and informative; I’ve learned so much, felt all sorts of emotions and know I can apply what I’ve learned in classes to come.

In today's society many religions and many people don't see eye to eye with the LGBTQ community. They see this community as something less significant than others, viewed as something unnatural, and even something different from this world we live in. This community suffers from being threatened for their lives, being scared of being their true self. In what power should people have to make these decision on what people should like; none, because people should be allowed to love whatever gender they please with. People in this community shouldn't have to a live in fear of being judged by others, tormented, or even humiliated because others don't agree with what gender they like. They are just like every human that loves, but many don't see that because of maybe the way they were raised was to only believe in same sex marriage or people just don't like the idea of a sex liking the same sex. People don't see that society is more open than it was back in the days. This community suffers from being othered and are being viewed as monstering walking on the street. There's stereotypes being made about people in this community, there's religions that disown family that are in this community, and people don't see these types of event could lead to self harm, addiction, and could mess a person mind, just because they don't agree with what gender they please with.

Before attending GCU and using the sources that they provide, I normally would use resources and tools that were provided by various universities. Two notable examples that I would use where Purdue University's OWL and also Calvin College's KnightCite. OWL is a particularly helpful source since it offers a wide variety of articles regarding various topics that play a key role within successful writing. KnightCite was also a source I widely used because of the fact that it was a great way in order to get MLA (which I used in high school) citations for works used in my papers. However, nowadays I mainly use the sources provided by GCU such as the writing center which I have found to be quite helpful. In particular, I enjoy the templates provided

Western Christians in global missions by Paul Borthwick is about the interdependence and unity of the global Church. The book starts at the conclusion of an era of missions where North America has taken the helm. As the global missions community changes, North America needs to reassess its role. There are 4 main integrated points that Borthwick makes that should change the perspective of the white American middle class missionary.

My dad used to tell me all the time that we are all a work in progress. At the time I didn’t know exactly know what he meant. As years have passed on and my relationship with Christ matured, I now know what he meant. We as children of God can never be perfect, but what we can do is strive to be like Christ, this is what the definition of a Christian is, “Christ like”. I try to share the good news of Jesus, and when I do I like to talk to people about God’s Grace and through his son Jesus there is no Condemnation.

This summer, I got to see firsthand the way my liberal arts education impacts the way I share Christ. Along with ten other OBU students, I was given the privilege of serving through the North American Mission Board in Portland, Oregon. My job as a church-planting intern was to build relationships with unbelievers, share Christ with unbelievers, learn what it would be like to actually plant a church, and ultimately, learn to live life on mission.

Capuzzi, D., & Stauffer, M. (Eds.). (2012). Foundations of addiction counseling (2nd ed.). Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Pearson.

Technology has open the possibility for new advancements and creations in the world. In medicine, for example, technology has helped increase lifespan, improved our life conditions and reduce the risk of harmful diseases. However, for some patients, technology has also been accompanied with prolonged suffering and with devastating physical and medical expenses. With more people connected today to CPR machines during their time of deaths, many individuals are having a harder time to achieve a “death with dignity”, in part because technology is disrupting both the quality of living of patients and the control they have over their own bodies. That being said, given this new technological context, can it be possible for patients to

I have attached two memos the students from 42A1O Reclass typed in order to challenge two test questions. The test question from Enlistment Promotions PV1-SPC is the only valid challenge. 38 students total got the questions wrong on the test. There is 44 students in the 42A1O Reclass 001-18

In this paper I will discuss the following three topics; why are personal testimonies important in sharing the gospel, if a person is a Christian does it matter how they live their life, and does it matter if Jesus was raised bodily or is spiritual resurrection sufficient. I believe that these are three very important questions in theology. The answers to these questions explain why we believe what we believe and why we as Christians practice the way that we do.

I would like to drop the course OCG 110 because I no longer need the course for my major’s general education requirement. At the end of last semester, I switched my major from Marketing to English. While in the Marketing program, I needed only two natural sciences to complete my general education course requirement. As such, I took the course BIO 286 last semester and received a B-, and enrolled in OCG 110 for this semester. At the beginning of this semester, however, I decided to double major in English and Elementary Education. I had only officially changed my major to Elementary Education recently— within the first two weeks of October— and did not realize that I needed to take a science with a lab in order to meet the Elementary Education

I chose RVUCOM because of its' emphasis on serving the community and underrepresented. I attended college in a medically under served area so I learned to appreciate the value of serving the less fortunate. Access to affordable and efficient healthcare should be a right of all citizens regardless of race, gender, or financial status. I hope to be a part of the movement towards a increasingly open and available healthcare system. I believe that RVUCOM can provide me with the tools required to succeed and further improve our healthcare

As I plan to embark on a lifelong journey of full time ministry, I better understand the need for a deep passion of lifelong learning. Culture is shifting and changing, leaving minsters with the challenge of keeping pace to reach people in a dark world. Paul talked about the necessity of relating to the people we are trying to reach in 1 Corinthians and Highlands College has better equipped me for this task. To successfully maintain a lifestyle of learning, I plan to continue my studies of scripture, deepening my understanding of the scriptures while learning new ways to apply them in reaching society. Jesus gave us the example of being light in darkness in the Book of John and, as I continue to be who God has called me to be, I know it is of absolute necessity to know the truth of God’s Word more than ever before but, I do not only plan to study just scripture. I have learned the necessity to study other topics to better prepare and equip me for ministry. My limited worldview shined a bright light on my need for better understanding, not only of God’s Word, but also the cultures represented around me. I plan to continue studying those cultures so that I may better shine the light of God’s Word into those places. Highlands College has amplified the need to continually grow in all areas so that I may be better prepared to reach people as God

It was not until Saddleback Church, Pastor Rick Warren, published “The Purpose Driven Life”, that the idea of discipleship reached every member of a congregation. No longer was disciple-making limited to the leadership of the church. My church participated in the Purpose Driven Life 40-Day Campaign and had 35 cell groups in the surrounding neighborhood.

David Wesley’s main idea is a set of best practices, or what he terms “healthy patterns,” in congregational mission partnerships. Wesley observes that in the emerging “third way” of missions that began at the end of the 20th century and is coming into its own in the early 21st century is focusing on congregational partnerships. As such, Wesley seeks to lay out “common patterns for healthy global partnerships observed in these congregational partnerships.” Consequently, Wesley presents five healthy patterns around which common mission can flourish.