Comments for One seminarians journey through Pastoral Formation http://christfollowertoday.com Specifically, this blog will be my running journal documenting my path through Concordia Seminary. Fri, 03 May 2013 04:25:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ Comment on Multi-Ethnic Symposium 2014 by buy articles for seo http://christfollowertoday.com/2013/02/07/multi-ethnic-symposium-2014/#comment-434 Fri, 03 May 2013 04:25:09 +0000 http://christfollowertoday.com/2013/02/07/multi-ethnic-symposium-2014/#comment-434 An interesting discussion is worth comment. I think
that you ought to write more about this issue, it may not be a taboo subject but usually
people do not discuss such subjects. To the next!
Best wishes!!

]]> Comment on Jonathan Udo Ekong – The Log-Bell Ringer by Barbara Welch http://christfollowertoday.com/2011/07/23/jonathan-udo-ekong-%e2%80%93-the-log-bell-ringer/#comment-359 Sat, 01 Sep 2012 18:59:34 +0000 http://christfollowertoday.wordpress.com/?p=345#comment-359 I was a nurse at Eket in 1961 briefly. We worshiped at a missionary’s home at the seminary in Obed Idom.
In 1996 I met Mary and Mercy in Santa Clara CA, they said they were related to Jonathan and Mary said her brother was a doctor at the hospital at Eket. I’m 73 now, cherishing the memories of my experience in Nigeria and grateful to find this history on the internet!
I will continue the search, God bless you and your efforts to keep the history alive.

]]> Comment on Books Currently Reading by Barinyima Koole http://christfollowertoday.com/books-currently-reading/#comment-287 Thu, 12 Apr 2012 15:11:35 +0000 http://christfollowertoday.wordpress.com/?page_id=286#comment-287 Your books are highly inspirational. It will be better if they can be read online.

]]> Comment on 30 years since the passing of Jonathan Udo Ekong by Gulfrey Laurent http://christfollowertoday.com/2012/01/06/30-years-since-the-passing-of-jonathan-udo-ekong/#comment-231 Thu, 23 Feb 2012 18:45:38 +0000 http://christfollowertoday.wordpress.com/?p=444#comment-231 I have very fond memories of being at Immanuel Lutheran Seminary when Jonathan arrived. Neither of us could go home for the holidays so we spent them together. I was glad to hear that his grandson was becoming a Lutheran minister. I am slow physically but our God has kept my mind alert; in December I was 97. I still plan on sharing stories about your grandfather while we were in the seminary together. Oh we had small classes but in some we were the only two so we had to learn.

]]> Comment on The Faithful Servant by Ron Goetz http://christfollowertoday.com/2011/11/13/the-faithful-servant/#comment-116 Mon, 14 Nov 2011 07:01:34 +0000 http://christfollowertoday.wordpress.com/?p=409#comment-116 When people are Spirit-filled, loving disciples of Christ, the Spirit will guide them to love the people around them, encourage them to seek out an edifying community of believers, and give them a hunger and thirst for righteousness.

The variety of human beings is enormous, and what motivates individuals varies widely as well. Some people are motivated by the promise of rewards in heaven. Others are motivated by duty. Some are motivated by love. Yet others are motivated by the need to prove something.

Jesus said, “Why do you call me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ and do not do what I say?” Obedience is what Christ requires, not merely verbal acknowledgments of his Lordship.

The motivation, whether it’s the imminent return of Christ or something else, is not important. Different people are motivated by different things they find in the Bible. That’s one of the virtues of its being so big.

]]> Comment on Lutheran Church of Nigeria turns 75! by ericekong http://christfollowertoday.com/2011/09/04/lutheran-church-of-nigeria-turns-75/#comment-85 Wed, 07 Sep 2011 03:03:45 +0000 http://christfollowertoday.wordpress.com/?p=380#comment-85 Yes, Chris is a cousin.

]]> Comment on Lutheran Church of Nigeria turns 75! by Rebecca Reed VanTol http://christfollowertoday.com/2011/09/04/lutheran-church-of-nigeria-turns-75/#comment-84 Wed, 07 Sep 2011 02:08:56 +0000 http://christfollowertoday.wordpress.com/?p=380#comment-84 Are you any relation to the current president, Christian Ekong? My dad is en route to Nigeria for the celebrations as I type this and will be preaching? teaching? at the seminary. I am under the impression that he will be meeting President Ekong. Dad is a good friend with Dave Erber and my dad’s congregation has been supporting their work for many years through the TIM program.

]]> Comment on Lutheran Church of Nigeria turns 75! by recreative http://christfollowertoday.com/2011/09/04/lutheran-church-of-nigeria-turns-75/#comment-83 Sun, 04 Sep 2011 20:39:35 +0000 http://christfollowertoday.wordpress.com/?p=380#comment-83 Praise God! What a blessing the Lutheran Church of Nigeria has been for the people of Nigeria and the rest of the world!

]]> Comment on Electronic Resources for the Seminarian by Barry http://christfollowertoday.com/2011/07/23/electronic-resources-for-the-seminarian/#comment-82 Fri, 02 Sep 2011 22:37:15 +0000 http://christfollowertoday.wordpress.com/?p=362#comment-82 Maybe someday the profs will publish their syllabi in Logos format also so that we could always have them in our library and use them after we graduate! I would also hope that some day CPH and CLS would work out an agreement to electronically publish the vast array of theological books in a “Pastor’s Collection” that would be starter kit available for new Seminarians.
+Barry

]]> Comment on Call Day … by the numbers!!! by Paul Hasz http://christfollowertoday.com/2011/05/11/call-day-by-the-numbers/#comment-74 Sat, 30 Jul 2011 18:26:15 +0000 http://christfollowertoday.wordpress.com/?p=329#comment-74 I was just wondering if Martin Hasz was any relation. My dad’s older brother was Martin H. Hasz, a lutheran school teacher in Mt. Prospect Ill.

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