new year, new credentials, & new diet?

I hope your Christmas was Merry and I hope you’re having a great New Year as well. One of the things I always enjoy about the New Year is something quite simple, and it’s opening my credentials card from the Pentecostal Church of God, where I’ve been a minister for a few years.

PCG Credentials

I already received mine in the mail. Our mission this year on our credentials card is One Story. I think it’s a tremendous way to keep us in focus.

We each have one story we’re telling about our lives, one plot coming across.

However, there are very many ways our lives interact with the Gospel and interact with the community of faith.

If you’re interested just visit patheos.com/blogs/jared CLICK HERE

There’s a Meet Jared page CLICK HERE

Or reach out to me on LinkedIn CLICK HERE

In both of those places you’ll see my curriculum vitae (C.V.) CLICK HERE

These are some options for learning about my professional development.

The C.V. may seem formal, and in some ways it is. I’ve developed the C.V. for mid-level professional, academic, and ministry purposes. To be honest, I may need some assistance writing a regular resume.

Nonetheless, the C.V. offers some snapshots of my ministry from the time I first received credentials until now. I have been blessed to minister coast to coast, serving in what I would consider to be a missionary-evangelist role. However, I believe in the five-fold ministry of Ephesians 4.11 and have found myself operating in all of these functions at times, all glory be to our Lord…

and Lord willing, I’ll continue to do so in 2022. Then there’s my other life…

integrating the Word with other disciplines like psychology, student development, Theology, etc.

Happy New Year!
And good luck with your diet! 

attribution note

I’m not sure who to attribute the emoji to, and I don’t know if you’re on a diet like I am. I guess it’s just a GIF.

I don’t speak French but I’d honestly love to. When I was in High School Spanish we had French Fridays. Yes, it was a thing. We put the Spanish book aside and learned French with worksheets. I wish I would have kept all those papers, but I probably didn’t see the worth in tracking them at the time.

To this day, there are French histories I’d still love to track like Apostolic lore including one of the Mary’s (possibly Magdalene), narratives of Irenaeus of Lyons (who lived there but wrote in Greek), some mystics, and certain philosophers.

Obviously from the above emoji, there are some cool French psychological journals as well.