Welcome to NOLA

First of all, this is my first experience in trying out having a blog. I really would not have time to have a blog at all, but this blog is qualifying as a class assignment, so that got me extremely interested. Although it does fulfull a class requirement, that is not at all my sole purpose in creating a blog. I have a lot of thoughts and beliefs that may or may not be able to benefit the world. But how will I know their impact if I don't attempt to share them?

I will start off my hopefully soon to be popular blog by simply telling random stuff about myself and who I am. My name is Kevin Sattler. I am a 22 year old student at New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary in (you guessed it) New Orleans, Louisiana. Telling everything about myself at the onset would be a long and arduous process and I do not want to overburden a first time reader with facts so as to turn them off every reading again. I really want this blog to get out there in the world. Not for my own benefit by any means, but so that something can be accomplished or set in motion that could have an impact on the world. I am a first year graduate student getting my Masters of Divinity in Collegiate Ministry. I recently (May 2010) graduated from Arkansas State University (Go Red Wolves!) with degree in Philosophy and a minor in Religious Studies. I am planning on joining the Army as a Chaplain once my years of seminary are over. Whether or not a serve in the Army for simply four years or for much longer will depend on the calling God places on me at the time. I cannot know the future (thankfully), so I cannot really presuppose any actions that I may or may not take at any moment happening after this one. This is not at all my entire story. That would take a ridiculously long time. And you would have stop reading by now. Hopefully, that has not happened yet. As I blog more and more, my life story will unfold bit by bit and hopefully have an impact on yours.

I need to clarify something that I probably should have clarified at the beginning. I am a Chrisitian. There are certain aspects of Christianity that I will (as Pastor Rob Wilton) die on. Some things are absolutely true and cannot be changed. However, do not be turned off immediately if you are not a Christian. On the contrary, I would certainly love for you to keep reading. As a philosopher, I respect and try my best to understand all views over all issues (which I should tell you is an impossible task!!) and keep an open mind about all of the issues that are not certain. A lot of my blogs will be for my Guiding Collegians in Their Faith Pilgrammage class. Meaning I will be covering specific topics relating to how to practically implement certain practices into a collegiate ministry setting. These things will be from a college minister's perspective. If you are a college minister, feel free to try them out with your group of collegians. If you are not a college minister, you can skip them if you want. However, they will probably give a little bit of insight into how my brain works (which isn't very well sometimes) so if you want to know me, you might want to take an interest in them. I will also blog about things that happen in my day or maybe about something I read and contemplated about something biblical or whatnot. Many blogs will probably be random. Others will be structured and hopefully helpful.

Well that is it for my introductory (and first one ever) blog. I hope you will continue reading all of them. Or at least some of them every once in a while. Feel free to comment or email me with any questions or thoughts or prayer requests or absolutely anything you feel like chatting about. Thanks!!!