Pastor’s Blog

  Fail moment. I just want to share with you how the enemy try’s to play with our heads. This last week I have been learning some of the biggest lessons when it came to praise. One of those lessons is how important it is to spend time in the morning praising God. Not just saying,…

  I know that this might be a shocker for you, especially those that know me. but I am not the most positive person all the time. I get discouraged often and easy and it is usually in the times when I am alone, left with my thoughts. I can remember times when I would come…

  One thing that I recently decided I was going to get back into was running. That is never an easy process, literally, this morning was the first day! It is never really an easy process to get back into something that you used to do. But why is that? Why is it that when you try…

  Wow! It has been a while since I’ve done one of these. But by God’s grace, we are hopping back on the wagon. For those that don’t know we started a new series this last week called Power in Praise. This is most likely going to be my favorite series that we have done…

  Have you ever been in a position where it felt like you were losing? Like as Christians, if we are being honest, there is this sense that “YAY! Christ won the battle.” But then we look around us and all we see is us losing. Whether it’s things like getting laid off, or a…

  So a few weeks ago, I left my water bottle at my fiancé’s house—it felt good to call her that. Now, for those of you who don’t know. Your pastor had a problem with not drinking water. Like I can go days and days—and days if you can’t see by the intensity of this—until…

  So if you haven’t found out yet, I don’t have a girlfriend anymore. Yup, that’s right. Pastor Samson now has a fiancé! If you were able to follow along this last church service than this is old news to you. I just want to take you along the journey. Dating Natali was a very…

  At our church, we have quite a few ladies that are pregnant. Actually one just gave birth here a few days ago! Shootout to the Vargas family! Congratulations on Addison coming into the world. It’s very hard not to think about the birth of Jesus at a time like this, not just the pregnant…

  We live in a world that has become obsessed with the idea of being “thankful”. Don’t get me wrong, I am all about being thankful and having gratitude journals, so don’t think that this is a blog that is saying we should not be thankful because I believe we should—and if you don’t have…

    Hello,            You might be reading this as a church member at Tulsa First SDA church, or you might know nothing about our church, or possibly you are a friend I told about this blog (thanks for checking it out). Either way I welcome you. Who am I? I…

  If you are ever wondering what the pastor thinks about when he isn’t doing sermons or visits, follow this thought process. So I just recently had a birthday, and I was thinking to myself, “What would happen if we didn’t have birthdays?” –I know silly question. How would we know how old we are?…

  For those that don’t know, I am horrible with making decisions. I have no idea if it is between my lack of motivation at times or my creativity. Let me explain. When it comes to making decisions because of the creativity I have, I am able to see the bad and good of any…

  Growing up we have this idea that the more we have the better off we will be. Well… At least let me speak for myself. Growing up I always had this idea that having more means that I am better off. If I only had more time, more money, more clothes, more things then…

  The human body is remarkable—trust me, I took an Anatomy and Physiology class in College. The human body watches out for the human body all the time. Don’t believe me? This last week I woke up Wednesday morning, and my ankle felt totally shattered—if you are wondering what I did, let me know when…

  I remember it was labor day weekend and my girlfriend and I wanted to go hiking—just want to make sure I clarify, I don’t like hiking but I like my girlfriend and she likes hiking thus we went hiking. The trail was called Indian Creek. This trail was about 5.4 miles round trip. And…

  One of the greatest pieces of advice that was given to me was, “Slowing down is not a sin, as a matter of fact it will do more good for you than bad.” Last week I felt like I was running around more than usual. I was running around so much that I forgot…

  We have all been in tough situations right? What makes a situation more tough—at least for myself—is when you could have done something prior to make it less worse of a situation. This past week I was in a tough situation. And I could have done something prior to make it less worse. What…

Have you ever heard of the statement, “You don’t know what you have until its gone”? If you never heard of this statement then you may have experienced it before, like with toilet paper, I know we’ve all been there—some more than others, myself included. But we have also experienced it when it comes to…

  So for those that don’t know, I have been sick, and I have been sick for about 5 days now. Now before you mind jumps to, “OH NO, he must have the Covid-19!”. I just want to let you know that I did get tested, and the results came back negative, praise God, so…

  It’s so interesting were life can take you. This can be in a positive direction or it can be in a negative direction. We wake up and it has been 5 years, for some of us, we wake up and it’s been 10, 15 maybe 20? I hope not 50!—If your reading this and…