User:RickReinckens

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Contents 1 Education (non-religious) 2 General WP stuff 3 Religion 3.1 -- Religious Attendance 3.2 -- Religious Training 3.3 -- Religious Study 3.4 -- Religious Websites 4 Other General Stuff 4.1 -- Secular Websites

[edit] Education (non-religious)

• Bachelor of Arts in Languages, 1972, Hofstra University, Hempstead, N.Y.
• City University of New York Graduate Center, 1972-1973, 20 s.h. in doctoral programs in Linguistics and Germanic Languages
• Cleveland Institute of Electronics Certificate in Electronics (home-study)
• Juris Doctor, 1981, St. John's University School of Law
• Houston Community College, 1984-1985, 24 s.h. in accounting and tax

[edit] General WP stuff

I mainly do "wikignome" stuff--checking random articles for format, adding links, etc. For awhile I did some editing in the Messianic Judaism article but I found the regular clique of editors (almost all of whom are not Messianic) so biased that I stopped.

[edit] Religion

[edit] -- Religious Attendance

• I was raised Roman Catholic and converted to Protestantism in 1996.
• I am now a Messianic gentile who has attended Baruch HaShem Messianic Synagogue (BHS) in Dallas, Texas since December 1999.
• I am a member of Christian Chapel CME Temple of Faith, where I run the Internet Outreach Ministry and teach in the children's program.
• I have attended the Reform Jewish Temple Emanu-El in Dallas since early 2003.
• For about a year I also attended Zola Levitt's Shalom Shalom Messianic Congregation.

(Yes, that does mean I have been attending three different congregations on a weekly basis for several years.)

[edit] -- Religious Training

I have completed six Messianic Yeshiva courses given by leaders in the Messianic Movement, a three-day orientation on Messianic Judaism given by BHS, and have extensively read Messianic authors such as Dan Juster, John C. Fisher, Michael L. Brown and David Stern. I have also studied Hebrew and traditional (non-Messianic) Judaism. Including college-lecture-type teaching at BHS I have about 450 hours of training in Messianic Judaism, Messianic theology, etc.

I hold a Certificate in Theology from the Dallas Extension Division of Interdenominational Theological Center (Protestant) in Atlanta, Georgia. I have also attended several non-denominational Christian workshops on children's ministry. I have written extensively on theology and apologetics.

[edit] -- Religious Study

As an apologist, I have studied the theology of numerous denominations and religions, including:

• Orthodox Judaism
• Reform Judaism
• Messianic Judaism
• Roman Catholicism
• Russellism (Jehovah's Witnesses)
• Mormonism (Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints)
• Islam
• Evangelical Protestanticm
• Mainstream Protestantism
• New Age

[edit] -- Religious Websites

I am the webmaster of numerous Protestant and Messianic websites that mainly deal with theology and apologetics with an emphasis on evangelism, including:

• Bible Codes -- Fact or Fantasy?
• Bible Dictionary
• La Biblia en Español
• Catecismo Católico Comparado a la Biblia
• Catholic Catechism Compared to the Bible
• Christian Chapel CME Church Internet Outreach Ministry
• Christian Evidences and Apologetics
• Christian Methodist Episcopal Responsive Readings
• Did God Lie? (Messianic Judaism)
• Dios en la Red (God On The Net en español)
• God On The Net
• Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary
• The Holy Spirit
• HubbleSpacePhotos.com
• Messianic Literature Outreach Tracts
• Messianic Worship
• Новости Мессии Йешуа (News of Messiah Yeshua)
• Passover Seder Dinner - Messianic Haggadah
• Protestantism and Roman Catholicism Compared
• Screen Savers (free, downloadable)
• 140 Sermons of John Wesley
• Understanding New Covenant Kingdom Order
• What the Bible Teaches

[edit] Other General Stuff

[edit] -- Secular Websites

I am the webmaster of the following secular websites:

• Rick's Search Assistant Pages I have found over the years useful for locating people, etc.
• Texas Links Links to information sites about Texas and many government agencies.
• TIPS - To Improve Pool Safety Children's water saftey information