Archive for March, 2008
Bash Your Television into a Million Pieces (Seminary Time Waster #4)
The average American watches 4 hours, 35 minutes of television every day. (Center for Screen-Time Awareness, 2007 Fact Sheet) Annually, that’s 1,673 hours. Can you believe it? Almost 10 weeks a year, just watching TV. It is a waste of your life! We understand the need for a little entertainment or down-time, but TV is [...]
Category: Featured, Time Management
Learn to Love People
(“Learn to…” Series, part four) Seminary cannot teach you to love people. If you are going to lead God’s people, however, you must learn to love them. Seminary by its nature is primarily devoted to the formation of the mind, to think right thoughts about God, to master theology. This is an important pursuit which [...]
Category: Featured, Spiritual life
Intellect or Love?
Here’s a poll question to inform our post coming this Thursday. [poll=2]
Category: General, Spiritual life
Be Unavailable. Like Jesus. (Seminary Time Waster #3)
Seminary Time Waster #3: Interruptions and Task Switching. The kind of study you are doing at seminary requires deliberate and sustained thinking—the kind which is impossible in high-interruption environments. You should aim in your study time for long, uninterrupted blocks of time. I’d recommend a minimum of 90 minutes. You should have enough time to [...]
Category: Featured, Time Management
Good Friday
He made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, so that we might become the righteousness of God in Him. 2 Corinthians 5:21
Category: General
Saving is faster than earning
It’s tax time, and a great time to remember that because we’re taxed on income, you can get more money by saving than you can by earning more. Or, to put it more succinctly: a dollar saved is two dollars earned. You get to keep all the money you save. You don’t get to keep [...]
Category: Finances
The Internet Sucked Away My Life: Seminary Time Waster #2
Technology has given us the Internet, and the ability to instantly communicate worldwide. Wonderful isn’t it? It has also given us email in-boxes full of spam stupid forwards you’ve seen a thousand times already. access to millions of webstores where we can spend all the money we don’t have video games, the most fun way [...]
Category: Featured, Time Management
Bursting the Seminary Bubble
Bryan Lilly wrote a great post about the pretension and unreality that is bred by the academic environment at seminary. He calls it being in “academic mode.” Here’s an excerpt: I can be at the ready to discuss at length why I’m an amillennialist, but I’m afraid to come up to that same person and [...]
Category: Spiritual life
Quick tip of the hat…
to Rendezvous with God, for the link and the nod. Thanks Chris.
Category: Links
Procrastination: Seminary Time Waster #1
We’re all very well acquainted with the problem of procrastination. Putting off things that we do not enjoy or are dreading is a very human temptation, but is completely self-destructive. Here are a few practical tips on overcoming procrastination. Some of these tips will work well for you, others won’t. Pick and choose as you [...]
Category: Featured, Time Management
