Archive for June, 2008

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“Learn to…” Series Summary

To tide you over as I’m traveling the next few weeks, here’s our completed contributions so far to the series, Things that you should learn while in Seminary that Seminary will not teach you:
Learn to Pray
Learn to Share Your Faith
Learn to Submit to Authority
Learn to Love People
Learn to Exercise
Learn to Confess Your Sins

June 30th, 2008 | Mark | 0 comments | Continued
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DTS Bloggers United!

I was happy to see that John Saddington, a 3rd year Dallas Theological Seminary student,  has started an aggregator site for DTS bloggers.
You can find it at theologyblogs.com.

June 29th, 2008 | Mark | 0 comments | Continued
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Going to Seminary

If you haven’t yet checked out goingtoseminary.com, it’s a great resource for current and future seminary students. They have several current seminarians writing for the site. You can find lots of good counsel on a variety of subjects, and a engaging community, to boot.
Ryan, the GTS webmaster, has been very helpful to me personally [...]

June 18th, 2008 | Mark | 0 comments | Continued
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Learn to Confess Your Sins

Confession is a much neglected discipline in Protestant life, despite the clear biblical command to “confess your sins to one another and pray for each other that you may be healed.” (James 5:16) Speaking your depravity out loud to a listening brother or sister in Christ is one of the most powerful means of sanctification [...]

June 16th, 2008 | Mark | 5 comments | Continued
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John Piper To Start a Seminary at Bethlehem Church

This is news! Bethlehem Baptist Church, where John Piper is pastor, is moving toward becoming an accredited college and seminary.
Here’s a bit from the official announcement:
The Bethlehem Institute has graduated nine classes of pastoral and missionary-destined men for Bible-saturated, God-centered ministry….
Now a flash point has been reached for moving to new levels of training and [...]

June 4th, 2008 | Mark | 0 comments | Continued
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Free Seminary Survival Guide T-shirts!

Editor’s Update: Please note, we are out of shirts at present! Thanks for coming by!
A few weeks back, I had some Seminary Survival Guide T-shirts made up to help promote the site. I’ve been giving them to friends and offering them to active commenters.

So now it’s your turn! If you are a current [...]

June 4th, 2008 | Mark | 29 comments | Continued
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Is “Calling” a Biblical Idea?

A few days ago, I got a great question in the comments on a post I’d written on calling to ministry. It’s a topic on which I have well-formed opinions.
Here’s the question:
Where does this concept of a “call” come from in Scripture? I mean, some of the great men of the faith were audibly [...]

June 2nd, 2008 | Mark | 7 comments | Continued