practical wisdom to help seminary students avoid burnout and finish well
Today is Monday, September 08th, 2008
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
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June 30th, 2008 | Mark | 0 comments | Continued
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.
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June 29th, 2008 | Mark | 0 comments | Continued
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 [...]
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June 18th, 2008 | Mark | 0 comments | Continued
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 [...]
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June 16th, 2008 | Mark | 4 comments | Continued
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 [...]
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June 4th, 2008 | Mark | 0 comments | Continued
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 [...]
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June 4th, 2008 | Mark | 28 comments | Continued
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 [...]
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June 2nd, 2008 | Mark | 6 comments | Continued
"You already know what you are going to regret when you are on your death bed why not work on ...
Thanks for the link! I'm benefiting from your blog as well. Great thoughts and helpful advice on managing ... Great thoughts and comments here. As a seminary student, I have had to learn how to moderately speed read. ...
Excellent point. I don't deny that there are things lost when you read less than every page of the ...
As a prof, let me add one equation to the discussion (which by the way, I also teach a similar ...
Good thoughts again. Thanks, as always, Mark.
A couple of thoughts I might add in:
~For one, expect that you will ...
I just wanted to thank y'all for all of your great posts. They have been very helpful, and have ...
Well said.
The whole of 1 Cor. 8:1-3 seems to tell more of the story, as “knowledge puffs up, but ... Amen again. Great post.
A wise leader once told me that, "work expands to fill the time allowed it." What I ... Ditto on Shaun's comment.
Also, it's too late now for summer-- but as Christmas break approaches, you might also consider ...
