Particularly around larger seminaries, you’ll find what I call the “seminary church.” It’s almost always a large church. Often it’s close to the campus. Many professors and students attend it. The culture and theology of the seminary often bleeds over into the church. For seminary students, it’s a comfy place to be.
There were a few [...]

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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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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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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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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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