practical wisdom to help seminary students avoid burnout and finish well
Today is Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008
During the summer, some folks are finalizing plan to begin seminary in the Fall. Whether you’re on your way, or thinking about it, here’s a summary of our series on calling to ministry.
Make Sure You’re Supposed to Be Here
Part One
Part Two
Part Three
Sounding the Call
Part Four
The Calling to Ministry Self-Assessment (pdf)
And as a bonus:
Is “Calling” [...]
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July 7th, 2008 | Mark | 0 comments | Continued
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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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
Last week, while I was vacationing in the Keys, Derek Brown posted a devastating list every seminary student should read, entitled “How to Waste Your Theological Education.” Here’s a sample:
1. Cultivate pride by writing only to impress your professors instead of writing to better understand and more clearly communicate truth.
2. Perfect the fine art [...]
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May 22nd, 2008 | Mark | 0 comments | Continued
Since so many seminary students have young children, I thought Dustin Benge’s recent post was definitely worth passing along.
From the time they are born a pastors’ child is the center of attention in the church and cannot escape scrutiny by members. When dad doesn’t come home when he said he would, when dad misses the [...]
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May 14th, 2008 | Mark | 0 comments | Continued
I suspect many of you are finishing up papers and exams (or have already) and are looking forward to breathing that awesome sigh of relief when your final project is done. Pretty sweet feeling, isn’t it?
So before you get started with another round of classes, I want to suggest that you take a little [...]
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May 9th, 2008 | Mark | 0 comments | Continued
A few different bloggers have chimed in on the disconnect between seminary and the local church.
Timmy Brister highlighted a Pastor-In-Training program at Third Avenue Baptist in Louisville. In summary, it seems that this church is actually taking responsibility for the development of new ministers, and not delegating that responsibility to the seminaries. Way [...]
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April 9th, 2008 | Mark | 2 comments | Continued
This woman should teach a seminary evangelism class. If you haven’t yet seen this clip about this sweet woman sharing Christ with a would-be mugger, you must watch. This stirs me up.
“Preach the Word; be prepared in season and out of season.” 2 Timothy 4:2
HT: Timmy Brister
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April 2nd, 2008 | Mark | 0 comments | Continued
Live off campus. Fantastic advice. I'll have more to say about that sometime soon. 
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I couldn't have said it better myself. I moved from Georgia to post-Katrina New Orleans. WOW! What a major culture ...
Boy did this post strike a nerve! I have been in this new country called Dallas, TX for my husband ...
Mark:
I fully understand your Texas culture shock. We went through it 5 years ago on a corporate relocation to the ...
I whole-heartedly agree with most of the suggestions on looking for a church. I think, however, that not being picky, ...
I hope this post is read by everyone who is either attending seminary or preparing to go. I spent 4 ...
Wonderful post! I've had many friends who I've attended seminary with that would church hop each week and never ... I appreciate your feedback...and I would not suggest that you leave your church. You're clearly plugged in and serving, ...
I am at what would be considered a "seminary church". There is a false assumption that because our church ...
