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” [...]

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.

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]