Regular readers of Seminary Survival Guide have noticed that my posting has been slow of late. My explanation is that I’ve been practicing what I preach. One key concept I believe it’s critical for Christian leaders to master is triage: knowing how to sort through a welter of urgent demands and determine what is truly [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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.
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
