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A Goldmine of Resources for Seminoids
2The Master’s Seminary has flung open the vault and made available to the public a veritable goldmine of priceless resources! This is an unprecedented boon, a cornucopia of the best study and training material in the Universe. Why all the superlatives? Because this is the [...]
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Shortcut to Theology: One Book Before Seminary
Sometimes science fiction becomes science. Jules Verne had an uncanny sense of what would be possible. He wrote, for example, stories about submarines diving 20,000 leagues under the sea, and voyages from the earth to the moon well before the technology ever materialized in reality. [...]
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Age Old Questions Pt 3: Am I too Young to be a Pastor?
I started seminary at the peach fuzz age of 23 years young. The naivety of youth made me feel invincible enough to take the 3 year route to a 4 year degree which meant I (pointlessly) graduated with the MDiv degree as a ministerial tadpole, at age [...]
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Age-Old Questions: Am I too Old for Seminary? Pt 2
Yesterday we tackled the question on the minds of some older men who feel called to the ministry, but fear the academic rigors of seminary. I promised to introduce you to the chief witness in my case that it’s never too late. I took doctoral [...]
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Age-Old Questions: Am I too Old for Seminary? Pt 1
“Is it too late for me to begin pursuing a seminary degree to equip me for fulltime ministry?” I get asked variations of that question more frequently than one would expect. Perhaps because I am the sunny side of 40, and was the pastor of [...]
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Pistols at Dawn: 5 Steps to Discussing Doctrine
The seminary cafeteria can be a veritable gunslinger’s saloon of theological repartee. Quick minds, earnest souls, armed to the teeth with truth, and packing Greek lexicons loaded to draw exegetical blood, can look to the casual observer as volatile as the OK Corral. It’s all good-natured, [...]
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Presidential Pressure: 4 Pressures on Seminary Presidents, Pt 2
Yesterday we looked at the first 2 of 4 pressures seminary presidents are faced with. 3. Pressure from Faculty Publish of perish is the mantra of academia. When new faculty are trying to build a respected reputation in the academy, they may be tempted [...]
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Presidential Pressure: 4 Pressures on Seminary Presidents, Pt 1
I felt like I had discovered a stray bag of coins next to a well-stocked vending machine. I kept feeding Dr Paul Negrut a long litany of questions while his lunch got cold. After the story about how he lost $15mill in a half-hour telephone conversation [...]
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