In my two previous posts I dealt with how seminaries can improve seminary education and how students can do the same. This is my last post in this little series: how churches can improve seminary education. If you’re a pastor with seminary students you may want to read the other two posts as some of the [...]
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Improving Seminary Education: What Churches Can Do
Posted in church life, evangelicalism, tagged church, education, pastor, seminary on Monday, August 30, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Improving Seminary Education: What Students Can Do
Posted in church life, evangelicalism, tagged church, education, seminary on Wednesday, August 25, 2010 | 6 Comments »
I wasn’t intending to turn this into a series of posts, but as I was writing my previous post on how seminaries can improve seminary education I realized that the most guilty party of whatever is wrong with seminary education is getting off the hook. That is, the student is the person most responsible for ensuring they [...]
Improving Seminary Education: What Seminaries Can Do
Posted in church life, evangelicalism, tagged education, seminary on Monday, August 23, 2010 | 8 Comments »
Since The Gospel Coalition first posted some thoughts from evangelical leaders on how to improve seminary education many bloggers and commentors have offered their own thoughts on the matter. Some think the seminary education is completely broken and needs to be torn up, others see little need for change. I’m probably somewhere in the middle. [...]
Give Piper a Fist Bump (Or, Thoughts on Ecclesiastical Inbreeding)
Posted in church life, evangelicalism, tagged Desiring God, John Piper, Rick Warren on Thursday, April 1, 2010 | 9 Comments »
John Piper has made some pretty big news for 2 completely different reasons in the last week. The first was the announcement of his 8-month leave of absence, which you can read about here. The second, and the impetus for this post, was the announcement that he has invited Rick Warren to speak at the Desiring [...]
Can I pick my promises?
Posted in evangelicalism, humor, tagged evangelicalism, hermeneutics, Personal Promise Bible on Friday, November 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Superblogger Tim Challies linked this morning to the Personal Promises Bible. Basically, you can insert your name into promises in the Bible. I tried it out, to see how it goes: Even when danny was dead in trespasses, God made danny alive together with Christ (by grace danny has been saved), and raised danny up [...]
Matt Chandler & his ironic call to evangelicalism
Posted in evangelicalism, tagged church, Matt Chandler, sermon on Monday, February 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I just finished listening to Matt Chandler’s sermon from the 2009 Desiring God Conference (you can download the sermon here). I found his story of how he ended up pastoring The Village Church in Dallas funny and fascinating, particularly his transformation from anger towards evangelicals to pastoring a church in the middle of the evangelical [...]










