Going to Seminary

Thanks to a 2008 California law the Open Educational Resources Center for California now provides over 400 open textbooks to the public.

The site was intended for California’s community-college faulty and staff members, but it is open for anyone to use. As the number of visitors to the site grows to a significant level they will begin adding forums.

Four hundred is a relatively small number when we’re talking about textbooks, but this is only the beginning of a large push to make education available and affordable to larger audiences.

How many of us will come out of seminary, just to relate to our friends “out there” “in the world” in this way?

Don’t.

Thanks to my friends at Patrol Magazine for originally posting this video.

We were fortunate enough to get a Google Wave invite yesterday. And, we have so few friends that were interested in Wave we didn’t give all our “nominations” (read invites) away yet.

If you would like to get nominated for a Google Wave account post your crazy idea for how it could be used in ministry. Then be sure to vote on the ideas you like the best by replying to that person’s comment. The winner will be nominated for a Wave account.

If you’re asking what Wave is:

Oops! I totally forgot to include the “by-line” in today’s post, God Honoring Reluctance. The post was written by Stephen Hess, a Rhode Island native and recent graduate of the University of Richmond, Virginia. Stephen will be heading off to St. Louis in August for the 4-year M.Div program at Covenant Theological Seminary.

ChristianBookNotes is giving away an autographed copy of Dr. Russell D. Moore’s newest book Adopted for Life.

I just purchased Dave Ramsey’s Financial Peace University and to my surprise received a 30 day free “coupon” for my purchase. The orders on the coupon state that I should share with my friends. So, I am. Simply log on to MyTotalMoneyMakeover.com/gift and enter 30DGIFT to redeem.

I just put 60 of my books for sale on Amazon.com. I’m selling them for a number of reasons, but sufficed to say that buying these books will be supporting a good cause. So… go buy my books please.

As you may already know, this year marks the 500th aniversery of John Calvin’s birth. To celebrate, Logos Bible Software just launched Calvin500.com and has added 7 John Calvin Collections to Pre-Pub. Check out this amazing deal – 97 Vols of Calvin for under $300. What a deal!

From our family at Going to Seminary to yours, Have a blessed Resurrection Sunday.  May Christ’s atoning work on the cross be everything to you today and always.   God bless.

Logos is having a HUGE sale on 64 titles. Among the sale items you can get The Complete Works of Francis A. Schaeffer for 75% off with the code MMCHAMP. Lots of great deal over there.