Archive for the ‘Blog’

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    Ministry in a Rural Context
    There is a book at the RTS Orlando Bookstore called Rural Evangelism: Catching the Vision. I haven’t read it yet, though I want to. The author’s intention is basically to help rural congregations avoid stagnation and decline by engaging in evangelism methods tailored to the rural context they find themselves in. Christians in rural settings have some unique...
    by Jake Belder at June 26th, 2009 at 03:06 am
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    Godliness is of Value in Every Way
    As I began discerning a call to seminary, 1 Timothy 4:6-16 came up early and often. Early in the discernment process, when I read that passage, I ended up focusing my attention on parts of verse 6, “you will be a good servant of Christ Jesus, being trained in the words of the faith and of the good doctrine that you have followed.” Early on, this verse encapsulated...
    by Stephen Hess at June 15th, 2009 at 03:06 am
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    Balancing Church and Seminary
    Seminary students are a transient bunch.  They blow into town, spend three years too busy to do anything but study, and then they’re gone.  For many of them (or, I should say, us), the whole seminary thing can seem like a hassle.  If we didn’t need to do it, we probably wouldn’t.  But is such pessimism really warranted?  In other words,...
    by Daniel Moch at June 10th, 2009 at 03:06 am
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    Site Update
    I’ve been wanting to update the site for a while now and have finally found the time to do it. The new design is live (RSS readers come check it out) and I’ll likely be tweaking it here and there over the next week. One of the coolest upgrades in this version of GtS is the inclusion of threaded comments. This means that you can reply to someone elses comments...
    by W. Ryan Burns at June 7th, 2009 at 08:06 pm
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    God-Honoring Reluctance
    This 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. About a month ago, I came across an Acts 29 Network Boot Camp message from Darrin Patrick, Lead Pastor of The Journey in St. Louis,...
    by Stephen Hess at May 25th, 2009 at 03:05 am
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    Who Are You?
    When I visited the site this morning, I noticed the little Feedburner reader count on the right side. At that time it said we had 277 people subscribing to this blog. That’s a pretty impressive number. It then occurred to me that with that number, we’ve probably got quite a diversity of readers. We’re glad that we can reach out this big of an audience. That...
    by Jake Belder at May 23rd, 2009 at 03:05 am
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    Creative Seminary Financing
    This is a guest post submitted by Brian Johnson. Brian is currently working on his M.Div. at Asbury Theological Seminary in Orlando, FL, where he also serves as admissions recruiter. “How will I pay for this?” This question is on the mind of every student considering seminary. Many will carry loans from undergrad into seminary. Is there a better way to...
    by W. Ryan Burns at May 21st, 2009 at 03:05 am
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    Is Seminary Relevant? A Professor’s Perspective
    We had a good discussion here in the last week as we talked about the relevancy of seminary education for today. Tyler Braun told us why he thinks it is still important, and Matt Cleaver offered some suggestions as to why it has lost its relevancy. Yesterday I was browsing through some blogs and came across this post from Professor John Stackhouse, the Sangwoo Youtong...
    by Jake Belder at May 19th, 2009 at 03:05 am
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    Is Seminary Relevant? A Professor’s Perspective
    We had a good discussion here in the last week as we talked about the relevancy of seminary education for today. Tyler Braun told us why he thinks it is still important, and Matt Cleaver offered some suggestions as to why it has lost its relevancy. Yesterday I was browsing through some blogs and came across this post from Professor John Stackhouse, the Sangwoo Youtong...
    by Jake Belder at May 19th, 2009 at 03:05 am
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    Is Seminary Relevant? The Contra Argument
    It was entirely coincidental that within about a week of each other, two seminarians would write blog posts on the relevancy of seminary education, one arguing in favor of it, the other against it. I contacted them soon after to see if they would be willing to submit their posts to the site so we could engage a wider audience on the issue, to which they agreed. Yesterday...
    by Jake Belder at May 11th, 2009 at 06:05 am
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