Archive for the ‘The Journey’

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    The Beauty of Theology (an Advent Call)
    (art: "Saint Jerome" by Caravaggio) [This article is based on parts of the manuscript for a message I gave on "Beauty" at Epiphany Fellowship. On my personal blog and the webzine I run you can find the audio, manuscript, and full blog series inspired by the message.] We all know, as I’ve mentioned before, that there is a potential risk of seminary becoming...
    by Paul Burkhart at December 2nd, 2009 at 09:12 am
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    Academic and Devotional Reading: A False Distinction!?!
    I am assuming that if you were given any advice upon entering seminary, this phrase may have come out: “guard your devotional time with the Lord!” I am not writing to suggest that this is poor advice by any means. It is great advice! Yet, I am wondering whether or not our notion of “devotional time” is too narrow? Are we not constantly communing...
    by Stephen Hess at October 11th, 2009 at 07:10 pm
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    Seminaries & the Nature of Truth
    photo credit: loreshdw I recently wrote an article about letting seminary change you doctrinally. In it, I laid out some broad ideas of Truth, doctrine, and how the seminarian needs to treat these things in order to get the most out of their seminary education. In the present article, I want to get a bit more specific about how seminaries themselves can best effect...
    by Paul Burkhart at September 27th, 2009 at 09:09 pm
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    Letting Seminary Doctrinally Change You
    “I knew perfectly well at that time, as I had for years and years, that the Lord absolutely transcends any understanding I have of Him, which makes loyalty to Him a different thing from loyalty to whatever customs and doctrines and memories I happen to associate with Him.” – Minister John Ames in Marilynne Robinson’s “Gilead” The second...
    by Paul Burkhart at September 16th, 2009 at 08:09 pm
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    Ponderings About Preaching
    I’ve been reflecting upon an experience that my wife, Abbie, and I had not too long ago. I serve as a Youth Pastor at a church in Dunn, NC, called Stoney Run, which is a part of the Pentecostal Free Will Baptist (PFWB) denomination. Every summer, the denomination holds a week-long Camp Meeting where members of various PFWB churches attend to hear a speaker preach....
    by Joel M. Usina at September 4th, 2009 at 04:09 am
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    Obstacles are Just Opportunities in Disguise
    This is a guest post written by Rev. Michael Shanlian. In my fifty six years I have never met an accomplished person who did not overcome adversity. Dr. Martin Luther King said, “The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.” I am sure my struggle to obtain...
    by W. Ryan Burns at September 2nd, 2009 at 04:09 am
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    The Sojourning Seminarian
    I am employing the word “sojourn” in a very intentional way as I reflect on my current status as an individual who has traveled a long way to attend seminary. To be certain, I have physically moved quite a distance in the past five years in pursuing education. I essentially spent the first eighteen years of my life on Aquidneck Island, in Southeastern Rhode...
    by Stephen Hess at August 31st, 2009 at 01:08 am
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    When Parents Are Involved
    DISCLAIMER: I am not sure that this post will have much personal application to anyone not going into seminary right after college, or if it will have much application to anyone for that matter. However, it is part of my story and will shed light on what “going to seminary” means for me personally. Maybe your comments will provide me with some godly wisdom. HERE...
    by Stephen Hess at August 21st, 2009 at 01:08 am
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    Fall, In Line
    It’s hard to imagine that I’m already buying books for the fall semester. Don’t get me wrong, I have come to thoroughly enjoy, and, even get excited about, buying books (endless thanks to God for the opportunity and the means!). What is hard to fathom, however, is that I am about to start my second year in seminary. I concur with James that we “are...
    by Joel M. Usina at July 27th, 2009 at 06:07 am
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    Summer Stunner
    Over the course of the seventeen years that I have been in school, I have never taken any summer classes. Well, my streak is over. Not only am I taking classes right now, I’m taking 9 hours worth. That’s a hefty load to carry during the summer. I started my seminary career with the goal of finishing my M. Div. in three years. In order to do that, I have to...
    by Joel M. Usina at July 14th, 2009 at 06:07 am
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