Archive for the ‘Tips and Advice’

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    400 Free Online Textbooks
    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...
    by Brian Schmitt at February 10th, 2010 at 09:02 am
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    How to develop a personal learning plan for the new year
    Jack was frustrated as he stared at his laptop screen. He was on an annual personal retreat planning his twelfth year as senior pastor at Christ Community Church. The screen showed all his learning activities from the year before – the conferences, seminars, and classes he had attended; the books he had read; the sermons he had studied; and the leadership groups he...
    by Sam Simmons at February 9th, 2010 at 03:02 pm
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    What to ask a seminary rep before you apply
    Today’s guest post is by Dr. Sam Simmons. Dr. Simmons is co-founder and vice president for learning design at Rockbridge Seminary. ©Copyright 2010. Used by permission. All rights reserved. Bob rubbed his tired eyes. For three hours he had been staring at seminary Web sites trying to decide where to apply. He was particularly interested in three seminaries but felt...
    by Sam Simmons at January 19th, 2010 at 11:01 am
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    The Dog Ate My Paper! (hard drive nightmares)
    We’ve heard hundreds of horror stories of students losing their paper. Whether it is computer theft or a hard drive crashing, we are all vulnerable to loss of intellectual property. Days, even months of work can disappear in an instant. Each term we exhort students to back up their data frequently, but faculty members are just as guilty of not taking the necessary...
    by Brian Schmitt at December 1st, 2009 at 06:12 pm
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    Google Wave invite
    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 Brian Schmitt at October 14th, 2009 at 11:10 am
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    Review: The New International Commentary for Logos
    NIC on the Old and New Testament My first real introduction to the New International Commentary on the Old and New Testament (NIC)  was in Dr. Kistamaker’s class on the Epistle to the Hebrews. The assigned reading for the class was, compared to my others, quite light. We were to read Hebrews, FF Bruce’s Epistle to the Hebrews from the NIC, and one other commentary....
    by W. Ryan Burns at October 8th, 2009 at 11:10 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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    An Ethic of Reading
    Sitting in my first Covenant Theology class of seminary, Dr. Williams, in addition to speaking about the course, provided one of the most important “nuggets” of wisdom that I will ever receive during my theological training. He briefly, yet powerfully, spoke about an “ethic of reading.” He explained that many of us in Reformed circles, especially...
    by Stephen Hess at September 8th, 2009 at 06:09 pm
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    Good Doctrine Goes Only So Far
    I recently heard a couple discussing reasons as to why they left a certain church. They kept telling me that they loved the doctrine, they loved what they heard from the pulpit, and they loved what they learned. What drove them away from this church was the attitude of some in the congregation. As they have been searching for a new church to attend, they said they...
    by Terry Delaney at September 7th, 2009 at 04:09 am
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