Posts Tagged ‘book’

  • Free Kindles for seminary students
    Have you thought about sharing your seminary journey with the world? Perhaps you are interested in pontificating about how seminary could be better, or have questions that you’re not finding answers to regarding your seminary journey. Maybe you already have a blog, but not the readership you’d like to have. Now is your chance to build readership, pontificate about...
    by Brian Schmitt at March 8th, 2010 at 02:03 pm
  • The Religious Life of Theological Student
    BUY THIS BOOK! It only costs $2.50 This book is for you. “Before and above being learned, a minister must be godly. Nothing could be more fatal, however, than to set these two things over against one another. Recruiting officers do not dispute whether it is better for soldiers to have a right leg or a left: soldiers should have both legs… in your case there...
    by W. Ryan Burns at February 10th, 2008 at 05:02 am
  • Finding the Will of God
    Trying to decided if God is calling you to seminary or not can be difficult. While you could give the magic eight ball a try, there is probably a better way to determine what God is calling you to do. For me, I found Finding the Will of God by Dr. Bruce Waltke to be tremendously helpful. While I already knew a lot of what Dr. Waltke had to say, it was refreshing to...
    by W. Ryan Burns at January 30th, 2008 at 08:01 am
  • Free Books
    If you’ve never heard of the Christian Classics Ethereal Library you are missing out on a truly great, FREE, resource. The Christian Classics Ethereal Library (CCEL) seeks to build up the church by making classic Christian literature widely available and promoting its use for edification and study by interested Christians, seekers and scholars. The CCEL accomplishes...
    by W. Ryan Burns at January 27th, 2008 at 08:01 am
  • 4 Steps to saving money while buying books for seminary
    The other day we got a comment from Eric in our 6 ways to save money in seminary post about a book meta search site called addall and I was reminded that it is almost time to go book shopping. One of the great joys of being a seminary student is the opportunity to build your library… it is also a great challenge since books aren’t cheap. So, I’m going...
    by W. Ryan Burns at January 17th, 2008 at 09:01 am
  • Rent your books for seminary?
    Ok, I found this about 8 seconds ago and was so interested that I had to post about it. Apparently this company, Chegg, rents college textbooks. The cost to rent for a semester is about 55-65% off the list price. Now, yes, I think you should buy all your seminary books and keep them as a resource for the rest of your life and then pass them along to someone when you...
    by W. Ryan Burns at November 30th, 2007 at 08:11 pm
  • Going to seminary – a professors perspective
    Professor, pastor, and theologian, Dr. John Frame wrote a pamphlet called, “Learning at the feet of Jesus: A Case for Seminary Training.” This is a quick and easy read that will, hopefully, help you in your decision making process. Here is an excerpt from the opening page: LEARNING AT JESUS’ FEET: A CASE FOR SEMINARY TRAINING At some point in their...
    by W. Ryan Burns at October 28th, 2007 at 07:10 pm
  • Finding the Will of God
    So, one of the books that helped me the most in finally making the decision to attend seminary was Bruce K. Waltke’s book, Finding the Will of God: A Pagan Notion? In his book Waltke masterfully addresses an issue that is all too common in the church, namely divination. Somewhere along the lines we have come to the conclusion that God is some con-man trying to...
    by W. Ryan Burns at October 28th, 2007 at 06:10 am