Jake BelderLast semester, I decided to go to school part-time, and took up a thirty-hour-a-week job to help us out financially. I wanted to do a few classes at the same time to keep moving forward with my studies, and ended up doing one class on campus and two...
Terry DelaneyJesus, Keep Me Near the Cross: Experiencing the Passion and Power of Easter ed. Nancy Guthrie. Wheaton: Crossway Books, 2009. 152 pp. $12.99 Nancy Guthrie has once again dazzled with a compilation of seasonal devotionals. Her last devotional book...
Bake Ottofy is the writer behind the Treasury of Bible Studies and Bible Teaching Notes website. I know him personally and have found him to be a wonderful expositor, teacher, and mentor. He offers free give aways of some of his notes through his...
Santos, Helen. Caleb’s Lamb. Grand Rapids: Reformation Heritage Books, 2007. 95 pp. $10.00. I cannot call this a review so much as an alert. This book is an excellent tool to teach your children what substitutionary atonement is and how...
Last night Ryan sent a prayer request on Twitter for his dad. He had suffered a stroke and is passing a kidney stone. The update this morning is that the heart seems alright but the stone needs to be passed. His dad is in a lot of pain. Please pray...
Paul BurkhartSemester 1 Stats: Less than 4 months (Sept-Dec) Pages of papers written: 114 Pages of notes taken: 154 Pages read: about 1,900 (+/-100) Total pages written: 268 (I produced just over 13% of what I consumed) Ending GPA: 3.2 Wow. That first semester...
BibleWorks8 (BW8) is the latest in the Bible Works computer software series. Building upon the huge successes and renovations made to BW7, this new edition has much to offer while at the same time remaining constant in most of its functionality...
Chad BrooksI know of a student (through a friend at a different seminary than mine) that is finishing his M.div in 5 semesters. This means that in two and a half years, he finished a 90+ hour masters level degree. While it had to be cheaper, and quicker, I...
Ryan BurnsWe passed a milestone yesterday with our 400th post! In a little over 1 year we’ve written 402 posts, fielded 929 comments, dodged 263 bits of spam, and grown from 600 visitors the month we launched to over 4,500 visitors last month. Thanks to...
We are now through the first month of using the Letters of Samuel Rutherford as a devotional in 2009. If you are reading along, I pray you have been as blessed as I have been. I would like to take some time to reflect back on some quotes as well as...
Ed Stetzer of LifeWay has a wonderful post about balancing ministry with family. This is just as important for the seminarian and it deserves a careful read.
Jeff PattersonIX Marks asked a roundtable of seminary presidents two questions: Why is your seminary needed? What’s an exciting example you have seen being done in a local church that would encourage pastors to think of raising up the next generation? Read...
At one point in the past, I posed the question on my blog of how long a pastor should remain with one church. Every now and then I look back at the most thoughtful response I received to the question (which came from an Orthodox priest) and spend...
Suffering and the Goodness of God, ed. Christopher W. Morgan and Robert A. Peterson. Wheaton: Crossway Books, 2008. 253 pp. $23.99 Introduction Suffering and the Goodness of God is the first book in a new series being published by Crossway Books...