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61What God Taught Me Through New Testament Greek
They say when you enter seminary that this path is not only about teaching you to help other people but it is about God helping (and saving) you by sending you down this path. When I entered seminary, I...
4 comments69Peace That Passes All Understanding
When I was growing up in a Baptist church in Northern Virginia, I often heard about people in the Bible who had mountaintop moments with God and were changed forever. I longed for that. Of course, I longed for the Cecil B. DeMille version of that...
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74Jesus Christ Explained in Layman's Terms For Everyone
This short article was inspired by a brief discussion with a pastor I know and the arrival of the tract below. God prods us in innovative ways (but that's another story). The pastor stated he'd received a challenge from an interested person outside...
6 comments62Who Says the Individual is Powerless? Not Me!
The other day I was reading a fascinating book entitled Generation Me in which the author describes her generation, the generation born after c. 1965. For me, a little older than that ... but not much thank...
2 comments64Practicing What I Preached: An Emergency Room Experience
For years, before I started my seminary work toward an M.Div. degree, I worked with our church youth group. Over the years I'd told our kids time and again they had a choice to make in every moment of every...
4 comments65Christian Church Controversies Today: Are They Worth Schisms?
From time to time, as a part time seminarian and licensed American Baptist minister, I’ll be exploring various issues of faith. Feel free to comment from your tradition to what you read here. My only request is that you respond out of love,...
2 comments58What Nervous Seminarians Facing Mandatory New Testament Greek Need to Know!
This article is for nervous seminarians who need to take a course on New Testament Greek translation as a requirement for graduation with an M.Div. degree, both full time and part time students. My...
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