I first heard the audio of this short interview with Pastor John Piper about a year and a half ago. (Audio of the whole thing here.) Apparently one of the pastors in the gathering took a live video of it. Enjoy it, and allow the truth to sink into...
Let me say first that we want you all to know that those of us who write things for this site are real people, and our contributions are often reflections both on our experiences in seminary and on the path of faith. With that said, I want to lead...
Over at Said at Southern, guest blogger Mark Warnock, General Editor of SeminarySurvivalGuide.com, gives an overview of some of the best posts from his site (SeminarySurvivalGuide.com) in the last few months. Check them out, from making the...
For awhile I’ve wanted to write about discovering the treasure that is the seminary faculty, but realized it would be a little hypocritical coming from me. (Chad mentions this topic in his Top 5 “secret” tips for your first...
If you’re a Logos user and a Mac user (like myself) I wanted to let you know that Logos Mac Beta 1 has been released. I downloaded and took it for a spin and was pretty pleased with the release. Here’s to looking forward to the full...
The folks at Desiring God are now selling “Don’t Waste Your Life” shirts. If you are looking for a great way to start up a gospel conversation with a complete stranger, this shirt will open doors.
I just wanted to use the fact that several hundred Christians read this blog in order to ask that you take a moment to pray for my Grandmother. A couple days ago she tried to take her own life. She is currently in the hospital and having more than a...
First off, this post will only be helpful to those who own a Logos Library. If you don’t own Logos yet, you might want to after you read this post. If you go shopping after this, remember you can save 25% on your Library purchase using the...
Mark, over at Seminary Survival Guide, has a post about cheating in seminary. Very interesting stuff.
I just spent the past 20 minutes trying to find live coverage of the Apple announcement online… after being frustrated and surprised that I couldn’t find any it dawned on me that today is the 8th and the announcement is tomorrow...
The greatest task of the seminarian is to somehow separate the devotional life from the academic life. It is the failure to do this that causes many ministers to speak ill of their time in seminary. The fact is, as ministers we have to read...
I’m posting this mostly because I have a strange fascination with IRS laws relating to the church and pastors. It might have something to do with my stint as a church bookkeeper. Regardless of my personal oddity, Justin Taylor has a post about...
I just wrote a post over on my Best Bible site you might be interested in checking out: The Pope and The Bible.
This is a guest post by John Dyer. John is the director of web development at DTS and creator of the site Best Commentaries. In my final year at Dallas Seminary I began to emerge from a time where I had become somewhat cynical. As I thought about...
Not sure what’s going on, but it sounds intense. I’d suggest subscribing to the Said at Southern RSS to keep tabs on whatever develops… or at lest for further comments on what happened.
Mark Driscoll has some good advice for studying the Bible.
Shelby Murphy has a great post entitled, “Redeeming Culture for Dummies.” I always love his insight and this brief “how-to” article is great for dummies like me… I’m suggesting his next post be “The Idiots...
If you’re interested in the New Living Translation Study Bible, you can check it out online with a free 30 day trial.
Well, it has been a while since we launched our first Going to Seminary interview. We were honored to start with such a great professor and theologian like John Frame, however, that did set the bar pretty high for us. That said, I’ve been...
Whew! I finally had a moment to figure out what caused the popular post plugin to crash in WP 2.6. So, if you go to the home page you’ll see a list of the most popular posts from the last 30 days. For those interested in knowing what I...
Introduction The longer I am a Christian, the more I discover the power of what I call the ministry of prayer. It seems as though praying is a difficult thing for most people to do. According to one professor, quoting statistics from a prayer...
Seriously, this was a big surprise to me. China has one of the world’s largest Bible printers. They have printed more than 50 MILLION copies. You gotta check this out.
I remember my grandmother thought it was a disastrous thing to write in a Bible. I also remember seeing other kids write in hymnals and thinking they were going to Hell. Between a rabid fascination with the Bible and classical music training I have...
Here is an interesting book for all you bloggers out there: The New Media Frontier: Blogging, Vlogging, and Podcasting for Christ. From Crossway: “A Pew Study reports that only 2% of America’s twelve million bloggers claim...
Ephesians 4:14 blog released what looks to be a GREAT plugin for adding and organizing sermons to WP. You can see this great app in action at Bethel Evangelical Church’s website. GREAT functionality.
Another semester is upon us. For most students in general, and seminarians in particular, we all try to start the semester strong. Many, like myself, have learned from semesters past that at some point before final exams, we will fall behind in some...