Ryan BurnsRichard Mouw, President of Fuller Theological Seminary, has a good post on his blog about a conversation he had with Bill Bright and some thoughts on the need for theological training.
Well, we had a couple crashes there and had to flip the site into “maintenance mode” for about 20 minutes. Everything seems to be in working order now. Sadly, the “popular posts” feature is offline until I can figure out how...
Hitting some glitches in 2.6 with plugins… trying to fix everything. ARG.
Upgrade went smooth. We’re now rollin on 2.6‘s around here. Thanks Instant Upgade.
I’m going to upgrade to WP 2.6 in just a moment. If the site explodes (or implodes)… well, it’d been a fun run while it lasted. Ok, deep breath… and go…
Tip of the hat to Ed Stetzer for pointing out a great site with loads of religious research.
Here is the second installment of R. Scott Clark’s Who Should Go To Seminary post.
Terry has a great review of Logos on SaidatSouthern.com. Remember, you can use the code goingtoseminary at checkout and save 25% on your order.
Have you started to feel the call to be a missionary overseas? Married? Not sure what your spouse is going to think? Check out this helpful piece over on the Desiring God Blog.
Justin Taylor shares Michael Phelps daily diet (which is, seriously, insane). My question is, “how long does it take him to eat each meal?”
Simply amazing.
This is pretty amazing. Eventually the entire Codex Sinaiticus will be viewable online (See the Manuscript). From the Website: “Codex Sinaiticus is one of the most important books in the world. Handwritten well over 1600 years ago, the...
Chad BrooksThere are plenty of resources on the net about how to write good papers, take the right classes…you know that sort of thing. Here are is my Top 5 “secret” tips (in no particular order) that will help you out in your first semester...
R. Scott Clark at Heidelblog has written the first of two posts answering the question “who should go to seminary?” In the post is some helpful stuff, some funny stuff, and some Presbyterian stuff. If you like any of those three things...
Josh Harris has started a series that will undoubtedly be a BIG help to all you (present and future) preachers. He’s giving us an inside glimpse at the preaching notes of some very well known pastors. I’m excited to check this out. For...
Re:Lit has launched a page devoted to Mark Driscoll’s upcoming book, “Death by Love: Letters from the Cross.”
The ESV has launched a new blog around their upcoming ESV Study Bible.
I’m adding a new section to GoingtoSeminary.com and this is a test post to make sure everything works as planned. Should this work, we will begin to post quick updates and short posts to useful things we stumble across on the web… Now...
I spent most of last week working to launch a new website (www.best-bible.org). The site is designed to help people understand the differences between Bible translations and offer some resource suggestions, like Bible software, Bible mobile...
Terry DelaneyMany ministers-to-be decide to attend seminary because they feel they need the education, experience and wisdom that comes with a degree from seminary. While these are not necessarily bad reasons to attend seminary, they cannot replace the education...
Jeff PattersonIn his last post Chad gave some good pointers on what to bring to seminary, and then concluded on the note: “Navigating seminary is different from college, it is an immersive experience that should be taken full advantage of.” I totally...
I recently trimmed down my google reader account from 100+ blogs to 70 blogs. It is amazing how much great (and less than great) information is out there. At times I wonder what our church fathers and mothers would think about blogs… Think...
I remember when I was anxiously awaiting my first day of classes at Asbury. I had bought all of my books beforehand and had even started reading. I was really hoping that I would be able to find a Seminary 101 list of a few things that would come in...
Kari PattersonI’m back! I’m sure no one has noticed, but since the last Love & Marriage post 6 weeks ago I’ve been missing in combat. Jeff and I have discovered that — surprise! — baby #2 is on the way. Consequently sleeping...
Ever wanted to sit in on a Systematic Theology class? Not able to attend seminary right now? Too lazy to go to iTunes U and listen to hours and hours of lectures? Well, here’s your solution, follow me through the wonders of a one week...
Jake BelderWhen I began seminary, I thought I was one of the more unique students. I was Canadian, of Dutch heritage, and wanting to pursue and academic career instead of pastoral ministry. It turns out that I am the only Canadian, one of two people of Dutch...
Just a quick note to say that the Dr. Frame interview and all future interviews are going to be available via the GoingtoSeminary.com Vodcast in iTunes. Feel free to check it out and subscribe. There is also a new subscribe button at the top of all...
So, video killed the radio star… but what about the blogger? I guess time will tell. For all you who wondered what our teaser the other day was all about, well here it is. We’ve added a new section called “interviews” to the...
Jake and I had the opportunity the other day to sit down with Dr. John Frame of Reformed Theological Seminary – Orlando (RTS-O) and ask him several questions related to his writings and experience in the seminary environment. The interview...
Something new is coming to GoingtoSeminary.com… and it is coming soon…
This should be fun!
If you were to ask most seminarians what their calling is, they would probably respond with something like, “I am called to preach.” For most seminarians this is true; however, I have had some recent experiences that leads me to question...
Attending seminary is understandably tough for most students. It always seems as though there is too much month at the end of a check. To put it another way, “we just ain’t got the money!” So what do you do? How do you pay for all...