-Sermon Given on 11/23/2010. About 4 years ago I got married to my wife Rose. Shortly after our honeymoon I started my 60 hour-a-week sales job. It was an extremely exhausting and demanding job. I remember within my first week on the job coming home from work absolutely dead to the world. Rose was making…
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How Blogging Taught Me to Preach
This semester I took my first preaching course in seminary. Taking the course was a big step for me, in a weird way. I’m in front of people all the time. Sometimes leading smaller groups, other times leading thousands. But the thought of getting up and speaking for a long period of time is so…
The Leader Needed Today (Part One)
Over the past year I’ve taken several classes in seminary on Biblical leadership and church management. Those classes have included several papers on the subject of the kind of leader that is needed today. I thought I’d condense those papers into a short series I’ve titled “The Leader Needed Today.” There are thousands of books…
Knowledge of God
One thing I find interesting about Christianity is the strong emphasis on study and knowledge. I, more than most, come to experience this emphasis in my seminary classes and studies. Over the past few weeks I’ve enjoyed reading a modern classic, The Knowledge of the Holy, by A.W. Tozer. It was written in 1961 but…
Seminary Is Still Valuable
LifeWay research recently had the following to say about how today’s pastors view seminary: “Only 10 percent of Protestant pastors say they would require a candidate to have a seminary degree and instead place emphasis on other qualifications, such as experience and beliefs” (read more about the study) For someone in seminary, like me, this…
The Best and Worst of Seminary
This is another post in a series I’m doing of questions that some of you asked. If you would like to add your question, go here and do so. Today’s question is from Joel Mayward. Be sure to go and check out his blog. He asked: What have been the greatest benefits of attending seminary?…