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How Not to Seminar Well
Read more: How Not to Seminar WellThe best way to learn how to seminar well is to learn what not to do and, in desperation, avoid those things. Here is a list to help those who may be seminar instructors or participants alike engage in a thoughtful, provocative, and effective seminar. First, we must ask ourselves “what is our goal?” This…
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Reflections: A Boomerang Effect
Read more: Reflections: A Boomerang EffectOne of my latest antics in life happens to be pursuing another degree in biomedical diagnostics. Now, as a pastor, it’s obvious that there’s really no purpose for me to do so, but I’ve been finding this program quite unique and challenging, maybe not necessarily in content but in my personal walk with the…
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Excising the Experts
Read more: Excising the ExpertsThe Root Issue: Failure to Listen In my previous blog post, The Art of Listening, I discussed the important and wise lesson behind one of my favorite biblical versus—Proverbs 18:13: “He who gives an answer before he hears, it is folly and shame to him” (NASB). If you have not already done so, I highly…
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What Makes a good Teacher?
Read more: What Makes a good Teacher?As I am working my way through my PhD thesis I constantly run into profitable but extremely distracting side topics. These are topics that I would love to follow but, in my need to stay focused, I have to put on my blinders and make somewhat of an attempt to stay on topic. Today I…
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A Matter of Fear
Read more: A Matter of FearThe trailer for a new film put out by Answers in Genesis has recently appeared. The film is called A Matter of Faith. As one can tell from the trailer, it looks and feels a lot like the recent Christian film, God’s Not Dead. When the latter film originally came out I had my reservations…
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A New Model for Ministerial Training
Read more: A New Model for Ministerial TrainingExcessive student debt is a problem. A big problem. And a problem that shows no signs of reversing trend anytime soon. A recent article by Scott Cohn, a senior correspondent for CNBC, noted that the average 2011 college graduate was saddled with over twenty-five thousand dollars in debt. But this is not just an abstract…
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Divided Again- Is Age the Problem, or Something Deeper?
Read more: Divided Again- Is Age the Problem, or Something Deeper?Harkening back to last week’s discussion about the film Divided, let’s continue our discussion on the issue of Christian pedagogy. Is it true that a) separation from parents in church worship and discipleship, and b) that the practice of age-stratified ministries are really the root reasons for why so many young people are walking away…
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Divided, are We?
Read more: Divided, are We?“Train up a child in the way he should go, Even when he is old he will not depart from it.” Proverbs 22:6 I can remember with vivid reality the shock that hit me on August 10th, 2009. I was driving down a long, drab, and straight road, flying by orchards of apricot trees in…