Seminary

(This can be found in its original format at my Gordon-Conwell Partnership Program page. Click here.)

Partners in Christian crime,

Seminary is so fun it should be outlawed. I got my first textbooks this week, and — as I noted on Facebook — I took it as a good sign that opening the amazon box they came in felt like unwrapping presents on Christmas morning. 

The Masters of Divinity program is a 90 credit-hour degree, and it starts with the survey courses. These are broad overviews of the core disciplines. New testament, old testament, theology, and church history. I am starting in January with New Testament survey. My first assignment is to read the New Testament in a translation I’ve not read it in before. 

Jennie and I will head up to St. Louis for Christmas next week. Her family is coming down to help us pack up and haul our things up there. From there, we will move to Charlotte after New Years. We are renting a UHaul trailer and praying our Subaru can do the job. 

Please be praying for Jennie to find a good job putting to use her recently completed Masters of Christian Counseling. She is officially an LPC and looking for a place to unleash her treasure trove of counseling mastery! 

Thank you for your investment in my development through seminary, it is a concrete example to me of the free gift each of us receives from Christ. We have a God who makes hearts generous, for which I am humbled and thankful. 

Merry Christmas!