After teaching for two weeks in Viet Nam in March, I was privileged to return to teach again in June for one week. I taught at a different site each of those three weeks, and it was great to reconnect with brothers and sisters in Christ whom I had taught before. It was my fifth […]
June is a quiet month at Bethlehem College and Seminary. The students are working summer jobs, visiting their families, and taking mission trips. The faculty are taking family vacations, speaking in churches, teaching internationally, working on research projects, and developing new courses for the fall. The admissions team is still busy attending conferences, talking to […]
“But he abandoned the counsel that the old men gave him and took counsel with the young men who had grown up with him and stood before him” (1 Kgs 12:8). The goal of this prayer letter is two-fold. First, I want to encourage you to seek older counsel and heed it. Second, I […]
“Jonathan said to the young man who carried his armor, ‘Come, let us go over to the garrison of these uncircumcised. It may be that the LORD will work for us, for nothing can hinder the LORD from saving by many or by few.’ And his armor-bearer said to him, ‘Do all that is in […]
I’ve never met a Bible teacher who wished they had not learned Greek. It’s only the guys who have let it slip and no longer use it for their sermon preparation who try to tell me that Greek doesn’t enhance their teaching—Con Campbell in Keep Your Greek: Strategies for Busy People I just finished a […]
I remember hearing the Christian musician Keith Green say that we are all called to be missionaries. According to him, in order to stay where you are you would need a good reason. It turns out Christians have been saying similar things about missions for more than a hundred years. Indeed, God does call all […]
Paul claims in 2 Timothy 3:15 that the sacred writings “are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.” The “sacred writings” in view are the entire Old Testament, which includes the book of Proverbs. It is especially fitting, then, that Paul ascribes to these “sacred writings” the power to “make […]
“So then, there remains a Sabbath rest for the people of God, for whoever has entered God’s rest has also rested from his works as God did from his. Let us therefore strive to enter that rest…” –Heb. 4:9-11a Augustine begins his Confessions with a line which would become one of the most well-loved statements […]
As I pen my first letter to you in my new role as interim president of Bethlehem College and Seminary, I’m reminded of Paul’s prayer for the beloved saints in Philippi: “I thank my God in all my remembrance of you, always in every prayer of mine for you all making my prayer with joy, because […]
On May 13, Bethlehem College and Seminary’s extension site in Yaoundé, Cameroon, will graduate its first five students who have completed our four-year Master’s of Divinity Program. Yesterday Dieudonné, Vera Tando, administrative assistant, and I experienced the weight and significance of this coming event. We were invited to the home of the former prime minister […]