The Gospels provide scant details about Jesus Christ’s appearance, his education, his childhood in Nazareth, and various other matters. The Evangelists give representative, yet selective examples of his teaching and mighty works. Yet Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John each devote extended attention to the final days of Jesus’s ministry, which we often call “Holy Week.” […]
Next month, we look forward to celebrating the end of another academic year at Bethlehem College and Seminary with our commencement. As a professor, there are few better ways to wrap up the year than with the encouragement of seeing our students receive the reward for their hard work. Watching them walk across the finish […]
We are eager to share stories of how Bethlehem students are being salt and light in this urban setting. This Bethlehem Seminary Apprentice recently shared an expanded version of this message during a monthly meeting of the staff and faculty. Richard Baxter, a seventeenth-century Puritan pastor, once said, “preach as a dying man to […]
A dear and generous friend of Bethlehem College and Seminary approached me last week and inquired of The Million Dollar+ Challenge. “It seems to be just sitting there,” she observed with genuine concern. I reassured her. “Oh, God’s work is never ‘just sitting there,’” I said. To be sure there is a need that must […]
It was yet again a blessing to return to Vietnam to teach pastors in March 2025, my eighth trip over there, this time with my Bethlehem Seminary student, Joshua Wilks. As always, this was under the auspices of ACTS International, whose mission statement reads: “ACTS International seeks to plant churches among the unreached peoples of […]
The Latin term vocari expresses in one word what we use two English words to articulate: calling and vocation. The season of education often involves a period of discerning what vocation God is calling a person to after graduation. At Bethlehem, students seek wise counsel from pastors and professors to family members and mentors as […]
First and Second Chronicles are a challenging assignment in our Bible reading plans. The books open with an imposing nine-chapter genealogy, then the story starts with Saul’s suicide and concludes with Judah’s exile and two hopeful verses about the Persian king Cyrus. These inspired texts are rarely preached or read in corporate worship, so many […]
A few weeks ago, I taught missionaries-in-training at Radius International. Bethlehem College and Seminary recently teamed up with Radius International to offer in-field training experience for students in our M.Div. Missions Concentration and M.A. in Theology & Global Studies. I love it. My family and I drove over the border into Mexico to a […]
But seek the welfare of the city where I have sent you into exile, and pray to the Lord on its behalf, for in its welfare you will find your welfare. ~Jer. 29:7 Our students are engaged in volunteering at various ministries in Minneapolis. One of those is REVIVE Ministries. REVIVE is led by Bethlehem […]
Our Great Books course on William Shakespeare’s plays is fresh off a visit to the Guthrie Theatre in downtown Minneapolis to see Midsummer’s Night’s Dream, as the class transitions from a set of courtship plays to those of confusions and mistaken identities. While the performance was phenomenal and attending an afternoon performance with students represents […]