“The truth of creation should stop us in our tracks, fill us with awe and wonder, humble us, and drop us to our knees,” writes Paul Tripp. Few places fill my heart with reverent awe and glad amazement like the Rocky Mountains. Estes Park, Colorado has been a special place for my family for generations. […]
Summer is the season during which we plead for God’s help and yours in replenishing funds on hand to support The Alex Steddom International Student Fund. These funds are used to support the tuition and extraordinary living expenses for select seminarians who have come from theologically famished regions of the world and who desire to return […]
The returns are in. By God’s grace, Bethlehem College and Seminary has reached its goal of raising $2.5 million annually in support of The Serious Joy Scholarship. This is the financial instrument that enables our students to receive a Bible-saturated, academically rigorous “Education in Serious Joy” then launch immediately into life, vocation, and ministry without […]
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 […]