Beloved, being very eager to write to you of our common salvation, I found it necessary to write appealing to you to contend for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints. Jude 1:4 We invite you to make the Serious Joy Scholarship a new work of your personal ministry for Jesus […]
What are you committing to if you apply early to Bethlehem College & Seminary? The answer is: “nothing.” Our “Early Action Admissions” program is really just a gift to you. AdmissionsConsultants claim that “it’s hard to think of any aspect of college admissions that is more confusing than that of early admissions policies.” What do […]
Mark Twain traveled to the Holy Land in 1867 with a group of American evangelicals. His dispatches from the front were first serialized in newspaper columns and then compiled as one of his earlier books, The Innocents Abroad: A New Pilgrims Progress. Twain was a cynic, critic of organized religion, and probably an atheist. For […]
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My wife and I recently had a newly married couple to our home for dinner. They also happen to both be students in our Bachelor of Theology program. It was wonderful to hear more of their story, talk about their first couple months of marriage, and see them interact with our children. As an instructor […]
A major study was undertaken recently through the partnership of the Association of Biblical Higher Education and the Barna Group, and the results were just released this year. Bethlehem College & Seminary is accredited through ABHE, so I took a keen interest in these results. Here’s a catchy preview to a sampling of the findings: […]
We live in a day of unprecedented global migration in general, and refugee displacement in particular. While it is naïve and myopic to think of the United States as the only nation that has had a significant amount of immigrants contribute to the vitality of its population, the US is indeed the most diverse […]
The desire in all of us to dominate—to say, “my way or no way!”—is what Augustine calls the lust for mastery. Augustine opens his magnum opus, The City of God against the Pagans, contrasting the City of God, characterized by “the virtue of humility,” with the City of Man, characterized by libido dominandi—“the lust […]
The Alex Steddom International Student Fund was established last year as a vehicle for supporting the extraordinary financial needs of new international students at Bethlehem College & Seminary. These seminary students apply from all over the world expressing earnest gospel ambition for their native countries and people groups. Last year, we started by praying toward […]
As an instructor at Bethlehem College & Seminary, I am constantly amazed at the Lord’s work in the lives of students to prepare them for life-long ministry. I’m not just talking about the 18-year-old freshman who come to the school wide-eyed and bushy-tailed. I’m also talking about the 54-year-old seminary student, or better yet, the […]