Yesterday our team spent some time hearing about a church plant gone wrong from the minister who eventually made the decision to shut it down. It was interesting listening to his reflections on what may have gone wrong and how it do it better but the most striking statement for me was his warning to [...]
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Thinking about church planting
Posted: March 24, 2010 in Church, college, JesusTags: college, doctrine, mission, theology
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Year 3, Day 1
Posted: February 23, 2010 in college, JesusTags: college, doctrine, eschatology, Jesus, new creation
Technically I’m 2 days in but it was day 1 that makes me think I’m in for quite a year. We started third year with 2 hours of Doctrine lectures and ‘Eschatology’ is the subject for this term. About half way through lecture 2, the line in my notes that blew my mind was something [...]
Today was the first day of Greek Weeks for the new first year students at college. It was also the first day of official duties of the Orientation Committee. And it was exhausting. I love people and I love new people but its a lot in one day (about 130 new students today) and I’m [...]
OT theology. Here are the questions I answered… To what extent is the nation of Israel the embodiement of hope helf out in the Pentateuch? Discuss the use and significance of ‘type scenes’ in the books of the Former Prophets. Illustrate your answer with specific exampls. (I was particularly thankful for this question :) ) [...]
Can you believe its that time of year already?! Today is the last day of college for the year. My first exam is in 11 days. Getting ready for some pretty serious study over that time. I have 4 exams all up and then 2nd year will be over! And (providing I pass exams) I [...]
So I have been pretty down lately. Not sure why but lots of little things about college have been getting to me. Especially things about living in the community of Carillon House. Not that there aren’t great things about it and not that the girls I live with aren’t amazing, but there are really hard [...]
This year has been perhaps the greatest and worst year of my life so far. So its quite a big task to write about it. Hopefully in the near future I’ll figure out how to do that but for now let me say I am glad it is over – although the wait for results [...]
Well here I am bursting into the world of blogging – mostly thanks to an afternoon of Greek study and my overwhelming talent of procrastination. So what does a first year theology student blog about. I have no idea! Tonight I find myself with nothing much to say but here are some thoughts I had [...]
