One of the highlights of our seminary week is our chapel service on Wednesday. In order to give our students a ministry flavor to what is going on in the Capital District, I schedule speakers, usually pastors from the local area, to preach the Word of God to our students and to talk about their local ministries.
This past week, Dr. Jim Guenther, pastor of the Open Door Church, Lee Massachusetts, preached an extraordinary message from the book of Exodus, chapter 33. This text covers the...
One of my first classes in seminary was Evangelism taught by Dr. B. Gray Allison. I clearly remember the second day of class when he taught us about the lostness in the world. He went around the globe mentioning nation after nation giving statistics on how much each country had been evangelized, and how much remained lost and without Christ. I left class that day burdened for the world and feeling that I must do more to reach the world with the gospel of Jesus Christ.
Dr. Allison was the...
I’ve been a gym goer from my middle-teen years to the present. I have learned that the more fit I am, the more productive I am during the day, I burn calories more efficiently, and the better I sleep. While I do not run the speeds or lift the weights I used to when I was younger, I still attend a gym most every weekday for some type of fitness work.
Through the years, I’ve learned there is a phenomenon that occurs in gyms in January through March: there is an influx of new members....
During the month of November, I was able to travel to South Dakota with a colleague from the main campus to participate in a pheasant hunt hosted by a pastor friend from Fort Worth, Texas. This was definitely a guy thing: there were two from Mid-America and the pastor, a member of his staff, and three laymen from Texas. It was my first chance to hunt pheasants in two decades.
Each morning after breakfast, the pastor would lead our group in prayer and devotions. His devotional protocol was to...
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