It’s Great to be Back “Hi!” Wow, I feel like it’s been a long time since I’ve said that. The spring semester has begun here at Southern Seminary, we’re already done with Week #2! Things are going great! Today I’m going to update you on some things, share some prayer requests, and then share a goofy little song that, I promise, you and I both don’t understand. (So don’t feel bad!)
Break Time is Over At the start of the winter break I preached at our local church Christmas morning. In January I got to guest-preach at another church. Then I finished a writing project for a ministry in California and jumped right into a new and exciting editing project for a client. I can’t tell you more yet, but it’s going to be great book and will help a lot of people who wonder if it is possible to ever really know for sure if they are saved. Looking back, I guess my break time wasn’t much of a break!
Reading Through the Bible When the last semester ended in December, I began an intensive Bible reading program. I’ve already read 600 pages and only have 400 to go. My goal is finish by my birthday in mid-March. You can pray that with all the busyness of the semester I don’t slack on that–an ironic thing that does happen in the lives of seminarians.
My Classes This Semester This semester I’m taking more Systematic Theology II, an intermediate Greek class, and a condensed class later this spring. In Systematic Theology, major topics we’ll be covering this semester are
- Creation and Providence
- Man (Humanity) / Man as Sinner
- The Doctrine of Christ (Christology) – His Person and His Work
- The Holy Spirit – The Person of the Godhead who applies the work of redemption to us
In April I’ll be attending the “Together for the Gospel” conference as an elective class. (Are you going to be there? If so, let’s try to meet up!)
On Tuesdays and Thursdays I’m taking ‘Greek Syntax & Exegesis’, a less fancy way to describe it is simply, “Intermediate New Testament Greek.” We’re applying the elementary things we learned last semester and diving right into the text, translating sentences and studying the text more closely. (If last semester was the difficulty of learning scales, this semester I’m fingering out “Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star.”) It is exciting to be reading the New Testament in the very language the original authors wrote it in–even if I’m doing it with a lot of help!! God has blessed us with a wonderful Book!!
Before I forget–> With the semester under way, my posts may be a bit infrequent. However, please do check back often because I’ve got a tool that automatically recycles older posts and puts them as fresh new posts at the main page. Already I’ve been surprised to read something and thought, “I wrote that?!” I hope you find that something old is new again!
If You Would Like Some Things to Pray About
- Of course classes, time-management, and honoring the Lord in my studies
- I have an opportunity to study abroad this coming summer and Amy would go too. Pray for God to provide if He desires us to go.
- Preaching opportunities–I need (and want) to develop in writing and delivering sermons
- I’ve applied for 3 different tuition scholarships, every little bit helps!
If you have something you’d like for me to praying for you about, email me at ‘comments
Funny, Geeky Greeky Stuff In Greek class we’re learning sentence diagramming–breaking a sentence apart to see its construction. We looking at all the parts of speech and grammar (subject/noun, verbs, participles, adjectives, etc.), and all their various relationships (independent, dependent, relative clauses, etc.) Some student of Greek who has been down this path before me was inspired to express his (and now my!) learning curve in this task. I don’t know who this guy is, but he wrote a cute little song about it. No doubt he did when he needed a break from studying! Enjoy!
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