The Stupidity of the Cross
Here is the audio from my latest sermon at RPTS, the text I preached from was 1 Corinthians 1:18-19, the Sermon was entitled The Stupidity of the Cross.
Nov. 15, 2007
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Acts 29 · Art · Contextualization · Culture · Life · Pittsburgh · RPTS · Seminary · missional
Stay on Target
My finals are finished, and I have just a bit of reading and a few pages to write.
So here is what I’m planning for the next week, or so, at thedesocios.com:
1. I recently heard a lecture by Darren Patrick about the History of the Emergent Church, and I’m hoping to write a response.
I’d especially like [...]
Winter 08 Wishlist:
Like many of my compatriots, I am a bibliophile. Growing up I hated books and I never read, but late in college I started to read good books. By the time I was in Seminary, maybe due to my love of the good book, I began to love reading good books. By no means do [...]
Jul. 27, 2007
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10 Books Every Wanna Be Pastor Needs to Read
In looking back on the long(tongue-in-cheek) time I have spent as a seminary student, I realize that there are a number of books that I wish I had been encouraged to read while at seminary, a few of these books were given as class texts, but most of them were simply recommendations from wiser men. [...]
Online Sermons: Redeemer vs Mars Hill
I am a big Tim Keller fan, and I am also a very big Mark Driscoll fan. Recently in talking to friends at church we have started to talk about the fact that Marshill gives away all there media and take special care to give it away from of copyrights so that it can be [...]
Another Good Quote
“Better is the loss that makes them humble than the success that makes them proud”
Thomas Watson - from A Body of Divinity
Insane Finals
Unlike my Westminster brothers I got an extra week of reprieve before finals. I have a 10 page analysis of A Christian Manifesto due Tuesday, and a few finals, but after that I’m in the clear. No finals that I’m really worried about, just two Gamble carpal-tunnel-makers(100 minutes 100 points 100 sentences), and one [...]
The Problem of Time
So things at Seminary have been getting more hectic and this quarter I have some pretty beefy papers due. But beyond just lots of seminary work, when I survey my life I feel like so much of it is wasted and useless. I am not living in the pattern of the Apostles in devoting myself [...]
Jan. 30, 2007
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Church Planting · Culture · Faith · Life · Pittsburgh · Seminary · Theology
Switching Denominations: Or How We Moved to a Generic Presbyterian Church
So its been two months and I thought I would finally sit down and write something about our recent church decisions. Starting last summer I felt increasing pressure about whether or not I could stay in the RPCNA, the Reformed Presbyterian Church of North America. The root of my problems stemmed from an uncertainty over [...]
Christmas for a Seminarian
Seminary starts up in a few weeks and so I got out the old visa and got some books, some I need for class and others were more for fun. I go to RPTS guess which ones are which.