Musings of a Seminary Grad

Introduction The semester is underway! I am three weeks into the current school year, and classes are hauling along at what sometimes seems a breakneck pace. My teacher colleagues and I often confer about how quickly the semester seems to fly by for us, while the students experience it as a slow crawl. All the more reason for teachers to dutifully consider how we live before them as examples: we only have precious few hours to impress upon them the complete joy and spiritual flourishing that is fellowship with God. This blog series is a result of my study in preparation to teach a class on First through Third John, and actively teaching that class for the last three weeks has only intensified the lessons the Holy Spirit taught me. In First John especially, the Apostle sets forth tests for his readers to help them discern true and false teachers. They were facing a particularly virulent blend of heresy that denied human sinfulness (1 Jn. 1:8, 10), the necessity of Christ’s physi...

Introduction I am a teacher. It is what I do: I work at a Christian university where I teach a Bible doctrine class, several Biblical Greek classes, and survey classes of both the Old and New Testament, among other things. It is also who I am: I believe that God has gifted me with natural talents that enable me to explain concepts to others, and I further believe that God has graciously granted me the Spiritual gift of teaching. When I am in conversations with people, I frequently find myself wanting to help facilitate communication and understanding. I teach because I believe God has led me to do so, and I have been doing so professionally for ten years now. I teach because I believe God has led me to do so I started teaching on the university level at twenty-two years old. As I have grown and matured during these years, my perspective and philosophy of teaching have been shaped not only by experience and training but also by Scripture. Over this last summer, I did research and ...