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Ministry Monday: Where to Serve?

Seminary student Simon writes to ask about how to choose where to serve upon graduation. — Simon, I wish I could say that there is a simple three-step process to discern the will of God. If I could do...

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Who Should Go to Seminary? (1)

Dan writes to ask this question. It’s a good and important question and the answer is in two parts: anyone but not everyone. First, anyone may go to seminary. Since I teach at a seminary and I know how...

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Who Should Go to Seminary? (2)

Part 1. Anyone may go to seminary but not every one should go to seminary.  The second part of the answer is who should not go to seminary. Before I continue let me say, for the sake of our current...

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Candid Comments for Candidates (2)

Part 1 Thinking through the business of candidating as a seminary student, recent graduate, first-time pastor or a pastor currently without a call is less difficult than the matter of calling a pastor...

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Ministers: Servants of God or Man?

Machen explain to the 1934 graduating class of WTS.

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Vocation, Vocation, Vocation

Nick gets the two kingdoms. You have to love a writer who begins a post with the line, “This is going to hack some people off.”  He’s reacting to this week’s excellent WHI broadcast, “The Foolishness...

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Videos Online Now: Christ, Kingdom, and Culture

Click on the banner above. The videos are online now. They’re free. You can download them in iTunes or watch them on the WSC site.

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The Last Work of a Student or the First of a Scholar?

That slogan puzzled me the first few times I heard it but I think I understand it more clearly now. I was puzzled because the word “scholar” means “student.” It’s a Latin word derived from the noun...

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What Is A Seminary?

The question arose on a discussion board  as to how a theological seminary relates to C. S. Lewis’ distinction between “education” and “vocational training.” The premise of the question was that one...

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The Inherent Goodness Of Work

One of the casualties of the West’s cultural shift from Christian theism to Deism, and from that to late modern subjectivism (and neo-paganism) is the death of the Christian work ethic. The act of work...

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Messages To Millennials (3): Work

In part 2 we looked at the way, according to a recent Pew Study, Millennials relate to the visible, institutional church. The third major topic is work. As Bradford Wilcox summarizes the results of the...

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The Reformation Of Vocation

In the period between the early post-apostolic church (e.g., the 2nd and 3rd centuries AD) and the Reformation (beginning in the early 16th century AD) the church came to develop some unbiblical and...

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Office Hours: From The Pasture To The Pastorate

Office Hours kicks off its 11th season (247 episodes so far) with an interview with our newest faculty member, Dr Craig Troxel. Craig comes to Escondido from Bethel Presbyterian Church (OPC), Wheaton,...

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As It Was In The Days Of Noah (28): 2 Peter 1:3–11 (part 4)

The Christian life is not the instrument of salvation. To attempt to make it so is a self-defeating move, since none of us, in this life, shall attain perfect sanctification. Thus, all of us fall short...

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Hodge: New Life Is The Work Of The Sovereign Holy Spirit

No amount of mere external evidence can produce genuine faith. The Israelites, who had seen a long succession of wonders in the land of Egypt, who had passed through the divided waters of the Red Sea,...

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A Reformation Doctrine To Be Recovered: Every Christian Has A Vocation

Finally, this point is to be noted: the Lord bids each one of us in all life’s actions to look to his calling [vocatio].8 For he knows with what great restlessness human nature flames, with what...

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Sean Moore: Serving Christ In The Secular Sphere By Serving His Neighbors

Sean Michael Moore (BA, University of San Diego) is a native of and Mayor-elect of Hollywood Park, TX. He has been a businessman for 25 years and has served as a member of the city council in Hollywood...

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Christian, Get Involved

One of the more pernicious misrepresentations of the distinction between the eternal and temporal spheres of Christ’s kingdom, which Calvin called the “twofold kingdom” (Institutes, 3.19.15), is that...

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Who Should Not Go To Seminary?

Last time we answered the question: who should go to seminary? The answer was that anyone may go to seminary, but not everyone should go to seminary. Today we will focus on the second part of the...

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Who Should Go to Seminary?

I was once asked a good and important question: who should go to seminary? The answer to this question is in two parts: anyone, but not everyone. First, anyone may go to seminary. Since I teach at a...

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Three Messages To Millennials: Marriage, Church, And Work

Marriage On March 7, 2014, the Pew Research Center published the results of a new Survey:Millennials in Adulthood. Bradford Wilcox has a summary in the NRO. According to the study, Millennials have...

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