The audio recording of the sermon I gave at my church a few weeks ago is now available on the church’s web site. Download it here.

Sorry for the ‘insider joke’ here, but those of you who are my classmates in McCartney’s Gospel class simply must read our classmate Mike Vendsel’s revisionist reading of the three quests for the historical Jesus.

WTS alumnus Jeremy wrote a list of seminary courses you only find out you need after you are out in ministry. (The only thing I changed from Jeremy’s post is one of the book links…from Amazon to WTS bookstore, because unlike Jeremy, I care about saving you money ) OK….I corrected some grammar, too, [...]

My LSW Karyn asks why bother to learn ancient “dead” languages like Ugaritic and Aramaic. I thought it was so she could order off the menu for me at that new Ugaritic restaurant down the block…but it turns out she has a different anwer.
Hint: It has to do with Shrek.

Eric Peters and Jeremy Casella will perform in a coffeehouse setting at Westminster Theological Seminary, 2610 W. Church Rd., Glenside, PA, at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, October 20. No reservations needed.
Bill Mallonee will give a house concert at 511 Brookline Blvd., Havertown, PA at 7 p.m. on October 31. Suggested donation $10. Reservations (highly suggested [...]

Daughters Hannah and Sarah have brought their blogs out of retirement for a delightful set of family photos. Here are some samples:

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Hannah’s kids
Sarah’s kids

Sometimes being in seminary feels like you’ve been shipped out to the front lines of a battle zone. Almost every class raises as many questions as it answers. Those questions produce a forest of raised hands, like those stark trees on the bombed-out fields of the Western Front. The professor soon sues for peace, [...]

I’m pleased to be adding the Reformed Blacks of America web site to my list of links. You’ll find it under the “WTS folk” section, as RBA co-founder Xavier Pickett is a WTS classmate whom I enjoy chatting with at the bookstore. It wasn’t all that long ago that “Reformed” and “Black” were words you [...]

My story from our time in Sudan is now up on Common Grounds Online. See it here. With the permission of CGO, I’m cross-posting it here on Sacred Journey.
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As the last echoes of exuberant Sudanese worship rebounded off the crude cinder block walls of the thatch-roofed classroom, the [...]

Whoo boy. And they all claim to adhere to the Westminster Standards. Hmmm.