Archive for April, 2009

Why Do I Have To Choose?

April 22, 2009

Piper and Carson on “The Pastor as Scholar, and the Scholar as Pastor: Reflections on Life and Ministry.”  For those of us that don’t live in the epicenter of evangelicalism, let’s hope these get recorded.

For what it’s worth, I’m glad to see the word “scholar” making its way into the title.  All pastors should be theologians, and all theologians should be pastors, but not all pastors should be scholars.  There are two distinct communities (at least for now); academic and ecclesial.  Thanks be to God, there are a few who deserve all three titles, whose scholarly work is ultimetly pastoral.

Where’s a Good Place to Study Theology?

April 13, 2009

Reno again – “On Graduate Study in Theology”

You are no more likely to mature as a theologian outside an atmosphere of prayer and piety than as a scientific theorist removed from the laboratory.

Holy/Maundy Thursday – It’s Not the Style That Makes It High Church

April 8, 2009

John 13:34f – A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.