My Seminary Life

Today we define what a soul and spirit is, try to wrestle how the two are different, and how that affects how we relate to each other and ourselves.

Today we are wrestling with the big philosophical question, what is a human? Do humans have to sin in order to be human? What do we learn from Jesus on what it means to be human?

Today, we are defining what theology actually is.

Systematic Theology is back for another round, and this week we returned to square one again of what is theology. I focus on how the study of theology is everyone and we need it for continued growth in the church.

Happy holidays everyone! Thanks for an incredible year! Join the party as I recap the year, look forward to 2022, share some of our Hanukkah traditions, and invite a special guest to talk about Advent!

In the conclusion to Discipleship Methods, I give my thoughts on the class itself, and highlight three great quotes from Greg Ogden's "Transforming Discipleship."

How do we shape the emotional life of a believer through discipleship? The first step is actually very simple! How high of a priority should Christians have on counseling? All this and more in this episode!

In this episode I discuss what pastors need to do to get biblical discipleship going at their church.

Should discipleship take place in a one-on-one setting or in a group? What does the Bible have to say about this? What can we learn from our personal experiences on this subject? Is this worth dying on a hill about? All this and more in today's episode.

It's one thing to study discipleship, it is another to take an honest assessment of your own home church in this area. In this shoot podcast, I give you my honest evaluation of my home church from an interview I conducted with our pastor.

What are the 8 hindrances to discipleship? Greg Ogden in his book "Transforming Discipleship" lays them out for us and I give some incite into how they affect the church.

In this episode I talk about what then is discipleship, and how does it work in the church today?

What is discipleship? All this quarter I am going to be answering that question. In this episode I discuss what discipleship is not to help us better understand what it is.

I conclude our study of Systematic Theology 1 with a look at demons and Satan, and how we need to better understand the Scriptures to learn about then.

In this episode I run down the five views on who "the sons of God" are in Genesis 6:2 and why this passage matters to our Christian life.

Spiritual gifts are a common source of confusion in the church. In this episode I take a simple look at four passages of Scripture to help us better understand the gifts of the Spirit

This week I take a closer look at Philippians 2:7 and how it relates to our understanding of the nature of Jesus.

What is hypostatic union and why does it matter to our faith? That's the topic we tackle in today's episode!

In this week's episode I sit down to discuss what the Trinity is in light of Scripture and how we can better illustrate this doctrine to others.

What is the Bible? How did the authors of the Bible write it? How did the canon of Scripture come together? These are all the questions that we wrestle with in today's episode!

The fall semester has begun and we are starting things off hot with an in-depth look as to why all Christians should be studying Systematic Theology and what it is exactly.

In the final episode in the Revisiting My Old Sermons series, I tell the story about the first time I got to preach at the Pacific Garden Mission in Chicago, and I run down a sermon that is full of Bible verses.

In this episode I tell you the story about a time I competed in a preaching competition, and give you some of my thoughts looking back at that event.

In this episode I revisit an old Sunday School lesson on the book of Jonah, and tell the bittersweet story of why I was available to teach that morning. Make sure to stay all the way till the end of this episode...

In this episode I revisit my first sermon, "My Savior, My God" and tell the story about a time when the youth group at my church lead the Sunday evening service.