What I Do At Seminary

GRTS is now making the seminary students put some of their papers on a website that is accessible to the public. They are doing this just as my time there winds down, so I don’t have much at the site, but I thought if anyone in my church is interested (or anyone else, for that matter) you can read a couple of my research papers. I don’t have grades on them yet, so you can guess what the grade will be!! Links are below the fold:

Challenging Christmas Traditions

Ever since I sat in Dr. Bob Rapa’s New Testament Survey class at Grand Rapids Theological Seminary (ca. 1999), I’ve wanted to preach a particular sermon on Christmas. It is a sermon that destroys a common Christmas tradition, but may make the Christmas story even grander.

1 Peter Series

Martin Luther called 1 Peter “one of the noblest books in the New Testament” that contained everything necessary for a Christian to know. Unfortunately, 1 Peter remains a fairly neglected book. But we hope to change that in our corner of the world! On December 30, 2007 we will commence an 11-week sermon series on 1 Peter. Additionally, our sermon series should pour over onto this blog weekly as we interact with this fantastic book.