…but she is my mother. ~ St. Augustine.
That’s how I’ve felt about seminary quite often.
The overblown tuition, the seduction of academia and professionalism, the regurgitation of thought, the staleness of the classroom environment, the creative vacuum, and the incredible chasm between how things are, and the way you know it ought to [...]

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After six years of seminary, I’m finally done.
And now I’m sick.
But as soon as that’s over, it’s going to be a whole new chapter in our lives.
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A couple other seminary students were sharing with me yesterday about how lonely things can be as they’ve began working in leadership in different churches.
I wrote a while back about how ‘leaders need community‘.  I want to take this further as not only an acknowledgment, but as a request, on behalf of leaders.
Certainly there are [...]

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Photo by Roger Cullman www.rogercullman.com
Preaching last week, I slipped out something I probably needed to hear more for myself. I told people that they don’t need a rock-star pastor or a superstar leader. They need Jesus in their lives.
With the very best of what church’s and the world has to offer available on [...]

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I committed an hour or two yesterday to international facebook day.
It’s amazing the level of connectivity we have today, like no other point in history.
Facebook offers some interesting ’stats’ on the networks that you’re a part of.
Missiologists often speak of how we must not only exegete the Scriptures but our culture as well. [...]

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After deciding earlier that I would let school slide a bit, so that I could do ‘more important’ things with my life, I got slammed on my last assignment.
I still don’t really care for my grades, but my urban ministry prof, one I greatly admire, called me out on it, and wrote this to me:
Lon; [...]

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Have you ever found yourself good at something, that you’d rather not be good at?
As my time at seminary is wrapping up, I’ve found myself disturbingly good at churning out papers. I’ve been a straight-A student for the most part, but what does that really mean in the real world, or better yet, in [...]

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courtesy of Ray from when we were in Pennsylvania.
Here’s what I’ll be doing the next eight months
1. Wrapping up my final four courses in seminary at Tyndale - Urban Ministry I & II with Rick Tobias (CEO of Yonge Street Mission), Advanced Preaching, and possibly the art of teaching.
2. Helping lead Mosaic Baptist (A new [...]

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I’ve just been thrilled reading the Scriptures recently.  I think it might be because I’m not currently in school and studying the Bible.  Rather I’ve simply been allowing for it to speak again.
The audacity of some of the things written in these sacred scriptures are just mind-blowing.  It’s sad that so often the academia of [...]

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For five years I’ve waited and asked the administration for a church planting course at Tyndale Seminary. It still hasn’t happened. Church planting courses are in our academic calendar, but they haven’t been offered supposedly due to a lack of interest. This semester I decided to enroll as a visiting student to [...]

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