Archive for November, 2006

At Southeastern our mission is simple: “Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary seeks to glorify the Lord Jesus Christ by equipping students to serve the Church and fulfill the Great Commission.” (Matthew 28:19-20) The motto we use all the time is that every classroom is a Great Commission classroom. That is seen in a variety of ways: [...]

This fall I teach my Prayer and Spiritual Awakenings class, one of the great delights I have as a teacher. I love digging into the primary sources from history to share with eager students wisdom from the past. I am struck by pastors like Jonathan Edwards who, although witnessing great movements of God, never seemed [...]

Fifteen years ago this month my family and I moved to Wake Forest, NC, for me to begin teaching as SEBTS. The impact of that move has been so wonderful it is hard to quantify. My first fall here I stepped into my seminary evangelism class as excited as a middle school girl at a [...]

“Music is a fair and lovely gift of God which has often awakened and moved me to the joy of preaching,” wrote Reformer Martin Luther, who added: “Next after theology I give to music the highest place and the greatest honor. . . Experience proves that next to the Word of God only music deserves [...]

One of the greatest joys I have in teaching at SEBTS grows out of our shared passion for the gospel and the effective proclamation of the gospel to the nations and our neighbors. One of the areas of growth in our focus in recent days is a burden for the great cities of the world, [...]

This past spring the trustees at SEBTS named me professor of evangelism and student ministry. The combo makes a lot of sense albeit less than conventional (hey, I tend to be less than conventional). After all, 80-90% of people who come to Christ in the US do so before age 20. This fall to “kick [...]