Fresh, Clear Insights

on making the vintage faith relevant again

Why I Am Going To Seminary

There is a great dialogue happening at Scot McKnight’s blog, Jesus Creed. His post “Thinking ofgrand rapids theological seminary Seminary?” was written in response to several emails he receives from readers and former students on whether they should attend seminary. He wrote that there are two things everyone should think about before going to seminary: 1) ministry is hard and 2) before you go to seminary and while you are in seminary be in some kind of ministry.

Both are great advice and I jumped in with a few comments of my own, but I thought I would post in this space why I chose to go to seminary. I think my reasons are fairly typical, but I also have some very personal reasons, too.

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Theme Switching

Bear with me while I am doing some design work and house cleaning around the site. I am still figuring things out after re-launching this thing. Thanks for pardoning the dust... -jeremy Technorati Tags: site...

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Writing Prompt 1

As I mentioned in my last post, it has been difficult for me to get back into the swing of things with blogging. To get the juices flowing I started reading a book on writing and actually doing the writing prompts that help spark ideas. So instead of keeping the...

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Getting Back Into The Swing Of Things

So I have a confession to make: it has been a pain in the ass trying to get back into the swing of the whole blogging thing! I feel like I am in a blog funk, but only because I am so out of practice. I mean it isn't like I don't have any ideas or anything or want to...

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My Other Site

In honor of my new chapter, I decided to start a new site to chronicle this new portion of my journey. Its called jeremybouma.net On this site, I plan to post updates on my life, things I am doing, places I am going, and general things happening in my life journey....

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