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Nick Van Horn's avatar

I’m right there with you! I’ve been slowly making my way through a master’s program at Westminster Theological Seminary for a few years now and the adjustments are tough. Learning Greek and Hebrew were particularly demanding. The struggle for me has been not letting everything I’m learning remain *just* academic, but working it deep into my heart so that I grow closer to the Lord throughout the process. Is this academic work? Yes, but it is also incredibly practical, both for my own spiritual formation and for my preaching, teaching, and leadership. Praying for you brother!

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Carl Thomas's avatar

I tell everyone who decides to take up a new project in life, you are going to have to make room for it. Your life is always full. Maybe not intentionally, but every hour of every day is full of something. If you are going to start a business, go back to school, learn a trade, you have to take something out of your life, and if you don't do it intentionally, you start to rob the important things (family, calling, etc) for the urgent thing (deadlines, papers, etc).

When I went back for my MDiv, I had to give up several hobbies. I just did not touch them for 4 years. Probably could have done it more healthy but I saw too many returning students not make it because they wanted the life they had AND grad school and that is not going to work.

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