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!
Praying for you, too! I forgot that you were in seminary. Patrick mentioned it at his grad party, but it slipped my mind. God bless you as you continue balancing everything!
What an amazing journey! I, too like semi-cons. Lol. I like what you said about reading. Not reading just to regurgitate information but to dissect a read to challenge our thinking.
Don’t worry about not writing for Substack! I already thought you hadn’t due to your course work! So happy you are being stimulated and challenged in this work! We often need that to feel alive! God lead you to a good place! Carry on Meshach and continue doing a good job! I will pray for your success! Ginny
So wonderful to see how engaged you are already in this new endeavor. I can empathize with the advice given you on taking risks with your ideas and writing. I’m positive you can do that with words that show respect and love for the readers.
Prayers coming your way during your new adventure and period of enlightenment and learning. May the support and love of God, family, and friends help you through the many changes needed in your daily activities and also inspire the thinking, writing, and speaking that are required of you during your doctoral program.
I most certainly be in prayer for you and your family. You have already identified your major hurtles and that alone puts you ahead of them.
I admire people who are lead to follow the intellectual theological path.
I must admit, it is usually too heavy for me to follow for very long but none the less, I understand the depth of study, research and time committed to accomplish this work.
Your love for God, as you set out on this journey, is also very evident.
I hope I will have an opportunity to read some part of your research and/or dissertation. I am a laid back college of hard knocks learner with touches of seminary training mixed it. I think that's just enough to be dangerous. 🤣.
You, your work and family will continue in my prayers.
Thanks for the prayers, Kathy. One of my top goals is to make sure all of my writings are as accessible as possible. I don’t understand why some of these books are written so that only eggheads can understand. It’s the most nonsensical thing in the world to me. Jesus was the smartest person ever, and nobody ever said to him, “What does that word mean?” 😂
You’ve in good company, Meshach, as Luther’s saying comes to mind, “I have so much to do that I shall spend the first three hours in Prayer”. Many similar quotes attributed to Saint Francis de Sales, Gandhi, Dalai Lama, etc. as well.
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!
Praying for you, too! I forgot that you were in seminary. Patrick mentioned it at his grad party, but it slipped my mind. God bless you as you continue balancing everything!
What an amazing journey! I, too like semi-cons. Lol. I like what you said about reading. Not reading just to regurgitate information but to dissect a read to challenge our thinking.
I’m determined to make semi-colons great again
God will be with you throughout this journey!
Don’t worry about not writing for Substack! I already thought you hadn’t due to your course work! So happy you are being stimulated and challenged in this work! We often need that to feel alive! God lead you to a good place! Carry on Meshach and continue doing a good job! I will pray for your success! Ginny
In this case, correlation definitely equals causation! Great post!
So wonderful to see how engaged you are already in this new endeavor. I can empathize with the advice given you on taking risks with your ideas and writing. I’m positive you can do that with words that show respect and love for the readers.
Thanks Martha. I’m blessed to be in this program.
Prayers coming your way during your new adventure and period of enlightenment and learning. May the support and love of God, family, and friends help you through the many changes needed in your daily activities and also inspire the thinking, writing, and speaking that are required of you during your doctoral program.
Amen, amen, and AMEN!
I most certainly be in prayer for you and your family. You have already identified your major hurtles and that alone puts you ahead of them.
I admire people who are lead to follow the intellectual theological path.
I must admit, it is usually too heavy for me to follow for very long but none the less, I understand the depth of study, research and time committed to accomplish this work.
Your love for God, as you set out on this journey, is also very evident.
I hope I will have an opportunity to read some part of your research and/or dissertation. I am a laid back college of hard knocks learner with touches of seminary training mixed it. I think that's just enough to be dangerous. 🤣.
You, your work and family will continue in my prayers.
Thanks for the prayers, Kathy. One of my top goals is to make sure all of my writings are as accessible as possible. I don’t understand why some of these books are written so that only eggheads can understand. It’s the most nonsensical thing in the world to me. Jesus was the smartest person ever, and nobody ever said to him, “What does that word mean?” 😂
Blessings to you, sister!
You’ve in good company, Meshach, as Luther’s saying comes to mind, “I have so much to do that I shall spend the first three hours in Prayer”. Many similar quotes attributed to Saint Francis de Sales, Gandhi, Dalai Lama, etc. as well.
I think about that all the time