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  1. EnriqueNye

    Church Planting Issues

    Hello all! Sorry for the long post, you can keep scrolling if it's too much. I'm writing today to ask for advice on how I should go about planting a church. Just to give some backstory, I have been feeling the call to ministry for several years now, and only recently felt confident in it...
  2. The Liturgist

    The Making of Ministers: Seminaries and Spiritual Formation

    My friend @ewq1938 , who recently made a very compelling argument regarding the variance between the genealogies in the Gospels According to Saints Matthew and Luke, asked me a question, which I answered, but then I found myself compelled to share my thoughts on seminaries and the formation of...
  3. J

    Any experiences with Pentecostal Theology Seminary?

    Does anybody has any experiences with PTS? HOME I‘d like to study their Master of Arts in Clinical Mental Health Counseling. They say it is fully available online, which is important to me because I‘d study from Europe if possible (I don‘t know however if it’s an option for them). I‘m...
  4. KagomeShuko

    Lutheran Seminary

    Do Lutheran pastors have to take pastoral counseling classes when they are in seminary?
  5. KagomeShuko

    Methodist seminary classes

    Do Methodist pastors have to take pastoral counseling classes when they are in seminary?
  6. C

    How long should I do youth ministry?

    Hey, I am currently a college student and I have a calling into pastoral ministry. When I graduate I want to be a youth director for a few years before jumping into seminary and a senior pastor role. I was wondering if ya'll had some advice on how long I should stay in youth ministry. Also, I...
  7. B

    Seminary - Life as a professor?

    I'm considering pursuing a graduate education in theology, primarily because I'm socially and intellectually isolated. I love dealing with facts and ideas, and I'm very critically minded. But most church people are bigots (technical usage, not a slur), sinfully judgmental and intolerant of ideas...
  8. Korean-American Christian

    How do I know whether I have a calling to vocational ministry?

    How do I know whether God is calling me to full-time or part-time vocational ministry? To rephrase my question - how do I know if God is calling me to study in seminary and (possibly) pursue ordination as a Christian minister? Background information about me (long post): I was born...
  9. Steve Stanton

    Logos Bible Software for sale 85% off

    I am selling my entire Logos Bible Software Library for $1975! I Purchased Reformed Bronze a few years ago and have added hundreds of $$$ worth of additional resources. I am currently trying to sell the entire library as one whole set. If you purchased each resource individually it would be...
  10. A

    Full-tuition scholarships for accredited seminary: Trinity School for Ministry

    Dear Friends, I know many of you are looking at graduate programs and all of you want to be fully-funded. My name is Aidan Smith and I am the new Director of Recruitment at Trinity School for Ministry. I wanted to inform you that every year TSM is able to award full-tuition scholarships to...