by Bret Capranica | Jun 4, 2008 | Ecclesiology, Education, Pastoral Ministry
Just to keep the conversation going – here is Adrian Warnock’s post on Piper’s recent announcement that seminary education will be connected to Bethlehem Baptist Church. adrianwarnock.com: John Piper To Start a Seminary at Bethlehem...
by Bret Capranica | May 14, 2008 | Education, Pastoral Ministry
Here’s an excellent discussion on why many ministerial students tend to drop their interest in pastoral ministry for that of being a professor. I wonder how many of such students are receiving significant influence from local church pastors and congregations during their studies? Sean Michael Lucas: Ministerial Students, Calling, and PhD...
by Bret Capranica | May 10, 2008 | Pastoral Ministry, Preaching
HT: Justin Taylor A good meditation for this Saturday for both Pastor and...
by Bret Capranica | Apr 28, 2008 | Ecclesiology, Pastoral Ministry
Being a small church pastor, I will be looking into these videos in the next few weeks: Videos From The Small Church Conference Now Online | Said at Southern...
by Bret Capranica | Apr 22, 2008 | Pastoral Ministry
My DMin work is on this very subject. Jeff Moody points us to Dr. Mohler’s recently posted article advocating the primacy of the local church in the training of men for pastoral ministry. Mohler on Church-Based Pastoral Training – SoCal Theologica: Theological Musings from the West...
by Bret Capranica | Apr 15, 2008 | Pastoral Ministry
As this post makes its way to THE CAPRANICA front page, I will be getting into Pastor James Billings’ car headed to meet Pastor Stacy Johnson (Lord willing and he is feeling better), and we will together make the hour and a half to two hour trip to LAX to catch a plane and an all day trip (with the time zone changes) to Louisville, KY, to attend the Together for the Gospel Conference. The link below is to the article C.J. Mahaney recently posted about pastors taking time to make such trips for team building. I couldn’t agree more with his comments. In fact, our team has tried to do exactly as he has suggested and take a trip or attend a class together each year for the purpose of building our relationships as a team and taking in some great material that helps sharpen us and our ministry. We will laugh together (we normally do – but these times will contain more than the normal hilarity), eat together (again, not uncommon for us – but our weight loss plans will be savagely abandoned this week), pray together, sing together at the conference, talk, talk and talk some more about every conceivable element of ministry and life that comes to our minds. Not everyone may appreciate our taking the time this week to go to Louisville. I know that we leave behind a needy flock that all three of us love passionately and will look forward to being with again this Lord’s Day. Our wives and children (well, for two of us), will be left behind and we...
