Archive - September, 2010

23 | not talking about heaven

By albert on September 30, 2010 in lessons from bible college with 3 Comments

your first year at bible college will rock your world. at least, it should. it should present you with new ideas, reaffirming and challenging your faith, and shaking up your traditions.

one of those traditions is heaven. when the average churchgoer thinks about heaven, chances are they’re picturing some sort of cloudy area with gold gates, and a bunch of angels playing harps and singing continuously. when you arrive at bible college, you start hearing other phrases: new jerusalem, new heaven, new creation…

so when the bible college student talks about heaven, they start replacing those words with “new creation.”

heaven sucks, new creation is awesome. Continue Reading…

22 | avoiding judgement for having logos on your computer

By albert on September 29, 2010 in lessons from bible college with 1 Comment

now, i must admit that this post may come out of a little jealousy. but for the sake of the blog, let’s abandon that for the next six minutes.

the logos software. arguably one of the best bible softwares around, especially for the mac. the ability to cross reference, get background info, take notes, and download books all right in one place is pretty amazing. in fact, i think logos thinks its a pretty priceless piece of software, which is why it costs so much. my only knock on these guys: your audience, pastors and bible students. both of which have a considerably limited income to spend on such luxuries.

i do not have logos on my computer. i wish i did. but i have a few classmates who do, and sometimes i get the sneaking suspicion they’re trying to downplay that reality.

so here’s a few ways to avoid judgement form your fellow students if you have logos: Continue Reading…

i blog for EBC

By albert on September 28, 2010 in news and blues with 2 Comments

yes, the rumors you’ve heard are true. EBC has secured yours truly for the next semester to blog about the goings on at EBC. be sure to heck out my posts and those of the other student bloggers. http://blog.eternitybiblecollege.com

21 | judging your fellow students for forgetting their bible

By albert on September 28, 2010 in lessons from bible college with 1 Comment

i agree, i’ve been there.

but i’m talking about forgetting your bible where ever you go. the movies, panera, friends house,  starbucks, the community pool…

don’t have your bible? well, be prepared to be ridiculed, endlessly.

luckily, if you have a smartphone, you have a way out: the esv bible app. it’s great cause its free, and there an esv plus bible app for fifteen bucks. not to oversell it or anything, but its simply the best bible app out there.

so be prepared.

The Band/Choir/Orchestra Fanatic: We’re Going on TOUR!!

By jake on September 25, 2010 in grow a beard & be somebody with 1 Comment

My original thought was to write three separate posts on these three separate categories. When I began to think about it, I realized that nearly every friend or acquaintance that fell into one of these three categories, naturally fell into the other two as well.

May I have a drum roll please (Pun intended) … I give you, your friend and mine (sometimes)… Continue Reading…

20 | that one guy who rebukes too much

By albert on September 24, 2010 in lessons from bible college with 3 Comments

i think we all humor him at the beginning. just nod and smile. since we take rebukes very biblically, we give him the benefit of the doubt.

at first. Continue Reading…

19 | married couples taking classes together

By albert on September 23, 2010 in lessons from bible college with 2 Comments

another bible college phenomenon ripe for the taking: married couples taking classes together.

now, i previously wrote about how people will come to bible college just find a wife, but then what? after the honeymoon, they return and find that they both still have some time left in school. i mean, most people do think once your married, you should earn your honorary degree and be finished with school, unfortunately this is not the case.

so back in class. what’s the solution? take all your classes together. it works. so how does this change their class-going experience? i’ve collected a few things: Continue Reading…

18 | not praying to “God”

By albert on September 22, 2010 in lessons from bible college with 1 Comment

in bible college, amongst other things, you learn theology.

theology: the study of God.

there are different sub-sects of theology: Theology Proper (the study of God the Father), Christology (the study of Christ Jesus), Pneumatology (the study of the Holy Spirit) just to name a few. the learning of theology begins to bleed over, rightly so, into other ares of your life. one of those huge areas in life is your prayer life.

at the beginning of the semester you’ll hear lots of “dear God…” then a bit of a shift happens, and about halfway through you’ll hear lots of “dear Go– uh, Father…” that process will continue further and further until you start hearing prayers that start “Father God… we invite your Holy Spirit… in Jesus’ name…”

the name’s they use to address God get more specific.

while this is definitely important, it’s also equally important not to get too wrapped up in that. it’s easy to put too much focus on including all parts of the trinity in every prayer, that all your prayers turn in to nothing but thirty Father God’s in a row. Continue Reading…

17 | going to bible college to find a spouse

By albert on September 21, 2010 in lessons from bible college with 1 Comment

if you didn’t already know, the whole purpose of bible college is getting married. Continue Reading…

16 | kingdoming

By albert on September 20, 2010 in lessons from bible college with 3 Comments

just yesterday, jake (the other resident 6MOB author) fond a cool discovery in our church, buried in a back hallway. for the sake of protecting the anonymity of those involved, i will neither mention the artifact, or the owner. but suffice it to say, we were curious.this is something that i personally, have been hunting for before, and do to a confluence of event out of my control, mostly money, i have never had one in grasp.

and there it was.

sitting on the floor.

appearing to be unused.

i’m pretty sure i was drooling a little bit.

i believe the reaction was: Continue Reading…

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