Completely Free Online Reformed Seminary
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Those are hilarious! 
I hadn't seen those before, but found the whole motherload here:
Motivational Posters for the Emerging Free-for All
I hadn't seen those before, but found the whole motherload here:
Motivational Posters for the Emerging Free-for All
Grymir
Puritan Board Graduate
Hello Everybody!
Hello larryjf!
Thank you for posting about The North American REFORMED Seminary. I've been lurking for about a month. I had to see if y'all were really reformed or just using the words. But with the things people were saying, I had to take the plunge and sign up to join the great discussions on PB, so this is my first post. I've been checking out the NARS website and the academics in particular. If someone got a degree from NARS, they would know more than the skulls-full-of-mush that most seminaries in America are turning out. They would be better theologians than Barth for sure, but I don't mean to insult NARS. I'm wrestling with signing up, because your program is good (yea, I know, if I start a sentence out with I again, I will sound like the choruses I have to suffer through at church).
I hate to bust everybody's bubble, but Seminary's are man's requirements, and not God's. I'm just a tent maker (just a cook, ma'am), but have gotten to do some incredible things with and for the church. (Deacon, Teach, VBS!) Yea, I could $work$ for the church, but you don't need a fancy degree to do it. The Pastor only gets 20 minutes on Sunday, but I get a whole hour to teach real Reformed Theology to a church that needs it. 60 minutes of solid stuff to fill their minds!
NARS older material is probably better than the new stuff, I mean, once you've studied the greats, why rework it? I was converted by reading the entire Bible (KJV). If a person does that, they will be way ahead of most in their knowledge of God. And that will lead someone into a great walk with God to grow and know Him better. Jer 9:24 "But let him that glorieth, glory in this, that he understandeth and knoweth me: for I am the Lord, which show mercy, judgment, and righteousness in the earth: for in these things I delight, saith the Lord."
Have fun with it and God Bless!
Hello larryjf!
Thank you for posting about The North American REFORMED Seminary. I've been lurking for about a month. I had to see if y'all were really reformed or just using the words. But with the things people were saying, I had to take the plunge and sign up to join the great discussions on PB, so this is my first post. I've been checking out the NARS website and the academics in particular. If someone got a degree from NARS, they would know more than the skulls-full-of-mush that most seminaries in America are turning out. They would be better theologians than Barth for sure, but I don't mean to insult NARS. I'm wrestling with signing up, because your program is good (yea, I know, if I start a sentence out with I again, I will sound like the choruses I have to suffer through at church).
I hate to bust everybody's bubble, but Seminary's are man's requirements, and not God's. I'm just a tent maker (just a cook, ma'am), but have gotten to do some incredible things with and for the church. (Deacon, Teach, VBS!) Yea, I could $work$ for the church, but you don't need a fancy degree to do it. The Pastor only gets 20 minutes on Sunday, but I get a whole hour to teach real Reformed Theology to a church that needs it. 60 minutes of solid stuff to fill their minds!
NARS older material is probably better than the new stuff, I mean, once you've studied the greats, why rework it? I was converted by reading the entire Bible (KJV). If a person does that, they will be way ahead of most in their knowledge of God. And that will lead someone into a great walk with God to grow and know Him better. Jer 9:24 "But let him that glorieth, glory in this, that he understandeth and knoweth me: for I am the Lord, which show mercy, judgment, and righteousness in the earth: for in these things I delight, saith the Lord."
Have fun with it and God Bless!
PilgrimPastor
Puritan Board Freshman
School Cost IS Too High
I agree with your suggestion that this is an area that needs to be addressed CHURCH wide. I have been blessed with military education benefits but many are not. I completed much of my undergraduate degree in religion while on Active Duty - which was paid for 100% - and used GI Bill benefits for a graduate degree in Church Ministry. Were it not for those benefits I may not have been able to formally prepare for ministry in a way suitable to most churches.
One the one hand we expect our Ministers to have graduate degrees from accredited Seminaries which are expensive but on the other hand most churches can not afford to provide a salary commensurate with the cost of student loan repayment and family provision.
Though I have degrees from an accredited and prominent Evangelical Seminary, I am not convinced that this is the only type of training that properly prepares ministers. There are many unaccredited but highly credible alternatives.
That being said, it has been my experience that church membership is much more pleased to follow after a leader who is clearly called and equipped according to the fruits of ministry - not the nature of the degrees on his wall...
I agree with your suggestion that this is an area that needs to be addressed CHURCH wide. I have been blessed with military education benefits but many are not. I completed much of my undergraduate degree in religion while on Active Duty - which was paid for 100% - and used GI Bill benefits for a graduate degree in Church Ministry. Were it not for those benefits I may not have been able to formally prepare for ministry in a way suitable to most churches.
One the one hand we expect our Ministers to have graduate degrees from accredited Seminaries which are expensive but on the other hand most churches can not afford to provide a salary commensurate with the cost of student loan repayment and family provision.
Though I have degrees from an accredited and prominent Evangelical Seminary, I am not convinced that this is the only type of training that properly prepares ministers. There are many unaccredited but highly credible alternatives.
That being said, it has been my experience that church membership is much more pleased to follow after a leader who is clearly called and equipped according to the fruits of ministry - not the nature of the degrees on his wall...
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