The urge to study again
I have been experiencing an interesting thing the last week or so. I have had the urge to study again. Although I finished my formal studies last year I want to keep learning and growing. I found a free short course on ChristianCourses.com called “Ministering to people in pain“. Something in the course description grabbed [...]
Helpful courses
I was just reading over some of the units I have studied and I came across three that I thought that might be useful to some people. They are available at ChristianCourses.com. Ten Reasons to Believe in the Existence of God Some have proposed that the belief in God was invented by people who needed [...]
My Bible College units studied
I was just having a look of the units I have studied at Bible College this morning. They really start to add up if you stick with it over time. I have done these units either as a full time or part time student. I started at Perth Bible College in the 1990s and more [...]
The meat is often in the background
One of the things they drilled into us at Bible college is to always ask questions of a Bible passage and the book it belongs to. They wanted us to do this so we could get a better understanding of the text of passage we were reading. Some of the questions we were to ask [...]
Reflecting on my pastoral care studies
The last few days I have been reflecting on my pastoral care units I did back in 2008. I have been thinking about what pastoral care is and how it changes over time and depending on the situation you find yourself in. One of of the best definitions we learned is “Pastoral Care is the cure and [...]
