Archive for March 2016

The generosity of Southwestern Seminary’s ministry partners plays an important role in fulfilling the mission to “Preach the Word” and “Reach the World.” Southwestern honored two such partners with the B.H. Carroll and L.R. Scarborough awards at a luncheon, March 9.  President Paige Patterson recognized the recipients for their contributions to Southwestern, investing in generations…

The speakers for Southwestern Seminary’s 2016 Expository Preaching Workshop collectively asserted that when preachers pay attention to the genre of a given text of Scripture, they “recapture the voice of God.” Vice President for Student Services Steven Smith, whose book Recapturing the Voice of God: Shaping Sermons Like Scripture served as a basis for the…

Skeptics may argue that early Christians “invented” the idea of the divinity of Jesus under Greco-Roman influence, but according to Craig A. Evans, speaker for the first annual E. Earle Ellis lecture series at Southwestern Seminary, the exaltation of Christ as God stemmed not from pagan religious customs but rather from ancient Jewish Scripture. An…

“Passion for the nations is the essence of what it means to have the heart of Christ in you,” said International Mission Board President David Platt during his chapel sermon at Southwestern Seminary, March 1. Preaching from Romans 15-16, Platt called all students, faculty and staff to be driven by an “all-consuming passion and vision”…

Over the last five weeks, at least one person has been led to the Lord every Friday by a Southwestern Seminary evangelism team led by Associate Professor of Missions Mike Morris. Evangelizing in Rosemont Park and its surrounding neighborhood just down the street from the Southwestern campus, the team engages in “cold-call” evangelism—that is, they…