Archive for October 2016
Study of Ruth highlights grace, sovereignty of God
This year’s Advanced Expository Preaching Workshop, the first such workshop under Southwestern Seminary’s new School of Preaching, explored how to preach the Old Testament book of Ruth. Though this text tells the story of Naomi, Ruth and Boaz—ancestors of King David—Dean of the School of Preaching David Allen clarified that the book is not actually…
Read MoreStudent returns to Mexico to follow up January mission trip
When master’s student Marla Rasberry joined the College at Southwestern’s annual mission trip to Mexico in January, she thought it would be like other short-term trips: valuable but brief. But after a week of service alongside missionaries and church leaders in the Yucatán Peninsula, God called her to return the following summer in order to…
Read MoreBonn seminary becomes debt-free
BONN, Germany (SWBTS) – After the news broke, the room full of German businessmen and seminary faculty quickly began to whisper among themselves the word “miracle.” Then, as the weight of the news began to truly register with them, the men began to weep. These tears of joy, quite the rarity in that part of…
Read MoreNews of man’s salvation arrives 14 months after witnessing encounter
When Brandon Kiesling, instructor of evangelism at Southwestern Seminary, checked his email on Wednesday, Sept. 28, he discovered an interesting message. Arriving from Australia, the message came from Todd, a man whom Kiesling met on a mission trip to Brisbane more than a year earlier. “You most probably don’t remember who I am,” Todd wrote,…
Read MoreLeader accepts Christ during church camping weekend
During an annual camping weekend with his church’s Royal Ambassadors group in Arkansas, Master of Arts student Tony Peterman’s primary focus was sharing the Gospel with the young campers through lessons and camp crafts. Peterman had assumed that each of his fellow leaders were Christians, but it would turn out to be an unbelieving leader…
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