Caleb Hughes

Mike and Ikes: Begotten, not made

Look for fully staffed RTS campuses in Los Angeles and Seattle next week.

Rumor is he's donating a billion dollars to me to allocate to reformed seminaries however I see fit. Tuition problem solved.

@JoshuaTorrey @derekradney @JonMcK1647 Point well taken.

“parts” refers to the elements of the “trials” of 21-4.c 21-4.a reads “No Presbytery shall omit any of these educational requirements except in extraordinary cases” i think it’s clear the BCO allows for complete discretion on the presbytery’s part to exclude any of the requirements. they just need to notate why and be convinced it’s good reasons.

I have known more than one ruling elder who should probably be minister but could not make it happen because they could not financially afford to do a career change as a family man in their 30s or 40s that would require a 3 year masters degree (even if they had free tuition). It's kind of a shame that there isn't a mechanism to solve this in the PCA other than "continue to work full time while neglecting your family to do 5 credit hours a semester and chip away at an internship." Most guys working full-time jobs with families are already really stretched thin and asking them to go down that path sounds like asking them to choose between the health of their family and a personal career aspiration.

@derekradney @JonMcK1647 And by new seminaries I don't mean little satellite things where the professors are smart full-time pastors doing their best, but not professional theologians and linguists. That'll do as a bandaid, but it's not good enough long term.

@derekradney @JonMcK1647 Oh, I misunderstood. It's an okay bandaid. Our presbytery has done that on a case by case basis. But I hope someone makes it their life project to fundraise a massive sum that solves the tuition problem and opens new seminaries in Reformed deserts. It's possible.

@derekradney @JonMcK1647 "No Presbytery shall omit any of these parts of trial for ordination except in extraordinary cases, and then only with three-fourths approval of Presbytery." Hard to see how "parts" could mean the whole education. Does that kind of "exception" ever happen?

@JonMcK1647 There is. We call it the extraordinary clause.

@scottrswain Closer to Turretin length volumes than Jenson length volumes, please

@815C And expect it to be looooooong

Sonderegger. Leithart. Expect Mike Allen's four volume ST to be the good kind of creative once it's out.

"God cannot be seen with bodily eyes...But God can be seen with the eyes of the mind, elightened with the light of grace here; and the light of glory in heaven." - Thomas Boston

Cormac McCarthy is not to everyone’s taste, that’s fine. Life’s short, read what you want. But this is not nihilistic.

@JonMcK1647 Ephesians. I'd only preached a few sermons before, so I chose something short that I'd spent a lot of time in while I got used to weekly preaching. I'd probably do it that way again.

Pastors, what was the first book you preached through? Why did you choose it? If you had to start again, what would you choose?

decisions, decisions...

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since we’re all tweeting about rap …. reply or QT with your favorite rap album(s).

Go off, king.

The latest Lanier/Ross joint venture is here: a critical synopsis of the use of the OT in the NT. I'll post a lengthier overview on @DailySeptuagint in a couple weeks, but here's the basic gist.

@tyler_freire Be honest, did you schedule said goat's visit?

Parishoner just brought an literal goat into my office.

Cyril on the dimensions of Noah's ark: "That this construction signifies the mystery of Christ, albeit very dimly, should be completely and utterly obvious." Not sure you know what very dimly means my man.

Leithart: "Believe what baptism tells you. Christians don't live toward death but from death. Death lies behind us, and we live our baptismal death every day, killing the world's lusts and lures. As it gives the gift of death, baptism gives the gift of an open future."