Western Seminary

Meet one of our incredible global students! ✏️ Name: Sean Gasperetti 📍 Location: Marysville, WA 🎓 Degree Program: MABL ⛪ Ministry Role: Lead Pastor, Bright City Church 📘 Favorite Class So Far: BL591 Applied Integrative Biblical Literature: Genesis to Song of Solomon

🌸 🌱 🌥️ First signs of spring on campus from this morning! We hope your week is off to a great start.

“Let us know; let us press on to know the Lord; his going out is sure as the dawn; he will come to us as the showers, as the spring rains that water the earth.” - Hosea 6:3

Last week, the Patrum Colloquium reading group had their first meeting on our Portland campus to discuss readings from the early church fathers with a focus on their influence on the doctrine of the Trinity.

Thank you to all who attended the annual ETS Northwest meeting last Saturday! It was great to hear from plenary speaker and Western Seminary alum Dr. Kevin Chen, as well as several other current students, alumni, and faculty who presented papers.

Meet one of our incredible global students! ✏️ Name: Brent Hays 📍 Location: Temple, TX 🎓 Degree Program: MAML ⛪ Ministry Role: Local Missions & Recovery Pastor, Vista Community Church 📘 Favorite Class So Far: ML501 Theology and Practice of Gospel-Centered Ministry

In his latest article for Transform, Dan Kimball, DMin, Vice President of Church Mission and Strategy, thinks through several principles for discerning whether online teaching (or any teaching) is to be trusted or not. Read more: transform.westernseminary.edu/resources/theo…

Last week, the Master of Arts in Ministry and Leadership Bay Area Cohort 2 held a celebration to honor students graduating this coming spring and to recognize the mentors who faithfully walked alongside them throughout the journey. Congrats to all of our Bay Area cohort students!

Check out the latest issue of Transform Magazine: westernseminary.edu/about/publicat…

Is biblical inerrancy a modern invention or is it simply reading the Bible on its own terms? In the latest episode of Food Trucks, Todd and Andrew make a case for why believing in inerrancy ought to impact how we read and respond to the Bible.

New episode today! Andrew Pack and Todd Miles discuss why the cross is central to the gospel, why preachers should never move beyond preaching the forgiveness of sins, and what it means to be gospel-centered. youtube.com/watch?v=nL2mcL…

Food Trucks in Babylon is back! Todd and Andrew kick off a new season exploring the doctrine of penal substitutionary atonement. Is this a "die for" issue for Christians? Or should it be a secondary issue? youtube.com/watch?v=Hpg1s5…

Meet one of our incredible global students! ✏️ Name: Ryan Anderson 📍 Location: Modesto, CA 🎓 Degree Program: MDiv ⛪ Ministry Role: Church Administrator and Ordination Candidate in the ECO Presbyterian Church 📘 Favorite Class So Far: Hermeneutics

This week we launched the new academic year with our annual Fall Kick-Off. It was a time for faculty and staff to reconnect, reflect, and get energized for the year ahead! Here’s to a great year!

"The most effective pastors and leaders are life-long learners who continue to grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ." -Steve Mathewson, PhD, Tulsa MAML Cohort Curator

"I think there are so many egregious Bible interpretation mistakes because people often open the Bible and treat is like it is something other than what it actually is..." -Todd Miles, PhD, Professor of Theology Read full 2016 article: transform.westernseminary.edu/resources/comm…

Meet one of our incredible global students! ✏️ Name: Zala Cempre 📍 Location: Ljubljana, Slovenia 🎓 Degree Program: MABTS ⛪ Ministry Role: Youth Leader and Co-Leader of Josiah Venture Slovenia Training Team 📘 Favorite Class So Far: CS502 Practicing Christian Spirituality

Join us for year 2 of the Western Mentor Program! We are accepting applications for prospective mentors, as well as current Western students! Application deadline is August 15.  Mentor Application: forms.office.com/pages/response… Student Application: forms.office.com/pages/response…

"Therefore let us be grateful for receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, and thus let us offer to God acceptable worship, with reverence and awe, for our God is a consuming fire." Hebrews 12:28-29

Meet one of our incredible global students who’s studying at Western! ✏️ Name: Chadd Holmes 📍 Location: Fayetteville, Arkansas 🎓 Degree Program: MABTS ⛪ Ministry Role: College Pastor 📘 Favorite Class: Hermeneutics Ready to start your journey? Visit westernseminary.edu!