Have you been wondering about the timeline of the Southern Kingdom?  Desperate to find out about Deuteronomistic History?  Looking for outlines for nearly all the OT books?  Well do I have a treat for you.  One of my favorite professors (he is on our blog roll as Anumma) is taking pedagogy to the world of web 2.0.  When I took his class we had to memorize outlines for books of the Bible and create hardcopy notes (which I have lost) to study for our INTENSE mid-term and final exams.  But those were the good old days.  This term he had his class create a Wiki (an online collaboration of ideas and notes) so that they could build off the collective whole.  There work is impressive and is available to anyone who is interested in seminary level information about the OT.  My mathematical mind really likes the outlines and timelines, but there is lots of info for the harvesting.

While I will never be a seminary prof (thank God) I am inspired by this type of learning.  I am waiting for an opprotunity when a small group or Bible study could have a Wiki, a blog, or a discussion board…….. [Read more →]

I’m in a preaching class this semester and am revolutionizing the way I preach.  My professor is a Episcopalian Priest and a bit of a non-traditional kind of dude.  He also wears the coolest sweaters.  Instead of teaching us the regular styles of sermons and how to “write” sermons, he is teaching us to “become” the sermon.  Whether we like it or not the pastor is the sermon in everything they do.  I often feel sermons are pretty boring, but by using these tools we can really come up with some good, entertaining, informing, and SPIRIT moving sermons.  Here is my new process developed from the class. [Read more →]