Are you a pastor without seminary training? This article offers a curriculum for pursuing a theological education on your own.

This article offers ways for pastors to help encourage young men to pursue the ministry of the Word.

Who should be responsible for theological training? Should the seminary be under the church or independent? This article lays the biblical grounds for a church-controlled seminary, while highlighting the dangers of an independent theological training.

What are students for the ministry being taught at seminary? This article looks at two subjects that students must study: Practical theology, with its division into preaching, liturgics, missions, world religions, and catechetics.

What are students for the ministry being taught at seminary? This article looks at two subjects that students must study: Dogmatics, and Old Testament.

What are students for the ministry being taught at seminary? This article looks at two subjects that students must study: the New Testament, and church history.

The church has the responsibility to guard the gospel. How can she do that? Theological training is one way. This article explains the basis for such training and the benefits it brings.

How important is the study and knowledge of biblical Greek and Hebrew in theological education? The purpose of this paper is to foster a discussion on the place of the biblical languages in the curricula of seminaries and also to emphasize the importance of retaining the languages as part of theological training.

What is the relationship between believers and the seminary? The author makes it clear that believers serve the seminary and the seminary serves believers. The one cannot exist without the other. The seminary is the work of the church preparing ministers of the Gospel, and true faith depends on the preaching of the Gospel, which is what makes the believer. In this sense seminary and saints are sine qua non.

What is the relationship between believers and the seminary? The author makes it clear that believers serve the seminary and the seminary serves believers. The one cannot exist without the other. The seminary is the work of the church preparing ministers of the Gospel, and true faith depends on the preaching of the Gospel, which is what makes the believer. In this sense seminary and saints are sine qua non.

The office of a teaching elder can be used to describe a theological professor. What does this title mean when it is used in that way? What is the task of a professor? To whom is he accountable to? Looking first at the church order, the author of this article deals with these questions.

What are pastors being taught at the theological seminary? Included in their studies should be practical theology, which includes preaching, liturgics, missions, world religions, and catechetics.

What are pastors being taught at seminary? This article looks at two subjects which pastors in training must study: 1. Dogmatics (including theology, anthropology, Christology, soteriology, ecclesiology and eschatology), and 2. Old Testament Hebrew and exegesis.

What are pastors being taught at seminary? This article looks at two subjects which pastors in training must study: 1. The Greek of the New Testament and the appropriate exegesis of the New Testament, and 2. Church history.

God has entrusted His word to the church; therefore, the church has the responsibility to guard the gospel. One of the ways the church can do this is through theological training. This article discusses the basis and benefits of the seminary.

What is the process behind the decision of whether an individual will go to a theological seminary? This article maintains that not only is the individual himself behind the decision, but the church federation and the church elders. Elders have the responsibility to seek out and encourage suitable individuals to consider going into the ministry.

Who should be responsible for theological training? Should the seminary be under the church or independent? This article lays the biblical ground for a church-controlled seminary, while highlighting the dangers of independent theological training. The author ends by showing the benefits of church-controlled seminaries.

The church needs the faithful preaching and teaching of God’s word. This article looks at the calling of a professor to teach future pastors. Looking at Titus 1:9, the author discusses the standard of doctrine and the task of teachers of God's word.

The church needs the faithful preaching and teaching of God’s word. This article looks at the calling of a professor to teach future pastors. Looking at Titus 1:9, the author discusses the qualification and the heart of teachers of God's word.

This article is about the care of the church for her theological students and student aid for theological students.

This article on student preaching, is about a theological student and the permission to preach in the churches.

This article on the task of the professors of theology, also looks at theological training and the theological seminary.

This article is about the requirements of the minister and the importance of theological education (theological seminary in this regard).

Can preaching be taught? Yes. However, this article argues that to discern whether someone can indeed learn to preach, it is important to see the following in the person: a sense of calling, a teachable spirit, a passionate heart, and a reckless abandon to risk being a fool for Christ.

The office of teaching elder can be used to describe a theological professor. However, what is the task of a professor? To whom is he accountable? This article deals with these questions. Starting from the church order, the author works out the position and task of the professor.

When should the church decide to send someone for theological training? While the student, church, and elders each have a responsibility in the matter of judging seminary applicants, the elders have another responsibility: seeking out and encouring promising young men in their congregation.

Should a theological college be independent or church governed? This article shows that the training of ministers is the responsibility of the church. Therefore, a theological seminary must be church governed. This article considers the matter, as well as what implications this has for the church.

How can you know if you are called to pastoral ministry? 1 Timothy 3 and Titus 1 give the biblical answer to this question of calling. This article offers six question you can ask as a checklist for yourself.

This article offers seven pieces of advice to one preparing for ministry.

Is there a necessity for the seminary? This article argues that though the seminary is not the only means of training pastors, it is advisable. There are four reasons that explain the necessity of the seminary.

This article draws a metaphor of the minister as a physician and the seminary as medical school. Biblically a link is made between the spiritual and physical condition – sickness and healing. The minister, like a physician, must be trained to correctly diagnose and prescribe. The nature of this work requires training at seminary in order to shape the minister and teach him to use his tools well.

This article draws a metaphor of the minister as a physician and the seminary as medical school. Biblically a link is made between the spiritual and physical condition – sickness and healing. The minister, like a physician, must be trained to correctly diagnose and prescribe. The nature of this work requires training at seminary in order to shape the minister and teach him to use his tools well.

This article gives some aspects for individuals to consider when choosing a seminary to train to become a pastor.

The importance of good theological training in shaping the faith and theology of churches, denominations and missionary enterprise cannot be overemphasized. Prayer for the seminary is necessary!

This article provides some advice to those who are called to study theology and then to fulfill the calling of being preachers of the Word. Topics in this article are the practices of prayer, meditation, and testing.

The article provides a historical review of the contribution of B. B. Warfield to the field of theological studies, and especially to the training of pastors.

This article considers what the devotional life of theological students might look like. Important are matters like study, devotion, prayer, and religious exercise.

Silva critically engages James Barr's book Fundamentalism. That book was a critique of conservative biblical scholarship. Silva reflects on the way in which evangelicals relate to mainstream critical biblical scholarship.

The article reflects on preparation for the ministry. It focuses on three aspects: the advantages of studying Classical Greek and Latin, the advantages of a first-hand acquaintance with the works of the authors who wrote in such languages, and the advantages of an understanding of the background of both the events and thoughts they wrote on.

What is the importance of theological education for an evangelist? How important is theological training for the ministry? This article argues that the church needs scholarly evangelists and evangelistic scholars.

Kaiser confronts what he sees as the assault on the prominent position of the teaching of Biblical Studies in the curriculum of theological training at seminaries in the USA.

In this article, David Heywood argues for a different approach to theological education in the seminary.

Is the claim true that states that more theology is communicated in one hour of popular television than sermons in churches on a weekend? Grenz claims that pop culture in general and the entertainment industry in particular are potent shapers of society's fundamental convictions.

What constitutes good theological scholarship and research in the context of theological training? Kaiser discusses the central role of hermeneutics as a criterion for evaluating theological training.