I am officially at the halfway point with my doctorate program. Three semesters down and one more to go before one year of labor on the dissertation.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n
I have to admit that the semester I just finished was perhaps my least favorite. It wasn’t that the teaching was subpar – my professors were both incredible. The topics were both interesting to me. The only problem was that one class – on world religions – was not particularly relevant to me and the other – on postmodernism, Critical Theory, and woke ideology – was depressing as all get out.<\/p>\n\n\n
Starting in April, I have my two final classes: a preaching class and a hermeneutics class (a $5 word for study of Scripture).\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n
With my recent launch into the world of weekly preaching, these topics could not be any more relevant to my life, both now and into the foreseeable future.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n
I am pumped. Amazon has delivered 7 of the 10 books I need over the last three days and I am wishing I had hours on end to devote to consuming them.<\/p>\n\n\n
I entered this doctorate program because I felt God’s leading, and He provided the How<\/b><\/i>, so I didn’t demand an explanation of\u00a0 the Why<\/i><\/b>. With each passing semester, I get closer to finding out what all this has been about.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n
And I have a growing conviction that in the end, God’s revealing of His\u00a0Why <\/i><\/b>is going to knock my socks off!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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