Greetings all, we are back in Colorado now, beginning my last year of seminary.  It has been awhile since I have posted (about 3 months actually!) .  I am going to try and be better about posting to our blog.  For those of you who didn’t know, Sarah, Abby and I spent the winter in Springfield, IL.  We made some wonderful friends while there and were able to spend some time with Sarah’s parents who have been home from the mission field.

Last week was the first week of classes here at the seminary and we completed our first class, The Doctrine of God.  Dr. Lewis Hill, President of Reformed Discipleship Ministries was our lecturer.  It was an excellent study of our Scriptural understanding of who God is, and his plan of redemption.

This week’s course is Pastoral Counselling, led by Dr. Andrew Zeller.  Primarily we will be reading through Instruments in the Redeemers Hands, by Paul David Tripp.  From what I have read thus far, this is an excellent book that is not only helpful for those who “professionally” counsel, but to any Christian, who takes relationships and discipleship seriously.  I have only read the first 3 chapters so far (I should be finished   by the end of the week), but already I can see that Dr. Tripp is laying a foundation of who we  are in Christ Jesus instead of presenting a “system” on how to counsel people.  One of the neat things with this course and this book is that the women at the seminary are also going to go through this book as part of their study this summer.

Well, I think that is all for now, we would love to hear from you.

-Paul

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