Interpreting Scripture for Preaching & Teaching
Tonite I went to the Canadian Theological Seminary - Toronto Campus to take a course: PR501E ”Interpreting Scripture for Preaching & Teaching”. The course continues tomorrow/Friday night and Saturday morning+afternoon, and the weekend in mid-March…but considering I’m only doing the “Taste of Seminary” for personal edification for $50 (paid for by my church), I only get to take half of the course, that is this weekend.
This is the first time I’ve like taken any course at an acredited Seminary, and I must say, although the class was relatively small (+the Toronto Campus being quite tiny) I learned a lot after the first night and experienced what it’s like to be a “seminarian”! It was a great time of learning with fellow students of many different backgrounds and ages, and listening to a really good professor (Mark Boda). I definitely think this course will give me some much needed additional Sunday School teaching / Worship Advising skills, learning how to interpret Scripture better and more accurately, concisely…this should be the beginning of many years of seminary learning ;-!
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Romans 12:8
“Lead with zeal” (ESV), or “with diligence” (NASB).
A couple hours ago, I just got word that I have to lead worship this week. My church intern who usually leads our team forgot that he had to preach at another church this week and won’t be able to make it to church on Sunday… so, this is very last minute–very. I’m just very shocked out of the blue, frustrated, and scrambling to figure out why this has happened, and what God requires of me, of us worship team, this week..what message God wants to be preached to His people through music. I’m tired physically from a long day, and don’t know what to do… I think this Sunday’s worship service will definitely be something different, now with just 3 of us leading the musical worship (me and 2 younger girls from fellowship), it will be more acoustic and intimately toned down.
Pray for me that I will diligently seek God for guidance, for songs, for words to speak, and to lead with zeal!
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I’m in the middle of putting together the Worship Team for Campus Challenge 2006…simply put, I have not received any applications for Drummer! I need a drummer for the wt! ….anywayz, I finally got an application for the Pianist position, and I am humbly evaluating the candidate’s responses to the application questions; I am biased and feel overwhelmed by this notion of serving together with this candidate again. I think I mentioned it before in a very recent post…I was surprised at first, not sure how to react…glad the opportunity is there to serve together again..but sighs, dunno, it will be a good time to regenerate our friendship, which as of late, has been lacking. Reading the submitted application to evaluate Spiritual health is hard to accurately judge here, so I’ll be talking to the candidate in person very soon about the application; also seeking 3rd party witnesses to the candidate’s Spiritual growth over the past few months.
Anywayz, since I prefer to be honest on this blog as much as possible, there’s no need to hide anything or for censorship…the pianist candidate is Kitty.
(It’s also her birthday today…so, much prayers to her for a happy and blessed anniversary..)
