Jeremy Riley: In a few words

Have you ever noticed that sometimes you need to say the right password to Christians you might meet out and about?  Hopefully I’m not just peeing in the wind here, but I’ve come to the conclusion that there are codewords that are needed to be said to let the other person know where you stand. [...]

Something I have learned this past year in seminary: Bible Study is tough work. When Martin Luther broke from the Roman Catholic Church in the Sixteenth Century he was warned by the RCC.  He was warned that if everybody was given the opportunity to read the Bible on their own, then anybody can interpret it [...]

The past year has taken me through the ups and downs of learning a foreign, dead language.  I have been taking biblical Greek (Koine Greek, the common vernacular language used during the first century AD), and it has both brought great insight into my faith and also has kicked me into moments of despair.  It [...]

Seminary is tough. I don’t mean just the assignments, tests, papers, and other work.  I mean the work of actually digging into Scripture and the faith, taking an honest look into it, and wrestling with tough issues.  Looking over the breadth of Biblical Studies and Church History as disciplines can cause discomfort. Big words like [...]

“The knowledge of the Bible, so necessary in a preacher, is not a purely intellectual knowledge; it is, as Calvin never tired of saying, ‘a knowledge of the heart.’  The preacher studies the Bible because he loves the Bible, and he loves the Bible because he studies the Bible…” “Calvin’s Preaching” This follows my two [...]

To continue on my recent musings about being in seminary, I suppose that it is possible to lose one’s faith in seminary.  However, I also suggest that it is possible to lose my faith in the course of being a carpenter, salesman or nurse.  Living in a blue-collar, white-collar or any other career can also [...]

I often get flak from people being a seminary student.  People are concerned that I might lose my faith while at school while others are concerned that I might become a fundamentalist.  Fuller Seminary is too liberal for some and too conservative for others!  As for me, I view it as being just right. I [...]